2023-2024 Cohort

The STEP UP Ambassadors are a group of STEP UP teachers who are committed to empowering their peers to inspire their women students to pursue physics.

The 2023-24 cohort is led by our Ambassador Program Coordinator (*) and Regional Coordinators and is composed of 7 Ambassadors in three regions.

  • Bree Barnett Dreyfuss

    Bree Barnett Dreyfuss*
    Amador Valley High School
    Pleasanton, CA

New York City Ambassadors

  • Sui King Dawn Shum

    Sui King Dawn Shum
    Baruch College, Campus High School
    shum.dawn@gmail.com

  • Joel May

    Joel May
    North Tonawanda High School, SUNY Buffalo State University, New York State Master Teacher, SUNY,  Buffalo Quarknet Center
    jmm0270@gmail.com

  • Catherine Garland

    Catherine Garland
    The Brearley School, PoLS-T Network, STEMteachersNYC
    catherine.a.garland@gmail.com

  • Jason Sullivan

    Jason Sullivan
    Montgomery Twp Schools, 
    STEMteachersNYC, Rutgers University,  Graduate School of Education
    jsullivan@mtsd.us

Chicago Ambassadors

Los Angeles Ambassadors