Maddie Batzli is a health equity coordinator at the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at UW. Batzli brings a passion for emergent social change and an eye toward equity in their work with the department. Batzli’s work uses an equity lens to shift academic health system decision-making toward a culture of co-creation with people from historically marginalized backgrounds. Outside of work, Batzli enjoys playing with their band, spending time outdoors, and being in community with friends and family.

Jennifer Edgoose, M.D., M.P.H., is professor, executive vice chair, and vice chair of Community Health, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Dr. Edgoose graduated from Wellesley College with a B.A. in biological chemistry; Columbia University with an M.D. and M.P.H.; and the University of Washington for her family medicine residency. She then practiced full-spectrum family medicine for more than 10 years at Community Health Care, a federally qualified health center in Tacoma, Washington. She joined UW in 2010 and focuses on the care of historically marginalized populations and strategies to promote health equity and community engagement clinically, educationally and in research. Nationally, she served on Family Medicine for America’s Health – Health Equity Team and was the lead editor of the American Academy of Family Physicians’ Health Equity Curricular Toolkit. Dr. Edgoose is a recipient of the Baldwin E. Lloyd Faculty Teaching Award, Brillman Mentoring Award, Scheckler Faculty Research Award, and the UW–Madison Outstanding Women of Color Award.

ananda mirilli is the executive director of nINA Collective, an enterprise dedicated to supporting organizations, institutions and individuals as they advance their change process and racial equity initiatives. Originally from Brazil, mirilli has a long history of working with communities in the U.S. and abroad, and is the grant director to address racial disproportionality in special education for the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction. mirilli earned their master’s degree in education leadership and policy analysis and their bachelor’s degree in human services and psychology from UW–Madison.

William E. “Bill” Schwab, M.D., (he/him) is professor and vice chair of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health and is assistant dean for graduate medical education at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, Dr. Schwab attended UW–Madison as an undergrad and earned his medical degree from the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine. He went on to complete his family practice residency at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. After residency, he worked as a family physician at a community health center in the coal fields of southern West Virginia. He joined the UW faculty in 1985 and has been a clinically active family physician at the department’s Northeast Family Medical Center since then

Shelly Shaw, M.P.H., is the associate director of the Office of Community Health in the UW School of Medicine and Public Health. The vision of the office is to be a trusted partner, resource, and advocate in our department and in our community to advance equitable health outcomes for all people. Shaw has a broad background in public health from working as an infectious disease epidemiologist to implementing community-based interventions to keep kids healthy and active. Underlying her varied public health experience is a passion for prevention, community engagement, and equity. On any given day, you’ll find her working with a wide variety of colleagues — from listening to the wisdom of the Northeast Clinic’s Patient Family Advisory Council; to strategizing with our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee; to collaborating with colleagues in the School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health – all to develop a community health infrastructure through partnership, workforce development, education, research and quality improvement and advocacy.