Keith J. Bowman is Dean of the College of Engineering and Information Technology (COEIT) and Constellation Professor at UMBC, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. COEIT offers six bachelor's degrees, fifteen master’s degrees and eight doctoral degrees.

Bowman received B.S. and M.S. degrees from Case Western Reserve University (CWRU) and a Ph.D. in materials science and engineering from the University of Michigan. He served as a visiting professor for research at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany in 1996 and 2002 and he served as a visiting professor at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia in 2003.

He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society. Awards at Purdue University include receiving Purdue’s highest teaching award, the Charles Murphy Undergraduate Teaching Award. In 2007, he received the Purdue College of Engineering Mentoring Award and he became the first Professor of Engineering Education (by courtesy) from MSE. In 2012 he was invested as the first Duchossois Leadership Professor in the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Armour College of Engineering soon after joining as chair of Mechanical (ME), Materials and Aerospace (AE) Engineering. Prior to UMBC he served two years as dean of the College of Science & Engineering at San Francisco State University wherein he led more than four hundred faculty and staff and about six thousand majors across nine departments.

In 2007, Dr. Bowman testified in the Indiana statehouse, as a private citizen, on the potential impacts of a marriage amendment on education and research at major universities as part of a successful effort to prevent the amendment from appearing on the ballot in 2008. He is author of “Queer Identities in Materials Science and Engineering” (to appear in the MRS Bulletin, April, 2018).

Judi Brown Clarke is the Diversity Director for the National Science Foundation’s Bio-Computational Evolution in Action Consortium (BEACON Center) housed at Michigan State University. She is a member of the International Advisory Committee for the Joint Institute of Nuclear Astrophysics’ Center for the Evolution of the Elements; Nevada’s EPSCoR Grant for the Study of Solar, Wind and Water Power; W.K. Kellogg’s Biological Research Station; the Director's Research Scholars Program at MSU's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory; MSU’s College of Human Medicine’s Research Education Program to Increase Diversity in Health Research; and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for Minorities in Engineering at MSU.

She holds a bachelor’s degree in clinical Audiology & Speech Sciences, a master’s in Education, and a doctorate in Public Policy and Administration. Judi has ventured into local politics and was voted onto Lansing City Council in an At-Large seat (citywide). She just completed a 4-year term chairing the Ways & Means and Development & Planning Committees, and was responsible for a $210M budget and oversight of all development projects across the city.

Judi has experienced great athletic success. In the 400-meter hurdles event, she is a 5-time National Champion, 3-time Pan American Gold medalist, and silver medalist in the 1984 Olympic Games. She has held numerous national records, and still owns an unbroken World Record as a member of the sprint medley relay team. She was named as one of the “Athletes of the Year,” specifically “1987 Sportswoman of the Year” by Sports Illustrated magazine. She just completed her term as Vice-President of the U.S. Olympians & Paralympians Association and is a current member of the Board Directors for USA Taekwondo.

Judi is a wife (Judge Hugh Clarke) and mother of three sons (Dorian, Mychael & Antonio). She has an unquenchable thirst for knowledge!

Kristen Constant is the Interim Vice President and Chief Information Officer at Iowa State University (ISU) where she is leading Information Technology and the implementation of a comprehensive enterprise software modernization. She holds the rank of Morrill Professor and is the Wilkinson Professor of Interdisciplinary Engineering in Materials Science and Engineering at Iowa State University where she served as chair prior to her current position.

She earned a B.S. in Ceramic Engineering from ISU and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from Northwestern University. Her research relates to fabrication of photonic structures specifically toward enhancing energy efficiency. In addition to physical research, she is involved in research, service and outreach related to broadening participation in engineering, and in enhancing recruitment, retention and advancement of women faculty in engineering. She is a fellow of ASEE and serves on the ASEE Diversity committee and is the WEPAN delegate to the Board of Delegates of ABET.

KC is an early-career R&D engineer at ATI Specialty Alloys & Components in Albany, OR. They received their B.S. in chemical engineering as a Jack Welch Scholar at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where they researched polymer thin films. They received their M.S. in Materials from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2015, with a thesis on ductile-phase toughening in tungsten composites for nuclear fusion applications.

As a research metallurgist for a primary metals company, KC focuses on applying materials science fundamentals to develop new processes and next-generation reactive and refractory alloys for a wide range of applications, including those in the energy, medical, and aerospace industries. As a nonbinary person, KC is personally invested in promoting allyship and championing policies to support transgender and gender-nonconforming people. KC independently funds research in harmonic analysis – as a competitive amateur barbershop quartet singer, they have received several awards from performing with various groups.

