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Women@Darden Office Hours with Professor Melanie Prengler and Senior Assistant Dean Dawna Clarke
Join Senior Assistant Dean of Admissions Dawna Clarke and Melanie Prengler, Assistant Professor of Business Administration, for a Women@Darden session for prospective Darden students.
Melanie's research focuses on employees at the leading edge of two trends in organizations. First, she studies how employees in remote work arrangements create a sense of workplace out of nonwork space. Second, she studies how employees can reduce systemic discrimination in their organizations via allyship and anti-racism. In particular, she has examined the strategies used by Black law enforcement officers to reduce discrimination in police organizations and encourage diversity, equity, and inclusion in organizations and society. She has also researched how employees can be allies to postpartum women returning to work, as well as how would-be allies can be resilient through allyship shortcomings. Her research has received numerous awards, including the 2021 AOM MOC Division's Best Student-Led Paper award, a 2021 SIOP Anti-Racism grant, a Mays Innovation Research Center grant, and her dissertation was recognized as a finalist in the 2021 INFORMS Dissertation Proposal Competition. At Darden, she teaches Contemporary Issues in Human Resources in the Leadership and Organizations Area.
9:30am
- 10:30am
(Eastern Standard Time)