Joelle A. Labastide, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Guide interdisciplinary teams and practice groups through lens-specific problem framing, causal-chain analysis, systems modeling, and theory-of-change refinement resulting in frameworks and tools used for decision making on future investments and ongoing operational excellence• Collaborate across the organization to bring definition to the “model builder” role that the agency needed• Design, pilot, socialize, and institutionalize a customized suite of tools for creating logical continuity in multimillion dollar, multisector project design while minimizing results-risks, increasing evaluability, and producing tight and verifiable logical connections to create closable learning loops• Partner with the Data Collaboratives for Local Impact team to design and deliver a conference on data for decision-making in developing countries for 140 international attendees• Produce a week-long learning module for an international teaching forum co-hosted by the Monitoring & Evaluation and Economic Analysis departments and attended by 100+ professionals; awarded by CEO and Managing Director for invaluable contributions to the department and team• Develop a recurring segment for the global newsletter published by the Department of Policy and Evaluation • Serve as the first Fellow to co-chair the Women’s Leadership Group

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Independent, self-administered fellowship with a focus on combining microscope design and building skills with single molecule biological assays to understand cellular traffic control mechanisms for molecular motor cargo transport• Developed a new microscope to extract previously unavailable information from transport assays• Proposed and implemented strategies to increase participation of underrepresented groups in the biophysics field• Conducted single molecule studies of molecular motor proteins using super-resolution microscopy techniques

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Spearheaded the creation of the Advocacy Committee to dismantle structures of systemic inequity for women in STEM disciplines through multifaceted initiatives • Led a 30-person team to launch the large-scale #SafeAtWork campaign to address institutional culture and policies that allow sexual violence to persist; efforts included a town hall event, workshops, and a student-centered leadership forum with in-person/online attendance of 300+• Induced the creation of, and served on, the Chancellor’s Task Force on Sexual Violence; collaborated with university administration and state representatives to write and implement policies to protect graduate student workers• The #SafeAtWork campaign encourages graduate women to center the basic right which Title IX protects: the right to be safe at work; confronting and disrupting that which is deeply entrenched in university culture through campaign efforts: #CleanUpYourDepartment, #Disrupt, and #BrokenSilence.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• As Communications Chair, launched the GWIS Quarterly Magazine (GQM), the organization’s largest public engagement project, to create a platform for graduate women to author, edit, and publish their writing• GWIS Quarterly Magazine is an enterprise founded, produced, authored, and published by graduate women in STEM and related fields, focused on understanding, discussing, and #disrupting the intrinsically exclusionary culture in STEM academia• Born out of the GWIS communications committee, GQM is an outward-focused public engagement project, with the goal of breaking the silence and isolation that characterizes the collective and individual experiences of those navigating academia with marginalized identitiesWe work to cultivate and showcase the unique ability of scientists to blend our truth-seeking interests, training, and cultural experiences within STEM to provide a multidimensional analysis of the institution itself, and the respective roles of oppressive agents in the breakdown of the academy’s mission for equity in education.

Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

• Co-designed the organization and operations plan, requiring strategic planning, extensive collaboration with university administrators, financial management, and operational execution • Designed and embedded a non-hierarchical leadership structure promoting and leveraging diversity of experience, thought, and discipline effecting organizational growth to 700+ members

• Doctoral work focused on utilizing a combination of time polarization, and wavelength resolved chemical microscopy to directly probe the relationship between the internal structural properties of single molecules, isolated nanostructures, and solution and solid state bulk photoactive materials and their optoelectronic properties• Thesis: ‘Time- and Polarization- Resolved Studies of Directional Coupling in Isolated Semiconductor Nanostructures’ and was advised by Professor Michael D. Barnes, Departments of Chemistry and Physics

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physical Chemistry

Bachelor’S Degree, Chemical Engineering, Minors: Mathematics, Chemistry