Our Who's Who

CYESS Community of Practice: Programs and Contacts

We have some extraordinary people in our Community of Practice! See who participates in CYESS and learn more about the programs they run.

Organization Project CYESS Members and Titles
Afterschool Alliance Youth Voices Anita Krishnamurthi, CYESS President; Leah Silverberg, CYESS Senior Project Manager; Elizabeth Bannan, Project Associate
American Institutes of Research (AIR) Youth Development Jill Richter, Senior Researcher; Amy Syvertsen, Principal Researcher
ASTC Community Science Laura Bartok, Manager of Community Science and Special Projects; Melissa Ballard, Director of Programs; Rose Hendricks, Seeding Action Research Director
Boys and Girls Clubs of America Think, Learn, Create Change (TLC) platform Antonia Rangel-Caril, Director ofYouth Advocacy
Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater Washington Youth programs Minnie Quartey Annan, Senior Director, Strategic Initiatives; Christine Murray, Director of Youth Engagement & Empowerment
California Academy of Sciences Youth Action for the Planet Aleks Liou, Program Manager
Clemson University Science Outreach Center My STEM My Story Renee Lyons, Director of Science Education Outreach and the Science Outreach Center, College of Science
(The) Climate Initiative The Climate Initiative Nyla McFadden, Director of Education, Programs & Policy Team Lead
Da Vinci Science Center Da Vinci Science Center Megan Roselli, STEAM Education Program Manager; Sarah Alexander, STEAM Career Pathways Education Manager
Digital Harbor Priorities Siobhan Hayes, Tech Lab Director; Andrew Coy, Executive Director
DiscoverE DiscoverEngineering Susan Hoopes, Director of Programs
Earth Force Environmental Action Civics Krysten Dorfman, Program Manager; Alyssa McConkey, Chief Program Officer
Every Hour Counts Powered by Youth Voice: Future Directions for Afterschool Hikma Sherka, Program Director of Youth Engagement
Fieldscope Fieldscope Jessica Bean, Project Scientist
Fleet Science Center In the Community Andrea Decker, Scientist Engagement Manager
Florida Museum of Natural History at the University of Florida Community Action Projects for the Environment Megan Ennes, Assistant Curator of Museum Education and Director, Thompson Earth Systems Institute
(The) Franklin Institute Youth and Community Programs Michael Cabbie Caban, Education Programs Manager; Alison Hassman, Education Programs Coordinator
Generation Citizen Youth Leadership Dairanys Grullon-Virgil, Alumni and Youth Voice Associate Director; Allyson Cook, Chief Program & Impact Officer
Indiana University School of Education Make, Innovate, Learn Lab (MILL) Adam Maltese, Professor of Science Education
Maven Youth Youth Leadership Camp Monica Arrambide, CEO & Founder; Sam Gonzales, Program Coordinator; Iliana Summit, Engineer Program Manager
Mikva Challenge Mikva Programs Jill Bass, Chief Education Officer; James Fields, Senior Director of Youth Councils; Kayla Higgs, Program Coordinator
Museum of Science & Industry (Chicago) MSI Teen Program Nick Joseph, Camps Manager; Savion Willis, Education Coordinator
National Girls Collaborative Project Youth Advisory Board Candid Mack, Program and Events Coordinator; Karen Peterson, Chief Executive Officer
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Engineer Girl Simil Raghavan, Senior Program Officer
New America Partnership to Advance Youth Apprenticeship Lancy Downs, Policy Analyst, Center on Education and Labor
New York Hall of Science Science Career Ladder program Shihadah Saleem, Director of Youth Programs & Pathways; Katherine Culp, Chief Learning Officer; Priya Mohabir, Senior Vice President of Youth Development and Museum Culture
Oregon State University STEM Research Center Martin Storksdieck, Director
Public Profit Public Profit Corey Newhouse, Founder & Principal; Jessica Manta-Meyer, Managing Director of Oakland office; Taylor Anderson, Consultant; Isha Soni, Associate
Renaissance Youth Center Youth Council Bervin Harris, President & CEO; Ginette Diaz, COO
Science Museum of MN Kitty Anderson Youth Science Center Joseph Adamji, Director of The Center for Equity and Systems Change; Rich Pennington, Internship Program Manager
SciTech Institute Chief Science Officers Jeremy Barbendure, Executive Director; Sarah Cundiff, CSO International Program Coordinator and Arizona CSO Regional Lead; Eileen Healy, CSO International Program Director
Smithsonian Science Education Center Science for Global Goals Heidi Gibson, Manager of Global Sustainability Series; Carol O'Donnell, Director; Katherine Blanchard, Assistant Division Director of Professional Services
Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society Stanford PACS Vera Michalchik, Director, Effective Philanthropy Learning Initiative
STEM Next Opportunity Fund Moonshot Flight Crew Teresa Drew, Deputy Director
Technovation Technovation Programs Abbey Mae Pitcher, Program Manager; Rebecca Anderson, Senior Director of Programs; Margaret Jaques-Leslie, Community Partnerships Specialist
Teen Science Cafe Network Teen Science Cafes Katey Ahmann, Director; Kristin Bayans, Director of Network Engagement
trubel&co Mapping Justice Nick Okafor, Founder; Annie Grant, Associate Director; Asenette Ruiz, Associate
UC Berkeley Understanding Global Change Jessica Bean, Principal Investigator, Principal Author, and Principal Project Designer
Vermont Afterschool Network VT Youth Councils Nicole Miller, Executive Director; Katherine O'Shea, STEM and Career Awareness Coordinator
Wild Center Youth Climate Program Jen Kretser, Director of Climate Initiatives; Cedar Barg, Youth Climate Program Manager