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Diversity Outreach Committee

The diversity outreach program, guided by the CELEST diversity outreach committee, carries out multiple outreach activities to involve underrepresented individuals and communities in all CELEST educational, scientific, and technological programs. CELEST endeavors to include diverse high school, college, and postdoctoral students in CELEST laboratories and group events to teach them about how the brain works and to help them discover new career opportunities. In particular, CELEST is developing curriculum materials that will be tested and used in schools with a large number of underrepresented minority students, among other places.
	George Alvarez Harvard University Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology
	Roscoe Giles Boston University Executive Director, Institute for African American E-Culture Team Leader for Education, Outreach & Training, National Computational Science Alliance Executive Committee Deputy Director, Center for Computational Science, BU Professor, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
	Kathleen Kantak Co-Director of CELESTThrust 8 Boston University Professor of Psychology and Program in Neuroscience Director, Behavioral Neuroscience Laboratory
	Marya Levenson Brandeis University Harry S. Levitan Director, Teacher Education Program Professor of the Practice in Education Boston Higher Education Partnership Advisory Board, Brandeis Transitional Year Program National Advisory Board, Harvard Education Letter Principal, Newton North High School Superintendent, North Colonie Central School District
	Ramon E. Lopez University of Texas, Arlington Professor, Department of Physics and Space Sciences Fellow, American Physical Society Co-Director for Diversity, Boston University Center for Integrated Space Weather Modeling (CISM), an NSF Science and Technology Center Chair, APS Forum on Education, 2005 Nicholson Medal for Humanitarian Service, 2002 Past Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
	Melanie Matthies Boston University Associate Dean of Sargent College Program Director of Communication Disorders, Sargent College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences Director, Speech Perception Lab Speech Communications Group, Research Lab of Electronics, MIT
	Doe West Boston University Adjunct Faculty, Department of Psychology Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness, Inc. Tribal Affiliation: Lenni Lenape