ORGANIZING COMMITTEES & SUPPORTING ORGANIZATIONS

The Intersections Science Fellows Symposium is structurally organized as a postdoc-driven, faculty-supported and -advised multi-institutional initiative.

Senior Advisors

• Darin Latimore, MD ISFS Senior Advisor Deputy Dean and Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Professor of Internal Medicine (General Medicine); Title IX Deputy Coordinator for the Office of the Dean in the School of Medicine; Discrimination and Harassment Coordinator for the Office of the President, Yale School of Medicine

• Faye Rogers, PhD ISFS Fellow Selection Advisor Associate Professor of Therapeutic Radiology; Associate Cancer Center Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion; Vice Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion for Therapeutic Radiology; Associate Director of the Yale MD-PhD Program; Director of the Yale BioMed Amgen Scholars Program, Yale School of Medicine

Steering Committee

• Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD ISFS Co-Chair Director of the Yale Ciencia Initiative at the Yale School of Medicine Office of Equity Diversity & Inclusion; Assistant Director for Diversity Equity & Inclusion at the Wu Tsai Institute at Yale; Executive Director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, Yale University

• Erin Heckler ISFS Co-Chair Associate Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs, Yale University

• Chelsea Gómez ISFS Program Manager Program Manager for the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Yale University

• Jennifer Sun, PhD Outreach, Website, & Social Media Co-Chair Postdoc in Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers University

• Tigist Tamir, PhD Outreach, Website, & Social Media Co-Chair Postdoc in Biological Engineering, MIT

• Sohini Banerjee, PhD Program Planning Co-Chair Postdoc in Molecular Virology & Microbiology, Baylor College of Medicine

• Maiko Kitaoka, PhD Program Planning Co-Chair Postdoc in Biology, Whitehead Institute

• Olga Buzovetsky, PhD Professional Development & Mentoring Committee Co-Chair Postdoc in Biochemistry, Biophysics, Chemical Biology & Structural Biology, Rockefeller University

• Sunny Narayanan, PhD Professional Development & Mentoring Committee Co-Chair Postdoc in Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences, Florida A&M University - Florida State University

Administrative Assistance

• Chelsea Gómez, Program Manager for the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Yale University

• Michele Carpenter, Program Manager for the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine

• Carolina Machado, Program Coordinator of the Yale Ciencia Initiative for the Office of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Yale School of Medicine