Katheryn Basso is a United States Marine Corps veteran and owner/co-founder of KADRI Clothing, an apparel company whose core mission is to support the trailblazing women in the adventure-tactical communities. Katheryn’s background and interests provide a unique perspective into the needs of her customers, ensuring each product has proper fit, practical function, and durable design.

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During her time in the Marine Corps, Katheryn served as a Public Affairs Officer and Foreign Area Officer, specializing in East Asia culture and strategic policy. Her diverse skillset combined communication, civil affairs, and foreign relations with tactical fieldcraft. Proficient at navigating the complex civil-military terrain of foreign policy, she has advised and advocated for military and civilian leaders from multiple partner nations. 

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While running KADRI Clothing, Katheryn stays active in tactical training. She is an instructor at Team Torn, a tactical and mobility training company based in Nevada. She trains and prepares civilians and government personnel in firearms instruction, conflict avoidance and personal security strategies. 

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Katheryn holds a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology from the University of Virginia and a Master of Arts in Security Studies from the Naval Postgraduate School. She is a graduate of Harvard Negotiation Institute and the Defense Language Institute—Basic Korean Course. 

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Additionally, Katheryn sits on the board of Torn Warriors, a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering and enabling injured military service members through adaptive extreme sports. 

Dr. Morris' expertise is human factors engineering which is the study of the intersection between people and systems and supports the development of human-centered design solutions by accounting for the needs, wants, capabilities, and limitations of people.

 

This work allows her to work collaboratively with other faculty and researchers across disciplines to develop user-centered systems through an understanding of human behavior and decision making to reduce life-changing injuries and deaths from traumatic injuries, such as military combat, motor vehicle crashes, and civilian trauma.

 

Her research focuses on investigating improving Trauma & Combat Medicine, Driver & Pedestrian Safety, and Gender Disparities. She currently works as a Research Associate Professor and Director of the Human Factors Safety Laboratory.

Dr. Lynette Hamlin was recently appointed as the inaugural director of the Military Women’s Health Research Program at the Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences (USU). Hamlin will lead and oversee the university’s research efforts on the health of military women. USU President, Dr. Jonathan Woodson, made the designation on December 4, 2023.

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Hamlin is a professor and the associate dean for Faculty Affairs for USU’s Daniel K. Inouye Graduate School of Nursing (GSN). She earned her B.S. in Nursing and M.S. in Nursing as a maternal-child clinical nurse specialist from Loyola University of Chicago. She later earned her post-master’s certificate in nurse-midwifery from the University of Illinois at Chicago and a PhD in Nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She joined the USU faculty in 2016. Her research focuses on women’s access to care, nurse-midwifery outcomes, health services research, and quality of care issues.

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In addition to her accomplishments as an educator and clinician, Hamlin is a Fellow at the American Academy of Nursing, the American College of Nurse-Midwives, and a participant in the Department of Health and Human Services 2003 Primary Health Care Policy Fellowship. She received the Faye G. Abdellah Senior Research Award, presented by the GSN in 2022.

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Hamlin is also a recipient of the Kitty Ernst Award, now the Excellence in Leadership and Innovation Award, which recognizes certified nurse-midwives who within ten years of certification have displayed innovative, creative endeavors in midwifery and/or clinical practice, education, administration, or research.  

Dr. Joan Johnson-Freese is a Senior Fellow with Women in International Security (WIIS) and served as a University Professor and Chair of the National Security Affairs Department at the Naval War College (NWC) between 2002-2022.

 

As a political scientist, she has published multiple articles on aspects of Women, Peace & Security, particularly focusing on raising awareness regarding the framework generally and within security communities specifically, believing that you can’t implement what you don’t know about. She often provides webinar presentations introducing audiences to the women, peace, and security framework and is the author of Women, Peace & Security: An Introduction (2018) and Women v Women: The Case for Cooperation (2022). Over the arc of her academic career, her research also focused on space security, authoring seven books in that field and over 100 published articles, many with a particular focus on the Chinese space program.

 

She has testified before Congress on multiple occasions about space issues and served on the National Academy of Sciences Space Studies Board. Dr. Johnson-Freese has also published multiple articles and written a book, Educating America’s Military, on Professional Military Education (PME). She testified before a Congressional House Armed Service subcommittee on PME reform in May 2022, including discussion of the need for inclusion of Women, Peace & Security in PME curricula.

David Smith, PhD, is co-author of the book, Good Guys: How Men Can Be Better Allies for Women in the Workplace and an Associate Professor at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

 

A former Navy pilot, Dr. Smith led diverse organizations of women and men culminating in command of a squadron in combat and flew more than 3,000 hours over 30 years including combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

 

As a sociologist trained in military sociology and social psychology, he focuses his research in gender, work, and family issues including gender bias in performance evaluations, dual-career families, military families, women in the military, and retention of women.

 

He is the co-author of Athena Rising: How and Why Men Should Mentor Women and numerous journal articles and book chapters that focus on gender and the workplace. Learn more about David at: workplaceallies.com