Nina Abramzon is a Professor and Associate Chair of the Physics and Astronomy Department at California Polytechnic University. She earned a B.S. in Physics from Bar Ilan University, Israel (1994) and PhD in experimental Atomic and Molecular physics from City University of New York (1999). She then worked as a postdoctoral fellow at JILA/University of Colorado in Boulder Colorado, and at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken New Jersey. She has also worked at Plasma Sol Corporation in Hoboken, New Jersey. Throughout her physics career Nina has been active in mentoring minority and female students, and have been involved with programs to recruit and retain women in the STEM disciplines both at Cal Poly Pomona and on a national level. At Cal Poly Pomona she has been active in female student recruiting, advising, and research mentoring. She was also an associate on the ADVANCE grant. On the national level, she has been involved with both American Physical Society (APS) and American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). She participated on the AAPT committee on the status of women in physics as well as on the APS committee on the status of women in physics. She served on the APS Committee Assessing the Climate of Women in Physics and on the US delegation to the 5th International Conference on Women in Physics. She was a co-chair for the 200 – person 2018 SoCal conference of Undergraduate Women in Physics (2018 CUWiP).

Dr. Mary Chessey is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland College Park, where she works on the Living Physics Portal project. The Portal project supports the development of curricular materials for introductory physics for life sciences majors (available at www.livingphysicsportal.org), and researches physics faculty's learning about teaching during professional development activities. Dr. Chessey earned her PhD and MS in physics from the University of California Davis, as well as her MA in Education. Before starting her postdoc, Dr. Chessey's graduate research spanned various topics, including the experiences of transfer students in a physics bachelor's degree program, and gender bias on graduate written qualifying exams in physics.

Dr. Jessica Esquivel is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory working on the Muon g-2 Experiment which is tasked with observing physics beyond the standard model. She is one of ~150 black women with a PhD in physics in the country and the 2nd black woman to graduate with a PhD in physics from Syracuse University and has experience navigating spaces where she is “the first” or “the only”. Her graduate research focused on studying ghostly particles called neutrinos interacting in the MicroBooNE Experiment using innovative machine learning techniques like those used in facial recognition software. She received her bachelors in Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics from St. Mary's University in San Antonio, TX. She identifies as female, black, afrolatinx, lesbian, a physicist, and Texan. Dr. Esquivel is an advocate for increasing diversity in physics and focuses on the intersections of race, gender and sexuality in her outreach efforts. She has been recognized by The Fermilab Friends for Science Education Organization for the exceptional contributions she’s made to Fermilab’s K-12 education and outreach programs, was featured in Adler Planetarium’s Chicago Black Women in STEAM series (www.adlerplanetarium.org/chicagos-black-women- in-steam-series-meet-jessica/), interviewed by Lean In: Women of Color for Black Women's Equal Pay Day discussing the gender wage gap for black women (www.blackwomensequalpay.org/) , and interviewed by Casual Space’s Beth Mund discussing neutrinos, what makes a scientist, and finding inspiration in weird places (http://bethmund.com/40-jessica-esquivel/). Her most recent accomplishments include organizing the participation and sponsorship of Fermilab at Wakandacon, a 3-day afro-futuristic convention that strives to create a safe space for the black community to explore their interests from comic culture to STEM (https://news.fnal.gov/2019/08/fermilab-promotes-science-and-diversity-at-wakandacon-in-chicago/, https://www.symmetrymagazine.org/article/channeling-shuri-as-a-physicist-at-wakandacon), and being named The American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences IF/THEN Ambassador (http://ifthenshecan.org), a program that looks to inspire middle school girls to become the next generation of STEM pioneers. Dr. Esquivel is a Texas transplant living in Illinois with her wife and two furry rescue animals (Treadaway and Daisy Dukes Esquivel). To learn more about Dr. Esquivel, please visit her website at https://JessicaEsquivelPhD.com or connect with her on social media @DrEsquivelPHD on LinkedIn/Twitter/Instagram.

