Project Manager of Inclusive Learning
Veronica Womack is the Project Manager of Inclusive Learning at Northwestern University’s Searle Center for Advancing Teaching and Learning. In this position, she manages a multi-institution, five-year STEM education, professional development project that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation. She is also Co-Founder of www.beneaththefacade.org, a website that serves as an empirically-based, psychoeducational resource for African-American women coping with stereotypical expectations and gendered racism. Veronica received both her B.S. in Psychology and Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Howard University and received her postdoctoral training in cardiovascular epidemiology at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine.
She is an experienced facilitator and has implemented seminars on identifying and coping with racial microaggressions as well as reducing stereotype threats in learning environments. She incorporates mindfulness, intersectionality, health behaviors, and ‘safe space’ development into her research and workplace-based initiatives.
Dr. Womack’s research and commentaries have been published in Psychosomatic Medicine, Journal of Black Studies, American Journal of Health Behaviors, and TIME magazine. She continues to share her knowledge with the next generation of scholars and leaders in Chicago as an Adjunct Professor at St. Augustine College and Governors State University where she teaches Research Methods and Mindfulness Studies respectively.
Dr. Womack is passionate about promoting mindfulness-based initiatives, cultivating inclusive spaces, and developing social support networks for people of color.