Working Group

In conjunction with two highly experienced consultants, the Working Group is the core strategic and operational body for this project.  Along with input from hundreds of other stakeholders, the Working Group has deliberated and drafted proposals for the next iteration of AAAS governance.

The Working Group includes members drawn from a broad range of governing perspectives and consists of approximately twenty current and former representatives from across the AAAS governance structure, including the Board, Council, Sections, Divisions, Committees, early career individuals and others.

Working Group Members

Claire M. Fraser, Ph.D. (Chair)
AAAS President; Past Chair, AAAS Council; former member, Electorate Nominating Committee, Section G (Biological Sciences)
Dean’s Endowed Professor and Director, Institute for Genome Sciences
University of Maryland School of Medicine Baltimore, Maryland

Edward F. Aboufadel, Ph.D.
Former Secretary, Section A (Mathematics); former Chair, Subcommittee on Fellows
Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Mathematics
Grand Valley State University Allendale, Michigan

Susan G. Amara, Ph.D.
AAAS President; Chair, AAAS Council 
Scientific Director, Intramural Research Program
National Institute of Mental Health
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland

Cynthia M. Beall, Ph.D.
Member, AAAS Board of Directors; former Chair, former Member-at-Large, and former member, Electorate Nominating Committee, Section H (Anthropology)
University Distinguished Professor and Sarah Idell Pyle Professor of Anthropology
Case Western Reserve University Cleveland, Ohio

Andrew Black, J.D.
Chief of Staff and Chief Public Affairs Officer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, D.C.

Wambura Fobbs, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow, Psychology
American University
Washington, DC

Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D.
Chair, former Member-at-Large, and former member,
Electorate Nominating Committee, Section J (Psychology)
Vilas Research Professor and Sir Frederic C. Bartlett
Professor of Psychology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

Melinda Gormley, Ph.D..
Secretary, Section L (History and Philosophy of Science)
Research Development Officer
School of Biological Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California

Laura H. Greene, Ph.D.
Former Member, AAAS Board of Directors; former member,
Electorate Nominating Committee, Section B (Physics)
Chief Scientist, National High Magnetic Field Laboratory
Krafft Professor of Physics
Florida State University
Tallahassee, Florida

Jay Labov, Ph.D.
Former Chair, former Member-at-Large, former Council
Delegate, and former member, Electorate Nominating Committee
Section Q (Education); former member, Committee on Council Affairs
Senior Advisor (retired)
National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine
Washington, D.C.

Shirley M. Malcom, Ph.D.
Former member, Electorate Nominating Committee,
Section Q (Education)
Senior Advisor
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, D.C.

Holly M. Mayton, Ph.D.
Former AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow
Administrative Director
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Norine Noonan, Ph.D.
Secretary and former Chair, Section X (Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering);
former Chair, former Member-at-Large, and former Council Delegate,
Section Y (General Interest in Science and Engineering)
Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences
University of South Florida St. Petersburg
St. Petersburg, Florida

Kelly O’Brien
Director of Governance
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, D.C.

Sudip Parikh, Ph.D.
Chief Executive Officer
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Washington, D.C.

Muriel Poston, Ph.D., J.D.
Former Chair, Section Q (Education)
Professor of Environmental Analysis
Pitzer College
Claremont, California

William D. Provine, Ph.D.
Member, AAAS Board of Directors; former Member-at-Large,
Section P (Industrial Science and Technology)
President and CEO
Delaware Innovation Space
Wilmington, Delaware

Juan S. Ramírez Lugo, Ph.D.
Member, AAAS Board of Directors; Former President, Caribbean Division
Associate Professor of Biology
University of Puerto Rico
Río Piedras, Puerto Rico

Susan M. Rosenberg, Ph.D.
Former Council Delegate, Section G (Biological Sciences);
former member, Committee on Council Affairs
Ben F. Love Chair in Cancer Research
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas

Leslie M. Schoop, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Chemistry
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey

Marwan Simaan, Ph.D., P.E.
Secretary, Section M (Engineering); former member,
Subcommittee on Fellows
Florida 21st Century Chair
Distinguished Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Central Florida
Orlando, Florida

Vassiliki Betty Smocovitis, Ph.D.
Former Chair, former Council Delegate, and former member,
Electorate Nominating Committee, Section L (History and Philosophy of Science); former member,
Committee on Council Affairs; former member,
Subcommittee on Fellows
Professor of the History of Science
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida

Karen B. Strier, Ph.D.
Secretary, former Chair, and former Council Delegate,
Section H (Anthropology), former Committee on Nominations
Vilas Research Professor and Irven Devore Professor of Anthropology
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Madison, Wisconsin

JoAnn M. Valenti, Ph.D.
Council Delegate and former member, Electorate Nominating Committee,
Section Y (General Interest in Science and Technology)
Professor Emerita of Communication
Brigham Young University
Tampa, Florida