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Track Sessions

Each year, CWAE sponsors/co-sponsors track sessions on topics relevant to CWAE members, particularly graduate students. 

2025 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Denver, CO

  • Leading from where you are: How women economists and allies can use their spheres of influence for action and resistance
  • From Academia to Industry: What Works, What Doesn't Work, and What You Need to Know. (Joint with GSS)
  • The Specialty Crop Labor Puzzle: Why Finding Solutions is So Hard (Joint with SCE)
  • Exploring Careers in Academia, Extension, and Government (Joint with GSS)
  • Leveraging unique datasets to understand policy, environment, and labor in U.S. agriculture
  • Challenges and Opportunities for Women Producers and Entrepreneurs (Joint with AFM)

2024 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, New Orleans, LA

  • Disparities and challenges faced by underrepresented minority communities in the US food system
  • Perspectives on the Promotion and Tenure Process
  • The Job Market: Navigating the Application and Interview Process (Joint with GSS)
  • Networking for Junior Women in Agricultural and Applied Economics (Joint with GSS)
  • Race, Gender, and American Agriculture (Joint with COSBAE)

2023 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Washington, DC

  • Challenges facing minority and women farmers (Joint with AFM)
  • Coping with Microaggressions and Harassment in the Profession (Joint with GSS)
  • The Job Market: Applying and Interviewing (Joint with GSS)
  • The role of USDA agencies in addressing social equity issues (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Understanding Demand Side Drivers of Global Food Security (Joint with COSBAE) 

2022 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Anaheim, CA

  • Food Insecurity and Alternatives for Adaptation (Joint with ENV)
  • Gender role in agricultural and economic decision making: An experimental and behavioral economic examination (Joint with IBES)
  • Inside the Job Market (Joint with GSS)
  • Leveraging Gender for Food Systems Transformation in Developing Countries
  • Migration and Inequality in Low- and Middle-Income Countries (Joint with INT)
  • Promoting Mental Health, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (Joint with GSS)
  • Undergraduate Student Research and the Agricultural Economist Pipeline

2021 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, San Antonio, TX

  • Advancement of Women As Innovators and Contributors to the Global Food System
  • COSBAE-CWAE Mentoring Initiatives Research Presentations (Joint with COSBAE)
  • COVID-19, Promotion, and Tenure (Joint with ENV)
  • Grants in Applied Economics: Funding sources and the recipe for success  (Joint with GSS)
  • Sylvia Lane Mentees and Mentors Discussion about Formal Mentoring (Joint with GSS)
  • Women’s Narratives CWAE 40th Anniversary

2020 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Virtual

  • Diversity and Inclusion in Agricultural and Applied Economics (Joint with INTL)
  • Mentoring for the Job Market and Recent PhDs (Joint with GSS)
  • Under-Represented Groups in Agricultural and Applied Economics (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Evaluating Teaching: A Holistic Approach to Evaluating Scholarship of Teaching (Joint with TLC)
  • COSBAE-CWAE Mentoring Initiatives Research Presentations (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Women’s Empowerment and Global Health (Joint with Health)
  • Behavior in the commons – evidence from experimental economics on risk and social preferences (Joint with EXECON)
  • Changing Perspectives through Measurement: Advancements in Agricultural Survey
  • Methods, Implications for Research and a Look to the Future (Joint with INTL)

2018 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Washington, DC

  • Design of agri-environmental programs: Insights from behavioral & experimental economics (Joint with ENV)
  • Sustainable production practices, consumer feedback, and policy implications (Joint with SCE)
  • Navigating Negotiations for Professional Success & Personal Fulfillment (Joint with COBAE)
  • Agricultural Economists Engaging our Communities (Joint with CRENET)

2017 CWAE Annual Meeting Section Track Sessions, Chicago, IL

  • Strategies for Writing Productivity and Publishing Success (Joint with COSBAE)
  • Agricultural Trade Policies beyond the WTO Pillars: A Focus on Key Sectors and Countries (Joint with COSBAE)

2013 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Washington, DC

  • Successes and Challenges of Transferring Teaching Data/Experiences Into Scholarly Outputs (Joint with TLC)
  • Local Food and Its Connections to Local Communities (Joint with CRENET)

