AAPIIG would not be possible without the collective efforts of the following members of the AAPIIG Steering Committee:
Board of Directors (BoD):
Jeemin Rhim
President (2022-2024)
Postdoctoral Scholar
University of California, Santa Barbara
Yihang Fang
Executive Director (2023-2024)
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Washington University at St. Louis
Laura Lyon (she/her)
Treasurer (2022-2024)
Program Officer, Climate Crossroads
National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering, and Medicine
Thi Truong (she/her)
Communications Director (2023-2024)
Postdoctoral Scholar
UC Irvine
Non-Voting Officers of the BoD:
Akshay Mehra
Former Executive Director (2022-2023)
Caleb Walcott (he/him)
Former Communications Director (2022-2023)
PhD Candidate
University at Buffalo, Department of Geology
Co-Founders:
Christine Y. Chen
Daniel Ibarra
Kimberly Lau
Current Steering Committee members (2023-2024):
Brendan Anzures (he/him)
Research Scientist
Jacob – NASA Johnson Space Center
Caroline Juang (she/her)
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Ph.D. Candidate
Columbia University
Karen Pham (she/her)
PhD Candidate
Penn State University
Luan Heywood (she/her, they/them)
PhD Student
University of Washington
Mishelley Low (she/her)
Undergraduate student
Haverford College
Rachel Tam (she/her)
Master's student
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Sabrina Kainz (she/her)
PhD student
University of Washington
Sami Chen
Stephanie Lim (she/her)
PhD candidate
Stanford University
Watsawan (Fai) Chanchai (she/her)
PhD candidate
Penn State University
William Nguyen (he/him)
PhD candidate
The University of Texas at Austin
Former Steering Committee members (-2023):
Bor-Ting Jong
Emily Cardarelli
Eric Hasegawa
Erika Valdueza
Jonathan Lin
Jasmeet Dhaliwal
Kitrea P. Takata-Glushkoff
Priyanka Bose
Robby Goldman
Rohini Shivamoggi
Sara Kahanamoku
Vanessa Sun
Victor Guevara
Yueyi Che