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title: 2022 Celebration of Women Award Winners
date: 2022-02-22T11:48:00-05:00
author: Mei Lu
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# 2022 Celebration of Women Award Winners


## 2022 Women of Influence Award Winners


*Tami Lee, Assistant Director for Fitness & Wellness, RecWell*


*Tracy Riggins, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology*


*Utsa Santhosh, Senior Undergraduate Student, Computer Science*


**William "Bill" Mallari** is an Assistant Director, Campus Development-Facilities Planning in the Department of Planning and Construction. Him and his facilities planning team have been instrumental in advocating for and moving forward with policy, planning and execution of new and redesigned lactation and feeding rooms on campus. He has been a liaison between PCWI and the student facilities fund committee for lactation/feeding rooms.

**Dr. Ellin Scholnick** is the former chair of PCWI and a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Psychology. She provided multiple kinds of important service to the University from the time she joined the Psychology department in 1967. She served on numerous committees and task forces aimed at improving faculty well-being, including those that developed policies on lecturers, mentoring of junior faculty, merit pay, faculty grievances, and conversion of librarians to faculty status. She was instrumental in creating an automatic tenure delay for childbirth and adoption, and a policy that enables temporary workload reduction for childrearing. She also lead and organized ADVANCE workshops.

During her time with PCWI, Ellin championed issues of childcare, lactation and elder care that led to the creation of the childcare center, lactation rooms and shared resources, and family elder care resources. It also included changing the lens of the PCWI awards structure, including adding inclusive language and making adjustments to the awards to address equity. She is quick to name that these wins came out of years of advocacy and collaborative spirit and activism.

"The focus has changed over the years on women's issues. What was once about getting women on campus in the first place transitioned to critical issues that impacted the success and retention of women in the campus environment."

She served a term as Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs and most recently served as—indeed, seems irreplaceable as—Faculty Ombud. Her research focused on cognitive development, and she served as President of the Jean Piaget Society. No wonder PCWI named her Outstanding Woman of the Year in 2002. Ellin will continue on with PCWI as member Emeritus.

**Dr. Brooke Supple** is the Assistant Vice President for Divisional Initiatives in the Division of Student Affairs. After serving the Division of Student Affairs at the University of Maryland for 26 years, Dr. Brooke Lecky Supple, Assistant Vice President and Chief of Staff, has decided to leave the university of May 6, 2022 and transition into a new chapter of her life.

She started the Work-Life Initiative in Student Affairs and advocated for workplace flexibility, support for working mothers, lactation spaces, multilingual information about retirement, campus childcare, and telework on our campus. Her commitment to work-life integration for all staff has been her greatest passion. Even during the relentless nature of the workload the last two years amidst COVID-19, she championed for these commitments. In recognition of her campus leadership, she was recognized as the 2015 University of Maryland Outstanding Woman of the Year by PCWI.

Under Dr. Linda Clement's vice presidency, Brooke launched the Student Crisis Fund, which helped to sustain almost 3,800 students through the pandemic, and has awarded over $2M in emergency funding to our diverse body of students facing unanticipated emergencies. Her impact on campus has been felt in significant ways and she will be missed.