VIRTUAL keynote speaker
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Tracy Flood, MD, PhD President and Co-founder, The BroadStreet Institute Tracy Flood, MD, PhD earned an MD from the University of Illinois Chicago and PhD from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. At the University of Wisconsin-Madison, she was a Population Health Fellow, focusing on health informatics and childhood obesity prevention, and then she served as Director of Data for the Wisconsin Obesity Prevention Initiative. Today, Dr. Flood is President and Co-founder of the BroadStreet Institute. Started in 2020 during the pandemic, The BroadStreet Institute is a community of data enthusiasts working to train and lift up the next generation of leaders. |
DR. TRACY FLOOD |
IN-PERSON keynote speaker
DR. OSCAR NORDNESS |
Oscar Nordness is an assistant professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Engineering at Columbia University. Prior to this position, he worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California Santa Barbara in the Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials. Dr. Nordness earned his Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering under the advising of Dr. Joan Brennecke at the University of Texas at Austin in 2020, and received his bachelor’s degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Connecticut in 2015. His research is dedicated to elucidating ion transport and thermodynamic behavior towards engineering electrolytes and ionic materials for next generation energy production and storage, water treatment, and CO2 capture technologies. Learn more about Dr. Oscar Nordness: https://energy.columbia.edu/people/oscar-nordness |
PANEL GUESTS
RESEARCH GIRL, INC.
Research Girl, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scientific, educational organization that provides the free resources necessary for students to conduct scientific research, from start to finish. The organization was founded on May 7, 2024.
The website, researchgirl.org, offers templates, step-by-step guides, and content on everything from finding an academic research lab to writing scientific literature. The STEM Research Mentorship Program connects students to student researchers and research scientists at academic, medical, and public health institutions, including Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Weill Cornell Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
At Research Girl, Inc., the prevalence of the community engaged with identifies as women/womyn/womxn and with intersecting identities, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); first-generation or low-income (FGLI); lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or questioning, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+); and/or neurodivergent and/or disabled. The Fall 2024 STEM Research Mentorship Program Cohort identifies as 91.7% women/womyn/womxn; 67.6% BIPOC; 63% FGLI; 29.6% LGBTQIA+; and 17.6% neurodivergent and/or disabled.
Through website content, mentorship, and academic and non-academic collaborations, the team strives to bridge the accessibility gap between underrepresented students and scientific fields.
The website, researchgirl.org, offers templates, step-by-step guides, and content on everything from finding an academic research lab to writing scientific literature. The STEM Research Mentorship Program connects students to student researchers and research scientists at academic, medical, and public health institutions, including Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S), Weill Cornell Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (RWJMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and National Institutes of Health (NIH).
At Research Girl, Inc., the prevalence of the community engaged with identifies as women/womyn/womxn and with intersecting identities, including Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC); first-generation or low-income (FGLI); lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer or questioning, intersex, or asexual (LGBTQIA+); and/or neurodivergent and/or disabled. The Fall 2024 STEM Research Mentorship Program Cohort identifies as 91.7% women/womyn/womxn; 67.6% BIPOC; 63% FGLI; 29.6% LGBTQIA+; and 17.6% neurodivergent and/or disabled.
Through website content, mentorship, and academic and non-academic collaborations, the team strives to bridge the accessibility gap between underrepresented students and scientific fields.
Research Girl, Inc. Contact Information
Interested in learning more about the organization and the STEM Research Mentorship Program?
Please email Mia Soviero, Founder and CEO, at [email protected]
Interested in learning more about contributing content to the website/blog and/or
social media communications; and/or potential collaborations? Or, are you a member of the press and have a media request? Please email: Patricia Fortunato, Science Content and Communications Manager, at [email protected]
Research Girl, Inc. Social Media Platforms
●LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/researchgirl
●Instagram: instagram.com/researchgirlofficial
●TikTok: tiktok.com/@researchgirlofficial
Interested in learning more about the organization and the STEM Research Mentorship Program?
Please email Mia Soviero, Founder and CEO, at [email protected]
Interested in learning more about contributing content to the website/blog and/or
social media communications; and/or potential collaborations? Or, are you a member of the press and have a media request? Please email: Patricia Fortunato, Science Content and Communications Manager, at [email protected]
Research Girl, Inc. Social Media Platforms
●LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/researchgirl
●Instagram: instagram.com/researchgirlofficial
●TikTok: tiktok.com/@researchgirlofficial
Mia Soviero Pronouns: She, Her, Hers Mia Soviero is Founder and CEO at Research Girl, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit scientific, educational organization that provides the free STEM resources necessary for students to conduct scientific research, from start to finish. Through content, mentorship, and collaborations, the team strives to bridge the accessibility gap between underrepresented students and scientific fields. Currently, the Research Girl, Inc. website offers content on everything from finding an academic research lab to writing scientific literature. The STEM Research Mentorship Program connects students to student researchers and research scientists at academic, medical, and public health institutions. The Fall 2024 Mentorship Program Cohort connected more than 150 mentees and mentors domestically and globally, pairing mentees with experienced mentors based on shared research interests and goals. She earned her BA in neuroscience and pre-medical studies from Barnard College of Columbia University. During college, she worked at Columbia’s Zuckerman Institute and NYU Langone Health. In 2024, she was awarded the Christina L. Williams Prize for Original Research by the Department of Neuroscience and Behavior at Barnard. ● LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/miasoviero ● TikTok: tiktok.com/@miadimilano ● Instagram: instagram.com/miadimilano |
Patricia Fortunato Pronouns: She, Her, Hers Patricia Fortunato is the Science Content and Communications Manager at Research Girl, Inc., and serves on the Research Girl, Inc. Board of Advisors. She manages the internal science content development team and external advisory spokespeople and content contributors, and manages the website, social media communications, presentations, collaborations, and media opportunities. Outside of Research Girl, Inc., her leadership and professional work experience since 2019 has focused on clinical research content, communications, and extramural funding as consultant, clinical content manager, and grants program manager in academic medicine and health care at Centers of Excellence and other celebrated entities, developing physician education and health communication for and with interdisciplinary clinical teams who are caring for medically complex patients. Her content contributions to science and medicine include lead research and development of nationally accredited continuing medical education (CME) series, focused on the confluence of pain, substance dependence or substance use disorder (SUD), and comorbidities (psychiatric, infectious diseases); and design of a physician education methadone algorithm, published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. ● LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/patriciafortunato ● Instagram: instagram.com/patriciaafortunato ● X/Twitter: x.com/pfortunato/highlights |
Quinn Moroz Pronouns: She, Her, Hers Quinn Moroz is a Science Content Developer at Research Girl, Inc., where she coordinates external advisory spokespeople content contributions and collaborates on content development for the website and social media communications, and significantly contributes to content research and development of informational and educational presentations. She earned her HBSc in genome biology and health and disease from the University of Toronto. During college, worked at the Hospital for Sick Children and the University of Manitoba, and currently serves as a postgraduate research associate in immunobiology at Yale School of Medicine, where she studies the immunology of helminth infection and is testing the first vaccine for human hookworm. Her research focus is on translational and personalized medicine (designing therapeutics, mRNA vaccine development and testing, and CRISPR tools for gene editing). Her work has focused on infectious and inherited disease, having been part of research teams investigating chronic wasting disease, respiratory syncytial virus, avian influenza, ataxia telangiectasia, cancer, and helminth infection. ● LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/quinn-moroz ● Instagram: instagram.com/quinnybear9 |
