Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D., is a senior research scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership. She earned her doctorate in Communication from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism. Dawkins currently conducts research and provides subject matter expertise in the areas of strategic communication, equitable leadership practices, leadership representations in popular culture and futures studies.
Ramya Balakrishnan
Ramya Balakrishnan, M.S., is a passionate data scientist at the Center for Creative Leadership and a contributor to CCL’s Leading Effectively series. Her current work involves data collection, building AI-based models and data visualization to drive key insights from internal and external data. Her thought leadership combines cutting-edge data science, data ethics and machine learning techniques to analyze information equitably and effectively.