Lisa Coleman, PhD, will be the featured speaker for the College of Nursing’s Audrey Solberg Smith Distinguished Lectureship on Feb. 1, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. CT. The lecture is open to anyone.
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Lisa Coleman, PhD |
Dr. Coleman is New York University’s inaugural senior vice president for global inclusion and strategic innovation and chief diversity officer.
She will present “From Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Toward Transformation” via Zoom. Registration is required.
The presentation will include evolving efforts in diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI); the role of innovation in DEI transformation processes and conceptual frameworks for organizational transformation that focus on action and innovations.
Dr. Coleman has spent more than 20 years working with numerous colleges and universities, for-profit and non-profit organizations on leadership, global inclusion and diversity, innovation and technology initiatives. Dr. Coleman works with deans, internal stakeholders, external partners and constituents to advance, promote and build capacity for strategic global inclusion, diversity, equity, belonging and innovation initiatives across NYU’s global network.
Before joining NYU, Dr. Coleman served as Harvard University’s first special assistant to the president and its first chief diversity officer. During her tenure, she and her team developed some of the first initiatives focused on the intersections of technology, disability and access.
Before her time at Harvard, she directed the Africana program at Tufts University and was later appointed as Tuft’s first senior global inclusion and diversity executive.
Dr. Coleman earned her doctorate in social and cultural analysis, American studies, from NYU; and three master’s degrees from the Ohio State University in African and African American studies, women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, and communication studies. Her undergraduate foci included sociology, anthropology and computer science.
The annual lectureship, which promotes learning skills and outstanding teaching, is made possible through the University of Nebraska Foundation by an endowment from Audrey Solberg Smith. Smith graduated with a degree in nursing from the University of Nebraska School of Nursing in 1947 and a bachelor’s degree in nursing from the UNMC College of Nursing in 1965.
A 1.5 contact hour is available through the American Nurses Credentialing Center.
The UNMC and Nebraska Medicine community can register here.