Nefertiti Walker
Nefertiti A. Walker is the Deputy Vice President for Academic Affairs, Student Affairs, and Equity for the University of Massachusetts, serving all four undergraduate University of Massachusetts campuses and the Chan School of Medicine.
Walker is a tenured full professor in the Mark H. McCormack Department of Sport Management, which resides in the Isenberg School of Management. She is a social scientist who studies organizational culture. Specifically, she examines organizational inclusion and exclusion, seeking to understand the experiences of people with marginalized identities, and using those insights to design more inclusive organizational cultures. At the root of her academic inquiry and administrative leadership is leading institutional change.
Dr. Walker is a Research Fellow with the North American Society for Sport Management - signifying the top 10% of researchers in her field. She was awarded the 2017-18 Isenberg School of Management Teaching Excellence Award and the 2018-19 Isenberg School of Management Research Excellence Award. She is also a former NCAA DI basketball player (Georgia Tech & Stetson University), coach, and was inducted into the Stetson University Hall of Fame. Her work has been mentioned on espn.com, espnW.com, TIME Sports, and other sports news outlets. She has also written for the Washington Post.
David Berri
David Berri is a professor of economics at Southern Utah University who has spent the last two decades researching sports and economics. He is the lead author of "The Wages of Wins" (Stanford Press, 2006), a book that was reviewed by Malcolm Gladwell in the New Yorker and Joe Nocera in the New York Times. In addition, he was the lead author of "Stumbling on Wins" (Financial Times Press, 2010), the sole author of "Sports Economics" (a textbook published in 2018 from Macmillan Publishers), and a co-author of "The Economics of the Super Bowl" (Palgrave, 2020). He has also been part of more than 80 academic papers published on the subject of sports economics. In the past, he has also written on the subject of sports economics for a number of popular media outlets, including the New York Times, the Atlantic.com, Time.com, Vice Sports, and Forbes. In recent years, his work has increasingly focused on gender issues; focusing on such topics as the gender-wage gap in the WNBA, how the sports media treats women's sports, women and coaching sports, attendance and revenue in women's sports, exploitation in women's sports, and Title IX issues.
