Steering Committee
PI, co-PI, and Program Facilitator
Experts Committee
Equity Consultant
Steering Committee
The Steering Committee is comprised of up to two representatives from each of the six participating societies.
Joanna Friesner
North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC)
Executive Director |
North American Arabidopsis Steering Committee (NAASC) |
The Danforth Center
Laurie Smith
Maize Genetics Cooperation (MGC)
Professor |
Department of Cell and Developmental Biology |
University of California San Diego (UCSD)
John Fowler
Maize Genetics Cooperation (MGC)
Professor |
Department of Botany and Plant Pathology |
Oregon State University
Patricia Baldrich
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)
Senior Research Scientist |
The Danforth Center
Sonali Roy
International Society for Molecular Plant Microbe Interactions (IS-MPMI)
Assistant Professor |
Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences |
Tennessee State University
Brenda Molano-Flores
Botanical Society of America (BSA)
Senior Plant Ecologist |
Illinois Natural History Survey Affiliate – Entomology; Plant Biology |
University of Illinois
Catrina Adams
Botanical Society of America (BSA)
Education Director, BSA |
St. Louis, MO
Jennifer Ackerfield
American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT)
Head Curator of Natural History Collections, Associate Director of Biodiversity Research |
Denver Botanic Gardens
Gustavo MacIntosh
American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB)
Professor |
Roy J. Carver Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology |
Iowa State University
Mary Williams
Principal Investigator
Features Editor, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
Glasgow, Scotland
Crispin Taylor
co-Principal Investigator
Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB) |
ASPB
Marcia Puig-Lluch
Program Facilitator
Program Facilitator |
ROOT & SHOOT RCN
PI, co-PI, and Program Facilitator
Mary Williams
Crispin Taylor
Marcia Puig-Lluch
Experts Committee
Michelle M. Jacob, PhD (Yakama)
Anahuy Mentoring, LLC
https://anahuymentoring.com
Laura Minero, PhD
UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human Behavior
https://lauraminerophd.com/bio
Bathabile K.S. Mthombeni, JD, MS, LODc
Founder & Principal, Untangled Resolutions
https://www.blogtalkradio.com/bathabile
Nicole Cabrera Salazar, PhD
Founder and CEO, Movement Consulting
https://www.wearemvmt.com/
Equity Consultant
We are thrilled to have partnered with Movement Consulting as our Equity Consultant.
Movement served as ROOT & SHOOT’s equity consultant from 2022-2023. For more information on our collaboration, please visit our blog.
A bit more about Movement Consulting, from their successful proposal to the RCN Steering Committee
Our Philosophy. At Movement, we believe in making the world of science better now – not by checking diversity boxes, but rather by transforming organizational cultures through emotional, relational, and collective work. We value curiosity and vulnerability over shame and judgement while creating immersive learning spaces to build awareness of systems of oppression. With these foundational elements in place, we then contextualize and unpack behaviors on individual and interpersonal levels. It is from this place that we can sustainably build community and culture shifts.
Our Positionality. We are a consulting collective led by disabled, neurodivergent, queer women and nonbinary people with multiple intersecting class, race, and ethnic experiences (e.g. Black, Indigenous, mixed, white, Latine; class straddlers, lower, upper and middle class). We all hold the privileged identities of being collegiate students, advanced degree holders, or career academics, while many of us are first-generation students and immigrants. Our founder, Dra. Nicole, as a unique positionality as a white Latina with a PhD that has allowed us to navigate, speak to, and leverage the politics of academia while centering those most marginalized in STEM.
Our Impact. Since our founding in 2018, Movement Consulting has successfully partnered with students, faculty, and scientific leaders from over 25 universities and organizations across the US, Canada, and Europe. These include the American Physical Society, the American Astronomical Society, and the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.