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Dr. Ketra L. Armstrong (a proud Tupelo, MS native) is a Professor of Sport Management, Director of Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion, and Director of the Center for Race & Ethnicity in Sport in the School of Kinesiology at the University of Michigan (U-M). She is a University Diversity & Social Transformation Professor, and also an Affiliate Faculty in the U-M Departments of Afroamerican and African Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender, and she is a member of the Diversity Scholars Network at the National Center for Institutional Diversity (NCID). She also serves as U-M’s NCAA Faculty Athletics Representative. Prior to her employment at U-M, Dr. Armstrong served as Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Sport Management at California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), and as an Assistant and Associate Professor of Sport Management at The Ohio State University (OSU).

Dr. Armstrong’s scholarship converges on the topics of race, gender, and the social psychology of sport/leisure consumption and the management thereof.

In addition to Dr. Armstrong’s scholarly pursuits, she is a former NCAA Division I scholarship student athlete (basketball), coach (women’s basketball), and athletic administrator. She has performed integral roles in the advising/consulting, research, management, marketing, and/or media relations for numerous youth, community, collegiate, professional, and international sport events. Her professional service includes but is not limited to being a former member of the NCAA Gender Equity Task Force, former Vice-President of the NCAA Scholarly Colloquium and Social Justice Symposium, former President of the National Association for Girls and Women in Sport, former Internal Advisory Board Member for the U-M SHARP Research Center (for Girls and Women), former Board Member of the National Women’s Hall of Fame, and former Member of the prestigious Wade Trophy Selection Committee (NCAA women’s basketball). She currently serves on the Governor of Michigan’s Task Force on Women in Sport. 

University of Michigan

Mary Carillo has served as a television analyst for major-event tennis as well as the Olympic Games on NBC. She is a correspondent for HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel and proudly serves as part of the commentary team of NBC’s National Dog Show. Her distinguished career in broadcast journalism has earned her two Peabody Awards, one for her work on the HBO documentary Billie Jean King: Portrait of a Pioneer and the other for co-writing the HBO documentary Dare to Compete: The Struggle of Women in Sport with Frank Deford. In 2010, she became the first female recipient of the Dick Schaap Award for Outstanding Journalism. A former professional tennis player, Carillo teamed with John McEnroe to win the French Open Mixed Doubles Championship in 1977.  She was named “Best Commentator” by Tennis Magazine from 1988-91 and “Broadcaster of the Year” by the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) in 1981 and 1985. She has co -authored two books: Tennis My Way, with Martina Navratilova (Penguin, 1984) and Tennis Kinetics, with Rick Elstein (Simon & Schuster, 1985).

Mary lives in Naples, Florida.

Melissa Isaacson is an assistant professor at Medill, teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in writing, reporting and sports reporting. She is the chairperson of “Title IX at 50: Past. Present. Future,” an all-university series of panel discussions and events scheduled for Oct. 27-29 of 2022.

A sportswriter for more than 30 years, Isaacson was named among the 20 “Most Influential Women in Chicago sports media” by the Chicago Tribune in 2022. She worked most recently for ESPN in its international division, covering a variety of beats from the Olympic Games to professional tennis. In 19 years at the Tribune, she was the principal beat writer covering the Michael-Jordan-led Chicago Bulls in the 90s and later the Chicago Bears for seven seasons, the first woman in both of those roles.

Isaacson was also on the staffs of Florida Today, USA Today and the Orlando Sentinel. She was awarded the Chicago Headline Club’s Peter Lisagor Award for top feature story of 2008 for her Tribune Magazine story on her parents’ struggle with Alzheimer’s.

Isaacson is the author of three books, her most recent, “State: A Team, A Triumph, A Transformation,” which recounts her experience on her state championship-winning high school basketball team and the transformational journey that occurred shortly after the passage of Title IX. It was named one of the top sports books of 2019 by The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and Forbes, and featured on the TODAY Show. The book is in high school classrooms throughout the Chicago area.

Christine Brennan is an award-winning national sports columnist for USA Today, a commentator for CNN, ABC News, PBS NewsHour and National Public Radio, a best-selling author and a nationally-known speaker. Named one of the country’s top 10 sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors multiple times, she has covered the last 20 Olympic Games, summer and winter.

