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The Santa Fe Alliance for Science was formed by Bob Eisenstein and Susan McIntosh in the fall of 2004 and began operation in 2005. Its goal was to improve science education in Santa Fe by "making a marriage" between students and teachers in our local schools (public and private) and our scientific, technical, engineering, and mathematical community.
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Executive Director, SFAFS
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Diane Smogor, Executive Director, SFAFS
Diane earned a B.S. in Community Health Education from the University of Illinois and has had extensive experience designing, implementing and managing a variety of community health programs. Her 26 years of experience has spanned from conducting worksite health promotion workshops, to coordinating school-based programs and working with community coalitions. As Vice President of a nonprofit organization in New Hampshire, she worked with many volunteers and community partners, wrote and managed grants, and led a statewide collaborative effort focused on lung disease. A native of Chicago, Diane is excited to work in Santa Fe, a place that feels like home to her. |
SFAFS Board of Directors
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Bruce Abell, President
Bruce Abell also co-chairs SFAFS's science fair program. He was a co-founder of Santa Fe Center for Emergent Strategies (now Santa Fe Associates International), vice president of Santa Fe Institute, senior fellow at Hudson Institute, business strategy consultant, assistant director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, official of the National Science Foundation, and science magazine writer and editor. He's a graduate of the California Institute of Technology and the University of Pennsylvania and has lived in Santa Fe for 25 years. |
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Ginger Richardson, Secretary
Ginger is Team Leader at Make Santa Fe, a community workspace that supports creative learning and collaboration. Formerly she was McKinnon Family Vice President for Education at the Santa Fe Institute. |
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Bruce Johnson, Treasurer
Is a recently retired accounting professor (B.S. University of Oregon, M.S. and PH.D. Ohio State University) who has held faculty appointments at Northwestern University, and the universities of Chicago, Iowa, Texas—Austin, and Wisconsin—Madison. His research explores the role of financial information in capital markets, managers’ incentives to distort accounting numbers, and the susceptibility of finance professionals to ineffective judgment heuristics and biases. He has served as an advisor to the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) and as a member of the AICPA’s Financial Standards Executive Committee. Bruce is passionate about improving STEM educational opportunities throughout New Mexico. |
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Jim Amann is a retired physicist with a more than 30 year research career at Los Alamos National Laboratory, and other accelerator facilities in the U.S., Japan and Europe. Born in Buffalo, NY, he received his bachelors degree from Fordham University and PhD from SUNY Stony Brook. While a staff member at LANL he participated in the TOPS Mentor program for middle school math and science teachers. Within SFAFS he has been active both as a tutor with and as a judge at local and regional science fairs.
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Robert Eisenstein (board member emeritus) is a retired physicist now living in Boston, MA. He was educated at Oberlin College, Yale University (PhD) and the Weizmann Institute. He spent many years on the faculties of Carnegie Mellon University and University of Illinois, where he often taught physics to freshmen and sophomore engineering students. He also spent more than a decade at the National Science Foundation, and for a brief time was president of the Santa Fe Institute. From 2007 to 2009 he chaired the New Mexico Math and Science Advisory Council. He co-founded SFAFS in 2005 (with Susan McIntosh) and was its director until 2014. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Dean Gerber is a former executive director of SFAFS. He's a mathematical scientist who has been a volunteer with SFAFS since 2011. He grew up in Santa Fe and attended Wood Gormley, Harrington, and Santa Fe High. He's a graduate of Caltech and has a PhD from NYU. After a long career with IBM's Thomas Watson Research Center he retired back to Santa Fe. Having benefited from attention from Santa Fe teachers who helped him blossom as a student, he has particular concern for helping identify and encourage students who may have limited opportunities. He is co-chair of SFAFS's science fair program.
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Richard Hertz attended Peekskill Military Academy and Drew University prior to serving in the USAF. His business career was primarily as a builder and real estate developer in New York City and Connecticut. Since moving to Santa Fe in 1998 he has actively served on the Board of Directors of Santa Fe Stages, The Lensic Performing Arts Center, The SF Railyard Community Corporation and the SF Community Foundation. He and his wife, Doris Meyer, have long been interested in the broadening of STEM education in the schools and the unique opportunity for volunteerism afforded by the large scientific community in our area.
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Chari Kauffman as an educator for nearly 30 years, Chari has taught various grade levels K-8. She has worked for SFPS for the last 13 years. Previously she was the STEM Coach at El Dorado Community School and the district’s Science Partner Liaison. She also organized the district Science Expo. Chari continues to facilitate teacher trainings in STEM education for the LANL Foundation’s ISEC program and for the state’s Science and Math Bureau, in Making Sense of Science. With a passion for STEM education, she looks forward to supporting and growing with SFPS as the Science and Math Instructional Coordinator, to assist students in acquiring 21st Century skills.
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Ken Prokuski has spent over forty years in various senior positions in high tech and biotechnolgy including eighteen years at Motorola and sixteen years at Applied Biosystems. Most recently Ken was Senior Vice President of Operations at Complete Genomics in Mountain View, California. Ken has been involved in creating community science opportunities in the San Francisco Bay Area that included hosting science based internships, science fair judging, and mentoring science driven high school students. He has a BA from Northeastern Illinois University, and an Executive MBA from Golden Gate University.
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George Rubottom is an organic chemist ( BA, Middlebury College; PhD, MIT) who taught at Bucknell, University of Puerto Rico, and University of Idaho. From 1984 until 2004, he was a chemistry program director at NSF. He was executive secretary to the Education Human Resources Committee of the National Science Board from 1987-2000, and was an NSF/State Department Fellow in Tokyo in 2004. He was elected as an AAAS Fellow in 2003. Since moving to Santa Fe in 2008 he has been pursuing photography along with maintaining his strong interests in SCUBA diving and birding. He is one of the Alliance's busiest science fair judges and classroom visitors.
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Caren Shiozaki, CGEIT, earned a degree in genetics from the University of California at Berkeley, but decided to pursue information technology as a profession. She is currently the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for TMST, Inc. Prior to moving to Santa Fe, she was CIO for a Dallas-based media company, responsible for the technologies driving newspapers, TV stations and websites. She has extensive international business experience from working at Bank of America and American Express. She supports STEM programs run by Girls Inc. of Santa Fe and the Society for Information Management.
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Hubert van Hecke is a particle physicist at Los Alamos, having worked on a series of experiments at CERN and Brookhaven Lab over the past 30 years. He has lived in Santa Fe since the mid-80's. He has done a weekly 'science hour' at Wood Gormley Elementary for over 20 years. He grew up in the Netherlands, and is a graduate of LSU and Syracuse University.
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Former Board Members
Phyllis Baca Kate Binns Kathryn Bueler Kristy Dillingham Rocco Fancellu Kurt Fischer Gerry Garvey Lina Germann Robert Heffner Ruth Howes Tobey King Ellen Levy Juniper Lovato Susan McIntosh Carole Rutten Donald Sandstrom Jay Shelton Anne Weaver |