Hume A. Feldman is a professor and chair of the Department of Physics & Astronomy at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, KS. He obtained his BA in physics at the University of California at Santa Cruz, his MA and his Ph.D. in physics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at Stony Brook University. He was a postdoctoral researcher at the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, at the Department of Physics, University of Michigan, and at the Department of Physics, Princeton University. His main research focus is on the dynamics and statistics of the large-scale-structure of the Universe and cosmological perturbations in the early Universe. Hume is a member of the American Physical Society (APS) Committee for the Status of Women in Physics and a Fellow of the APS.

Dr. Alina Gearba-Sell is a Professor and Director of Advanced Programs in the Department of Physics at the United States Air Force Academy (USAFA) and President of the National Society of Physics Students (SPS). Dr. Gearba-Sell received her Ph.D. in Physics in 2001 from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest in Romania and broadened her knowledge in physics at Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, Denmark, Colorado State University and Kansas State University. Prior to joining the USAFA faculty in 2014, Dr. Gearba-Sell was an Associate Professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Southern Mississippi (USM). Dr. Gearba-Sell has been an active contributor to her research field, with many presentations, publications and grants. Her current research program involves precision measurements of critical parameters of optical atomic clock ions and is funded by the National Science Foundation. Dr. Gearba-Sell drafted the SPS Future Faces of Physics Award designed to promote the participation of underrepresented groups in physics and the SPS Service Award designed to recognize students and faculty advancing the SPS mission. In addition, she worked on enhancing the existing SPS programs aimed at encouraging undergraduate research and served on the planning committee for the 2016 Quadrennial Physics Congress. Dr. Gearba-Sell was recognized with several awards, including the Outstanding SPS Chapter Advisor Award by SPS National, the Frank J. Seiler Award for Research Excellence in the Basic Sciences and Civilian of the Year by USAFA, the Mentoring Award and Student Organization Advisor of the Year by USM.

India Jackson is a proud Decatur, GA native, a Physics PhD student at Georgia State University (GSU), and a former NASA intern at the Johnson Space Center. She obtained her Bachelors and Master’s Degree in Mathematics from GSU as well. India has been teaching collegiate mathematics in metro Atlanta since the age of 26 including Georgia Piedmont Technical College, Atlanta Technical College, and Atlanta Metropolitan State College. During her time at GSU, her research is predicting solar flares using big data techniques, computer programming, and mathematical statistics in a new interdisciplinary field called Astro-informatics. India was able to create a successful GOFUNDME account that garnered over $8,500 within 24 hours. She has been featured on CNN, Fox, ABC, CBS, BBC, and the cover of her University’s magazine. As an African-American woman raised in Atlanta, GA she takes great pride in being able to incorporate STEM into her community. As the sole owner of Let’s Get PHYSICal, LLC software publishing company, India is preparing for a life of entrepreneurship upon graduating by creating mobile and web applications that cater to the advertising needs of small businesses. When she’s not doing physics, she models, enjoys cooking, watching science fiction, going to pop culture conventions, and spending time with her daughter.

Caitlin Kepple is a MS candidate in Physics with a concentration in Astronomy at San Francisco State University. In 2017 she graduated from Portland State University with her BS in Physics. During her undergraduate degree, Caitlin studied the effects of online introductory physics labs on women and the possible motivations for women to prefer an online lab experience rather than an in-person one. At SFSU, Caitlin’s research focuses on students’ sense of belonging in physics and astronomy and how lab teaching assistants may impact this sense of belonging. One of the primary goals of this research is to give voice to historically underrepresented students in physics, especially being at one of the most diverse institutions in the country. Caitlin also enjoys participating in science communication by volunteering at local astronomy events in her hometown of Klamath Falls, Oregon and through her school’s chapter of Women in Physics and Astronomy club. In the coming months, Caitlin will be transitioning into a PhD program in science education to further study the large-scale impacts of gender and race disparities in STEM fields.