In March 2020, Brennan was named the winner of the prestigious Red Smith Award, presented annually to a person who has made “major contributions to sports journalism.”

Brennan was the first woman sports writer at The Miami Herald in 1981 and the first woman to cover the Washington Football Team as a staff writer at The Washington Post in 1985. She was the first president of the Association for Women in Sports Media (AWSM) and started an internship-scholarship program that has supported 200 female students over the past two decades.

Brennan is the author of seven books. Her 2006 sports memoir, Best Seat in the House, is the only father-daughter memoir written by a sports journalist. Her 1996 national best-seller, Inside Edge, was named one of the top 100 sports books of all-time by Sports Illustrated.

Brennan earned undergraduate and master’s degrees in journalism from Northwestern University in 1980 and 1981, respectively. She is a member of the Ohio Women’s Hall of Fame, Northwestern’s Medill School of Journalism Hall of Achievement, Northwestern’s Athletic Hall of Fame and the Washington, D.C., Sports Hall of Fame.

Brennan also is a member of Northwestern’s Board of Trustees and a Medill professor of practice.

Crystal Stewart Washington, Ed.D. is Chief Academic Officer of Lincoln Preparatory School. In this capacity, she serves as Assistant Superintendent and Assistant Principal of the single-school, school district charter school. Dr. Washington is a career educator with experience as Principal, Assistant Principal, English Teacher, and Coach. She most recently served as a School Improvement Support Specialist with the Louisiana Department of Education where she supported local systems with the implementation of school improvement initiatives. She is a 2003 graduate of Greenwood High School (MS) and a 2007 graduate of the University of Mississippi where she earned a B.A. in Psychology. She also earned a Masters of Arts in Teaching from the University of Mississippi in 2009, a Specialist degree in Leadership in 2010, and a doctorate in 2015 from Delta State University.

Dr. Washington was a track and field athlete at the University of Mississippi where she once held the school record in the hammer throw. She is passionate about creating opportunities for children. She is married to Alexander Washington of Monroe and has four children, Byron, AJ, Ava and Gavin.

Crystal Stewart Washington

The founding director of Columbia Law School’s trailblazing Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic, Suzanne Goldberg has led the clinic since joining the faculty in 2006. One of the country’s foremost experts on gender and sexuality law and a leading advocate and attorney for the LGBTQ+ community, she is also co-director of the Law School’s Center for Gender and Sexuality. Since January 2021, she has served as deputy assistant secretary for Strategic Operations and Outreach in the Office for Civil Rights (serving as acting assistant secretary) at the U.S. Department of Education.

Goldberg, who has received the Law School’s Willis L.M. Reese Prize for Excellence in Teaching and named Public Interest Professor of the Year, has served as executive vice president for university life since 2015, working to broaden and reinforce the university’s commitment to respect, inclusion, and ethical leadership among students, faculty, and administrators.

Goldberg is a frequent commentator and analyst for the news media on the MeToo movement, sexuality and gender law, and discrimination law and litigation issues. Her commentary has been featured on ABC’s 20/20, CNN, and other television networks as well as on the radio and in news outlets around the world.

 Professor Goldberg is currently on leave serving in the federal government.

Susan Frelich Appleton, the Lemma Barkeloo & Phoebe Couzins Professor of Law at Washington University in St. Louis, is a nationally known expert in family law and feminist legal theory. Her research, scholarship, and teaching address reproductive justice, parentage, gender, sexualities, and public assistance for families.

Co-author of six editions of a family law casebook, Professor Appleton most recently published a new edition of a casebook entitled Families Under Construction: Parentage, Adoption and Assisted Reproduction (2d ed. 2021).  She has published extensively on family law matters and feminist legal theory in law reviews and scholarly collections. In 2021, she received the inaugural award for outstanding contributions and achievements in the field from the AALS Section on Family & Juvenile Law, and in 2018, she received a Dukeminier Award from UCLA’s Williams Institute, which recognizes the best publications on sexual orientation and gender identity law. An active member of the American Law Institute (ALI), she held the position of Secretary of the Institute (2004-13), has served on its Council (since 1994), and participates as an Adviser on several ALI projects, including the revision of the Model Penal Code’s provisions on sexual assault and the Restatement of the Law of Children and the Law. She has lectured and presented papers across the U.S. and abroad, including in Rome, Berlin, Prague, Padua, Herzliya (Israel), and Shanghai.

