Champions Board

Board members were selected to give the project a balance of desirable expertise and regional representation, including industry representatives, informal learning educators, gender equity experts, science and mathematics education representatives, and educational policy experts. The Board meets once per year either at collaborative locations or at a central site. Current Board members are:

Celeste Baine, Director
Engineering Education Service Center

Laurie Benson
Laurie Benson Unlimited

Barbara Bogue, Associate Professor of Engineering Science & Mechanics and Women in Engineering
Penn State College of Engineering

Jordan Lloyd Bookey, Programs Manager
Global Diversity & Talent Inclusion
Google

Siobhan Bredin, Project Director/Co-PI
NSF ITEST Learning Resource Center at EDC

Mary Darcy, Producer/Host “51%”
WAMC National Productions

Bonnie Dunbar, President and CEO
Museum of Flight

Evangelina Galvan-Shreeve, Manager for STEM Education
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Barbara Gault, Vice President & Director of Research
Institute for Women's Policy Research

Sherry Hsi, Director of Research and Evaluation
Center for Learning and Teaching, The Exploratorium

Janet Bandows Koster, Executive Director
Association for Women in Science

Anita Krishnamurthi, PhD, Director of STEM Policy
Afterschool Alliance

Mimi Lufkin, Executive Director
National Alliance For Partnerships in Equity

Lisa A. McNew, Director
Data Services Engineering, Verizon Wireless

Claudia Morrell, CEO
Multinational Development of Women in Technology (MDWIT)

Mylene Padolina, Senior Diversity Consultant
Microsoft Corporation

Karen A. Panetta, IEEE Fellow & Professor
Tufts University

Rosalyn A. Pertzborn, Director
Office of Space Science Education
UW-Madison

Kate L. Pickle, STEM Program Manager
Girl Scouts of the USA

Whitney Ransome, Director
James Center for Public Purpose
Garrison Forest School

Donna Gerardi Riordan, Founder
DGR Associates

Stacey Roberts-Ohr, Executive Director
Expanding Your Horizons Network

Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder
National Center for Women & Information Technology

Betty Shanahan, Executive Director
Society of Women Engineers

Michael Smith, Director of Programs
Interim Executive Director
National Society of Black Engineers

Ruth Sweetser
American Association of University Women (AAUW)