National Champions Board

Board members were selected to give the project a balance of desirable expertise and regional representation, including industry representatives, informal learning educators, gender equity experts, science and mathematics education representatives, and educational policy experts. The Board meets once per year either at collaborative locations or at a central site. Current Board members are:

Celeste Baine, Director
Engineering Education Service Center

Laurie Benson, CEO
Inacom Information Systems

Mary Darcy, Producer/Host “51%”
WAMC National Productions

Bonnie Dunbar, President and CEO
Museum of Flight

Carla Faini, Academic Programs Manager
Microsoft Corporation

Ruthe Farmer, Project Manager
Technology & Engineering Ed.
Fair Play: Design & Discovery National Center for Women & IT, Girl Scouts of the USA

Barbara Gault, Vice President & Director of Research
Institute for Women's Policy Research

Donna Gerardi Riordan, Director of Programs
California Council on Science and Technology

Sherry Hsi, Director of Research and Evaluation
Center for Learning and Teaching, The Exploratorium

Eric Iversen, Manager of Public Affairs
American Society for Engineering Education

Mimi Lufkin, Executive Director
National Alliance For Partnerships in Equity

Lisa A. McNew, Founder and CEO
Alliance of Technology and Women

Claudia Morrell, Executive Director
Center for Women and Information Technology
UM-Baltimore

Cherilynn Morrow, Astronomer, Educator, Project Director
SETI Institute, NASA Education Broker for the Western US

Barbara O’Connor, President
AAUW Educational Foundation

Mylene Padolina, Senior Diversity Consultant
Microsoft Corporation

Rosalyn A. Pertzborn, Director
Office of Space Science Education
UW-Madison

Whitney Ransome, Co-Executive Director
National Coalition of Girls' Schools

Stacey Roberts-Ohr, Executive Director
Expanding Your Horizons Network

Lucy Sanders, CEO and Co-Founder
National Center for Women & Information Technology

Betty Shanahan, CEO and Executive Director
Society of Women Engineers

Michael Smith, Director of Programs
Interim Executive Director
National Society of Black Engineers

Ruth Sweetser, President
American Association of University Women

Candace Williams, Student
Claremont-McKenna College