New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Cycle

Cohort 4 (2026-2028)
Cohort 3 (2024-2026)
Cohort 2 (2021-2023)
Cohort 1 (2018-2020)

Primary Sector

Academia
Government
Industry
Non-Profit

Primary Discipline

Agriculture and natural resources
Data and statistics
Education
Engineering
Environment and biology
Health and medicine
Information technology
Legislation and policy

Abhishek Roy

Chief Scientist, Distinguished Member of Research Staff, The National Laboratory of the Rockies
Englewood, CO

Primary Sector: Government
Primary Discipline: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Focus Areas: Chemistry, Global Challenges of Energy and Water, Technical and R&D Leadership, Innovation in Sustainability

Dr. Abhishek Roy is the chief staff scientist at the National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR), where he applies polymer science expertise to find smarter, more effective ways of utilizing our global supply of energy and resources. Dr. Roy has a passion for addressing global challenges of energy and water. The journey started in 2003 with fuel cells at Virginia Tech to research at Dow (Hydrocarbons) towards energy efficient separation processes. Recipient of the prestigious Gordon E. Moore Medal from SCI, Dr. Roy's most significant contribution is reducing the energy requirements of water purification (BWRO) by 30 % and improving water quality by 40% (DOW FILMTEC™ ECO) through the invention of a breakthrough terpolymer membrane chemistry. With experience in technical and R&D leadership, customer interactions, he developed several membrane technologies enabling 10+ reverse osmosis products. A major impact is in the residential segment where these innovations are providing drinkable water in India and China. Dr. Roy coauthored 100+ scientific articles and presentations and is an inventor of 23 granted U.S. patents. Notable awards include the Edison Award, Dow's Presidential Sustainability Innovator award, Influential Researcher IE&C, and outstanding recent graduate alumnus from Virginia Tech. He participated in Dow's Leadership In Action program for rehabilitation of Creeks in Cebu, Philippines. Born in Kolkata, India, Abhishek currently lives with his beloved wife Mou and twin boys, Aharshi and Anush in Houston.
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Ali Nouri

Lecturer with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs
Washington, D.C.

Primary Sector: Government
Primary Discipline: Legislation and Policy
Focus Areas: Energy Policy, National Security, Climate Change, Emerging Technologies, Pandemic Response

Dr. Ali Nouri is a Lecturer with the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs. Dr. Nouri was a Deputy Assistant to President Biden and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. Dr. Nouri previously led the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs as an Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy. He was previously serving as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in that office. Prior to joining the Biden Administration, Dr. Nouri was the President of the Federation of American Scientists, a public policy organization focused on countering WMDs, addressing emerging infectious diseases, and crafting solutions to energy and innovation challenges. Under his leadership, the organization also tackled science denialism and COVID-19 misinformation by providing timely, science-based information to policy makers and to the public. Previously, Dr. Nouri served as an advisor in the U.S. Senate for nearly a decade, including six years for a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. During his time in the Senate, he served in various positions including as an Energy and Environment Advisor, a National Security Advisor, and as a Legislative Director. Prior to that, Dr. Nouri served as an advisor to the office of UN Secretary General Kofi Annan where he developed initiatives to block biotechnology from being used to produce biological weapons. He earned a B.A. in biology from Reed College and a Ph.D. in molecular biology from Princeton University. He resides in Washington D.C. with his wife, Logan Gibson, and their two sons.

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Alison Sheets-Singer

Senior Principal Researcher, Nike, Inc.
Beaverton, OR

Primary Sector: Industry
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus Areas: Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Wearable Robotics, Human Performance, Women in STEM

Alison Sheets-Singer leads a research team at Nike that aims to create new products and services that amplify and augment human performance for athletes of all abilities. Her research program leverages experimental approaches as well as computer simulation, modeling, and optimization to link changes in biomechanics, physiology, and perception. Her largest contributions to the sports biomechanics field are realized through Nike's product line. She has been awarded 12 patents and is the recipient of a Visionary Award from the Women of Nike for her leadership and teamwork. Her work has also been recognized by the International Society of Biomechanics, Technical Group on Computer Simulation with the Andrzej Komor New Investigator Award, and Dr. Sheets-Singer was an invited speaker at the 2012 Japan America Frontiers of Engineering Symposium sponsored by the National Academy of Engineering. Prior to joining Nike, Dr. Sheets-Singer was an Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. She received her B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Cornell University, Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of CA, Davis, and was Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University. Dr. Sheets-Singer was a co-chair of the inaugural cohort of the New Voices in Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine program, is on the Engineering Research Visioning Alliance's Standing Council, contributed to the Vision for American Science and Technology Task Force, and is on Sigma Xi's Committee on Global Outreach.
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Alycia Chin