Rochelle Diamond, Member of the Professional Staff, has been the lab manager for Professor Ellen Rothenberg's developmental immunology group in the Division of Biology and Biological Engineering since 1982. Since 1984, she has also been facility managing director and applications specialist in Beckman Institute’s Flow Cytometry/Cell Sorting Facility. Notably, she was a member of the City of Hope/Genentech research team that cloned the human gene for insulin in 1978. She is co-editor of In Living Color: Protocols in Flow Cytometry and Cell Sorting (Springer, 2000). Outside of Caltech, Rochelle is chair of the board of directors of the National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists and Technical Professionals (NOGLSTP).

Awards include the Dr. Fred Shair Award for Program Diversity from the Caltech Center for Diversity, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Lesbian and Bisexual Women Active in Community Empowerment (L.A.C.E.) Award by the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center and the Walt Westman Volunteer of the Year Award by NOGLSTP. She is a member of the International Society for the Advancement of Cytometry, American Chemical Society, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Thought Leader for DiscoverE, and is a founding member and treasurer for the Southern California Flow Cytometry Association. Rochelle gave the keynote for the National Science Foundation Pride Celebration in 2017. She was the lead organizer for the Diversity and Inclusion Events at the AAAS 2018 Annual Meeting.

Dolan is a non-binary, queer, white, and Latinx biracial educator who lives in Santa Barbara. Most recently the Director of the Resource Center for Sexual & Gender Diversity at the University of California, Santa Barbara, they have 7 years of experience doing LGBTQIA+ work with college students. Before their Master's in Higher Education at the University of Vermont, Dolan received a bachelor's degree in Science in Mechanical Engineering at Lehigh University. It is this blend that propels Dolan in their passion for learning, exploring, and solving problems and it drives their empathy and care for marginalized students in STEM fields.

Erin-Kate Escobar is the Assistant Director in the Caltech Center for Diversity at the California Institute of Technology. She holds a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs from the University of Vermont. Escobar provides leadership, outreach, policy, and programming support for campus-wide diversity initiatives. Her primary responsibilities include the Women's Engagement Board, Women Mentoring Women, LGBTQ+ support, and facilitating workshops and trainings on topics of diversity and inclusion.

Darrell Hudson is an associate professor at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. Hudson holds a joint appointment with the Department of Psychiatry and is a Faculty Scholar with the Institute for Public Health. His research agenda focuses on racial/ethnic health disparities and the role of social determinants of health, particularly how socioeconomic position and social context affect health and health disparities.

Hudson completed his doctoral studies at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, where he also received his MPH. He earned a B.S. in Psychology from Morehouse College. Prior to his faculty appointment, Hudson completed a postdoctoral fellowship with the Kellogg Health Scholars Program at the University of California at the San Francisco and Berkeley campuses, focusing on social epidemiology.

Jonathan D. Madison is a research scientist at Sandia National Laboratories, in Albuquerque, New Mexico within the Material, Physical and Chemical Sciences Center. Madison received his bachelor’s degree from Clark Atlanta University in Engineering Science with a concentration in Mechanical Engineering in 2003, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Michigan in 2007 and 2010 respectively. Throughout his academic matriculation, Jonathan has supported basic and applied research at Washington State University, Pullman WA; the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.; and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The department he currently serves provides multi-scale, experimental characterization that enables materials-based insight and solutions.

Professionally, Jonathan maintains active membership in The Association for Iron & Steel Technology (AIST), ASM International (ASM), The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) and The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS). A few of Madison’s accolades include; Sandia National Laboratories – Early Career LDRD Award (2010), Lead Guest Editor, Special Issue on 3D Materials Science, Integrating Materials and Manufacturing Innovation, Springer (2014), Albuquerque Business Journal’s “Forty Under 40” (2015), Black Engineer of the Year Awards – “Most Promising Scientist in Industry” (2015), and Lead Organizer, 3rd TMS National Summit on Diversity in the Minerals, Metals & Materials Professions (2018). While at Sandia, Madison has spearheaded a new in-house characterization capability by acquiring capital equipment within his first two years, expanded the customer base for materials characterization, developed new technical partnerships to conduct world-class research, and led complimentary modeling projects to leverage novel experimental capabilities.

Jonathan’s research interests focus on the intersection of experimental and computational techniques for 3D reconstruction of microstructure, quantitative characterization and models of microstructural evolution. Madison has 7 D.O.E. published technical reports, over 20 peer-reviewed journal articles, and over 240 citations.

Lynn Milan is a project officer in the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) within the National Science Foundation (NSF). Currently she manages the National Survey of College Graduates (NSCG), a biennial longitudinal survey that provides data on the nation’s college graduates, with a focus on those in the science and engineering workforce. Prior to her work on the NSCG, she managed the Survey of Earned Doctorates (a census of all research doctorate recipients in the U.S.) and the Survey of Doctorate Recipients (a biennial longitudinal survey focused on individuals with a U.S. research doctoral degree in a science, engineering, or health field). Results from these and other NCSES surveys are used to inform policies related to the science and engineering enterprise and are published regularly in two Congressionally mandated reports: Science and Engineering Indicators and Women, Minorities, and Persons with Disabilities in Science and Engineering.

