Meet New America’s 2025 FOWIE Cohort of Fellows
V. Celeste Carter most just lately served as Program Director of the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Advanced Technological Education program from 2009 to 2025, main one of probably the most vital expert technical workforce grantmaking applications within the federal authorities. From 2001 to 2003 and 2007 to 2008, she served as a program director within the NSF’s Division on Undergraduate Education. She served on the college and as director of the biotechnology and bioinformatics program at Foothill College. Learn more.
Carter will assist advance FOWIE’s work on expert technical workforce coaching at group faculties, together with our ongoing analysis to strengthen the NSF’s contribution to the expert technical workforce in rising and important know-how areas.
Francie Genz is the CEO of the Institute for Networked Communities and a nationally acknowledged professional in regional financial and workforce growth technique. She has labored with regional groups and state system leaders throughout the nation to construct sturdy partnerships with trade and align establishments in service to inclusive progress. Her work spans hands-on facilitation, strategic advising, and the design of implementation frameworks that combine financial and workforce growth techniques. Learn more.
Genz will assist advance FOWIE’s work on workforce growth methods for place-based innovation ecosystems, and tech-based financial growth.
Adam P. Fagen has spent his profession working on the interface of science and society with a concentrate on science coverage, science schooling, communications, workforce and coaching, and non-profit society administration. He most just lately served as Director of External Affairs for the Association of Science and Technology Centers, the place he made the case for science and know-how facilities and museums and the significance of public engagement with science. He spent 5 years as government director of the Genetics Society of America, Director of Public Affairs for the American Society of Plant Biologists, and as Senior Program Officer on the U.S. National Academies. Learn more.
Fagen will assist FOWIE’s work analyzing scientific skilled associations and their current position and future potential in supporting the STEM workforce.
Phillip A. Singerman is a acknowledged nationwide innovator in public-private partnerships that promote financial growth, job creation, and nationwide safety via know-how growth, switch, and deployment. His five-decade profession consists of senior government positions within the personal and public sectors on the native, state, and federal ranges, together with serving as Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Economic Development and Associate Director for Innovation and Industry Services on the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology. Learn more.
Singerman will assist advance FOWIE’s work on new fashions for science, innovation, industrial coverage and tech-based financial growth implementation.
Jeffrey M. Alexander has over 30 years of expertise in coverage, technique, and analysis on nationwide and regional efforts to advance science, know-how, and innovation. His skilled expertise consists of positions at SRI International (the previous Stanford Research Institute) and the Research Triangle Institute (RTI International). His analysis and evaluation in measuring and evaluating R&D and innovation applications have been funded by NASA, the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Departments of Energy, Commerce, and Defense, amongst different companies. Learn more.
Alexander will assist advance FOWIE’s work targeted on strengthening science and industrial coverage growth and implementation, with a concentrate on new fashions and approaches for public-private partnerships.