Senior Financial Economist, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
Bethesda, MD

Primary Sector: Government
Primary Discipline: Social Sciences
Focus/Research Areas: Finance Policy research; Data and
statistics; Economy and workforce

Alycia Chin is a Senior Financial Economist with the Office of the Investor Advocate at the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Her research focuses on generating insights that can inform public policy and help individuals achieve financial security. As a behavioral scientist, she examines the psychological and economic factors that influence consumers' and investors' financial behavior. Her recent work examines the efficacy of financial product disclosure, to ensure that communications are clear and understood; the benefits of financial education programs and how such resources can better engage the general public; and barriers to participating in financial markets. Prior to joining the SEC, Dr. Chin worked at several financial regulators. During her time at the Federal Reserve Board, she contributed to research on money market funds, residential real estate values, and the Great Depression. At the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, she led some of the agency's first experimental research on mortgages and financial disclosure. Finally, at the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, she founded a group conducting behavioral research for the purpose of regulatory post-implementation review. She holds a B.A. in Economics and Politics, magna cum laude, from Scripps College and a Ph.D. in Behavioral Decision Research from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research has been published in journals including Emotion, Behavioural Public Policy, the Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, and informed multiple federal policy changes including requirements for mutual funds and index-linked annuities.

Amanda Vernon

Founder & CEO, Aver Strategy
Alexandria, VA

Primary Sector: Government
Primary Discipline: Legislation and Policy
Focus/Research Areas: Science and Engineering Policy

Amanda Vernon is the Founder & CEO of Aver Strategy. Prior to this role she served as the Science and Engineering Policy Analyst in the office of the National Science Board (NSB) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). She serves as liaison to two NSB committees: the Committee on National Science and Engineering Policy and the Committee on Awards and Facilities. Her work with the NSB focuses on the development and release of the Congressionally-mandated report "Science and Engineering Indicators" and on broader policy analysis, especially on issues related to the STEM workforce, S&E and national security, and international collaboration. Prior to joining NSF, Amanda was a Program Officer for Science, Engineering, and Technology at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her work there focused on international scientific collaboration, climate change policy, and the U.S. R&D enterprise. Amanda received her Ph.D. in Brain and Cognitive Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her ScB in Neuroscience with Honors from Brown University. She is originally from Madison, Georgia.

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Amos Winter

Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus Areas: Mechanical Engineering; Global Engineering and Research; Machine and Product Design For Developing and Emerging Markets; Irrigation, Water, and Power Systems; Assistive Devices

Amos Winter is the Ratan N. Tata Career Development Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at MIT and Director of the Global Engineering and Research (GEAR) Laboratory. His research focuses on machine and product design for developing and emerging markets, with particular applications to irrigation, water purification, assistive devices, and power systems. Prof. Winter earned a BS from Tufts University (2003) and an MS (2005) and PhD (2011) from MIT, all in mechanical engineering. He received the 2010 Tufts University Young Alumni Distinguished Achievement Award, the 2012 ASME/Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal, was named one of the MIT Technology Review’s 35 Innovators Under 35 (TR35) for 2013, and received the MIT Edgerton Faculty Achievement Award and an NSF CAREER award in 2017. Prof. Winter is also the principal inventor of the Leveraged Freedom Chair (LFC) developing world wheelchair, which was a winner of a 2010 R&D 100 award, named one of the Wall Street Journal’s top innovations in 2011, received a Patents for Humanity award from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in 2015, and was the subject of “Engineering Reverse Innovations”, winner of the 2015 McKinsey Award for the best article of the year in Harvard Business Review.

