Nadya A. Fouad, Ph.D. is the Distinguished Professor and Chair, Department of Educational Psychology and Director of the Center for the Study of the Workplace, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She received her doctorate from the University of Minnesota in Counseling Psychology. She was recipient in 2003 of the John Holland Award for Outstanding Achievement in Career and Personality Research, the 2009 American Psychological Association (APA) Distinguished Contributions to Education and Training Award, the 2009 Janet Helms Award for Mentoring and Scholarship, and the 2010 Paul Nelson Award by the Council of Chairs of Training Councils. She has published articles and chapters on cross-cultural vocational assessment, career development of women and racial/ethnic minorities, interest measurement, and cross-cultural counseling. She is currently working on two large NSF-funded studies to examine the persistence and engagement of men and women in engineering careers.

 

Romila Singh, Ph.D is the Associate Professor, Lubar School of Business and Associate Director of the Center for the Study of the Workplace, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee. Romila’s research focuses on understanding career management issues related to career choices, work-life relationships, mentoring, retention, and turnover decisions of women and people of color. She along with her colleague, Nadya Fouad, have been awarded two large National Science Foundation (NSF) grants to investigate engineers’ engagement, persistence, and turnover decisions.