Principal Investigator Apriel K Hodari
Principal Investigator Apriel K Hodari holds a PhD in physics from Hampton University and served as a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow with the Physics Education Research Group at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is an expert in STEM education research, equity and workforce diversity and the culture of STEM disciplines. Dr. Hodari was a 2016-17 Fulbright Scholar at Queen Mary, University of London, and is a Principal Investigator with Eureka Scientific, Inc. Her research focuses on the cultures of STEM disciplines, explored through the lived experiences of successful women of color in STEM fields. She serves as PI for the projects Faculty Online Learning Communities for Gender Equity: Targeting Departmental Level Change in STEM, and Centering Women of Color in STEM: Data-Driven Opportunities for Inclusion. Her work has been featured in Science and on Science Friday.
Co-Principal Investigator Eleanor C Sayre, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator Eleanor C Sayre, PhD is a Professor of Physics at Kansas State University. Dr. Sayre is a co-Director of the Professional development for Emerging Education Researchers (PEER) program and the Research Director of PhysPort.org. She has over 80 peer-reviewed publications in discipline-based education research. Her lab conducts research on how university faculty members become better at their jobs, including their pedagogical practices as well as their growing expertise in leading research labs. She is passionate about increasing access to the research enterprise to members of historically excluded groups, and building more just and equitable research communities. Outside of work, Eleanor is an avid knitter and potter.
Co-Principal Investigator Angela C Johnson, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator Angela C Johnson, PhD is the G. Thomas and Martha Myers Yeager ’41 Endowed Chair in the Liberal Arts, and Professor of Educational Studies at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Dr. Johnson is an expert in equity and inclusion in STEM education; in particular, the inclusion of women, especially girls and women of color. She uses ethnographic methods to study the structural features of science education settings that lead to systematic under- representation of women of color; opportunities for agency by members of underrepresented groups to persist in science against the odds; and the agency of professors to broaden participation in STEM. Her model of the science identity trajectories of women of color has been adopted and extended in dozens of studies.
Co-Principal Investigator Nicola K Wilkin, PhD
Co-Principal Investigator Nicola K Wilkin, PhD is a theoretical physicist who is Director of Education for Engineering and Physical Sciences at the University of Birmingham. She is the education director for the Centre for Topological Design and will deliver the equality training within that. Nationally recognized for her work to enhance women in physics across their entire career journey. She received the Institute of Physics Philips prize for her contributions in this area. She has recently become Chair of the Institute of Physics Juno panel, which assesses UK physics institutions on their gender equality environment and activity (in parallel to Athena Swan). She successfully bid for and ran the International Conference on Women in Physics in 2017 and is a part of the working group of IUPAP for women in physics. Her current equality work is focused on the attainment gap within Universities for BAME students, and has recently been awarded a joint Birmingham-Nottingham grant to understand how informal peer support and the lack inclusivity of those informal networks is implicated in this gap.
Dr. Jaimie Miller-Friedmann
Dr. Jaimie Miller-Friedmann completed her doctorate in science education at the University of Oxford. Before moving to Oxford to complete her PhD, she worked as a Science Education Specialist doing research at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. She also worked as a classroom teacher, adjunct lecturer, and laboratory scientist. Dr. Miller-Friedmann’s research interests include gender equity in academic science and the ways in which gender identity affects the formation of professional identities. She is also interested in intersectionality, especially as it applies to gender and other protected characteristics, as well as critical theory, educational theory, post colonialism, poststructuralism, and third wave feminism.
Shayna Krammes
Shayna Krammes completed her Bachelor of Arts in Global History, with a focus on Latin America, at George Mason University. She also studied Spanish and spent a summer abroad in Granada, Spain to study the language, culture, and Spanish interpretation of the colonial period. Her undergraduate research focused on the centrality of human rights during Argentina’s last transition to democracy in the 1980s. Shayna also took courses in African American history which ground her understanding of the present disparities in higher education.
