Advisory Council
STEM Advisory Council
Carley Fisher-Maltese, PhD
Assistant Professor, George Mason University, College of Education and Human Development; STEM Advisory Board Chair
Lida Anestidou, Ph.D.
Senior Program Officer and Director, The National Academies
Michelle R. Bond, Ph.D.
Program Director, Bethesda, MD
Denise Booth
Microbiologist and STEM Educator
Catherine Croft, Ph. D.
CEO, Catlilli Games
Margaret Z. Dominguez, Ph.D.
Optical Engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Carla Easter, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Education, Outreach, and Visitor Experience, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Lisa Friedersdorf, Ph.D.
Director, National Nanotechnology Coordination Office
Alexandra Fuentes
STEAM Integration Program Manager at Fairfax County Public Schools
Krista Gauthier
Founder and Executive Director of Sliding Doors STEM and Dyslexia Learning Center
Ron Gird
Meteorologist and Outreach Program Manager, National Weather Service, Retired
Allan Hoffman, Ph.D.
Physicist, Department of Energy (Retired)
Brian Jacoby
Vice President and Founder, Nova Labs
Mary Muldowney Jarratt
Engineer Presenter at Engineering Tomorrow
Samantha Kuhn
Executive Director, JK Community Farm
Chester Lampkin
On-Air & Digital Meteorologist, TEGNA
Lang Ly
Chief of Staff, Appian Corporation
Brian Mandell, Ph.D.
K-12 Science Coordinator, Fairfax County Public Schools
Monti Mercer
Community Relations Manager, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Research Campus
Phyllis Leary Newbill
Associate Director of Educational Networks, Center for Educational Networks and Impacts, Virginia Tech
Tinell Priddy, Ed.D.
Principal, Academies of Loudoun
Odette Scovel
Science Instructional Supervisor, Loudoun County Public Schools
Padmanabhan Seshaiyer, Ph.D.
Professor, Mathematical Sciences; Director, STEM Accelerator Program and COMPLETE, George Mason University
Donna Shackelford
President, Supernova Science Inc.
Zuzana Steen
Academic and Community Relations Director, Micron Technology
Heather Tedesco, Ph.D.
Psychologist and Parent Education Specialist
Myra Thayer
Science Coordinator, Fairfax County Public Schools (Retired)
Kim Walls
NGA Research Strategic Communications
LaNae Wheeler
Senior Systems Engineer
