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Greses Pérez-Jöhnk is an engineer, educator, and a Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University in engineering education, Science Education and Learning Sciences and Technology Design. Her research interests include the education of Black and Brown students, especially those from immigrant communities, in the fields of engineering and science. In addition to her ongoing work on culturally relevant VR science teaching, Greses seeks to understand issues of diversity and inclusion in engineering. Specifically, she investigates how language influences who engages in the technical fields. She was recently awarded the Stanford DARE fellowship. Globally, she is part of the Galapagos research-practice partnership that seeks to improve the teaching of science for underserved communities through education for sustainability. Before coming to Stanford, she was a bilingual educator at Plano ISD. In Plano, she served in the Gifted and Talented Advisory Committee and the Elementary Curriculum Design team. Prior to starting her career in education, Greses was a project manager for engineering programs funded by the European nonprofits in the Caribbean. She holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Santo Domingo Technological Institute, a M.Eng. in Environmental Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagüez, and a M.Ed. in School Leadership from Southern Methodist University.

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Patrick Danner is a graduate student in Chemistry M.Sc. and Technology & Management M.Sc. at the Technical University of Munich and a Visiting Graduate Researcher at Stanford University. His research interests are at the intersection of science, technology transfer, biases and diversity in design and start-up context. His previous work before Stanford, includes research on novel 2D nano-materials, research in the field of catalysis as well as investment analyst at an early-stage venture capital fund.

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Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is a Senior Research Scholar at the Stanford VMware Women's Leadership Innovation Lab and Adjunct Professor in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. She is also Managing Director of SKG Analysis, a research consulting firm. Her expertise and interests focus on education and workforce development in engineering and science fields. Previous and current clients include the American Chemical Society, the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, California Institute of Technology, the College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at California State University Fullerton, the Office of the Vice Provost for Graduate Education at Stanford University, the School of Medicine at Stanford University, and the School of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks.

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Carol B. Muller is the Executive Director of WISE Ventures, an internal initiative at Stanford located in the Office of Faculty Development, designed to communicate, build networks, and help amplify existing and seed new and needed ventures across the Stanford campus to advance equity in science and engineering. She also serves as executive director for Stanford’s Faculty Women’s Forum. A longtime university administrator, educator, and social entrepreneur, she served as Associate Dean for Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, where she co-founded the campus-wide Women in Science Project in 1990. She founded and served as chief executive of MentorNet, a large-scale online nonprofit global mentoring network advancing diversity in engineering and science (1996-2008). At Stanford, she was consulting associate professor of mechanical engineering between 1998 and 2002, collaborating with faculty and staff to create “New Century Scholars: Teaching, Learning, and Your Academic Career,” a summer workshop designed for new engineering faculty members. A Fellow of the Association for Women in Science, Dr. Muller and her work have been recognized with other national awards, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring, and the Anita Borg Social Impact Award. She has authored and presented numerous papers, presentations, and workshops. She earned a bachelors degree from Dartmouth (majoring in philosophy), and masters and Ph.D. degrees in education administration and policy analysis at Stanford, and continues to build upon research in the design and implementation of programs.

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Sheri D. Sheppard, Ph.D., P.E., is professor of Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University. Besides teaching both undergraduate and graduate design and education related classes at Stanford University, she conducts research on engineering education and work-practices, and applied finite element analysis. From 1999-2008 she served as a Senior Scholar at the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, leading the Foundation’s engineering study (as reported in Educating Engineers: Designing for the Future of the Field). In addition, in 2011 Dr. Sheppard was named as co-PI of a national NSF innovation center (Epicenter), and leads an NSF program at Stanford on summer research experiences for high school teachers. Her industry experiences includes engineering positions at Detroit's "Big Three:" Ford Motor Company, General Motors Corporation, and Chrysler Corporation.

At Stanford she has served a chair of the faculty senate, and recently served as Associate Vice Provost for Graduate Education.

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