Rae Ferriolo is a Senior Discipline Manager in the San Diego Electrical Department at Coffman Engineers, Inc. with over 16 years of experience as an electrical engineer. A San Diego native, she graduated high school from the Academy of Our Lady of Peace and then proceeded to earn her BS in electrical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago where she specialized in Power Engineering.

Rae started her professional career as an intern at MWH Global in Chicago before transferring back to San Diego to be closer to family. Upon her return to Southern California, she joined Sparling where she spent 8 years as an electrical engineer, passed her EIT, and then her PE exam. She had a brief stint with a small electrical equipment manufacturing firm called Teal Electronics but eventually returned to Sparling/Stantec as a project manager.

In 2017, Rae joined Coffman Engineers to help support and grow their electrical engineering department. With Rae’s help, the electrical team in San Diego has grown from 3 to 15 in just 5 years. She currently manages some of Coffman’s most complex electrical design projects and multi-discipline projects in the Southern California market. Rae is well-versed in all things electrical and is well-respected throughout the AEC industry for her creative and dynamic solutions to the built environment. When she’s not designing a new engineering solution, Rae is supporting Coffman’s local business development and proposal efforts, mentoring the younger team members, and remaining active in the industry organizations such as the Women's Construction Coalition (WCC), Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA).

Nancy Ronquillo, Ph.D. is an engineer for the Naval Information Warfare Center-Pacific. Her research interests include using theoretical methods of information acquisition and processing as well as applications of machine learning for practical problems in areas such as millimeter wave communications and neural signal processing.

With her collaborators, she is a recipient of the 2021 IEEE Communications Society and Information Theory Society Joint Paper Award. She is a recipient of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Minority Ph.D. program fellowship and the Department of Defense Science, Mathematics, and Research for Transformation (SMART) Scholarship. She is also a Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program scholar and a National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering scholar. She completed her B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees at the University of California, San Diego. In her free time, Nancy enjoys testing new baking recipes, salsa dancing, and going to Disneyland.

Bridget Kohlnhofer, PhD, is a Senior Scientist at Aspen Neuroscience working in the iPS Cell Therapy field. Previously she was a Scientist II at Takeda Pharmaceuticals in the GI Cell Therapy group and held postdoc positions at Janssen (J&J) and UCSD where she modeled neurodegenerative and neuropsychiatric diseases using iPSCs. She is a first-generation college student and received her BS in Cell Biology from the University of Wisconsin - LaCrosse. She earned her PhD in Cell and Molecular Biology from the Medical College of Wisconsin. In her free time she enjoys yoga, gardening, cooking, and hiking.