Dr. Mary James is the A.A. Knowlton Professor in the Department of Physics at Reed College in Portland, OR, specializing in particle beam astrophysics, classical electrodynamics, and physics outreach. Dr. James served as the Dean for Institutional Diversity and the Chief Diversity Officer of the college, and was Co-chair of the The AIP National Task Force to Elevate African American Representation in Undergraduate Physics & Astronomy (TEAM-UP). Dr. James has served as both a member and Chair of the APS Committee on Minorities in physics for four years and was instrumental in launching the APS National Mentoring Community. She has vast experience with diversity and committee/task group dynamics.

Marty Baylor is Professor of Physics, and Chair of Physics and Astronomy, at Carleton College, MN. She obtained a BA in physics at Kenyon College, OH, including a study abroad at Nanjing University in China. She then taught middle and high-school physics and astronomy at the Maret School in Washington, DC, for 2 years, after which she spent 2 years at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center as an optical engineer, designing telescopes to study the aurora on Jupiter and optical test beds to study MEMs mirrors and shutters for use in the Near Infrared Spectrometer in the James Webb Space Telescope. She obtained her PhD in physics from the University of Colorado at Boulder working on optoelectronics, as part of which she interned in Shenzen, China working with high power lasers for engraving applications. After a postdoc in the Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering department at UC Boulder, creating integrated optofluidic devices in photosensitive polymers, she joined the faculty at Carleton. She has served as a member and chair of the APS Committee on Education, and has recently been awarded an APS Innovation Fund grant to develop the APS EDI Fellows Program to support physics educators who wish to address EDI issues in their classrooms.

Suzanne White Brahmia is an Associate Professor with the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington. Dr. White Brahmia began her career as a Peace Corps high school physics teacher in Central Africa, and then as a graduate student in the Cotts’ Solid State NMR lab at Cornell University. As the first Director of Extended Analytical Physics program at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, she seized the opportunity to blend her interests in physics learning and social justice by developing and designing a program that targets equity and inclusion in calculus-based physics for students considered underprepared for engineering. She earned her PhD in physics at Rutgers, with a focus on mathematization in introductory physics. Dr. White Brahmia runs a vibrant research group that focuses on quantitative scientific reasoning in the classroom and in the instructional labs. She has served on the National Research Council committee that produced the report “Adapting to a Changing World -- Challenges and Opportunities in Undergraduate Physics Education”, and chaired the College Board AP Physics 1 Development Committee. She’s a longstanding CUWiP fan girl who enjoys urban and outdoor adventures, especially when it includes her family.

Marjorie Olmstead is Professor and Associate Chair of Physics and Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at the University of Washington, Seattle, where she serves as the Undergraduate Faculty Advisor for the largest undergraduate physics program in the United States. Her research has focused on creating and investigating crystalline interfaces between dissimilar materials and the resultant ultra-thin films. Prior to the University of Washington, she was on the faculty at the University of California, Berkeley, where she also obtained her Ph.D, and a researcher at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. She enjoys walking, music, reading, and spending time with her husband and two children, who are both currently in graduate school.