Invited speakers

Yasmin Haddad is FRQSC postdoctoral fellow at Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Yasmin is a philosopher of science with specialization in philosophy of biology and data ethics. Her research explores conceptual, ethical and epistemic issues surrounding human population genetics, with a focus on the concept of ancestry. In past work, Yasmin has written about causation in biology and evolutionary theory.

Rose Novick is a philosopher of the life sciences at the University of Washington, with specialization in the philosophy of evolutionary theory. In past work, she has focused extensively on evolutionary-developmental biology; her current and future work focuses on the philosophy of evolutionary cell biology.

Panelists: Feminist Biology at UW

Anne Pringle is a biologist focused on understanding the biodiversity of fungi. She is currently a Rubinstein Professor in the Botany Department of the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Her many papers on invasive mushrooms and spore dispersal bear witness to the changes happening on Earth and draw attention to fungi as ubiquitous and essential parts of our landscapes. To see Pringle talk about fungi, invasion by death caps, and the microbiomes of pitcher plants, please visit the ibiology website. To read her publications and see her lab’s video about working with fungi please visit her laboratory website.

Alexandra Kralick is an anatomically trained biological anthropologist with a background in critical science studies and four-field anthropology and the Wittig Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Feminist Biology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research takes a holistic and integrative approach to primate anatomy. Her toolkit integrates field- and lab-based methods with critical theory to reveal the breadth of within-sex variation present in the bodies of our closest living relatives.

Leigh Senderowicz (she/her) is a public health researcher and feminist social demographer focusing on global sexual and reproductive health and rights. Her mixed-methods research focuses on contraceptive autonomy, exploring the ways that new approaches to measurement and evaluation can promote person-centered care and reproductive freedom. Dr. Senderowicz is an Assistant Professor of Gender & Women's Studies and Obstetrics & Gynecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and part of a Feminist Demography Collective.