6th Annual Women in Business Affinity: Presenters

Jeannine Heynes currently serves as the Director of Women and Gender Resources at Johns Hopkins University. Her work focuses on the advancement of women students’ personal, academic and professional achievements, while supporting all students on matters related to gender equity and inclusion. As part of Diversity and Inclusion at Hopkins, Jeannine places a high priority on the intersectional programming she does with her colleagues in the Office of Multicultural Affairs, Campus Ministries and LGBTQ Life, helping students consider their own identities while developing an understanding of allyship and social justice. Prior to her work at Hopkins, Jeannine served as Director of The Center for Gender and Relationships at Warren Wilson College in North Carolina, overseeing sexual health education, LGBTQ Life, and feminist initiatives. As Coordinator of Gender Programming at Carnegie Mellon, Jeannine led sexual assault prevention education and Title IX compliance. Jeannine earned her Ph.D. in Women and Gender Studies at the University of Manchester, UK, where she taught courses on Gender and Education, Feminist Theology, and Race in America.

Lindsey Hutzler (A&S 2012), Director of Product Strategy & Business Development, Progressus, Inc.

Lindsey Hutzler is the director of Product Strategy & Business Development for Progressus, Inc., in which she oversees the lifecycle of new products from working with artists in the initial stages to patenting the final innovation with a legal team. Her first design, the Booboo Box®, has been patented in five countries. Her expertise is in emergent markets, sourcing compliance, and infringement research. She is a member of Johns Hopkins – Women in Business Affinity and the IHA – Government Affairs Committee, in which she lobbies for current fiscal and healthcare issues affecting the industry, including tax reform and Proposition 65.

Renée J. Johnson currently serves as the Training Director at the United State of Women, where she provides women across the country with opportunities for personal, professional, and political advancement. With her background in political service, Renée is passionate about getting more women of color into politics and policy.

Prior to joining the United State of Women, Renée worked for the District of Columbia as the Director of Legislation and Policy in the Department of Human Services and as a Legislative Assistant and Press Secretary to the Chairman of the District of Columbia Council, Phil Mendelson. Previously, Johnson served on Capitol Hill for Congressman Bobby L. Rush (D-IL), Senator Roland W. Burris, and the Assistant Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Richard J. Durbin. Hailing from Waukegan, Illinois, Renée graduated from Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) with a BA in Political Science and a Master's in Science, and went on to attend the University of Maryland Business and Law Schools.
 

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 Faizun Kamal

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 Monica Kang

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 Caitlin Magidson

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 Bryan McMillan

Lauren M. Osborne is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Assistant Director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center, and Fellowship Director in Reproductive Psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  She  holds an M.D. from Weill Cornell Medical College and completed her psychiatry residency and an NIH T32 research fellowship at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute.  Dr. Osborne is an expert on the diagnosis and treatment of mood and anxiety disorders during pregnancy, the postpartum, the premenstrual period, and perimenopause.  She conducts research on the biological pathways that contribute to perinatal mental illness, with a focus on the immune system, and her work is supported by the Brain and Behavior Foundation and the NIMH.  Throughout her training, she received numerous awards for her research, including the American Women Psychiatrists’ Award and the APA Junior Investigators’ Research Colloquium Award, and has been honored here at Hopkins with the Best Abstract Award from the Women’s Health Research Group.  Dr. Osborne is the founder and chair of the National Task Force on Women’s Reproductive Mental Health, a nationwide group of perinatal psychiatrists working together to create a national, standardized curriculum for the education of future psychiatrists.  She also serves as a member of the board of the Perinatal Mental Health Society.
 

