Tricia Berry
Director
Tricia Berry, Director of the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) at The University of Texas at Austin, is responsible for leading the efforts on recruitment and retention of women in the Cockrell School of Engineering. She concurrently serves as Director of the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, connecting Texas organizations, companies and individuals working to advance gender equity in science, technology, engineering and math fields in coordination with the National Girls Collaborative Project. Berry is also Executive Vice President of 825 Basics, LLC, providing knowledge and tools to help employees enhance their workplace and career success, and co-author of the book Exceeds Expectations: Take Control of Your Performance Review. She came to the Cockrell School of Engineering as Director in July 1999 after six years at The Dow Chemical Company in Freeport, Texas where she worked as a Process Engineer and a Product Development Engineer.
Berry received her BS Chemical Engineering degree from the University of Texas at Austin in May 1993 and her MBA from the University of Houston – Clear Lake in May 1999. Berry is a Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Life Member and is currently serving on the SWE - Assessing Women and Men in Engineering (AWE) Project Advisory Council. She has been a member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) since 2001, most recently serving on the WEPAN Board as President Elect, President and Past President from 2007-2010.
Contact Tricia: tsberry@mail.utexas.edu
Ana Dison
Senior Program Coordinator
Ana Dison is the Senior Program Coordinator for Student Success in the Women in Engineering Program and works with all current student programs including the First Year Initiative, Kinsolving Learning Community, WEP Leadership Seminar, Graduates Linked with Undergraduates in Engineering (GLUE) and the Women In the Second year of Engineering (WISE) programs. Ana earned her bachelor's degree from The University of Texas at Austin in 1992 in Kinesiology and a master's degree in College Student Services Administration from Oregon State University in 1994. After working for two years at the University of Maryland in Recreation Services, Ana returned to the University in 1996 and was Assistant Director in the Division of Recreational Sports, coordinating Membership Services and Satellite Facilities.
After joining the Cockrell School in 2000, Ana served as an academic advisor in the Engineering Student Affairs Office, advising thousands of students and coordinating a wide variety of student programs, before moving to the Women in Engineering Program in 2006. Additionally, she served as the degree evaluator for the Cockrell School for four years. Ana has served on numerous committees across campus, was President of the Academic Counselor's Association and served for three years in the inaugural Staff Council. She continues to be active with the Academic Counselor's Association working with peer and professional mentoring programs.
A member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) since 2006, Ana begins a two year appointment to the WEPAN Board as Communications Director in July, 2013.
Ana received the Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award and the Eyes of Texas Award in 2011 and the University's Outstanding Staff Award in 2012. After serving 20 years as a high school volleyball official in the central Texas area, Ana retired from the Texas Association of Sports Officials in 2011.
Contact Ana: anaraley@mail.utexas.edu
Recruitment and Outreach Program Coordinator
Vacant
Sarah Whetsell
Program Coordinator & Office Manager
Sarah Whetsell is the Program Coordinator and Office Manager for the Women in Engineering Program. She works primarily with admitted student programs for WEP, including the First Year Initiative, First-Year Interest Groups (FIGS), and the Kinsolving Learning Community. Sarah earned a BA in Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006 and an MA in International Education from The George Washington University in 2009. She previously worked with the School of Business at GWU and the Study Abroad Programs Office at Texas A&M University before joining WEP in June 2013.
Contact Sarah: sarah.whetsell@utexas.edu
