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Advisory Council

STEM Advisory Council

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Carley Fisher-Maltese, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Education, George Mason University, College of Education and Human Development; STEM Advisory Board Chair

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Lida Anestidou, Ph.D.

Senior Program Officer and Director, The National Academies

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Michelle R. Bond, Ph.D.

Program Director, Bethesda, Maryland

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Elizabeth Cantwell

Associate Professor & Department Chair of Biology, Shenandoah University

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Catherine Croft, Ph. D.

CEO, Catlilli Games

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Mike Davis

Dean of Math, Science, Technology, and Business at Northern Virginia Community College

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Margaret Z. Dominguez, Ph.D.

Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

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Carla Easter, Ph.D.

Assistant Director of Education, Outreach, and Visitor Experience, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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Jim Egenrieder, Ph.D.

Director, Virginia Tech STEM Education and Workforce Development Labs

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Alexandra Fuentes

STEAM Integration Program Manager at Fairfax County Public Schools

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Ron Gird

Meteorologist & Outreach Program Manager, National Weather Service, (Retired)

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Allan Hoffman, Ph.D.

Physicist, Department of Energy (Retired)

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Gerald Irish

Senior Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft

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Mary Muldowney Jarratt

Engineer Presenter, Engineering Tomorrow

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Samantha Kuhn

Executive Director, JK Community Farm

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Lang Ly

Chief of Staff, Appian Corporation

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Brian Mandell, Ph.D.

Smithsonian Science Education Center as the Division Director of Curriculum, Digital Media and Communications

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Lydia Maynard

Assistant Dean of Student Affairs and Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Shenandoah University

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Monti Mercer

Community Relations Manager, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus

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Phyllis Leary Newbill

Associate Director of Educational Networks, Center for Educational Networks and Impacts, Virginia Tech

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Dr. Tinnell L. Priddy

Principal, Academies of Loudoun

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Myra Sawyers, Ed.D.

Director of Client Services, Cognia

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Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Ph.D.

Professor, Mathematical Sciences; Director, STEM Accelerator Program; Director, COMPLETE, George Mason University

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Donna Shackelford

President, Supernova Science Inc.

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Zuzana Steen

Academic and Community Relations Director, Micron Technology

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Heather Tedesco, Ph.D.

Psychologist and Parent Education Specialist

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Myra Thayer

Science Coordinator, Fairfax County Public Schools (Retired)

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Darielle Timothy, M.Ed

Science Supervisor, Loudoun County Public Schools

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LaNae Wheeler

Senior Systems Engineer

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Kirsten White

STEM Coordinator, Student Learning Department

Prince William County Schools

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Ann Wong

K-12 Science Coordinator, Fairfax County Public Schools