Professor Appleton has received Washington University’s  Distinguished Faculty Award and the law school’s Triennial Alumni Distinguished Teaching Award. At the law school, she served as vice dean (2013-14) and associate dean of faculty (1998-2003). In 2010-12, she served as Washington University’s first Ombuds, facilitating the informal resolution or management of faculty-related conflicts or concerns on the Danforth Campus. Before becoming a law professor, she clerked for law school alumnus, the Hon. William H. Webster, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit.

Washington University in St. Louis School of Law

Sherry Boschert is an award-winning journalist and the author of 37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination (The New Press) and Plug-in Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America. Among her many honors, she received a Distinguished Service Award from the Society of Professional Journalists for her efforts to promote equity within the news industry. After forty years in the San Francisco Bay Area, she now lives in New Hampshire.

Nancy Chi Cantalupo joined the Wayne State University Law School faculty in 2021. She has also taught as full-time faculty, adjunct faculty, or a fellow at Barry University School of Law, California Western School of Law, Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School, and Temple University Beasley School of Law. Prior to becoming a professor, she practiced with the firm of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP, and served as assistant dean for clinical programs at Georgetown Law, as an associate vice president for equity, inclusion & violence prevention at a higher education professional association, and as a research fellow with the Victim Rights Law Center.

Cantalupo is a nationally-recognized scholar and expert on Title IX, sexual harassment, and gender-based violence in education. Her scholarship draws from her over 25 years of anti-campus sexual harassment and gender-based violence work as a researcher, campus administrator, victims’ advocate, attorney, and policymaker and focuses on the use of law to combat discriminatory violence. Cantalupo’s articles have appeared in the Harvard Journal of Law & Gender, Wake Forest Law Review, UC Davis Law Review, California Law Review Online, Yale Law Journal Forum, Utah Law Review, Maryland Law Review, the peer-reviewed social science journal Trauma, Violence & Abuse, Loyola University Chicago Law Journal, and several issues of the Journal of College & University Law. She also has been invited to write several book chapters, as well as op-eds for the Washington Post, New York Times, USA Today, and Time magazine.

In her pro bono work, Cantalupo has consulted with President Obama’s White House Task Force to Protect Students from Sexual Assault, participated on a U.S. Senate roundtable, served as a Negotiator on the Negotiated Rulemaking Committee that amended regulations for the Clery Act, and testified before the Maryland and Virginia state legislatures. She has also chaired the board of D.C. Law Students in Court and served on the Advisory Boards for SurvJustice and The Clery Center for Security on Campus, as well as on the Boards of Directors for the Asian/Pacific-Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project and the Conference for Asian Pacific American Law Faculty. In 2016, she co-authored “Title IX & the Preponderance of the Evidence: A White Paper,” signed by over 115 law professors from across the country and from 2017-19 was asked by the American Bar Association’s Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence to draft and edit (based on feedback from peer reviewers) its Recommendations for Improving Campus Student Conduct Processes for Gender-Based Violence (pdf).

Wayne State University School of Law

Kate Lockwood Harris is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at the University of Minnesota and a McKnight Presidential Fellow. She uses critical, feminist, and intersectional perspectives to answer the question, “How are violence and communication related?” Dr. Harris assumes that violence is a symptom of inequity, so she pays close attention to gender, race, and related systems of difference. Her research on organizational responses to sexual assault has been widely published in management, communication, cultural studies, and feminist outlets.

This work, along with related projects on the power of writing, reflexivity, and language to sustain and transform violence, has won accolades at regional, national, and international conferences. An expert in interpersonal and organizational trauma, she consults with organizations to develop violence prevention programs. Her first book, Beyond the Rapist: Title IX and Sexual Violence on US Campuses (Oxford University Press), was recognized with the 2020 Book Award from the European Group for Organizational Studies.”

University of Minnesota