Pride Committee

Pride Committee

The APS DPP Pride Committee was established in 2021 and envisions a scientific community that is open, welcoming, and supportive of all scientists within the gender and sexual-orientation minority communities. Our aims are to (1) Promote equity for LGBT+ physicists within our profession; (2) Foster community among LGBT+ physicists and their allies through professional networks, mentorship, and safe spaces; (3) Educate and engage allies, support efforts to end discrimination against LGBT+ physicists, and highlight LGBT+ contributions to plasma science; (4) Collaborate with other diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts to address inclusion for all groups and issues of intersectionality; and (5) Pursue a data driven approach for identifying representation and climate related problems and guiding solutions to those problems.

2024

Eli Parke, Chair TAE Technologies, Inc. eli-parke@gmail.com
Archie Bott, Vice Chair University of Oxford, United Kingdom archie.bott@physics.ox.ac.uk
Derek Schaeffer, Past Chair University of California, Los Angeles derek.schaeffer@ucla.edu
Abigail Armstrong University of Rochester aarm@lle.rochester.edu
Amelia Cavallaro Massachusetts Institute of Technology ajcav@mit.edu
Cole Stephens University of Texas, Austin Cole.stephens@austin.utexas.edu
Steve Vincena University of California, Los Angeles
vincea@physics.ucla.edu

2023

Derek Schaeffer, Chair University of California, Los Angeles derek.schaeffer@ucla.edu
Eli Parke, Vice Chair Tri Alpha Energy eli-parke@gmail.com
Mel Abler, Secy-Treasurer Space Science Institute mabler@spacescience.org
Abigail Armstrong University of Rochester carmstr9@ur.rochester.edu
Jack Hare Massachusetts Institute of Technology jdhare@mit.edu
Steve Vincena University of California, Los Angeles vincea@physics.ucla.edu
Jeff Woolstrum Sandia National Laboratories jwoolst@sandia.gov

2022

Derek Schaeffer, Chair

Princeton University

dereks@princeton.edu

Eli Parke, Vice Chair

Tri Alpha Energy

eli-parke@gmail.com

Mel Abler, Secy-Treasurer

Columbia University

mca2170@columbia.edu

David Ampleford

Sandia National Laboratories

damplef@sandia.gov

Jack Hare

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

jdhare@mit.edu

Brian Henderson

University of Rochester

bhend@lle.rochester.edu

Steve Vincena

University of California, Los Angeles

vincea@physics.ucla.edu

Tom White

University of Nevada, Reno

tgwhite@unr.edu

Jeff Woolstrum

University of Michigan

jeffwool@umich.edu

2021

Derek Schaeffer, Chair Princeton University dereks@princeton.edu
Eli Parke, Vice Chair Tri Alpha Energy eli.parke@gmail.com
Mel Abler, Secretary-Treasurer Columbia University mca2170@columbia.edu
David Ampleford Sandia National Laboratories damplef@sandia.gov
Jack Hare Massachusetts Institute of Technology jdhare@mit.edu
Brian Henderson University of Rochester bhend@lle.rochester.edu
Steve Vincena University of California, Los Angeles vincena@physics.ucla.edu
Tom White University of Nevada, Reno tgwhite@unr.edu
Jeff Woolstrum University of Michigan jeffwool@umich.edu