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Angel Desai

Associate Professor, University of California Davis
Sacramento, CA

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Health and Medicine
Focus/Research Areas: Emerging Infectious Diseases; Clinical Countermeasures; Infection Prevention and Control; Migration Health; Global Health

Dr. Angel Desai, MD, MPH (she/her) is an infectious diseases physician and Associate Professor at the University of California, Davis. Her research focuses on leveraging novel data sources to discern epidemiological trends in emerging diseases and outbreaks. Her other interests include global infection prevention and control measures in resource-limited settings and health communication. She completed her internal medicine training at the University of Washington, infectious diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital/Brigham & Women's, and Master of Public Health at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. She is an Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Initiative Fellow at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, 40 under 40 at the National Minority Health Forum, and a Stephen Kellen Term Member at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Anne M. Brown

Associate Professor, Virginia Tech
Roanoke, VA

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Natural Sciences
Focus/Research Areas: Biological mechanisms; Data and statistics; Education; Health and
Medicine; Research and standards

Anne M. Brown, Ph.D., is a nationally recognized researcher, educator, and translational scientist whose work spans computational biochemistry, applied data science, and workforce development. She is an Associate Professor at Virginia Tech in University Libraries and the Department of Biochemistry. She earned her undergraduate degrees in Biochemistry and Physics from Roanoke College and her Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Virginia Tech. She has authored over 70 peer-reviewed publications in journals such as Cell, Structure, ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, and Nature Communications, and currently leads six federally funded projects totaling over $6.2 million, including an NSF CAREER award. Her work focuses on computer-aided drug design, amyloid aggregation mechanisms, molecular mechanisms of enzyme function, and digital diagnostics in substance use disorders. She developed open-access, reproducible pipelines for molecular modeling that are widely used in her lab, across collaborations, and in training materials for emerging scientists. She also maintains the Brown Lab YouTube channel with 2.5K+ subscribers, where her group shares tutorials that break down complex scientific tools and modeling concepts. She has mentored over 170 undergraduate students, many of whom have presented at national conferences, co-authored publications, or pursued graduate and professional programs. Her investment in experiential learning spans institutions, with multiple research-integrated courses and programs that bridge computational modeling, data science, and translational research. This commitment culminated in the 2025 launch of the Virginia Tech Discovery Lab, an interdisciplinary innovation space enabling students to prototype, visualize, and analyze real-world problems. She is a Council on Undergraduate Research Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor.

Asmeret Asefaw Berhe

Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry, & Ted and Jan Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences at University of California, Merced
Merced, CA

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Environment and Biology
Focus Areas: Soil Biogeochemistry, Climate Change, Political Ecology, Equity and Inclusion in STEM, Science Communication

Dr. Asmeret Asefaw Berhe is a Professor of Soil Biogeochemistry and Falasco Chair in Earth Sciences and Geology at the Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of California, Merced. She previously served as the Director of the US Department of Energy’s Office of Science. Her research interest lies at the intersection of soil science, geochemistry, global change science, and political ecology. Prof. Berhe’s work seeks to improve our understanding of how the soil system regulates the earth’s climate and the dynamic two-way relationship between soil and human communities. Numerous awards and honors have recognized her scholarly contributions and efforts to improve equity and inclusion in STEM. She is an Elected member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Geophysical Union and the Geological Society of America, and a member of the inaugural class of the US National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine's New Voices in Science, Engineering, and Medicine.

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Ayodeji Coker

Owner, Intelligent Equations, LLC
Washington, D.C.

Primary Sector: Industry
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus/Research Areas: Autonomous Systems; Artificial Intelligence

Dr. Ayodeji Coker is the Owner of Intelligent Equations, LLC. Prior to this role, he served as the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Portfolio Manager for Autonomy. As a Portfolio Manager, he led ONR's corporate strategy in Autonomy, managed the corresponding investment portfolio, and provided focus on transition, operationalization, and fielding for autonomy and autonomous unmanned systems. Dr. Coker has also served as a Science Director for Artificial Intelligence, Autonomy, and Unmanned Systems at the Office of Naval Research Global (ONRG) London office. In this capacity, he built a program spanning Complex Adaptive Systems and Distributed and Collaborative Autonomy with particular emphasis on Swarm intelligence. His primary responsibilities were to scout and fund cutting-edge research and facilitate collaboration and partnership opportunities between scientists in Europe and the U.S. Naval Science and Technology Research Enterprise and academic institutions. He was also responsible for coordinating ONRG S&T activities in Sweden, Italy, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Baindu Bayon Paicely

