Introducing the Parent/Educator Program Panelists
We've put together an outstanding panel of women in STEM fields for the parents/educators program. They'll provide personal stories, answer questions, and do all they can to help you help your student succeed. Want to know who they are? Read on. . .
Michelle Foster is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Colorado State University (CSU) with expertise in adipose tissue (body fat) regulation and immunity. Lab goals are to identify and understand how adipose tissue (fat accumulation) contributes to the development, progression and perhaps resistance to metabolic disease (example: type 2 diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease). Currently her lab is investigating how lower body subcutaneous adipose tissue (hip and thigh fat) is associated with a reduced risk for metabolic dysregulation. She also engages in service to promote a diverse and inclusive working environment at CSU via mentoring, training and support for all students, staff and faculty.
Christine Hudson is CEO and Co-founder of Elevate,to, a boutique consulting firm specializing in business agility, with a focus on technology companies. Christine and the team at Elevate partner with leadership teams to deliver lasting positive change within organizations. The co-created results: Improved speed, quality, and predictability in the delivery of critical business initiatives, technology programs, and products, along with improved leadership team cohesion and employee engagement. Christine's expertise includes strategic facilitation and executive and senior leadership coaching, especially around the cultural change needed for customer-centric business operating systems such as Agile and DevOps. Christine has been a frequent volunteer and catalyst in the Colorado Startup community for the last decade, helping to grow and mature this incredible community.
Shelley Moore received her B.S. in Biology from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She attended medical school at the University of Texas at San Antonio and completed her Emergency Medicine residency at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She practiced Emergency Medicine in Austin, Texas for ten years before moving to Fort Collins. While she enjoys taking are of patients in the acute care setting, she has an interest and passion for mind-body medicine, nutrition, and illness prevention. In order to pursue this passion and gain more knowledge in these areas, she completed Dr. Andy Weil’s Integrative Medicine fellowship at the University of Arizona in 2015. She currently practices medicine in the Urgent Care with Associates in Family Medicine in Fort Collins. She is a former collegiate swimmer who now enjoys watching her two sons and daughter swim competitively. She loves to trail run, swim, practice yoga and meditation. Since moving to Colorado, she has taken up snowboarding and spends as much time as possible exploring the mountains with her husband Joseph and three children.
Stephanie Ogburn is a tech lead and full stack Web developer at Nutrien, a fertilizer and agricultural products company with North American headquarters in Loveland. She works with an e-commerce team building performant, scalable web applications from the ground up, primarily in JavaScript. She focuses on front-end work but has been involved in building web applications from the database layer all the way up to the user interface. Stephanie also co-leads the local chapter of Women Who Code, with monthly meetups on a variety of technical topics. Prior to getting into programming, Stephanie worked as a science journalist for KUNC and many other publications. She kick-started her coding career by graduating from a 6-month programming boot camp in 2016 and believes anyone who likes to solve problems can be a great programmer.
Dr. Lori Reinsvold has taught science and science education to K-12 teachers, undergraduates, and graduate students at Purdue University and the University of Northern Colorado. Her research focuses on power relations between educators and students, and how discourse interactions support student understanding of science. Her academic work and research enabled her to successfully develop, secure, and direct over $10M in grant projects that support P-20 students, especially high-need students to develop understanding of mathematics and science. She has expanded this experience to support programs and activities that improve the persistence and graduation of high-need undergraduates in STEM programs at UNC. She collaborated with UNC’s STEM directors and chairs to secure a UNC Commitment at the White House College Opportunity Day of Action that establishes effective practices for student persistence and graduation.
