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I founded Counterspace Coaching and Consulting to help clients create and translate their vision for a future of excellence into reality and to infuse evidence-based inclusive practices throughout their work and organizations. I partner with leaders and organizations in industry, philanthropy and higher education to assess existing culture and policies,develop new paradigms of leadership and team effectiveness and implement sustainable plans for growth and change. Clients include a range of partners and clients across sectors including scientific societies, universities, Redfin, Doordash and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, among others. Please contact me to learn more about coaching, consulting services and speaking engagements.

Broadening the Representation of Academic Investigators in NeuroScience (BRAINS) is a University of Washington-based program designed to accelerate and improve the career advancement of neuroscience postdoctoral scholars and assistant professors from underrepresented groups including certain race, ethnicity, and disability statuses groups.

Launching Academics on the Tenure-Track: an Intentional Community in Engineering (LATTICE), a joint effort between the University of Washington, North Carolina State University, and California Polytechnic State University, is a national program to advance faculty diversity in engineering. LATTICE includes a professional development intervention and a research study to understand why the intervention works. LATTICE was created in 2015 with funding from an NSF ADVANCE award (HRD-1500310). LATTICE seeks to positively impact early-career women in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and early-career underrepresented minority women in Engineering who are interested in faculty careers. LATTICE participants will gain a stronger sense of career self-efficacy and sense of belonging through a combination of symposia, peer networks, and other support structures over a two-year period. The long-term goal of LATTICE is to diversify the national engineering faculty population.

Partner with HR and Program Teams to assess needs and opportunities, and design and deliver DEI strategy and projects. Consult on bias mitigation practices in performance review and interviewing practices.Partner with the Foundation DEI Team to support and facilitate Foundation-wide Learning programs.Offer one-on-one leadership coaching to managers navigating organizational change.

Work to recruit funding to create, sustain, and deepen diversity and inclusion programming in the College of the Environment, including professional development, educational, pipeline, and outreach programs. Develop a program to train undergraduate and graduate students in tutoring skills, implicit bias and cultural competencies to support the Seattle MESA program (http://www.seattlemesa.org/). Work with a team to develop the curriculum, application and evaluation tools for the Doris Duke Conservation Scholars Program at the University of Washington.Co-direct national professional development and leadership programs (BRAINS & LATTICE) for scientists and engineers who are from underrepresented groups in STEM.

Directed independent research program and managed laboratory focused on understanding the primary factors affecting species’ distribution and maintenance of biological diversity and to understand how anthropogenic activities influence natural communities and ecosystem processes. Work spans multiple taxonomic groups (i.e., insects, microbes and plants) in both aquatic and terrestrial study systems. Major focus is on the distribution of microbial communities and their influence on ecosystem processes in aquatic systems, invaded ecosystems and hypoxic zones. Taught undergraduate biology courses, including introductory biology lecture to 500+ students. Chaired graduate student committees and advised undergraduate and graduate students. Developed grant proposals and secured funding. Developed and directed national programs for professional development for early career scientists.

Established an independent research lab focused on environmental genomics and ecosystem ecology.

WEBS is an annual three-day symposium aimed at addressing the retention of female scientists and issues related to the transition of women from early career stages to tenure track positions and leadership roles in academic and research settings.www.webs.washington.edu

Supported analyses of the feasibility and impact of potential NRDA restoration projects. Contributed to technical analyses as part of an ongoing, real-time evaluation of the Agriculture Subprogram of the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Conducted rapid-turnaround scientific literature reviews to support a range of projects, including those assessing climate change impacts on natural ecosystems. Helped develop proposals to evaluate the impact of foundation and government programs. Contract ymployee.

Worked with the Science Team to develop two of twelve potential funding areas to present to the Board. Participated in Science Team meetings and a Science Program Board meeting. Contract employee.

Executed programs to increase the participation and leadership of women in the sciences, engineering and mathematics. Facilitated ADVANCE team meetings with Deans, Assistant Provost and faculty members to develop program content.

Examined ecological patterns of co-occurrence and relatedness for diverse communities of microorganisms from a range of terrestrial and aquatic habitats. This work demonstrated that like “macrobes”, bacterial communities tend to be more structured and more closely related than expected by chance. Thus by comparing microbial patterns with those of macroorganisms, I identify unifying patterns and processes across all domains of life and highlight the potentially unique features of microbial biology that influence the generation and maintenance of diversity.

Dissertation: Patterns and drivers of biological diversity and community composition.Doctoral committee: B. Bohannan (advisor), P. Ehrlich, D. Ackerly, D. Petrov and D. RelmanFrances Lou Kallam Award in recognition of special excellence in research, teaching and coursework.American Association of University Women Educational Foundation Fellow.