Senior Manager, Strategic Partnerships at VentureWell
San Francisco, CA

Primary Sector: Industry
Primary Discipline: Health and Medicine
Focus Areas: Inclusive Innovation, Human Development in West Africa, Small Business Funding, Black Women in STEM, Medical and Molecular Genetics

Baindu Bayon Paicely, PhD is a Senior Manager of Strategic Partnerships at VentureWell where she leads network engagement for the ARPA-H Investor Catalyst Hub. She is also an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Biology at Saint Mary's College of California. Prior to joining VentureWell, Dr. Bayon Paicely was a Principal Consultant for BBC Entrepreneurial Training and Consulting, where she specialized in the NIH and NSF Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs. She is a former AAAS Science and Technology Policy Executive Branch Fellow at the NIH Office of the Director in the Small business Education and Entrepreneurial Development (SEED) Office. Before joining SEED, she worked at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) in the Division of Clinical Innovation where she explored commercialization and entrepreneurship at CTSA (Clinical Translational Science Award) hubs. Dr. Bayon Paicely enjoys STEM outreach, mentorship, and driving youth toward solving problems with life science. She is one-half of the science-tech YouTube duo "The STEM SiSTARS" along with her sister. She has earned a myriad of awards throughout her career, including the coveted Indianapolis Business Journal's Forty Under 40. She earned her Ph.D. in Medical & Molecular Genetics from the Indiana University School of Medicine with a focus on the neurogenetics of Alzheimer's disease and transcription factor regulation of beta-secretase. While in New Voices, Dr. Bayon Paicely was the 2021-2022 cohort co-chair. She led the Disrupting Academia working group and The National Academies GUIRR collaborative symposium.

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Benedetto Marelli

Paul M. Cook Career Development Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus Areas:

Benedetto Marelli received a B.Eng. and a M.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and 2008 and a PhD in Materials Science from McGill University in 2012. After a Postdoc in the Silklab at Tufts University, Benedetto joined the MIT Faculty in November 2015. At MIT, the Marelli research group works in the areas of structural biopolymers and nanomanufacturing. By using biofabrication strategies that integrate bottom-up and top-down techniques, the research efforts are focused on the design of materials that act at the biotic/abiotic interface with applications in precision agriculture, urban farming, food safety, and food security. Benedetto has received several awards, including PECASE, NSF CAREER, ONR Young Investigator Award, ONR Director of Research Early Career Award and the BII& Science Prize for Innovation. Benedetto’s research resulted in more than 20 IP positions, and he is co-founder of Mori Inc., which uses silk technologies to enhance the preservation of perishable food.

Brandy Huderson

Associate Professor, University of the District of Columbia
Washington, D.C.

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Health and Medicine
Focus Areas: Workforce Development, Higher Education, DEI, STEM Ed Policy, Women in STEM Initiatives

Dr. Brandy Huderson is a STEM educator with extensive experience in higher education instruction, scientific research, informal STEM education programming, project management, qualitative and quantitative portfolio analysis, program evaluation, and federal grant management. Dr. Huderson is an Associate Professor at the University of the District of Columbia where her research focuses on steroid receptor biology, in normal and abhorrent systems, as well as STEM Education. Dr. Huderson works in project management, managing federal scholarship programs working to increase diversity in STEM. She is also a DEI Consultant with Avent Diversity Consulting, and STEM Innovations, specializing in institutional and organizational change, strategic planning, and program evaluation. Dr. Huderson is a former American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow (STPF) and was placed at the National Science Foundation (NSF) in the Directorate for Education and Human Resources (EHR). Dr. B. Huderson has a B.S. in Biology from Xavier University of Louisiana (New Orleans, LA), Masters of Biological Sciences degree with concentrations in Molecular Genetics from the University of New Orleans (LA), and a PhD in Animal Science with a concentration in Dairy Science from Virginia Tech (Blacksburg, VA).

