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Beth Eschenbach is a Professor of Environmental Resources Engineering at Humboldt State University. Beth left civil engineering as an undergraduate at UC Santa Cruz, and graduated with honors in mathematics and in psychology. She obtained her MS and PhD at Cornell in Environmental and Water Resources Systems Engineering. She completed a postdoc at the Center for Advanced Decision Support in Water and Environmental Systems (CADSWES) at UC Boulder. Bets career goals include increasing the diversity of engineering students and improving education for all engineering students. Two of Bets current projects are an NSF sponsored S-STEM grant and the project described in this paper.

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Mary Virnoche is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Humboldt State University. Mary collaborates with colleagues in STEM areas to increase interest and diversity in those fields. She is currently working with a team on an NSF S-STEM project. In recent past her action research focused on the Expanding Your Horizons conference designed to generate and retain girls' interest in science and engineering. Mary completed her doctoral work at the University of Colorado at Boulder: her early work there addressed concerns about the digital divide.

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Lonny Grafman is an Instructor of Environmental Resources Engineering and Appropriate Technology at Humboldt State University; the co-founder and instructor in a full immersion, Spanish language and appropriate technology summer program in Parras, Mexico; and the executive editor of the International Journal for Service Learning in Engineering. In addition, he is the President of the Appropedia Foundation, sharing knowledge to build rich, sustainable lives. Lonny seeks ways to increase knowledge of the world through exposure and synthesis, highlighting that science, culture and language are inextricably linked. He seeks to demonstrate this connection through service-learning based education, working to improve existing conditions by leveraging local knowledge, materials, wealth and labor through transparency and stakeholder participation.

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Forrest Stamper is a teacher at Hoopa Valley High School. For the past 12 years he has taught every math and science course offered at Hoopa Valley High School. Prior to teaching at HVHS, he taught 13 years at Humboldt State University for the Forestry and Computer Information Systems departments. He spent his first 10 years teaching elementary school in the Los Angeles Area. He has a B.S. in Biology from UC Santa Barbara.

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Laura Atkins is a sociology graduate student at Humboldt State University. She obtained her BA in sociology at Kent State University in Ohio. It is there that she became interested in medical sociology while working as a research assistant for a project that explored racial disparities in access to health and utilization of health care services. She is interested in both qualitative and quantitative research methods. Laura’s career goals include legitimizing alternative discourses around health and working towards serving the health needs of underprivileged populations.

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Rebecca Raymond is a sociology graduate student at Humboldt State University. She obtained her BA at Western Washington University in Washington state. Her main course work focused on inequality and social stratification, specifically, disparities between social classes. She continues her interest in social problems in her graduate work. Her career goals include developing local non-profit facilitates that promote distribution of resources to the underprivileged portions of the community as well as increasing awareness of inequality through teaching.

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Katie Mills is currently on the staff at Humboldt State University, working with Academic Programs and Undergraduate Studies. Katie is a graduate of Humboldt State University, having completed a BS in Interdisciplinary Physics and Chemistry and a BA in Sociology. Her academic interests include the retention of underrepresented students in science and engineering.

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