Speaker
Maddie Batzli
Health Equity Coordinator for the UW Department of Family Medicine and Community Health
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.
Speaking in
Striving to Become an Antiracist Department: Strategies for Sustained Engagement and Transformation
In response to the global social justice movement of 2020, the members of the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee in the UW–Madison Department of Family Medicine and Community Health set out to develop and execute an “antiracism 2.0” proposal for the department, which would build on the innovative strategies from their 2014 DEI Initiative. In this session, panelists will share strategies for building the capacity to develop an antiracist, multicultural department in a sustainable way.
The panelists will share the results of an internal climate assessment and a racial equity and inclusion assessment. They will discuss how they incorporated introspective opportunities for personal learning and growth; shared spaces for groups to learn together and build a culture of belonging in the department; and developed institutional strategies for change with a goal to build infrastructure, capacity, partnerships, and leadership to assure enduring change. The session hopes to inspire attendees to pursue change in their own departments and units across campus.