I possess a unique combination of credentials and expertise at the intersection of issues relating to gender, research and public policy.
- Earned an advanced degree in Women’s Studies & Public Policy
- Served as the Executive Director of two organizations focused on the status of women:
- Held senior staff roles at national organizations focused on women’s health and/or women’s rights:
- the American College of Nurse-Midwives
- the League of Women Voters Education Fund
- Served as the Principal Investigator for an ADVANCE grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to help women successfully transition from postdoctoral research into tenure track faculty positions
- Represented NCPE on the National Council of Women’s Organizations, a collective of more than 200 member organizations
- Wrote a successful grant proposal to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a traveling Smithsonian exhibition commemorating the 75th anniversary of women’s suffrage
- Provided staff support and volunteer leadership for various association and organizational committees focused on gender equity and women’s rights
I have had the good fortune to know Alyson Reed since she first began as the Executive Director of the LSA, of which I am a member. I worked with her in many capacities, but probably most intensively with respect to the committee which was until recently known as COSWL (Committee on the Status of Women in Linguistics) but is now called COGEL (Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics). I always found Alyson to be helpful, supportive, and constructive with respect to the many issues that we raised. Importantly, she was always able to take a big picture view and advise us strategically in ways that we sometimes had not thought about. I really respect her abilities as a leader, and am very grateful to her for the improvements that she brought to all aspects of the society.
Monica Macaulay, Professor of Language Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison