2024 Diversity Committee Members

Esma Gel, Chair
Cynthia Hardin Milligan Chair of Business and Professor of Supply Chain Management and Analytics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Chrysafis Vogiatzis, Vice-chair
Teaching Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ebru Bish
University of Alabama

Banafsheh Behzad
California State University, Long Beach

David Czerwinski
San Jose State University

Grani Hanasusanto
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Afrooz Jalilzadeh
University of Arizona

Ruiwei Jiang
University of Michigan

Michael Johnson
University of Massachusetts Boston

Angelika Leskovskaya
Southern Methodist University

Wilkistar Otieno
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee

Sofia Perez-Guzman
Rensselaer Polytechnic

Ruben Proano
Rochester Institute of Technology

Daniel Reich
Naval Postgraduate School

Shanith Spanton
CSX

Jessye Talley 
Morgan State University

Margret Vilborg Bjarnadottir
University of Massachusetts Amherst

Carolina Vivas-Valencia
University of Maryland

Jeremy Watts
University of Tennessee

Shengfan Zhang
University of Arkansas

Staff Liaison: Gina Lloyd
Director of Human Resources at the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Board Liaison: President Elect David Hunt
Vice President, Olivery Wyman