The Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement Community Advisory Board (CAB) is a dynamic team of leaders working creatively and collaboratively to execute the vision and mission of the IIGE, which is to open up the classroom to the world.
The CAB designs and facilitates the Community Engagement Program, which offers Student Engagement and Directed Research opportunities. Through these, students work with faculty and network partners on community-relevant research projects, while gaining the practical skills and executive relationships necessary for success after graduation. Board members and community partners also facilitate:
- Mentorships
- Internships
- Site visits
- Distinguished Speaker Series
- Global Classroom panels
- Events sponsorship
- Student scholarships
- Study abroad
- Conference grants
- Innovation and design projects
Community Advisory Board Members
Co-Chairs:
Divya McMillin, PhD
Professor of Global Media Studies, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Divya McMillin
(Ph.D. 1998, Indiana University Bloomington) is Professor of Global Media Studies in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, and founding Associate Vice Chancellor of the Institute for Innovation and Global Engagement at UW Tacoma. McMillin’s pivotal work on the impact of satellite television on audiences and the television format industry across the world, have led to three critically acclaimed books, International Media Studies (Blackwell 2007), Mediated Identities: Youth, Agency, and Globalization (Peter Lang, 2009), and the anthology Place, Power, Media (Peter Lang, 2018).
Her participatory and grassroots, human centered methodologies in development communication and her analyses of global cities, soft power, and the social impact of convergence technologies, are widely published in top tiered journals and anthologies, meriting her Top Paper Awards from the International Communication Association, and marking her as a postcolonial scholar who has shaped the field of International Cultural Studies.
McMillin is recipient of the UW Distinguished Research Award (2012) and the Distinguished Teaching Award (2017). She serves on various international journal editorial and book publishing review boards, as well as the Tacoma Pierce County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and the Charles Wright Academy Board of Trustees.
Drew Bamford
Head, HTC Creative Labs
Drew Bamford brings a broad background in product development, as well as deep knowledge of user experience design to HTC Creative Labs. When he started at HTC in 2006, Drew had the opportunity to help drive the transformation of HTC from ODM to global consumer brand by creating a branded user experience for HTC products with TouchFLO on Windows Mobile and then HTC Sense on Android. More recently, Drew has been instrumental in the success of the BlinkFeed and the Zoe video highlights experiences. Today, Drew and his team are creating the experience infrastructure that will power HTC's VR platform business in the future.
Before joining HTC, Drew founded the user experience design practice at Teague, a product design consultancy in Seattle, where he and his team designed interactive products for such varied clients as Microsoft, Panasonic, Palm, Nike, Starbucks, and Boeing. Previously, Drew was responsible for the end-to-end user experience of a Web-based financial transaction platform at SparkCharge. While at Microsoft's Hardware Design Group, Drew led the hardware/software interaction design for a wide range of consumer products, from children's toys and game devices to wireless telephones. Drew's earlier experience includes pioneering intranet design work at IDEO and user interface design for a tablet device at Silicon Graphics.
At Stanford, Drew studied Product Design, which is a multidisciplinary program, combining mechanical engineering and design. In addition, he studied Human-Computer Interaction design under Terry Winograd.
Members:
Kevin Dull
Senior Vice President & Chief of Human Potential, MultiCare
Brian Ebersole
Former Tacoma Mayor & WA State Speaker of the House
Deneen Grant, SPHR
Managing Partner & Leadership Strategist, Progressive Leadership Group
Jeremy Gregory
Owner and Artist, Candy Teeth Creative
Lt. General Stephen Lanza
Lieutenant General, United States Army (Ret.)
Enrique Leon, MD
Faculty Physician, Tacoma Family Medicine, Multicare
Michael Liang
Program Director, Spaceworks Tacoma
Mark Wales
Workforce Management
John Wolfe
CEO, The Northwest Seaport Alliance
Non-Voting Members:
Joanne Clarke Dillman, PhD
Associate Director, UW Tacoma IIGE & Global Honors Program
Associate Teaching Professor in Culture, Arts and Communication, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences
Dr. Joanne Clarke Dillman teaches a variety of film classes, from Introduction to Film Studies, to Feminist Perspectives, Media Genres and Film Theory and Aesthetics, among others. She also teaches an Introduction to Screenwriting class. She has taught in both the Core Program and continues to teach in Global Honors. Her focus and home program is in Arts, Media, and Culture. Dr. Clarke Dillman’s degrees include a bachelors from Brown University, MFA in Film from Columbia University, and PhD from George Mason University, with areas of specialization in Visual Culture and Feminist Media Studies. Dr. Clarke Dillman's PhD's work is on the intersection of issues of gender, class and power in American visual culture, with an emphasis on film. Her book, "Women and Death in Film, Television and News: Dead But Not Gone," was published in November, 2014.
As Associate Director, Dr. Clarke Dillman supports the Associate Vice Chancellor, faculty, staff, and students in the development and execution of several Program initiatives, including Integrated Global Honors and the annual Global Engagement Conference.