Tricia Berry leads efforts to close the STEM gender gap by creating an inspired and diverse community of confident STEM leaders as the Executive Director of Women in STEM (WiSTEM) at The University of Texas at Austin. She concurrently serves as Collaborative Lead for the Texas Girls Collaborative Project, leading the dissemination of effective, equitable, and inclusive STEM education practices while fostering networks and collaborations across Texas in coordination with the National Girls Collaborative Project. Through both roles, she connects and supports organizations and individuals working to advance gender equity in STEM fields across Texas and beyond.

Tricia serves in an advisory or leadership capacity for various STEM or equity-focused campus, community and school organizations including the UT Austin K12 STEM Collaborative, Greater Austin STEM Ecosystem, and the DiscoverE Messages Matter Advisory Group. Previously Tricia served for 20 years as Director for the Women in Engineering Program at The University of Texas at Austin, cofounded and led the career consulting company 825 Basics, and worked as a Product Development Engineer at The Dow Chemical Company.

In her “outside of STEM” work, Tricia is the co-author of You Can’t Eat Your Degree: Combine Your Passions and Philosophies to Create the Story of Your Future and Exceeds Expectations: Take Control of Your Performance Review. She is a hobbyist gardener, novice bird watcher, amateur nature photographer, and avid reader. Tricia holds a BS Chemical Engineering degree and an MBA, is the mom of 2 chemical engineering college students, and is the wife of another chemical engineer.

Ana Dison is the inaugural Program Director for Women in STEM (WiSTEM) a university wide initiative she founded in partnership with Tricia Berry in November of 2021.

Dison earned her bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from The University of Texas at Austin and her master’s degree in College Student Services Administration from Oregon State University. After working for two years at the University of Maryland in Recreation Services, Dison returned to UT Austin and served as Assistant Director in the Division of Recreational Sports, coordinating membership services and satellite facilities. After two more years in the College of Liberal Arts Economics Department as Advising Coordinator, Ana served for twenty-one years in the Cockrell School of Engineering in a variety of roles including as Assistant Director for the Women in Engineering Program for fifteen years.

Dison has served on numerous committees across campus and served for three years in the inaugural group of the UT Staff Council. Dison co-chaired the Provost’s Council on Student Advocacy for three years and has served two terms as President of the Academic Counselors Association. She continues to be active in the UT Austin community, working with peer and professional mentoring programs. She has presented to numerous groups on a variety of leadership, inclusion and career-focused topics. She received the university’s Outstanding Staff Award in 2012 and the Cockrell School of Engineering Staff Excellence Award and the Eyes of Texas Award in 2011. A member of the Women in Engineering ProActive Network (WEPAN) since 2006, Dison completed a two-year appointment to the WEPAN Board of Directors as communications director in 2015.

In 2011 and after 20 seasons as a high school volleyball official in the central Texas area, Dison retired from the Texas Association of Sports Officials. Since 2003, she has been designing and creating custom jewelry and loves to golf in her spare time.

Amy Beebe is the Assistant Director for Women in STEM, a newly established initiative in the Division of Diversity and Community Engagement at The University of Texas at Austin.

Amy earned her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from The University of Texas at Tyler. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies at Texas Tech University with her focus being higher education administration, cross-cultural communication, and strategic leadership.

Amy began her UT Austin career in 2013 as a summer intern for the Advance Placement Summer Institute before transitioning into a full-time role with the College of Natural Sciences (CNS). She held administrative roles supporting the School of Human Ecology advising center, CNS Honors, and the Women in Natural Sciences (WiNS) Program. In 2017 she joined the Women in Engineering Program (WEP) as a Student Program Coordinator in which she developed and coordinated recruitment, retention, and leadership programs to promote the success and advancement of women in engineering until November of 2020. That year Amy took on a new role as Senior Recruiting Officer for the McCombs School of Business. However, she just couldn’t stay away from the incredible work of supporting women in STEM fields so joined the WiSTEM team in January of 2022.

Since her start, Amy has engaged/coordinated/developed many different types of DEI initiatives across UT Austin campus. Amy is active within the campus community whether by holding leadership positions or just being a member of  UT Austin’s Academic Counselors Association and Hispanic Faculty & Staff Association. She has also held seats on the UT Austin Faculty Council and various campus committees.  Amy received the 2020 Outstanding Staff Award in acknowledgment of her dedicated service. Currently, she serves as District 400 staff representative on the UT Staff Council.

Aside from work and school, Amy enjoys spending time with her partner Nick and their fur-child Jack going on adventures around Austin. She is an avid reader, sports watcher, and anime fan.

Robin is a passionate advocate for youth voice, community building, mental health literacy and equity in education. Robin brings a wealth of knowledge, experience, and creativeideas to the WiSTEM program. Before joining UT’s Women in STEM program, Robin worked with youth in the Nonprofit sector for almost a decade as a Youth Activities Facilitator, Cultural Enrichment Director, Academic Success Specialist, and UTSA College Mentor. Robin graduated from UT Arlington with her Bachelors of Science in University Studies with a concentration in Social Sciences and plans to continue her education in the future to explore her many interests. Outside of WiSTEM Robin spends time nurturing her hobbies and other ventures such as writing, photography being in nature, blogging and herbal tea making. Robin is also published poet and creative.

Contact WiSTEM Staff by emailing wistem@utexas.edu