Ju-Lee Kim joined the MIT mathematics faculty as tenured associate professor in 2007. She received the B.S. from the Korean Advanced Institute in Science & Technology in 1991, and the Ph.D. from Yale in 1997, under the direction of Roger Howe. She had postdoctoral appointments at the École Normale Supérieure, and at IAS before joining the faculty at the University of Michigan as assistant professor in 1998. In 2002, she moved to the University of Illinois at Chicago. Professor Kim's research interests include representation theory, harmonic analysis of p-adic groups, Lie theory and automorphic forms.

Leslie A. Kolodziejski completed her PhD in 1986 in Electrical Engineering at Purdue University. She joined the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor. In 1988, Dr. Kolodziejski joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) faculty at MIT as Assistant Professor. In 1999, Professor Kolodziejski was promoted to Full Professor. Professor Kolodziejski received the Young Investigator Award from NSF, the Young Investigator Award from ONR, and is a Fellow of the Optical Society of America. At MIT, Professor Kolodziejski is the founder of the Nanoprecision Deposition Laboratory and PI of the Integrated Photonic Devices and Materials Group. Professor Kolodziejski received the EECS Graduate Student Association Graduate Student Counseling Award in 2007, the Capers and Marion McDonald Award for Excellence in Mentoring and Advising from MIT School of Engineering in 2009, and the Faculty Ambassador Award from the office of Multicultural Programs at MIT in 2017. Since 2010 Professor Kolodziejski has served as the Graduate Officer of EECS working to support the graduate student body and guide the students through the graduate program. Professor Kolodziejski is the principal investigator for the University Center of Exemplary Mentoring since 2016. Currently, Professor Kolodziejski is the Chair of MIT's Committee on Sexual Misconduct Prevention and Response and also serves as the Faculty Marshal in MIT's graduation exercises.

Dr. Kaliris Salas-Ramirez is currently an Assistant Medical Professor at the newly accredited CUNYSchool of Medicine in the department of Molecular, Cellular and Biomedical Sciences. She runs a behavioral neuropsychopharmacology research laboratory and teaches physicians Neuroscience. She is also an adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology at Hunter College, CUNY teaching upper level undergraduate and graduate courses on the biological basis of psychology.

Dr. Patricia Silveyra was born and raised in Argentina, where she received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, and her PhD in Biochemistry, from the University of Buenos Aires. She came to the United States in 2008 after being selected for an Ambassadorial Scholarship by The Rotary Foundation to pursue postdoctoral studies at Penn State University, and in 2011 she joined their faculty. Dr. Silveyra‘s research group studies molecular mechanisms of lung inflammation, with special emphasis on the impact of air pollution and sex hormones in asthma exacerbations. She has received multiple research grants including K01 and BIRCWH awards from NIH, Graduate Women in Science, and foundation grants. She has also received awards for her promotion of women in science and community service, including the Achieving Women Award, the YWCA Tribute to Women of Excellence, the Paul Harris Fellowship award from Rotary International, and the Leadership Harrisburg Area “Extra Mile” award. Dr. Silveyra has also served as President of a non-profit organization “Estamos Unidos de Pennsylvania” with whom she supports the central Pennsylvania Latino community in the areas of education, cultural competence, leadership and social skills development. She is also the faculty advisor for the Penn State Hershey Latino Hispanic Medical Student Association (LMSA), and she has served in multiple leadership roles at Penn State. In 2015, she served as interim Director for Diversity and Inclusion in Education for the Penn State College of Medicine, and she founded a summer internship program for local undergraduate students interested in careers in science and medicine. Dr. Silveyra has published over 35 peer-reviewed manuscripts and book chapters and she has presented her work extensively.

Frances King Stage is Professor of Higher Education at New York University. She earned her B.S. at the University of Miami and her M.S. at Drexel University, both in Mathematics. Her Ph.D. is from Arizona State University in Higher Education. Her research specialization includes college student learning, especially for STEM disciplines and student participation in math and science majors. Recent work has focused on characteristics of undergraduate institutions that produce unexpected levels of students who go on to earn STEM doctorates. She also studies college access and success for underrepresented students. Stage has over 15 books150 publications, most focusing on college students and the methods used to study them. Her books include Answering Critical Questions Using Quantitative Data, Research in the College Context: Approaches and Methods and Creating Learning Centered Classrooms. Stage is past Vice President for the Postsecondary Education Division (J) of the American Educational Research Association and has won awards for research and scholarship from the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Educational Research Association. She spent 1999-2000as a Senior Fellow at the National Science Foundation and was a Fulbright Specialist at the University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica in 2008 and at the University of West Indies, Cave Hill, Barbados in 2011. Before moving to NYU in 2000, she was Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. She has directed more than 50 doctoral dissertations to completion.

Laura Schulz is the Class of 1943 Career Development Associate Professor of Cognitive Science in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT. She received the Troland award from the National Science Foundation in 2012, the Macvicar Faculty Fellowship at MIT in 2013, and the American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology in 2014. She has a Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and a B.A. in Philosophy from University of Michigan.