Jennifer Merems’ remarkable leadership in promoting diversity in the wildlife profession, born from her personal experiences, has earned her The Wildlife Society’s Diversity Award this year.Merems, a doctoral candidate in the department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has contributed to making the wildlife field safer for women. She worked with TWS president at the time Carol Chambers, to put together a chapter-wide training session on sexual harassment in STEM fields.
The idea was born from her past experience. When Merems was a PhD student, she received sexist comments after presenting research on the impact of wolves on elk in Wisconsin to a group of hunters. “She returned hurt and righteously angry,” said Merems’ advisor Timothy VanDeelen, in a nomination letter. “We processed it a bit, but then in a manner that has my everlasting admiration, Jen, leveraging her own motivation and experience, channeled her hurt and anger into efforts to raise and address the problem of sexism and exclusion in our own professional circles.”....
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