The Silicon Valley Local Section of the ACS is among the largest and most active sections within the organization. The local section offers many ways to be involved including dinner meetings, outreach events, and governance. I am serving as Chair for 2024 and look forward to leading our section as we return to a more active and in-person group. The local section has many opportunities to participate and has a very active outreach program to deliver STEM opportunities to the community. I would like to see greater participation from Academia and Industry in the local section activities and will continue to promote the ACS by serving as needed.
My Goals:
- Reconnecting members: We need to re-establish our in-person programs. Future events need to be hybrid to allow greater participation in Section activities.
- Grooming new leadership: We suffer from low participation in governance. We need to understand why and find a mechanism by which we can grow the leadership base.
- Digital Presence management: Resources are needed to manage web sites, document archives, and social media presence. Our efforts to do so take an increasing amount of leadership time that could be better spent growing the participation in section activities.
Biography
I am the Facilities, EHS, and Infrastructure Manager for the Department of Chemistry at Stanford University. I have a PhD in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry from the University of Nebraska. I have had multiple positions at Stanford ranging from Lecturer to Research Staff, and department Management.