Speakers
Career Panel Biotech, Healthcare, Pharma Organizations

Aqila Ahmed
Single Cell Sales Specialist, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Jonathan Jones
Director, Strategic Analytics and Intelligence, Genentech

Lilian Lamech
Scientist, Life Edit Therapeutics
Career Panel: Non-Profit Organizations

LaShonda Brenson
Senior Researcher, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
Brenson earned her bachelor’s degree in mathematics and political cience from the University of Rochester, and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of Michigan. Using qualitative interviews with congressional staffers and quantitative methods, her dissertation research provides evidence that the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) and Congressional Hispanic Caucus (CHC), as institutions, matter. One way she demonstrates the added value of the CBC and CHC is by illustrating that when caucus members serve as caucus leaders, they introduce more bills because of their additional staff capacity.

Supriya Kumar
Program Officer, Global Health, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Mike Shriberg
Great Lakes Regional Executive Director, National Wildlife Federation, Intermittent Lecturer, University of Michigan
Career Panel: Academic and Higher Education Institutions

Chris Gonzalez Clarke
Associate Vice Provost and Director, EDGE Doctoral Fellowship Program, Stanford University

Jill Jividen
Director, Research Development, Office of the Vice President for Research, University of Michigan

Tershia Pinder-Grover
Director, Center for Research and Teaching-Engineering
Career Panel: Consulting

Ishita Das
Science Policy Project Manager, Ripple Effect

Sarah Paleg
Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company

Vahid Rashidi
Principal, Boston Consulting Group

Brittany Rodriguez
Consultant, Bain & Company
Career Panel: Government Organizations

Portia Rae Hemphill
Survey Statistician, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)

Michael Hoffman
Director, Center for Economics, Government Accountability Office (GAO)

Neali Lucas
Director, Team Biologics Staff, Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
Career Panel: Technology Organizations

Krista Kernodle
Data Engineer, TetraScience

Katie Simmons
User Experience Researcher, Meta

Suresh Subramanian
Partner and Strategic Advisor, Synerthink Solutions