The American Association of University Women presents a Women in Leadership Panel—featuring UC Santa Barbara’s Gevirtz School alumna Mandi de Witte—on October 29th at 7 pm in PSYCH 1924. This event is a free opportunity to hear successful women in our community share their stories and insight on what it's like to be a woman in the workplace. Other presenters include Samantha Daly, Professor of Mechanical Engineering; Mackenzie Wildman, Senior Data Scientist at Evidation Health; Joan Hartmann, Third District Santa Barbara County Supervisor; and Gina Fischer, Chair of the Santa Barbara County Commission for Women.
Topics for the panel will include: overcoming imposter syndrome, asking for a raise, confidence in the workplace, working in a male-dominated field, work-life balance, and going to graduate school.
Mandi de Witte, nee Gascoigne, has been both the Santa Barbara County Educator of the Year (2019) and the Ventura Chamber of Commerce Educator of the Year (2015). She earned her single subject teaching credential and M.Ed. from UCSB’s Teacher Education Program in 2010. Her undergraduate degree is also from UCSB in microbiology.
A science teacher at Carpinteria High School in the Carpinteria Unified School District, de Witte is in her ninth year of teaching, having previously taught in the Ventura Unified School District.
She is also a lead teacher in the South Coast Science Project, a UC Santa Barbara-based center providing professional development for teachers in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties through a variety of programs that assist teachers in the delivery of the content of the Science Standards to their students.