(Participants are listed alphabetically with affiliations at the time of the workshop.)
Tina Abdollah
Senior Architect
IBM
Alice Agogino
Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor
of Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley
Dilek Alkaya
Advanced Control Engineer
Tesoro Golden Eagle Refinery
JoAnn Armenta
Executive Director
Purpose Focused Alternative Learning
Corporation
Florence Bonner
Senior Vice President for Research &
Compliance
Howard University
Rebecca Breitenkamp
Chief Financial Officer
Intezyne Technologies
Carrie Brubaker
Mirzayan Fellow
The National Academies
Jessica Christenson
Graduate Student
City of Hope
Kendra Clark-Branton
Project Engineer
VF Corporation
Catherine Didion
Director, Committee on Women in Science,
Engineering, and Medicine
The National Academies
Manqing Ding
Catherine Domier
University of California, Los Angeles
Baat Enosh
Entrepreneurial Alliance Program Manager
National Center for Women and IT
Laurimar Escudero
University of California, Irvine
Peace Esonwune
SMB Operations Engineering and Science
Research Assistant
Stanford University
Haleh Farahbod
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Allan Fisher
Senior Vice President
Laureate Education, Inc.
Elizabeth Frayne
President
Frayne Consultants
Lynne Friedmann
Science Writer
Friedmann Communications
Linda Garverick
Principal
Coactive Consultants
Judith Giordan
Senior Advisor
National Collegiate
Innovators and Inventors Alliance
Florence Haseltine
Director, Center for Population Research,
EKS-NICHD, National Institutes of Health
Judy Heyboer
Human Resources Consultant
Genentech Inc.
Nicole Hernandez
April Ho
Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Los Angeles
Mitra Hooshmand
Graduate Student
University of California, Irvine
Xue Hua
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Pamela Jeter
Research Specialist
University of California, Irvine
Heather Johnston
Graduate Student
Irell and Manella Graduate School of the
Mary Juhas
Program Director, Comprehensive Equity at
Ohio State
The Ohio State University
Swati Kadam
Graduate Student
City of Hope National Medical Center
Mi Jung Kim
University of California, Los Angeles
Monica Kim
University of California, Irvine
Manwai (Candy) Ku
Department of Sociology
Stanford University
Jingyu Li
Sarah Madsen
University of California, Los Angeles
Cecelia McCloy
President/CEO
Integrated Science Solutions, Inc.
Audry McGillicuddy
Technical Account Manager
IBM
Jill McNitt-Gray
Professor
University of Soutern California
Ellis Meng
Assistant Professor
University of Southern California
Carolyn Merry
Professor and Chair
The Ohio State University
Gail Naughton
Dean
College of Business Administration
San Diego State University
Yiling Nie
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of California, Los Angeles
Sharon L. Nunes
Vice President, Strategic Growth Initiatives
Big Green Innovations
IBM Corporation
Jo Ann Oravec
Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin,Whitewater
Tayhas Palmore
Professor of Engineering
Brown University
Lili Peng
Bioengineering Researcher
University of California, San Diego
Vivian Pinn
Director, Office of Research on Women’s
Health
National Institutes of Health
Mikki Popovich
Owner
One Oh One Eight Enterprises, Inc.
Raquel Raices
Research Fellow
Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope
Ana De La Ree
Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Irvine
E. J. Reedy
Manager, Research and Policy
Kauffman Foundation
Heidi Ries
Dean for Research
Air Force Institute of Technology
Amy Robb
Research Opportunities Coordinator
ADVANCE Program, Brown University
Claire Robertson
Graduate Student Researcher
University of California, Irvine
Karla Shepard Rubinger
Executive Director
Rosalind Franklin Society
Pardis Sabeti
Assistant Professor
Harvard University
Broad Institute
Roya Saleh
Senior Physician-Scientist
University of California, Los Angeles
Lucinda Sanders
CEO and Co-founder
National Center for Women & Information
Technology and the University of Colorado
Miruna Sasu
PhD Candidate Biology/Statistics
Pennsylvania State University
Maxine L. Savitz
General Manager, Technology/Partnerships
Honeywell Inc. (Retired)
Jean Schelhorn
Associate Vice President,
Technology Licensing & Commercialization
Sheldon Schuster
President
Keck Graduate Institute of Applied Life
Sciences
Andrea Schweitzer
U.S. Project Manager
Int. Year of Astronomy
Caroline Simard
Director of Research and Executive
Programs
Anita Borg Institute for Women and
Technology
Laurel Smith-Doerr
Associate Professor of Sociology
Department of Sociology
Boston University
Ruthlyn Sodano
Postdoctoral Fellow
Integrated Substance Abuse Programs
University of California, Los Angeles
Kathleen Spencer
Ph.D. Candidate
California Institute of Technology
Marinela Stack
Electronics Design and Project Engineer
Adele Tamboli
California Institute of Technology
Anil Tarachandani
Michael Teitelbaum
Program Director
Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
Jessica Townsend
Assistant Professor of Mechanical
Engineering
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Becky Tsai
University of California, Irvine
Katherine Tsai
Stanford University
Moran Valensi-Kurtz
Carolyn Vallas
Director, Center for Diversity in
Engineering
School of Engineering and Applied Science,
University of Virginia
Lydia Villa-Komaroff
Chief Scientific Officer
Cytonome/ ST, LLC
Barbara Wallner
President and CEO
Chymic Therapeutics, Inc.
Susan Wessler
University of Georgia Foundation Chair
Biological Sciences, University of Georgia
Susan Windham-Bannister
President/CEO
Massachusetts Life Sciences Center
Elizabeth WoldeMussie
Lilian Wu
Program Executive
IBM Global University Programs
Shanshan Xu
University of California, Irvine
Yajie Yang
IBM
Noriko Yokoyama
University of California, Irvine
Sohila Zadra
