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Travis T. York, Ph.D.
Director, Center for STEMM Education and Workforce (CSEW)
Travis T. York, Ph.D., serves as the Director of the Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In his role, Dr. York provides leadership for all of AAAS’s externally facing diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility initiatives. York’s research and work focus on catalyzing and sustaining systemic change and transformation to achieve inclusive and equitable access and progress through STEMM pathways into the STEMM workforce. Within AAAS, York provides leadership to a talented team who collaborate to create change through dozens of grant-funded projects and initiatives spanning all STEMM fields and the entire educational pathway including the STEMM Opportunity Alliance – recently launched at the White House Summit on STEMM Equity & Excellence, AAAS’s SEA Change Initiative, AAAS S-STEM REC, ARISE Network, Equitable Pathways Project, L’Oreal USA Women in Science Fellowships, and HBCU Making & Innovation Showcase. More.
Layne Scherer
Program Director
Layne Scherer is a Program Director for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW). Her portfolio of work includes managing the Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative and Noyce initiative. Prior to joining AAAS, Scherer worked at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Scherer served as the study director for the reports on Advancing Antiracism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEMM Organizations: Beyond Broadening Participation; Mental Health, Substance Abuse, and Wellbeing in Higher Education: Supporting the Whole Student; Changing Expectations for the K-12 Teacher Workforce: Policies, Preservice Education, Professional Development, and the Workplace; and Graduate STEM Education for the 21st Century. Before her time at the National Academies, Scherer worked in the Directorate for STEM Education at the National Science Foundation. Scherer has a B.A. (English and history of art) and M.P.P. from the University of Michigan. More.
Betty Calinger
Senior Project Director
Betty Calinger is a senior project director at AAAS in the Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW). She supports NSF-funded projects that prepare preservice educators to teach STEM in high-need schools through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program and is the managing editor of the ARISE Adaptations Blog series that shares promising practices related to the preparation of STEM teachers for high-need school districts. Calinger also manages initiatives that build science literacy for all children in formal and informal settings through partnerships with STEM professionals, K-12 schools, and community-based organizations. These include the AAAS STEMM Ambassadors engaging children in low resourced communities through a summer science program. Calinger has served as the co-principal investigator for grants supporting the NSF Graduate STEM Fellows in K-12 Education program and managed several grants providing professional development to middle school teachers in the mid-Atlantic region. More.
Thomas Veague
Senior Project Director
Thomas Veague is Senior Project Director in the Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW) at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). His work focuses on the strategy and implementation of programs that support STEM initiatives in higher education and K-12. Thomas previously held leadership positions at the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) where he convened the industry around accelerating the transition towards a renewable energy economy. Thomas holds a B.A. from Knox College in Environmental Studies. More.
Andrew Scammell
Program Associate
Andrew (Drew) Scammell (he/they) joined AAAS in 2019 as part of the Office of Philanthropy and Strategic Partnerships. In April of 2023, he transitioned over to the Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW). As a Program Associate in CSEW, Drew works on AAAS’ NSF-funded Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program, Advancing Research & Innovation in the STEM Education of Preservice Teachers in High-Need School Districts (ARISE) Initiative, and Improving Undergraduate STEM Education (IUSE) initiative. Prior to AAAS, he served as the Mathematics Intern at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (HWS) for the 2018-2019 academic year. Drew holds a B.S. in Physics, a B.A. in Mathematics, and B.A. in Dance from HWS. Outside of his work at AAAS, Drew dances with several companies and groups across the DMV area such as Capitol Movement, Effervescence Collective, and Rae Grey Dance Collective. He has also shown choreography in various showcases. More.
Jeunice Lim
Event Operations Manager
Jeunice Lim joined AAAS in May of 2022 as the Event Operations Manager. She is responsible for supporting planning, managing, and implementation of several major convenings within AAAS’s Center for STEMM Education & Workforce (CSEW) program unit – the Emerging Researchers National (ERN) Conference in STEM, IUSE Summit, Noyce Summit, and the S-STEM REC Scholars Meeting. Prior to AAAS, she has worked with managing events and meetings for a non-profit organization and a hotel in the D.C. area. She holds a BS in Business Administration from University of Maryland Global Campus. More.
Erika Wood
Event Operations Coordinator
Erika Wood joined AAAS in November of 2023 as CSEW’s new Events Operations Coordinator. As a graduate from the University of South Florida, she attained her BA in Public and Cultural Communications. Upon graduating, she embarked on the path of helping communities within the Non-profit sectors, Experiential Events and Performing Arts. Erika has worked as an Events Market Manager within a niche of familiar brands such as: Bumble.com, Deep River Snacks and Hallmark. Additionally, she prides herself on community and has also worked for NYC’s Hurricane Sandy’s “Build It Back Program”, The WNET Group and the National Children’s Chorus. Erika values the importance of making an impact on humanity and is pleased to be joining the AAAS family. More.