Anne Kornahrens is the STEP UP project manager at APS, where she leads an initiative to engage high school teachers in inspiring the next generation of women in physics. She received her scientific training in organic chemistry - after a B.S. from Boston College she did a unique joint DPhil/PhD program with the University of Oxford, UK and The Scripps Research Institute, CA. She has worked to advocate for women in STEM in many spaces including grassroots and national work with the Association for Women in Science (AWIS), acting as a AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation, and running an Inclusive Leadership in STEM workshop.

Sandy Liss is an Assistant Professor of Physics and Director of Selu Observatory at Radford University in Radford, VA. She obtained her B.A. in Physics from Swarthmore College in 2011 and her M.S. and Ph.D in Astronomy from the University of Virginia (UVa) in 2014 and 2018, respectively. Before attending graduate school, she worked for a year as a research assistant in Penn State’s Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics where she studied the orbits of hot subdwarf binary stars. Her dissertation research at UVa focused on star formation in nearby interacting dwarf galaxies using large ground-based optical telescopes and space-based optical and infrared telescopes. In addition to teaching at Radford, Sandy is involved in implementing inclusive science education initiatives, developing a diverse and active astronomy research group, and restoring the telescope at Selu Observatory. She is also interested in education and public outreach, specifically in the development and assessment of out-of-classroom STEM for K-12 students.

Laura McCullough has been studying issues regarding women and physics for over twenty years. She has a BA and MS in physics, and a PhD in Science Education. Her research is widely varied, including classroom issues as well as cultural issues that affect women’s participation in physics. She has given numerous talks on gender issues across the US, and has published on a variety of issues on gender and science. Her book “Women in Physics” was published in 2016. Laura’s current job is Professor of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. She loves traveling with her author husband Kelly McCullough, though she always appreciates returning home to their cats.

Stephanie Lyons is a staff physicist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). She received her PhD in physics from the University of Notre Dame in 2016. While working on her doctorate, Lyons established a national chapter of the Association for Women in Science at Notre Dame. She continued to advocate for women in physics during her postdoc at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory and now at PNNL and is passionate about fostering a welcoming and inclusive scientific community. Stephanie’s research is in nuclear astrophysics, which focuses on answering questions about how the elements that make up our world were created in the universe. In her spare time, Stephanie likes to bake, practice yoga, and get outdoors.

Internationally recognized and recently chronicled in The Historymakers for her outstanding achievement as an educator, researcher, administrator and mentor, Dr. Arlene P. Maclin is a physicist by training and has spent the past 40 years in a combination of academic and government service positions. Her academic service includes more than 15 years of teaching at the levels of associate and full professors with administrative experience at the level of an associate dean of a college of arts and science, and a director of research. She has also served as the director of several major research grants in excess of $10M. She also served as the Executive Director of the Mid-Atlantic Consortium- Center for Academic Excellence at Morgan State University that included four HBCUs in the Mid-Atlantic Region and reported to a high-level Governing Board including college presidents and high level corporate and government officials. Concurrently, Dr. Maclin served as the Delta Sigma Theta Distinguished Professor Endowed Chair/ Division of Natural and Behavioral Science at Bennett College where she reported directly to the Provost. She gave lectures, mentored students, increased the number of students receiving summer internships and admission to graduate school and developed a strategic plan for the STEM programs. Dr. Maclin has an extraordinary track record for developing undergraduate and graduate programs in optical physics and optical engineering. She has developed numerous science education programs for K-20 students. She has extensive experience developing and evaluating science and mathematics programs for teachers and students in high school and postsecondary education. She has also worked with STEM township teachers in South Africa on the development of inquiry based and hands-on learning. Dr. Maclin is also a leader in developing opportunities in science and mathematics for minorities and in ensuring that STEM students have a global education by supporting more than 200 students since 2004 with cultural immersion experiences in South Africa, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia, China, Japan and India. She has served as the Director of Diversity for the NSF-funded Engineering Research Center called, Center for Integrated Access Networks (CIAN) led by the University of Arizona. She is an active recruiter of undergraduate and graduate students for STEM programs throughout the nation. She has published more than 50 papers and abstracts in refereed journals and has made more than 250 presentations and talks to technical audiences throughout the world including the United States, Japan, South Africa, India, China, and Nigeria. Her current areas of research include theoretical investigations of nanostructures and STEM research on new pedagogies for teaching and learning.

