Bringing together a community college & research university and top employer to build inclusive labs

Meet the team

Our team brings together decades of expertise in bench research and training, professional development with a focus on diversity inclusion and equity, as well as evidence based training practices and assessment and training development for individuals of all stages of education, responsibilities, and backgrounds in the life sciences, as well as a thorough understanding of both the intern-trainee and mentor-employer perspective. 

The parallel trainings and tools we've developed for both research mentor-managers and for student interns have been developed utilizing organizational management best practices, evidence based practices from education pedagogy and case studies that we have encountered from both the internship mentor and student intern perspectives.

We are committed to an ever evolving iterative approach to improving our tools and trainings based on our direct interactions with community college students and mentor-managers in academia, government and industry labs.

Grant Co-PIs

James Lewis

James B. Lewis, MA

Project Director Bridge to Biosciences

CCSF

jlewis.ccsf at gmail.com


Naledi Saul

Naledi Saul, MPM

Interim Chief of Staff & Director, Office of Career and Professional Development

UCSF

naledi.saul at ucsf.edu

Karen Leung

Karen Leung, PhD

Biotechnology Faculty and Internship Coordinator 

CCSF

karen.leung at mail.ccsf.edu

Senior Personnel & Advisors

Sumitra Tatapudy

Sumitra Tatapudy, PhD

Advisor


Andrea Goldfien

Andrea Goldfien, Ed.D.

Grant Evaluator


Laurence Clement

Laurence Clement, PhD

Advisor