2012 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Seattle, WA

  • Women in Academic Training and Professional Careers: Identifying and Analyzing Factors Impacting Success
  • To Nest in the Wind - Implementation and Impacts of Career Development for Women in Personal Growth and Balancing Life
  • Value Added Meat Marketing around the Globe: International Insights on Safety, Health, and Convenience (Joint with FAMPS)

2011 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Pittsburgh, PA

  • Marketing Sustainability: Demand Side, Supply Side and Welfare Aspects (Joint with FAMPS)
  • Standing On the Shoulders of a Giant: The Broad Reach of Professor Jean Kinsey (Joint with FAMPS, FSN, Senior Section)
  • Multidisciplinarity in Agricultural Economics: Practitioner Attitudes, Publishing, and the Job Market
  • Annie’s Project – Successful Agricultural Economics Programming (Joint with Extension)

2010 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Sessions, Denver, CO

  • Women in Agricultural Economics: A Centennial Celebration
  • Teaching on a Tight Budget: What do we do with more students and less resources? (Joint Session with TLC Section)
  • Emerging and Current Issues in Agricultural Biotechnology (Joint Session with COSBAE)
  • Performance Implications of Sustainability Initiatives in Agri-Food Companies (Joint Session with AEM Section)
  • Continuing the Tradition: Employing Tested and Emerging Economic Tools in Framing Sustainability Challenges for a Global Economy (Joint Session with AEM Section)

2009 CWAE Annual Meeting Track Session, Milwaukee, WI

  • Investing in the Workforce Diversity in Agricultural Research: Can We Measure the Return?

Webinars

CWAE Professional Development& Networking Webinar Series: In 2023, CWAE launched a virtual professional development and networking webinar series that brings together experts in the field from academia, industry, and government to share their experiences and perspectives on navigating the challenges and opportunities in the profession. The virtual programming committee of CWAE organizes and manages the webinar series.

"It's Not Who You Know...Well, Actually, It Kind of Is": A Networking Field Guide for Introverts, [Social] Scientists, and Skeptics
December 3, 2025
Presenter: Sarah Pietrazek-Mattner
Moderator: Margaret Jodlowski

The Feedback Loop: Giving, Receiving, and Growing
November 12, 2025
Panelists: Christiane Schroeter, Eric Edwards, Elena Krasovskaia
Moderator: Anna Josephson

Who's in Your Corner? Building Your Network Through Mentorship in Applied Economics 
October 2, 2025
Panelists: Lynn Hamilton, Zoe Plakias, Dana Smith
Moderator: Anthony Ponce

CWAE: Developing Ag Economists Since the 1980s
March 27, 2025
Panelists: Jean Kinsey, Dawn Thilmany, Kelly Grogan
Moderator: Sathya Gopalakrishnan

Defining and Developing a Professional Brand
February 13, 2025
Panelists: Seanicaa Edwards Herron, David Just, Elena Irwin
Moderator: Jamille Lasanta

Insight to Influence: Communicating Research to Policy Makers
September 25, 2025
Panelists: Rebecca Nemec Boehm, Frances Moore, David Ortega
Moderator: Shellye Suttles

Being An Ally in the Profession
February 12, 2024
Panelists: Marianne Bitler, Jason Entsminger, Brian Roe, Corinne Valdivia
Moderator: Anthony Ponce

Building your Professional Network: Effective Collaboration as an Early Career Scholar
November 23, 2023
Panelists: Lauren Chenarides, Erin Lentz, Kate Schneider
Moderator: Sathya Gopalakrishnan

Prioritizing a Balanced Career: Strategies to Avoid Burnout
October 16, 2023
Panelists: Wendy Ingram (Dragonfly Mental Health), Kelly Grogan, Maria Marshall
Moderator: Sampriti Sarkar

Navigating Career Transitions
April 13, 2023
Panelists: Anne Byrne, Sarah Low, Qiujie ‘Angie’ Zheng
Moderator: Gaby Perez Quesada

20 Years of Excellence in Service

Check out the CWAE 20th Anniversary Poster. Historical highlights and poster references can be found here.