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Dr. Eileen Gonzales is an assistant professor at San Francisco State University. She uses observational and theoretical techniques to understand the atmospheres of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and directly imaged exoplanets. Using atmospheric retrievals, her work aims to understand cloud properties as well as key chemical processes shaping the formation and evolution of directly imaged exoplanets and brown dwarfs.

Before coming to SF State, Dr. Gonzales was a 51 Pegasi b Postdoctoral Fellow at Cornell. She received her PhD from the City University of New York Graduate Center. She completed her master’s at SF State and her bachelor’s at Michigan State. She is also a co-founder and director of Black In Physics, a non-profit organization dedicated to celebrating the contributions of Black physicists to reveal a more complete picture of what a physicist looks like.

Marge Musumeci is a Senior Talent Advisor with a passion for going beyond the ordinary and connecting people with jobs they love. As a Talent Acquisition professional in Pharma Research and Development, she brings a consultative aspect to work, describes the market landscape, networks with passive candidates, and utilizes a variety of social media techniques to drive high-impact projects to completion. She has experience with Colleague Resource Groups in the Inclusion and Diversity space, with particular emphasis on HBCUs, all of which she leverages to brand organizations. Marge holds a graduate degree in Organizational Psychology from New York University and resides in Wayne, Pennsylvania.

Dr. Kishana Taylor is a virologist, president, and co-founder of the Black Microbiologists Association (BMA), co-founder of Black In Microbiology (BIM) Week, and an assistant professor at Towson University in the Department of Biological Sciences. She is passionate about improving the outlook for scientists from historically excluded groups through tangible solutions to removing systemic barriers in all but, especially academic spaces. Her work with BIM and BMA has garnered national recognition via The New York Times and the American Society for Microbiology. She has also served on the DEI committee and as a councilor for trainees for the American Society for Virology (ASV).

Dr. Taylor earned a BS in Animal Science and an MS in Public Health Microbiology and Emerging Infectious Diseases before earning her PhD in Interdisciplinary Biomedical Sciences from The University of Georgia.