Organizers
Dorothee Honhon
Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at JSOM
Professor of Operations Management
Maria Hasenhuttl
Assistant Area Coordinator, Organizations, Strategy and International Management
Professor of Instruction
Panelists
Tanya Tanis
Tanya is an Associate – Project Manager on the Diversity Recruiting team based in Dallas, TX. She is originally from NYC and has worked in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for the last 6 years. Tanya has lived across the globe to learn more about culture, languages, and human diversity as a passion. In her free time, she enjoys learning new languages, reading new books, traveling, and being an event organizer for woman in the black community in Dallas.
Tanya holds a Bachelor’s in Business Admiration and a Master’s degree in Industrial Organizational Psychology with a concentration in People Analytics and Diversity from Baruch College.
Nikki Drader
Doctoral Student in Management
Nikki is a first year doctoral student at UNT who spent 14 years in financial services prior to joining the program. In her corporate career, she participated in neurodiversity hiring initiatives as a hiring manager and advocate for workplace inclusion.
Currently, she is conducting research in the area of neurodiversity in the workplace and serves on the G Brint Ryan College of Business’s DEI Council.
Geoff Barker
MBA Candidate. Future…Toyota PPS (Product/Planning and Strategy) Employee
Geoff graduated from the University of Arkansas in 2011 with a BA in History and a minor in Political Science. Before coming back for his MBA, he spent 6 years in transportation/logistics sales, 2 years in one of Pepsi’s Supply Chain Departments and finally 2 years doing technology consulting at Blue Yonder. Geoff interned with Toyota in the summer of 2022 and will be starting their full-time this August within their PPS (Product Planning and Strategy) Group.
From a neurodiversity standpoint, Geoff was diagnosed with ADHD in middle school, and also suffers from high frequency hearing loss in his left ear and wears hearing aids because of it.
