W+GRA Awards Seed Grants for Research Related to Women’s Issues

November 29, 2021
Categories: General News Tags: Research

The Women + Girls Research Alliance (W+GRA) announces its 2021-22 seed grant recipients. The W+GRA is offering grants between $1,000 to $5,000 to support new or ongoing research efforts whose goals align with its programmatic priority to highlight the issues that women and girls face in the workforce as a result of, or exacerbated by, COVID-19’s impact on the economy and society.

The 2021-22 seed grant recipients are:

  • Shanti Kulkarni, College of Health and Human Services, School of Social Work. Research Project: “Healing and Housing during Covid: Formerly Incarcerated Women Share their Stories.”

  • Brittany Anderson, Cato College of Education, Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Students. Research Project: “Fostering Early STEM Exploration with Gifted/High-Ability Black Girls and their Elementary Teachers”

  • Candace Miller, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology and Organizational Science. Research Project: “Identifying Mechanisms of Employment Socialization in Mother-Child Dyads.”

  • Monika Sawhney, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Public Health Sciences. Research Project: “Exploring the Impact of COVID-19 on the Economic Growth and Mobility among Women in the Charlotte Metropolitan Area.”

  • Brittany Anderson, Jimmeka Anderson (PhD student), and Deneen Dixon-Payne (PhD student), Cato College of Education, Middle, Secondary, and K-12 Students. Research Project: “Keepin’ It REEL: Black Girls Film Camp – Phase II.”

  • Kendra Jason, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Sociology; Janaka Bowman Lewis, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of English; and Tehia Starker Glass, Cato College of Education, Department of Reading and Elementary Education. Research Project: “We All We Got: Supporting Home-Insecure Black Mothers Summit.”