Board of Trustees

The Board of Trustees provides leadership and guidance to Society for Science & the Public. Board members are volunteers selected based on their dedicated commitment to science, education, and the Society’s mission of informing, educating, and inspiring.

Mary Sue Coleman, Chair
Past President (retired), Association of American Universities
President Emerita, University of Michigan
Science Talent Search 1961
International Science and Engineering Fair 1959 and 1960

Martin Chalfie, Vice Chair
University Professor, former chair of the Department of Biological Sciences at Columbia University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2008

Hayley Bay Barna, Treasurer
Venture Partner, First Round Capital
Co-Founder and former Co-CEO, Birchbox
Science Talent Search 2001

Paul J. Maddon, Secretary
Founder and Retired Chairman, CEO, and Chief Science Officer, Progenics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Science Talent Search 1977
International Science and Engineering Fair 1977

Christy Burton, Executive Committee, At-Large
Co-Founder and Board Chair, The Burton Family Foundation

Maya Ajmera, Ex Officio
President and CEO, Society for Science & the Public
Publisher, Science News
Science Talent Search 1985

Craig R. Barrett
Retired CEO/Chairman of the Board, Intel Corporation

Tessa M. Hill
Professor and Chancellor’s Fellow
Department of Earth & Planetary Sciences
University of California, Davis

Tom Leighton
Co-Founder and CEO, Akamai Technologies, Inc.
Science Talent Search 1974
International Science and Engineering Fair 1972 and 1973

Alan Leshner
CEO Emeritus, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Washington, DC

W.E. Moerner
Harry S. Mosher Professor and Professor by Courtesy of Applied Physics, Stanford University
Former Chair, Department of Chemistry, Stanford University
Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2014

Dianne K. Newman
Gordon M. Binder/Amgen Professor of Biology and Geobiology, California Institute of Technology
International Science and Engineering Fair 1987 and 1988

Thomas F. Rosenbaum
President, California Institute of Technology
Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics
Science Talent Search 1973

Gideon Yu
Co-Owner and former President, San Francisco 49ers
Executive Chairman, Bowers & Wilkins
International Science and Engineering Fair 1989

Feng Zhang
Core institute member, Broad Institute of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard
Investigator, MIT McGovern Institute for Brain Research
James and Patricia Poitras Professor in Neuroscience, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Associate Professor, Departments of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Science Talent Search 2000
International Science and Engineering Fair 1998 and 1999