MSU Denver SACNAS Chapter

Keynote Speakers:

Minerva Cordero  – PhD – Vice Provost for Faculty Success at the University of Texas, Arlington

Joan Y. Reede, MD, MPH, MS, MBA – Dean of Diversity and Community Partnership; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

Donald Warned, MD, MPH (Oglala Lakota) – Co-Director of the Center for Indigenous Health – Professor at the Bloomberg School of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, MD – Provost Fellow for Indigenous Health Policy.

Featured Speakers:

Abigail Echo-Hawk (Pawnee) – Executive Vice President of Seattle Indian Health Board and Director of its research division, Urban Indian Health Institute

Jorge Jimenez, PhD (Akateko) – CEO of Mayan Bioengineer LLC

Naomie Lee, PhD (Seneca) – Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at Northern Arizona University

Desire Delia Whitmore, PhD –  Staff Physicist Educator in the Teacher Institute at the Exploratorium in San Francisco

Students attending:  Steven Mendoza, Luis Delgado, Raelyn Begay, Jacob Diaz, Anthony Manriguez, Alejandra Gutierrez

This years SACNAS Conference was in Portland, Oregon.

The keynote speakers were:

Dr. Chris Cornelius – Oneida Chair – Iowa State University

Dr. Marvi Matos Rodriguez – Director of Engineering – The Boeing Company

Dr. JoAnn Trejo – Professor and Vice Chancellor – University of California, San Diego

The featured speakers were:

Dr. Sonia Zarate – Emcee Chair, SACNAS Leadership Initiatives Subcommittee – SACNAS

Dr. Charla Lambert – Haida and Tsimshian – President – SACNAS

Juan Amador – FASAE, CASE Executive Director – SACNAS

This year the BUILD Program and the RM-AMP Program has thirteen students attend:

Laura, Delgado, Luis Delgado, Mahelet De Anda Vazque, Victor Delgado, Roy Freyta, Alejandra Gutierrez, Hugo Lemus, Naomi Jacquez, Darian Matsunaga, Uriel Aviles-Ruiz and Thaw Sue

The 2022 National Diversity in STEM Conference (NDiSTEM) Conference was in San Juan, Puerto Rico with a record 6,000 in attendance.  The SACNAS conference is the largest multidisciplinary and multicultural in the country and serves to equip, empower, and energize participants for their academic and professional paths in STEM.  Over the course of the event, attendees are immersed in cutting-edge STEM research, professional development sessions, motivational keynote speakers, and the Graduate School & Career Expo, as well as multicultural celebrations and traditions, and an inclusive and welcoming community of peers, mentors, and role models. Simply put, the SACNAS conference is a broadly inclusive space where you are encouraged and empowered to bring your whole self to STEM.

This year, the BUILD program at MSU Denver had four students who attended.  Conner Sullivan, Luis Delgado, and Naomi Jacquez attended and Alena Kelleher attended and presented.