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Clare Rittschof

Associate Professor of Entomology, University of Kentucky
Lexington, KY

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Environment and Biology
Focus Areas: Entomology, Behavioral Ecology, Sociobiology, Neuroscience, Genomics, Ethics in Sciences, Environmental change, STEM education

Dr. Clare Rittschof is an Associate Professor of Entomology at the University of Kentucky. Her unusually integrative research program, focused primarily on honey bees, includes approaches from molecular neuroscience to landscape ecology. She studies how the social environment shapes behaviors, and the interplay between social behaviors and health. In pursuit of principles that unify social species, she has studied diverse organisms including humans, and collaborated broadly across the social and medical sciences. Clare has served as a science policy fellow and committee member for the 7,000-member Entomological Society of America (ESA), leading the development of position statements on climate change and pollinator health, and organizing a symposium on policy and communication. She also chaired the Ethics Committee, focused on modernizing the society’s code of conduct to emphasize inclusive behavior. She has participated in over 45 public outreach events on neuroscience and bee biology in the last five years alone, and she launched a citizen-science honey bee virus project and invites beekeepers into her research lab. Clare’s original courses, Bees & People and The Neuroscience of Pollination, emphasize the diverse cultural and biological connections between pollinators and humans while educating students on the process of scientific consensus building. Clare’s work has been recognized for its unusual breadth and novelty, earning her an Outstanding New Investigator Award (Animal Behavior Society), an Early Career Innovation Award (ESA), and a Career Development Award from the National Science Foundation. Her research-education program includes a strong emphasis on high school and undergraduate career mentoring in agricultural STEM

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Colleen Iversen

Distinguished Staff Scientist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, TN

Primary Sector: Government
Primary Discipline: Environment and Biology
Focus Areas: Ecosystem Ecology, Environmental Sciences and Change, Science Communication, Organizing Symposia, Sessions, and Workshops

Dr. Colleen Iversen is an ecosystem ecologist who uses a variety of field and laboratory techniques to understand and predict how ecosystems – from upland forests to flooded peatlands to thawing arctic tundra – are shaped by environmental change. Colleen is a Distinguished Staff Scientist in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Group Leader of the Plant-Soil Interactions group, and Director of the NGEE Arctic project. She is an Editor at the international plant journal New Phytologist, and she was an elected Early Career Fellow of the Ecological Society of America and a member of the inaugural cohort of ‘New Voices’ at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Colleen sees science communication as the foundation for a shared understanding of society’s future, and she has shared her scientific vision on Public Radio International’s ‘Science Friday’, and in the Alda School’s ‘Flame Challenge’, as well as in organized symposia, sessions, and workshops.
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Cynthia Reinhart-King

University Distinguished Professor, Senior Associate Dean for Research in Engineering, Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus Areas: Biomedical Engineering, Cancer, Cardiovascular Disease, Cellular Engineering, Biomaterials

Cynthia Reinhart-King is a University Distinguished Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Cell and Developmental Biology at Vanderbilt University. Prior to joining Vanderbilt in 2017, she was on the faculty of Cornell University where she received tenure in the Biomedical Engineering Department. She obtained her undergraduate degrees in chemical engineering and biology at MIT and her PhD at the University of Pennsylvania in bioengineering as a Whitaker Fellow. She received postdoctoral training as an NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellow at the University of Rochester. Dr. Reinhart-King’s current research interests are in cell mechanics and migration in cancer and atherosclerosis. Her lab has received funding from numerous agencies including the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. She was awarded both the Rita Schaffer Young Investigator Award and Mid-Career Award from the Biomedical Engineering Society, a Keck Foundation Award, an NSF CAREER Award, the 2010 Sonny Yau ‘72 Excellence in Teaching Award, a Cook Award for “contributions towards improving the climate for women at Cornell,” the Zellman Warhaft Commitment to Diversity Award from Cornell and the Edward J. White Service Award from Vanderbilt University. She is currently the President of the Biomedical Engineering Society and the prior Chair of the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering. She is a fellow of the Biomedical Engineering Society, the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, and the International Academy of Medical and Biological Engineering. In July 2024, she will become the Chair of the Bioengineering Department at Rice University.

