Dr. Arianne Hunter (or Ari to most people) was born and raised in Oklahoma City, OK where she did indeed grow up in a city and was no where near farms or cows. Obsessed with the idea of moving as far away from home as possible as an extremely independent minded teenager, she decided to venture to Hanover, New Hampshire to play Division I Basketball and get a Bachelors Degree in Chemistry and Anthropology at Dartmouth College. After being hazed by the freezing temperatures and having to fly out of Boston Logan for 4 years every time she wanted to visit her family, Ari decided to return to her home state of Oklahoma to get her Ph.D. in Chemistry at the University of Oklahoma under the guidance of Dr. Indrajeet Sharma. While there, her research focused on using rhodium (II) carbenoid mediated cascade reactions to rapidly construct biologically relevant molecules with high levels of three dimensionality. In graduate school she received the SMART Department of Defense Fellowship and was placed at the Defense Forensic Science Center in Atlanta, GA upon graduation to fulfill her service agreement from the award. While in this position she lived in Kuwait conducting forensic analysis on evidence retrieved by US soldiers and our allies from violent extremist organizations. After fulfilling her service agreement, Ari realized she missed organic chemistry and decided to make a return to academia via the Reisman lab and Caltech! In her free time Ari enjoys powerlifting, hiking, reading corny romance novels, and critiquing cheap grocery store wines with her friends.

Josh is broadly interested in the coevolution of the geosphere and biosphere on Earth and potentially other worlds. His current research splits into three general fields: reconstruction of paleoenvironmental and paleobiological through the lens of Earth's sedimentary record, interrogation of molecular formation mechanisms with the tools of isotope geochemistry, and analysis of modern geobiological processes involved in the carbon cycle.

Cameron Jackson is a Los Angeles native from Inglewood, California. He began his undergraduate career at El Camino Community College, and finished at UCLA where he received Bachelors degrees in Neuroscience and Biochemistry. Cameron's undergraduate research focused on sleep homeostasis in mice, and the mitochondrial dynamics of the aging brain in flies. As a second year Ph.D student in the Gradinaru lab at Caltech, Cameron is focused on developing novel tools for brain research, with a special interest in generating delivery vectors for gene therapy in the embryo brain.

Dr. Fanny Camara is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California and a research affiliate at CEPR.

She is an applied and empirical microeconomic researcher. Her research interests include: information economics and industrial organization.

Daniel Mukasa is a PhD candidate in Wei Gao’s group at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). He is working on developing advanced biosensors and medical devices for real-time monitoring of various health parameters, such as glucose, lactate, and electrolytes. His research interests lie at the intersection of bioelectronics, materials science, and machine learning.  He is interested in exploring new materials and fabrication methods for the development of wearable and implantable devices with improved sensitivity and accuracy. In his work, Daniel is applying advanced computational methods to study the behavior of materials used in medical devices, with the goal of improving their performance and reducing the time to design these complex devices. Daniel’s research has already yielded important insights in the development of biosensors and medical devices, and he has published 7 papers in peer-reviewed journals, including Nature Biomedical Engineering. In addition to his research, Daniel was the previous president of the Black Scientists and Engineers of Caltech (BSEC). During his tenure, Caltech saw a substantial increase in diversity and investments in DEI work on campus. This included initiatives to promote the recruitment and retention of underrepresented minorities in STEM fields, as well as events and programs that fostered community building and mentorship for Black students and allies at Caltech. Daniel's leadership and contributions to BSEC have been recognized by the Caltech community and beyond. In 2021, he was awarded the Caltech KNI Catalyst Award for his work on promoting DEI on campus.

Devontae (Tae) Baxter is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at UC Irvine. He obtained a Bachelor of Science in Physics and a minor in Spanish from Georgia Institute of Technology in 2017. His research background is in galaxy evolution, and much of his previous work has involved investigating the physical processes responsible for shutting down star formation (“quenching”) in galaxies that are members of massive groups and clusters. While at UC Irvine, Devontae served for two-years as the co-leader of the Physics and Astronomy Community Excellence (PACE) Peer Mentoring Program. Devontae has also served as an LSSTC Data Science Fellowship Program (DSFP) fellow, a role that has provided him with the requisite computational research knowledge necessary to analysis the large data sets that will be produced by the next-generation ground-based telescopes (e.g. The Vera Rubin Observatory). He also serves as a National Osterbrock Leadership Program (NOLP) fellow, a role that has prepared him with the training and experience to serve among the next-generation of scientific leaders. Devontae is bilingual – fluent in both English and Spanish – and some of his favorite activities include learning new languages (currently French and Japanese), skateboarding, spending quality time with his family, and visiting new places. 

Dr. Edray Goins is a Professor of Mathematics at Pomona College in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics working on properties of Seller groups for elliptic curves using fields class groups of number, as well as properties of Dessins d’Efnfants. He runs an REU which focuses on understanding properties of Belyi maps, and maintains a blog about Dessins d’Enfants, and is working on a history project for African Americans in the mathematical sciences known as Mathematicians of the African Diaspora (MAD) database. He has held positions at many premier research institutions including Caltech, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, and more.