Dr. Payne received her B.S. in biology at Davidson College in Davidson, NC and her M.D. from Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, MO where she received the Spencer T. Olin Tuition Fellowship. During medical school she was the recipient of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship and spent a year at the NIH performing basic laboratory research. She completed her residency in psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins Hospital where she served as chief resident during her last year. Dr. Payne then completed a fellowship in mood disorders through the Mood and Anxiety Disorders Program at the NIMH. Dr. Payne joined the Johns Hopkins faculty as an Assistant Professor in 2003 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2011.  Dr. Payne is the founder and Director of the Women’s Mood Disorders Center and, in addition to providing outstanding clinical care for women with mood disorders, conducts research into the genetic, biological, and environmental factors involved in postpartum depression. She and her colleagues have recently identified epigenetic biomarkers of postpartum depression and are working hard to replicate this work with NIH funding. She has been awarded a number of honors including the Passano Physician-Scientist Award, the NARSAD Young Investigator Award and has been named a Distinguished Fellow by the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Payne also serves as the Deputy Representative of the Women’s Caucasus to the American Psychiatric Association Assembly and served on the Maryland State Perinatal Mental Health Task Force resulting in state legislation improving resources available for perinatal women and their doctors.
 

Louise L. Schiavone is a member of the full--‐time faculty and Senior Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Baltimore, Maryland. Schiavone teaches “Business Communication” and “Business Leadership and Human Values” to graduate level students at the Baltimore and Washington D.C. campuses. She has received the Dean's Award for Faculty Excellence. A career journalist, and TEDx   speaker, Schiavone was educated at Columbia University in New York City, where she earned an MS in Journalism. She has covered Congress, the White House, as well as news at the Pentagon, Treasury, tate, Transportation, Energy, and Housing Departments, as well as national presidential campaigns, the mortgage meltdown and financial crisis, food safety challenges, and natural disasters.

An on-air veteran of CNN, ABC News, and the Associated Press, Schiavone is currently a newscast anchor at NPR and the SiriusXM “P.O.T.U.S.” Channel. She also writes for print media, most recently National Geographic’s “The Plate.” Schiavone is currently co-producing a video documentary about marine life biodiversity in the Scottish Highlands, "The DEEP Oyster Experiment." 

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 Victoria Schwaner

Victoria Schwaner transitioned her career after college from international politics to the tech industry, where the pace and creative spirit matched her own. She’s worked at both powerhouses, LivingSocial and Atlantic Media, advocating for consumers and managing logistics. In a quest to dig deeper, Victoria enrolled in a full-time User Experience Design Immersive course at General Assembly. Upon graduation, she was hired as a Teaching Assistant at GA and she continues to mentor and teach the design process using UX concepts to students. Victoria’s full-time gig serves as the lead UX Designer at Perceptronics Solutions. She earned a B.Soc.Sc. from the University of Ottawa with Honors in International Politics, French, and a minor in Italian.
 

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 Niyati Shah

Niyati is a Senior Gender Advisor and Team Leader in the Global Health Bureau at USAID in the Office of Maternal, Newborn, Child Health and Nutrition and the Office of Infectious Diseases. She provides leadership, guidance, and input on gender considerations at headquarters and in overseas Missions, with implementing partners, and cooperating agencies. Prior to working at USAID, Niyati consulted on poverty reduction and financial inclusion at the World Bank. She has also developed, managed, and delivered leadership, implicit bias and gender-based violence training and workshops both domestically and internationally. Niyati began working on gender equality and gender-based violence over 20 years ago; some of her accomplishments include establishing and managing a rape crisis center, developing inclusion and diversity curriculum & training, and advocating for reproductive justice and access. She has worked globally in the areas of social inclusion, gender equality and trauma with a focus on Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Niyati also has a background in film and storytelling and has been a mind-body practitioner for over 20 years.
 

Sherron Washington, M.A. is the founder and CEO of The P3 Solution a full-service marketing and communication (marcomm) firm that specializes in providing simple strategy, design and social media marketing solutions for SME’s, associations and entrepreneurs.  She has built her firm around the principle of "marketing simple," which instruct clients to embrace simplified methods to promoting their business. She has imparted her marketing wisdom and expertise for nearly 20 years and has been deemed by many as "The Marketing Whisperer” due to her uncanny ability to assist clients in developing innovative, results driven, yet simple solutions for their business.  Sherron holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Arts in Communication from Trinity University in Washington, DC.