Founder & Principal / Programs Director & Consultant
The Greater Us LLC / VISIONS Inc., United States
Dr. Leena Akhtar serves as the Director of Programs and as a consultant for VISIONS, Inc., a non-profit diversity, equity, inclusion, and organizational change consultancy. She earned her PhD from Harvard University in the History of Science and Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, where she focused on changes in how sexual assault and harassment were understood, issues facing people with historically excluded identities in the sciences, and discrimination in institutional environments. Her dissertation was about the evolution of psychiatric understandings of rape, sexual violence, and trauma in the US in the 20th century. At Harvard, she taught seminars on power-based violence and the evolution of trauma psychiatry, developed equity and inclusion trainings for teaching fellows through the Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning, and helped create and teach the university's first General Education course on gender and science. She also engaged in advocacy work on behalf of minorities, LGBTQ+ persons, and on Title IX-related matters, and advised on implementing comprehensive training on harassment and sexual violence for resident advisors in undergraduate housing.
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Friday, November 4, 2022
4:30 PM – 6:30 PM
Saturday, November 5, 2022
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM