Dr. Dessie Clark is the Executive and Research Director for the TREE Collaborative (Transforming Research in Education Environments) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Clark completed her PhD in Community Sustainability at Michigan State University. Dr. Clark’s research interests are broadly related to organizational transformation in higher education. Dr. Clark addresses the issue of workplace climate with a mixed-methods approach focusing on structural and systemic barriers to equity and parity. In 2025, Dr. Clark received an NSF award as Lead PI to evaluate approaches to research ethics training.
Dr. Dessie Lee Clark 