Dr. Annmarie Caño, Professor of Psychology at Gonzaga University, will speak about co-creating liberatory culture change in higher education!
Friday, Feb. 23, noon-1pm: Imagining Another Possible World in Academia: Q&A with
Dr. Annmarie Caño (virtual)
- Dr. Caño will draw from her book-in-progress to discuss how we can co-create healthier academic work environments in which everyone, not just a privileged few, can thrive. We will explore the possibilities for broader institutional culture change as well as tools for empowering individuals, considering liberation psychology concepts as they apply to the academic workplace.
Friday, March 8, noon-1:30pm: Workshopping Healthier Work Environments with
Dr. Annmarie Caño (virtual)
- Dr. Caño will guide workshop participants to identify oppressive features of their work environments and strategies to pursue together to support healthier working environments. Participants will leave this session with several ideas to build upon together.
Dr. Annmarie Caño supports leaders to act courageously to cultivate healthier work environments in which everyone can thrive. She is a professor of psychology at Gonzaga University, a licensed clinical psychologist, and a Board Certified Coach who has held leadership positions in higher education including as a dean of a college of arts and sciences (Gonzaga University) and associate provost of faculty development and success (Wayne State University). Dr. Caño served as the principal investigator of four National Institutes of Health grants and is a two-time Fellow of the American Psychological Association. Her leadership approach is informed by her clinical research on empathy, relationship skills building, and chronic stress as well as her lived experiences as a Latina and a first-generation college student. At the core of Annmarie’s leadership philosophy is that effective and fulfilled leaders work to create healthy environments in which everyone, including themselves, can thrive and be successful. To that end, she coaches leaders who wish to engage in personal, systemic, and structural changes that can liberate the workplace from harmful and exclusionary practices. She is completing a book project for Johns Hopkins University Press on this topic. Dr. Caño earned her bachelor’s degree in psychology from Princeton University, and master’s degree and PhD in psychology from Stony Brook University. She enjoys spending her time exploring the American Northwest with her husband, middle school-aged son, and their pup.