Suzanne G. Brainard, Ph.D.
Executive Director
Center for Workforce Development,
University of Washington
Suzanne G. Brainard, Ph.D. is the Executive Director of the Center for Workforce Development (CWD)
at the University of Washington. She is an Affiliate Professor in Technical Communication in the
College of Engineering and in the Department of Women Studies in the College of Arts & Sciences.
She is one of three co-founders of the Women in Engineering Programs & Advocates Network
(WEPAN), and the immediate Past-President. She is past chair of the congressionally-mandated Committee on Equal
Opportunity in Science & Engineering (CEOSE) and served on the National Academy of Engineering (NAE)
Committee on Diversifying the Engineering Workforce and the AAAS National Mentoring Committee. She is a Fellow
of AAAS and is the recipient of the 2001 Maria Mitchell Women in Science Award.
Her primary areas of research include program evaluation, mentoring, diversity and climate studies in engineering and
science. More specifically, her research has focused on longitudinal studies examining issues of retention and
advancement in engineering and science and the workforce, institutional climate studies at the University of
Washington and national climate surveys in engineering and science. In addition, she conducts evaluations of
intervention programs focused on increasing the participation, retention and advancement of women and minorities in
science and engineering. The National Science Foundation, the Department of Education (FIPSE), the Department of
Energy and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have funded her research. Dr. Brainard is co-directs an international
initiative with WEPAN, AAAS and AWIS, the Global Alliance in Science & Engineering to Diversify the Workforce.
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