Kari Winter, PhD, was the Director of UB's Gender Institute for six years. At the Institute, Winter organized or co-organized a dozen local, national, and international conferences and more than two hundred scholarly workshops, film screenings, festivals, and other events, including two Powwows in Vermont at the turn of this century.  She has created and raised funds for many undergraduate, graduate student, and faculty scholarships, fellowships, and awards.

Glenna Bett was the Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at UB for nine years. Dr. Bett launched a campus-wide research initiative on Sex, Gender, and Health. Dr. Bett's initiative futhered UB's position as a leader in evidence- based research on the impact of sex and gender on health. She believes that existing biomedical research has been undertaken on men and that the prevalence of diseases can be different between men and women, that the symptoms and progression of diseases may be different, and thus they may respond differently to treatments.

Despina Stratigakos PhD was the Deputy Director of the Gender Institute at UB for a year. She as an author and professor, focused her research on Women in architecture, that were historically seemingly erased or under-recognized from the profession.

Dr. Dziak was Co-Director of the UB Gender Institute, focusing on expanding the role of gender in the different science disciplines. She believed that gender had become an increasingly important topic in the sciences because organizations as the National Institutes of Health are pushing for more studies on women's health. Her own research interests lie in Bone and Connective Tissues/Tissue Engineering ans physiological bone metabolism. She has since continued being part of the institute's executive committee.

Bachi-Sen served as the Institute's Co-Director and promoted an entrepreneurial spirit. Her work continued to grow IREWG by organizing a biannual graduate student symposium on gender, as well as obtaining sponsors for the annual International Women's Film Festival. Bagchi-Sen has uses spatial methodologies in her research as an urban-economic geographer. Research Interests: Economic and urban geography; Innovation and industry studies; Foreign direct investment Biotech and bioenergy. 

Vargas, like many of the members of the Gender Institute, began as part of a junior faculty member on the first executive committee when the institute was formed. She says "it was a tremendous learning experience". She later took on the role of Co-Director, focusing her efforts on gender in the romance languages and giving women a larger voice and presence in English. Her own research interests include: Contemporary Spanish-American theatre; Mexican film; Feminism.

During her time as Co-Director, Barabara Bono worked with the UB Office of Special Events for the [2004-05] Distinguished Speakers Series to bring in [UB Reads author] Barbara Ehrenreich. Her work is continued today as the Gender Institute continues to collaborate with many offices within UB to provide outside researchers the opportunity to lecture and provide new ideas in academia related to women and gender. Her research interests: Early Modern British literature; the dramatic literature of  Shakespeare and his  contemporaries; feminist and cultural materialist theory.

Suzanne Laychock was Co-Director of the UB Gender Institute for 2001 -2002. Her work pushed the Gender Institute beyond luncheons, and university centered workshops. Her focus was large scale collaborations such as 2001 Pan Am Women's Leadership Conference. IREWG became a strong driving force behind ambitious projects and gathering resource for all seeking to secure academic research scholarships. Dr. Laychock researches endocrine pharmacology with an emphasis on signal transduction mechanisms involved in insulin secretion and models of diabetes mellitus.

Bernice Noble was a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University at Buffalo.  During her time at UB, Noble dedicated much of her time to advancing women’s careers.