Prior to starting at NSF, Milan was a survey statistician at the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences and a data analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO). She received her Ph.D. in psychology from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

NCSES is one of 13 U.S. federal statistical agencies. Its mission is to serve as a central federal clearinghouse for the collection, interpretation, analysis, and dissemination of objective data on science, engineering, technology, and research and development. To accomplish this mission, NCSES designs, supports, and directs periodic national surveys and performs a variety of other data collections and research related to the science and engineering enterprise in the United States and other nations (http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/).

Simona Hunyadi Murph is a Principal Scientist in the National and Homeland Security Directorate at Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) and an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Georgia. She is also a Technical Monitor for the Department of Energy - Office of Environmental Management Minority Serving Institutions Partnership Program.

Murph is a veteran educator and the founder of SRNL’s Group for Innovation and Advancements in Nano-Technology Sciences (GIANTS) program which assists young scholars in pursuing a career in STEM fields. Through her position at SRNL, Murph is “putting nanoscience to work” for national security missions, environmental stewardship and clean energy applications. Over the years, she has been awarded nearly $8 million in grants leading to pioneering nanotechnologies, 10 patents/invention disclosures, more than 80 technical publications, and nearly 150 invited and contributed presentations. She mentored and supported over 40 students and postdoctoral researchers.

Murph is the recipient of many prestigious awards, including the SRNL Director’s Award for Exceptional Scientific and Engineering Achievements, SRNL’s Exceptional Leadership Award, the U.S. Clean Energy Education and Empowerment (C3E) Award Finalist in Research, and the Principal Investigator of the Year at the National Nuclear Security Administration, NA-42 Program. Murph was named “Inspirational Woman in STEM” by the U.S. Department of Energy and recognized as one of the “Women at the Forefront of their Fields” at NNSA. She is the recipient of Augusta University’s “Distinguished Alumna and Presidential Alumna Awards” for outstanding contributions to one’s professional career and exemplary dedication to the advancement of the community. Murph holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from University of South Carolina, an Education Specialist in Educational Leadership from Augusta University, and both a M.S. in Chemistry and B.S. in Chemistry/Physics with a minor in Education from Babes-Bolyai University, Romania.

Thomas Cole Reeve was born and raised in Chillicothe, MO, USA. Thomas attended Iowa State University for his undergraduate in materials engineering. During his time at Iowa State, Thomas was involved in materials research with a number of faculty members, served as a department peer mentor, and a member, fundraising co-chair, and president of the departmental undergraduate materials society, Materials Advantage. Thomas also held multiple summer engineering internships during his undergraduate career for 3 recurring summers with Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technology. Thomas graduated from Iowa State in May 2013 with a B.S. in materials engineering and two minor degrees, in nuclear engineering and in economics.

After graduation, Thomas immediately joined the Ph.D. program in the materials engineering department at Purdue University, where he performed research through the collaborative advisement of Carol Handwerker (Purdue University) and Iver Anderson (Ames Laboratory) on Pb-free solder alloy design. During his time at Purdue, Thomas served the department through his service to the graduate student association as a member, professional development chair, and treasurer, and through his involvement with the NSF funded IGERT program. He volunteered through professional societies, including ASM, TMS, and ACerS, particularly through his involvement as a member of the TMS electronics packaging and interconnects materials committee and the TMS diversity committee.

During his graduate studies, Thomas received several awards, including: the National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate (NDSEG) fellowship, the College of Engineering Outstanding Graduate Student Service Award, the Journal of Phase Equilibria and Diffusion Editor’s Choice Award, the ACerS Basic Science Divisions Graduate Excellence in Materials Science “Diamond” Award, the Surface Mount Technology Association Charles Hutchins Education Grant, and the Purdue University Ross Fellowship.

Amy is a Ph.D. Candidate from University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley). She has been involved in several initiatives at her alma mater, California State University, Los Angeles (CSULA), at UC Berkeley, and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). CSULA is a public comprehensive university that is recognized as a Hispanic-serving institute and has been nationally recognized as the best university in terms of upward mobility of its students. She wants to emphasize the potential to grow retention and diversity in the Materials Sciences by drawing attention to potential recruitment opportunities at universities similar to CSULA and by highlighting the effective retention strategies initiated by UC Berkeley and LBNL.

At CSULA, she has hosted several workshops for underrepresented minorities on life as a Ph.D. student and how to write a competitive application for the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program. The workshops have helped two students receive the fellowship as well as two Honorable Mentions. As a member of the Women Scientists & Engineers Council of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, she worked on the Women at the Lab event—a program created to bring visibility to women within the lab—to ensure that outreach efforts were considered when choosing award recipients. At UC Berkeley, she was the graduate mentor for 10 underrepresented minority undergraduates through the Cal New Experiences for Research and Diversity in Science Summer Program. She looks forward to bringing a perspective from a broad range of institutions to the event.