Women and Leadership Lecture Series

2008

Second Annual Women and Leadership Lecture Series begins.

Karrie Galloway has been with Planned Parenthood for 27 years. She started in 1981 as a community educator and has been the CEO since 1987. Today, Planned Parenthood consists of seven medical facilities that serve over 45,000 women, men and teens throughout the entire state of Utah. Programs include clinical services, community education and outreach, public affairs and resource development.  

Ms. Galloway has received the YWCA Outstanding Achievement Award and the AUCH Award for Recognition to Dedication to Increasing Access and Reducing Health Disparities for the Medically Underserved in Utah. She is a member of the Utah Non-Profits Association, the Cervical Cancer Prevention Advisory Committee, Utah Safety Net and the Utah Governor’s Task Force on Teenage Pregnancy.  You also might know her as a regular guest on Babs Delay’s “Women - the Third Generation” program on KRCL radio. 
 

Dr. Christine Moll is an Associate professor in the graduate Department of Counseling and Human Services at Canisius.  Prior to her faculty position she served as the Director of the Counseling Center on campus.  Dr. Moll also has a private practice in which she works as a mental health counselor.   

In addition to her work, Dr. Moll volunteers for Aids Family Services as a co-leader for a support group for family members of individuals with HIV/AIDS. She is a trainer and consultant for the Diocese of Buffalo Youth Department and Perminate Deacon programs. 

Christine is also a leader within the American Counseling Association, the professional organization for counselors in the US. Her leadership roles include past president of the New York Counseling Association, past president of the Association for Adult Development and Aging, and the ACA North Atlantic Region representative to ACA’s Governing Council. Currently, Dr. Moll has been doing leadership development programs for a variety of ACA Branches, and Regions.  

Dr. Moll completed her undergraduate work in Religious Students & Education at Barry College in Miami. She holds a Master’s degree in Counselor Education from Canisius College. And, she returned to Miami and Barry University for her Ph.D. in Counseling & Leadership.   

Judge Shauna Graves-Robertson was appointed to the Salt Lake County Justice Court by the Salt Lake County Commission in January 1999. Judge Graves-Robertson is a Salt Lake City native and a graduate of West High School. She graduated from Arizona State University in 1980 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Criminal Justice. Judge Graves-Robertson received a Masters in Public Administration in 1987 and a law degree from the University of Utah in 1990. Prior to taking the bench, Judge Graves-Robertson worked for the Salt Lake Legal Defenders Association. She has attended The National Judicial College and is a member of the Supreme Court’s Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure. Judge Graves-Robertson is currently the presiding judge in Salt Lake County.  
 

Michelle Larson is the Assistant Provost and an Adjunct Associate Professor of Physics at Utah State University. As Assistant Provost she enjoys the fun and challenge that comes with working near the helm of a Research I university on a daily basis. As an adjunct in physics she is able to maintain ties with her discipline and engage in stimulating conversation among geeks when she starts missing such interactions.  

Prior to joining USU, Michelle was the Deputy Director of the Center for Gravitational Wave Physics, at Pennsylvania State University. In this role she was responsible for integrating the research, education and outreach efforts of the Center and worked closely with research scientists to share exciting discoveries in the field of gravity with a broad range of audiences. 

In the years prior to Penn State, Michelle was the deputy director of NASA's Montana Space Grant Consortium, she was a scientist in the Kellogg Radiation Laboratory at Caltech where she was the project coordinator for the California High School Cosmic Ray Observatory (CHICOS), and she worked as a public outreach scientist in the Space Sciences Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley where she developed ways to bring the science of NASA missions to public and school audiences. 

Michelle grew up in Anchorage, Alaska and after high school moved to Bozeman, Montana where she received her B.S. in Physics from Montana State University. She continued at MSU and received a M.S. in Physics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, with a research area in neutron star astrophysics. Since then, she has spent the majority of her career making research science interesting and accessible for broad audiences. 

Michelle is also an amateur astronomer. She particularly enjoys sharing the more spectacular objects of the night sky with the general public. A favorite highlight was when a young child exclaimed, "Wow! Saturn looks just like a Chevy symbol."