[visionlist] Mentoring Envisioned - Insights at VSS 2026

[Karen Schloss]

For those attending VSS 2026,

Mentoring Envisioned is delighted to offer the Mentoring Envisioned - Insights near peer mentoring program again for VSS!

The goal of Mentoring Envisioned is to develop a community that supports near-peer mentoring at VSS and beyond. Near-peer mentoring refers to relationships built within and across trainees of varying levels of experience (e.g., graduate students mentoring undergraduate students; advanced graduate students mentoring early graduate students; postdocs mentoring advanced graduate students; early faculty mentoring postdocs etc.). Anyone has potential to fill a role as a mentor for community members junior to them, and to be a mentee of community members more senior. Unsure what to discuss with a near-peer mentor? Check out our tips sheet here<https://foveavision.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/MentoringEnvisioned_TipsSheet.pdf>!

Here’s how Mentoring Envisioned - Insights works:

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If you are interested in either being a mentor or a mentee (or both!), please complete this interest form<https://forms.gle/wc5NZcbvkR7bRSdd8> by April 30th.
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We will match mentors/mentees in pairs (small groups) and put them in contact with each other before VSS.
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Each pair/group will coordinate a time to meet up for a 1 hour chat at VSS.
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After VSS, we will ask each participant to fill out a short survey on how the meeting went.

That's it! If you are interested, please fill out the interest form<https://forms.gle/wc5NZcbvkR7bRSdd8> by April 30th. Additional details can be found at the top of the form.

See you at VSS!
-Charisse Pickron, Karen Schloss, Michael Grubb, Alex White, and Alejandro Lleras



Karen B. Schloss, PhD (she/her)
Associate Professor of Psychology
Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery
University of Wisconsin-Madison
https://schlosslab.discovery.wisc.edu/

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