Leadership Team

Leadership team members are selected to bring STEM and program management expertise to the collaborative's work. Leadership team members also provide regional representation within the collaborative. Current Leadership members are:

• Judith Iriarte-Gross, Ph.D.
  Project Director, GRITS Collaborative Project
  Director, MTSU Expanding Your Horizons Conference and GRITS
  Faculty Advisor, MTSU WISE (Women In Science and Engineering)
  Professor of Chemistry
  Middle Tennessee State University
• Lacey Fleming
  Assistant Director, GRITS and GRITS Collaborative Project
  Middle Tennessee State University
• Cacy DeSheles
  Program Coordinator, GRITS and GRITS Collaborative Project
  Middle Tennessee State University
• Sandra Burke
  Principal
  Global Consulting Group
• Tom Cheatham, Ph.D.
  Dean, College of Basic and Applied Sciences
  Middle Tennessee State University
• Megan Davis
  Program Manager
  Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee
• Letha Granberry
  AAUW Regional Liaison
• Tonya J. Hancock
  Consultant, Educational Technology
  Texas Instruments Incorporated
  Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia
• Linda Jordan
  K-12 Science Coordinator
  Tennessee Department of Education
• Mary Moore
  Technologist II, Eastman Chemicals
  American Chemical Society Career Consultant
  
• Sheila Moses
  Academic Services Coordinator, Herff College of Engineering
  University of Memphis
• Myra Norman, Ph.D.
  Director, Research and Sponsored Programs
  Middle Tennessee State University
• Jennifer Rawls
  Executive Director
  Tennessee Economic Council of Women
  
• Rachel Rigsby, Ph.D.
  Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
  Belmont University