Past Early Career Policy Ambassadors

2023 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Jackie Giovanniello, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
• Rachel Hostetler, West Virginia University
• Hilary Marusak, PhD, Wayne State University School of Medicine
• Taissa Lytchenko, University of Nevada, Reno
• Briana McRae, Columbia University
• Javier R. Mesa, University of Florida
• Monserrat Orozco, University of New Mexico
• Dylan V. Scarton, MS, George Mason University
• Katelyn Stebbins, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine and Translation Biology, Medicine, and Health Graduate Program
• Lauren Wagner, University of California, Los Angeles

2022 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Linda Q. Yu, Brown University
• Gladys Shaw, Virginia Commonwealth University
• Chris Guevara, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
• Kayla Hannon, Washington University in St. Louis
• Juliet Bottorff, Brandeis University
• Leanna Kalinowski, University of Toronto
• Sarah Monroe, Duke University
• Paige Greenwood, PhD, Columbia University Irving Medical Center
• Shekinah Phillips, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Stephen Gironda, Wake Forest School of Medicine
• Kristen Schuh, University of Michigan
• Robin Oliverio, West Virginia University
• Brenda Cisneros, University of Michigan
• Leire Abalde-Atristain, PhD, Oregon Health & Science University
• Matthew Alsaloum, Yale School of Medicine

2021 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Sheryl E. Arambula, University of Maryland
• Ana-Clara Bobadilla, University of Wyoming
• Jennifer L. Brown, University of Minnesota
• Salvatore Caradonna, The Rockefeller University
• Brittany Correia, University of Tennessee Health Science Center
• Ifunanya Dallah, University of Rochester
• Rachel Gilfarb, The Ohio State University
• Christin Godale, University of Cincinnati
• Danielle Goldman, Yale University
• Mary Beth Hall, University of Delaware
• Jordan Harrod, Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology
• Alexa Hassien, UT Southwestern Medical Center
• Kay-Marie Lamar, Northwestern University
• Francesca M. Manzella, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
• Benjamin S. O’Brien, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Demisha Porter, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
• Kathryn Sánchez, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center
• Meredith Schmehl, Duke University
• Sarah Steimel, Dartmouth College
• Kate Webb, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

2020 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Thiago Arzua, Medical College of Wisconsin
• Nicole C. Catanzarite, University of Maryland
• David M. Cole, Utah State University
• Hannah E. Frye, Washington University in St. Louis
• Zoe Guttman, University of California, Los Angeles
• Brian Lim, Baylor College of Medicine
• Jennifer Patritti Cram, University of Cincinnati
• Marsha L. Pierce, Midwestern University
• Ubadah Sabbagh, Virginia Tech

2019 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Priyanka Bushana, WA State University
• Stephanie Davis, University of Kentucky
• Karen Jones, UC Davis
• Emily Kubicek, Gallaudet University
• Monica Lannom, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign
• Crystal Lantz, University Of Maryland
• Heather Macomber, University of Chicago
• Enitan Marcelle, UC Berkeley
• Bradford Martins, University of Arkansas For Medical Sciences
• Alexander Tuttle, UNC School of Medicine
• Manar Zaghlula, Baylor College of Medicine
• Maxwell Zhu, Harvard University

2018 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Catherine Braine, Columbia University
• Irene Cheng, University of Virginia
• Oluwarotimi Folorunso, The University of Texas Medical Branch
• Joyonna Gamble-George, University of Florida
• Julia Gerson, University of Michigan
• Joe Luchsinger, Vanderbilt University
• Sasha Luks-Morgan, University of Utah
• Chanel Matney, Johns Hopkins University
• Michael Nestor, Hussman Institute for Autism
• Misha Raffiee, Stanford University
• Casey Roark, Carnegie Mellon University
• Jennifer Tribble, UCLA

2017 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• William Adler, New York University
• Brittany Aguilar, Georgetown University 
• Brenna Beckelman, Wake Forest University 
• Christopher Fitzpatrick, University of Michigan 
• Natalie Goldberg, University of California, San Diego
• Sanjeev Khatiwada, Baylor College of Medicine
• Monica Linden, Brown University
• Mollie Marr, Oregon Health and Science University 
• Jessica Tumolo, Temple University
• Michael Wells, Harvard University

2016 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Michael Calik, University of Illinois at Chicago
• Naomi Charalambakis, University of Louisville
• Amanda Dettmer, NIH
• Danielle Friend, NIH
• Jordan Gaines Lewis, Penn State College of Medicine
• Serena Gumusoglu, University of Iowa
• Abigail Kalmbach, Columbia University
• Brian Leung, USC
• Daniel O'Brien, Vanderbilt University
• Rahul Patel, Rutgers University
• Stephanie Pistorius, Brigham Young University
• Ellen Wann, UC Irvine

2015 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Gregory Bissonette, University of Maryland
• Andrea Gutman, University of Iowa
• Rachel Hendrix, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• Sloka Iyengar, Northeast Regional Epilepsy Group
• Ryan Makinson, University of Cincinnati
• Jessica Matchynski, Wayne State University
• Windy McNerney, Lawrence Livermore National Labs
• Megan Parsons, Harvard University
• Nicole Polinski, Michigan State University
• Aaron Thome, University of Alabama at Birmingham

2014 Early Career Policy Ambassadors

• Laura Been, University of Minnesota
• Brian Bingham, The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
• Jeremy Boringer, The Ohio State University
• Nicholas Cilz, The University of North Dakota
• Rebekah Corlew, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
• Shannon Farris, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Alexandra Houston-Ludlam, University of Maryland, College Park
• Angela Pierce, Kansas University Medical Center
• Matthew Robson, Vanderbilt University
• Kateri Spinelli, Oregon Health and Science University
• Elyse Sullivan, University of Maryland, Baltimore
• Katie Wilkinson, San Jose State University

2013 Young Advocates

• Megan Anderson, Rutgers University
• Sheeva Azma, Georgetown University
• Jess Brooks, Princeton University
• Nicole Boschi, University of Rochester Medical Center
• Thomas Crockett, Washington University in St. Louis
• Hannah Gordon, University of Utah
• Sasha Halasz, Moravian College
• Genevieve Lind, University of Montana
• Laura Martin, Kansas University
• Amy Nelson, University of Alabama Birmington
• Eric Prager, Uniformed Services University
• David Sloan, West Virginia University