Full Name
Moderator: Frazier Benya
Job title
Senior Program Officer
Affiliation/Organization
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Short Bio
Dr. Frazier Benya is a Senior Program Officer at the National Academies, where she directs the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education. In that role she brings together leaders from over 50 academic and research institutions and relevant parties to collaboratively work toward and share targeted action on addressing and preventing sexual harassment. Since the Collaborative was formed in 2019, it has informed significant policy changes, released a series of publications for the higher education community, developed a first of its kind resource repository, and held bi-annual meetings that draw hundreds from across the landscape of higher education. Throughout Dr. Benya’s career, her work has focused on ensuring that science, engineering, and medicine are ethical and socially responsible, both in their practice and in who gets to participate in the work. From 2016 to 2018, she served as the study director for the National Academies consensus study report Sexual Harassment of Women: Climate, Culture, and Consequences in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Prior to that, Dr. Benya worked with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) on projects focused on improving and enhancing engineering ethics education and on analyzing the pathways engineers take from education to the workforce. Dr. Benya holds a B.A with honors in Science, Technology and Society from the University of Puget Sound, and a M.A. in Bioethics and Ph.D. in History of Science, Technology, and Medicine from the University of Minnesota. Dr. Benya was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 2017.
Moderator: Frazier Benya