Dana Molloy is currently a physics teacher at Dobbs Ferry High School in Westchester, NY. Dana is also an adjunct professor at Manhattan College where she teaches and introductory astronomy class to non-science majors as well as laboratory physics for engineering majors. She graduated from Towson University with a BS in physics and went on to complete a MSEd in secondary science education at Lehman College. While at Towson, Dana worked closely with other professors to tackle science outreach in various capacities. Her research project entitled “How Physics Almost Saved the President” focused on telling the story of James Garfield’s assassination through a physics lens. This project was published in AAPT’s The Physics Teacher and was featured on the Smithsonian Channel’s special My Million Dollar Invention. She is especially interested in how early outreach and intervention can affect young women’s interest in STEM pathways and pursing STEM careers. Dana’s current outreach involvements include volunteering at the annual World Science Festival in New York City, judging local science research competitions, and working with IB students to design outreach projects for the elementary school. Dana focuses on creating a dynamic and warm classroom that treats physics as an accessible subject for all learners. Her hope is that by fostering an inclusive environment and leading by example, she can act as a possible role model for future female physics students.

Artemis Spyrou is a Professor at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Michigan State University (MSU) and the Facility for Rare Isotope Beams (FRIB). She earned her Ph.D. in 2007 from the National Technical University of Athens and has been at MSU ever since. Her research focuses on studying the nuclear reactions that drive stellar processes. In particular, she designs and performs experiments that try to answer the question “How are the heavy elements formed in the Universe?”. Her experiments take place at radioactive beam facilities, such as the National Superconducting Cyclotron Lab at MSU, Argonne National Lab in Illinois, and TRIUMF in Canada. During the period 2015-2019 she also served as the Associate Director for Education and Outreach at FRIB, leading the laboratory’s education, outreach and diversity activities. She is passionate about issues related to women in physics, and participates in activities that help support women, in particular within the nuclear physics community. She is also strongly engaged in outreach, organizing local activities, giving public talks, and writing popular science articles.

MAJ Sarah Sublett is a 2ND year instructor at the United States Military Academy, West Point in the Department of Physics and Nuclear Engineering, and the course director for Radiological Safety and Advanced Physics I. She graduated with Honors from Eastern Oregon University with a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics. She began her military career in the US Army in 2002 as a Combat Medic. She earned a direct commission as a Medical Service Corps officer with the designation as a Nuclear Medical Science Officer in 2006. MAJ Sublett holds two master’s degrees, one from Webster University in Computer Resource and Information Management and the other from Colorado State University in Radiological Health Sciences specializing in Health Physics. Her research involved “A Comparison of Air Samples at Ground Level and Aerial Gamma Count Rates from the Response to the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident.” In addition to deploying to Afghanistan, Qatar, and Kuwait in 2015, MAJ Sublett has managed several US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Radioactive Material Use Licenses and Army Radiation Authorizations both in the United States and overseas. MAJ Sublett is a member of the Health Physics Society. MAJ Sublett enjoys leading the West Point Yoga Club and serving as an officer representative for the West Point Swim Team. Sarah’s hobbies include running, yoga, crafting, and exploring the world with her family. MAJ Sublett is married to Reuben C Sublett III, who hails from her hometown of Soldotna, Alaska, and they enjoy raising their energetic 5-year old daughter, Savannah.

