Archived – Steering Committee

Jaclyn Stoczanyn, Development and Alumni Relations – WWHEL Chair

An alumna from UW-Milwaukee, experienced Executive Staff Assistant and Senior Business Manager supporting senior leaders with a demonstrated over 20 years history of working in higher education. Currently serves as the Senior Business Manager for the Office of Development & Alumni Relations at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. During her tenure at UWM, Ms. Stoczanyn has participated in a range of university-wide engagement activities ranging from recruitment, serving on university committees, project management, governance, and engagement. Ms. Stoczanyn’s interests include racial equity and social justice, eradicating violence against women, and advancing future leaders in Milwaukee. Ms. Stoczanyn interned under feminist and women’s advocate, Gloria Steinem for Choice USA in Washington D.C. and volunteered for People for the American Way Foundation as a voter rights protection advocate. Within the Milwaukee Community, she volunteered at the Aurora Sinai Sexual Assault Treatment Center as a Sexual Assault Advocate and currently volunteers with the Milwaukee Ballet, United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County, and Professional Dimensions Charitable Fund working as the Program Project Manager with the YWCA of Southeastern Wisconsin. Ms. Stoczanyn is on the slate to serve as the Director for Retention and Recruitment on the Executive Women International Board of Directors. She previously served as the Vice President for the Milwaukee Children’s Choir Board of Directors.

At UWM, Jaclyn serves as a University Staff Senator and Chairs the University Staff Senate Climate and Information Committee, is actively involved with the UWM Alumni Association, currently participating in the Alumni-UWM Student Mentor program and serving as an ambassador for Diversity and Inclusion on campus. Graduate from the United Way of Greater Milwaukee and Waukesha County Project LEAD Program, and Marquette University’s Future Milwaukee Community Based Leadership Program which has allowed her to strengthen her leadership and facilitation skills.

Jaclyn is currently enrolled in the Administrative Leadership Adult and Continuing Education and Higher Education Master’s program through the School of Education at UWM. Transformative leader and change agent with tenacity, strong problem solving, leadership skills, facilitation in anti-racism education with experienced public speaking. As a mixed-race woman, she believes that sometimes you just have to shake things up and lead the path for others. Leadership is her passion as well as her dogs, traveling and binge-watching crime drama.

Diana Borders, Director of Business Service – Office of Charter Schools

Diana Borders is the Assistant Director of Business Services for the Office of Charter Schools located in the School of Education. Diana provides specialized services associated in managing all contract compliance reporting of the 15 charter schools under the authorization of UW-Milwaukee. She manages and coordinates the internal operations for the Office including financial reporting, and fiscal policy activities that ensure regulatory conformity with the Federal Government, the Department of Public Instruction, UW-Systems and other governing entities. Prior to her work in the office, she managed several grants and initiatives at UWM.

Diana is committed to sharing her expertise to support initiatives that benefit and improve the overall campus environment. She served a three-year term as the Academic Staff Senator representing the School of Education. Recently reelected, Diana will continue to serve as a co-chair of the African Diaspora Council (ADC), an employee resource group at UWM. Diana passionately believes in the mission of ADC to promote and enhance a sense of community and equity on campus, develop professional and educational opportunities, provide senior level students with scholarships, and support the communities where members live and work by providing forums for discussion of issues and ideas to generate actions

Kim Cosier, Peck School of the Arts (Advisory Member)

Kim Cosier is active in the art build movement in Milwaukee and is an art education professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. As an anti-racist, gender queer researcher and teacher, her work focuses on art and education for social justice, particularly related to intersecting cultural and social factors including race, gender, sexuality, ability, and class. She has published books and articles on these subjects including Rethinking Sexism, Gender and Sexuality, which won an American Library Association Stonewall Award. She believes in the power of art to create change in community and sees works of the imagination as essential to building a better, more just world.

Kate Ganski, UWM Libraries and Alumni Relations

Kate L Ganski is Assistant Director of Libraries for User Services and began her tenure at UWM in 2007. Kate has served on various Academic Staff committees and has found university service to be a great way to advocate and recognize her colleagues.

Dr. Phyllis King, Vice Provost, Academic Affairs

Kathy Litzau, Athletics

Kathy Litzau, Senior Associate Athletic Director and Senior Woman Administrator, oversees academic support services, sports medicine and strength and conditioning.  She oversees the departments strategic planning process and also serves as the sport administrator for men’s soccer, women’s basketball and swimming and diving.  Along with serving on WWHEL, she also serves on the Student Affairs Alignment & Action Team, Community Support and Impact Group, and conference committees:  Horizon League Board of Directors, Executive Council and chair of Senior Woman Administrators.

“A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.” -Rosalynn Carter

Liza Longhini, UWM School of Continuing Education

Liza Longhini joined the UWM School of Continuing Education (SCE) in 2005 and currently serves a dual role as the Director of Development for the school as well as a Customized Training Consultant. In this latter role, she partners with organizations to explore their educational needs and designs custom programs to meet the changing demands of today’s workforce. Liza specializes in delivering courses with dynamic instructors and curricula enabling businesses and their employees to stay current in the marketplace.

Along with recently joining WWHEL, Liza is a founding board member of the We Care Fund at the Medical College of Wisconsin raising money for the Department of Surgery. She also sits on the advisory committees for Aurora’s School of Diagnostic Medical Sonography and Radiologic Technology, the UWM Women Leaders Conference, and UWM Trauma Conference.

Liza is a Wisconsin native but spent her formative years in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, a true Yooper at heart. She and Mark and their Springer Spaniel, Jerry, live in downtown Milwaukee and cherish spending time with family and friends.

Yolanda Medina, Student Affairs

Yolanda Medina is the Director of the Military and Veterans Resource Center and a Marine Corps Veteran. Yolanda co-chairs the Veterans Advisory Council to the Chancellor and sits on the Chancellor’s Council for Hispanic Serving Initiatives at UWM. Her passion for women veterans, the Latinx community, and veteran mental health and wellness has led Yolanda to serve on the boards of the Latino Veterans Legacy of Valor Organization, the American GI Forum for Hispanic Veterans, Forward Latino, as advisor to Latinx Veteran issues, and the Southeastern Wisconsin Task Force on Veteran Suicide Prevention. Yolanda is also one of the first women in Wisconsin to be featured in the Department of Veterans Affairs “I Am Not Invisible” pictorial campaign to bring awareness and increase dialogue about women veterans throughout the United States.

Stephanie Warner, University Information Technology Services

Stephanie Warner, Data Warehouse Administrator for University Information Technology Services is committed to increasing campus data literacy and fostering an environment for data influenced decisions. She serves as the inaugural Chair of the UWM Data Governance Custodial Committee (DGCC) and facilitates meetings for the UWM Warehouse End-User Reporting Initiative Team (WERIT) and the UWM Data Integrity and Definition group (DID). She is a current member of Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW) and Higher Education Data Governance (HEDGe) international groups.

Melinda Brennan, Women’s & Gender Studies

Dr. Melinda Brennan is the Assistant Chair and Director of Undergraduate Studies in Women’s & Gender Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, a unit invested in feminist frameworks, racial justice, and intersectional, accessible education. In her administrative role, she provides curricular, assessment and policy leadership, and student-centered on and off campus community support and engagement.

She is deeply invested in crafting and maintaining spaces that are inclusive and just, with more than a decade of DEI work experience and community leadership within higher education environments. Dr. Brennan earned a PhD in Gender Studies from Indiana University, MA in Sociology and a BA in Women’s & Gender Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.