STM People

Dr. Laura Castillo-Page is the Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. In this role, she leads the development and implementation of an organization wide diversity, equity, and inclusion strategy and set of programs. Prior to joining the Academies, Dr. Castillo-Page served as the Senior Director for Diversity,...

Dr. Natasha McDonald is responsible for advancing the system of peer review at Canada’s largest scientific publisher to yield a more inclusive, transparent, and rigorous research output. She is passionate about Open Science and is a proponent of challenging long-held narratives in scientific publishing that have led to the underrepresentation of researchers from a number...

Kacy Redd is the Associate Vice President of Research & STEM Education at APLU, where her portfolio focuses on three core areas: advancing the impact of research, expanding the definition of meaningful faculty and staff contributions, and enhancing equity and quality in undergraduate STEM education. In her work, she collaborates with vice presidents of research...

Andrew Bostjancic is the Senior Policy & External Affairs Manager at Taylor & Francis. In that role he works to coordinate with federal lawmakers on Open Science and other Scholarly Communication matters. He serves as a fellow for the Sustainable Development Goal Publishers Compact and is a board member for CHORUS. He began his career...

Dr. Nikita Lad recently completed her Ph.D. in Environmental Science and Policy from George Mason University. She specializes in sustainability science, program evaluation, social equity, and science policy. Her dissertation research focused on assessing sustainability in higher education and promoting sustainability behavior on campus, wherein she developed a sustainability assessment tool to evaluate university-wide initiatives....

Judy Ruttenberg leads ARL’s priority areas of Advocacy & Public Policy and Scholars & Scholarship, with a strong emphasis on balanced copyright, open science and open scholarship (including new publishing models and the intersection of open and community engaged scholarship), and research data sharing. This work is done in partnership with federal agencies, scholarly communities, and...

Stuart Leitch is the Chief Technology Officer at Silverchair. Stuart leads the strategic evolution and expansion of The Silverchair Platform, designing and leading technology initiatives for greater platform scalability and capability while enhancing Silverchair’s unparalleled flexibility for new product development. Stuart joined Silverchair in 2012 and has twenty years of enterprise architecture, system design, and...

Bill Deluise is with Wiley as Corporate Vice President for ESG. In this role, Bill leads the development of our ESG strategy and oversees activity across the organization to ensure its execution. He’s a passionate advocate for publishing’s role in advancing knowledge to improve society and responsible for leading Wiley’s social and environmental impact agendas. Bill...

Darren Roblyer is an Associate Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Boston University. He received his BS degree in Biomedical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University and received his PhD in Bioengineering at Rice University where he studied under Rebecca Richards-Kortum. He did his postdoctoral work at the Beckman Laser Institute at the University of California, Irvine...

Heather M. Whitney, PhD is a research assistant professor in the Department of Radiology at the University of Chicago. Dr. Whitney received a Master of Science in Medical Physics from the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and Master of Science and PhD in Physics from Vanderbilt University. While at Vanderbilt, she trained and conducted research...