Sherry J. Yennello is Regents Professor of Chemistry, Director of the Cyclotron Institute, and holder of the Bright Chair in Nuclear Science at Texas A&M University. A fellow of the American Chemical Society (2011), the American Physical Society (2005), and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013) Yennello’s many awards include the ACS’s Francis P. Garvan-John M. Olin Medal (2011), the Texas A&M Women’s Faculty Network Outstanding Mentor Award (2010), the Texas A&M Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching at both the university and college levels (2012 and 2008, respectively), the Sigma Xi National Young Investigator Award (2000), the NSF Young Investigator Award (1994), the Oak Ridge Junior Faculty Enhancement Award (1993) and the General Electric Faculty for the Future Award (1993). Yennello earned her Ph.D. from Indiana University in 1990. Her research on the nuclear equation-of-state impacts such fundamental questions as, “What is the origin of the elements?” and “How are neutron-rich and heavy nuclei synthesized in the core of a star during stellar evolution?” Her areas of interest include Equity and access to education and professional advancement for all, including both creating opportunities and motivating students to take advantage of opportunities that are available. She strives to motivate current stakeholders to be agents of change.

Stephanie Williams is a member of the Physics Education Research Group under Dr. Chandra Turpen. She works on two separate projects, the Next Generation Physical Sciences and Everyday Thinking Faculty Online Learning Communities (NGP FOLCS), and the Living Physics Portal Project. Her research interests include determining how teacher peer mentoring groups discussions of group work impact a faculty member's viewpoints of student's ability, how analytics of web spaces can be used to foster online communities, and the impact of problem representation on student’s self-efficacy. Currently, she is analyzing data for the NGPET FOLC project, and coordinating workshops for the Living Physics Portal. Stephanie has also shown a dedication to diversity and equity in her career. She was on the LOC (local organizing committee) for the Conference for Undergraduate Underrepresented Minorities in Physics in 2017, participates as a mentor for her local Women in physics group, works with the Equity Constellation team at the University of Maryland and she was on the LOC of the CUWIP at UMD this past year of 2019. Outside the University of Maryland, Stephanie also works as a physical science educator at the Carnegie Academy of Science Education in DC, where she develops and runs free astronomy programs for local DC students. She also works as the Childcare Coordinator for Cedar Lane Unitarian Universalist Church, where she is in the process of developing programming for families to cultivate a healthy relationship with science and theology.

Ximena Cid received her bachelor degree in astrophysics from University of California, Berkeley and her master’s and Ph.D. in physics from the University of Texas, Arlington. She completed a postdoctoral research position at the University of Washington and joined the faculty at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH), a designated Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI) and Minority Serving Institution (MSI) located in Carson, CA August 2015. Ximena identifies as a Yaqui and Chicana woman. She is one of about 15 indigenous physics professionals in the United States. Ximena has spent her career researching how to make physics more accessible to general audiences. Her expertise are reflected in her publications that describe relationships between how one uses their mind to understand complex abstract ideas like gravitational fields and electromagnetic fields as well as areas associated with equity, diversity, and inclusion in STEM fields. She has expertise in understanding challenges that impact students from diverse backgrounds in their pursuit of careers in physics and other STEM fields. As an Indigenous Chicana scholar in a field dominated by white males, she is dedicated to making physics and the space science more inclusive for diverse populations. Her professional engagements include serving as past board member for the National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP), a past committee member for the American Association of Physics Teachers’ Committee on Diversity (AAPT COD), and is a life member for the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). As a board member of NSHP she was the primary organizer for the annual Día de la Física conference. Día de la Física was created to provide students attending the NSHP/SACNAS meeting, as well as students from the regional area (with respect to where the annual SACNAS is held), an opportunity to learn about cutting edge physics, create a sense of community, and to provide resources to help students and professionals connect and find mentors. Día de la Física is geared toward Latinx and Native American students and is welcome and open for students from all backgrounds. Her dedication to providing opportunities for all students, especially those from diverse backgrounds has been recognized nationally as she was awarded the Homer L. Dodge Citation for Service from the American Association of Physics Teachers July 2018.