Director of the Difference, Power, & Discrimination Program (Office of Undergraduate Education) and Associate Professor of Women, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, Oregon State University

Nana’s scholarship centers on critical, anti-racist, feminist teaching and learning, and the politics of American higher education/Institutional change. She has developed and delivered faculty and leadership development programs and workshops on these topics for over a decade, and regularly serves as a national consultant on education initiatives informed by commitments to equity, access, and justice. Nana served in the role as Senior Personnel on OSU’s NSF Advance grant from 2014-2019 and is currently co-PI on a three-year Howard Hughes Medical Institute Inclusive Excellence grant. She holds an M.A. in Applied Women’s Studies and Ph.D. in Education from Claremont Graduate University.

Instructional Designer and High School Physics & Engineering Design Teacher

Briana holds an M.A. in Science Education from Stanford University and has been teaching 5 years in service of making the STEM community more diverse. Focusing on bringing science access to low income schools, Briana designed & published two series of labs to pair with the well known PhET simulations, entitled, Physics For All Labs & Chemistry For All. (see bit.ly/physics4all) She also shares her work and student engagement on her class Instagram account, @msclarkesclass__.

Postdoctoral Scholar at Fisk-Vanderbilt Regional Center of Excellence, Vanderbilt University Peabody College, Department of Teaching and Learning

Mississippi native, Dr. ReAnna S. Roby scholarship focuses on how the narratives of Black women and girls in science (formally and informally) could be used to reconceptualize science, science education, and policy. A first-generation scholar and HBCU graduate, Roby's background as a Black Southern woman in science greatly informs her service, research, and teaching – praxis.

Assistant Professor of Higher and Postsecondary Education in the Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College, Arizona State University

The overarching theme of Meseret's research is the pursuit of gender equity in STEM education, and she focuses on the strategies, programs, and systems that help historically underrepresented students and faculty succeed in these fields. Her research agenda relies on a critical analysis of systems of power, access, and opportunity in postsecondary education.

AIP TEAM-UP Diversity Project Manager

Arlene selected and convened the TEAM-UP members to execute their charge and complete this project. Additionally, she co-led initial efforts on the development of the SEA Change Physics and Astronomy Departmental Awards and is the 2020 Chair of the American Association of Physics Teachers Committee on Diversity in Physics (CoDP). Formerly, She spent more than two decades managing and coordinating diversity programs for the American Physical Society

Professor of Physics at Brown University and President of the National Society of Black Physicists

Stephon is a theoretical physicist, musician and author whose work is at the interface between cosmology, particle physics and quantum gravity. He works on the connection between the smallest and largest entities in the universe, pushing Einstein’s theory of curved space-time to extremes, beyond the big bang with subatomic phenomena.