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Darshan Karwat

Associate Professor, Arizona State University Co-Founder of the Constellation Prize
Phoenix, AZ

Primary Sector: Academia
Primary Discipline: Engineering
Focus Areas: Engineering, Sustainability Ethics, Human Rights in Engineering, Space Systems, Aerospace Engineering, Environmental Justice

Darshan Karwat, an unexpected academic, is an aerospace engineer by training, with a background in combustion chemistry, gas dynamics, and sustainability ethics from the University of Michigan. Over the last few years, as an assistant professor at Arizona State University, he has focused on (1) issues related to engineering, environmental protection, social justice, peace, and human rights; (2) questioning (and changing) the assumptions that underpin how and why we engineer the way we do; and (3) reimagining the future of energy and environmental governance. He misses working on space systems and is figuring out his way back into that world. (Insights always welcome!) Originally from Mumbai, he’s spent time as a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the US EPA and US DOE. He loves soccer than most things.

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Elena Marie Krieger

Senior Director of Research and Policy at Just Solutions
Oakland, CA

Primary Sector: Non-Profit
Primary Discipline: Agriculture and Natural Resources
Focus Areas: Clean Energy Transitions, Energy Resilience, Energy Equity, Energy Storage, Energy Policy

Dr. Elena Krieger is the Senior Director of Research and Policy at Just Soultions, based in Oakland, California. She joined Just Soultions in 2025. Her current work focuses on accelerating the transition to clean and renewable energy resources, and developing transition pathways that realize health, environment, equity, and resilience co-benefits. She serves as principal investigator on numerous scientific research projects, and simultaneously works closely with community organizations, non-profits, policymakers, regulators, and other stakeholders to use data and science to inform energy policy decisions. In turn, her research is deeply informed by the questions posed and challenges faced by these stakeholders. Dr. Krieger is currently a member of the Disadvantaged Communities Advisory Group to the California Energy Commission and the California Public Utilities Commission and serves on the board of the CEE Partnership. During her time in New Voices, she also served on the National Academies' Committee on Hazard Mitigation and Resilience Applied Research Topics, the NASEM Committee on the Role of Net Metering in the Evolving Electricity System, and—as a representative of the New Voices—as a member of the Letten Prize Committee. She received her PhD in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Princeton, where her research focused on optimizing energy storage in renewable systems, and holds an AB in Physics and Astronomy & Astrophysics from Harvard.

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New Voices members appointed to Workshop Committee for Rethinking Researcher Assessment

Mitul Luhar (Cohort 2024-26), Emily Pentzer (Cohort 2024-26), and Eri Saikawa (Cohort 2024-26) were appointed to serve on the workshop committee for Rethinking Researcher Assessment and Incentives at U.S. Academic Institutions, a joint project between the Strategic Council for Research Excellence and New Voices. The committee will explore new approaches to expand the criteria for which researchers are assessed at U.S. academic institutions beyond traditional outputs such as grants, publications, and citation counts. The workshop will bring together professors, researchers, and administrators to explore effective strategies for implementing these changes at universities across the U.S. New Voices member Mitul Luhar will serve as the co-chair for the committee. Visit the Workshop page.

New Voices members work with Hollywood screenwriters at Science and Entertainment Exchange Retreat

New Voices members Enrico Castillo (Cohort 2021-23) and Kiana Aran (Cohort 2024-26) participated in the 2025 Writers Retreat with the Science and Entertainment Exchange. The Science and Entertainment Exchange, a program of the National Academy of Sciences, connects the entertainment industry with experts in science, technology, and medicine in order to enhance the portrayal of science and scientists in film, television, and new media, and to make science more accessible and inspiring for all audiences.

New Voices members attend National Academy of Sciences 162nd Annual Meeting

On April 26, 2025, Monica Dus (Cohort 2024-26), Rachel Gallery (Cohort 2024-26), Mitul Luhar (Cohort 2024-26), Melanie Napier (Cohort 2024-26) and Emily Pentzer (Cohort 2024-26) attended the NAS Annual Meeting. The meeting was a gathering of NAS members, with an opening address by President Marcia McNutt and subsequent technical panel discussions. New Voices members met with National Academies leadership and members, and highlighted current and future activities.

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