The LEED initiative is led by a group of scholars who have taken part in collaborations aimed at integrating natural and social sciences, engineering, humanities, and arts into STEM research. The core LEED Working Group is currently composed of faculty members, postdoctoral fellows, and graduate students from six universities.

Columbia University

Sandra Soo-Jin Lee (co-lead) Chief of the Division of Ethics and Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University; Director of Team Science at the Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Elise Zheng (postdoc) Dept. of Medical Humanities & Ethics, Columbia University

Dejda Collins (Project Associate) Team Science Program Manager at Columbia University Irving Institute for Clinical and Translational Research

Harvard University

Evelynn Hammonds (co-lead) Barbara Gutmann Rosenkrantz Professor of the History of Science and Professor of African and African American Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Stanford University

Mildred Cho (co-lead) Professor of Pediatrics (Center for Biomedical Ethics) and of Medicine (Primary Care and Population Health)

UC Los Angeles

Aaron Panofsky (co-lead) Associate Professor in the Institute for Society and Genetics, Public Policy, and Sociology

UC Santa Cruz

Jenny Reardon (co-lead) Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Chessa Adsit-Morris Assistant Director of the Center for Creative Ecologies at the University of California, Santa Cruz

James Karabin (GSR) Graduate Student of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Colleen Stone UCSC SJRC program manager

University of Washington

Stephanie Malia Fullerton (co-lead) Professor and Interim Chair of Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Washington School of Medicine

Sara Goering (co-lead) Professor of Philosophy, Core Faculty for the Program on Ethics, and the Disability Studies Program

Erika Versalovic (Postdoc) Department of Philosophy at the University of Washington

Bri High (GSR) Graduate Student of Philosophy at the University of Washington

 

The LEED Advisory Board

Julie Harris-Wai is Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Aging at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). She is also the the Associate Director of the Kaiser Permanente/UCSF Center for Excellence in Research on Translational Genomics and Ethics.

Jen James is Associate Professor in the Institute for Health and Aging, the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences, and the Bioethics program at the University of California, San Francisco.

Daphne Martschenko is Assistant Professor at the Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.

Oliver Rollins is Assistant Professor in American Ethnic Studies at University of Washington. He is is a qualitative sociologist who works on issues of race/racism in and through science and technology.

Kimberly Tallbear-Dauphine  is Professor in the Faculty of Native Studies, University of Alberta. She is also Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples, Technoscience, and Society.

Krystal Tsosie is an Indigenous geneticist-bioethicist and Assistant Professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University. She also co-founded the first US Indigenous-led biobank, a 501c3 nonprofit research institution called the Native BioData Consortium.