Leadership Team
Leadership team members are selected to bring STEM and program management expertise to the collaborative's work. Leadership team members also provide regional representation within the collaborative. Current Leadership members are:
- Dr. Judith Iriarte-Gross
Professor, Department of Chemistry
GRITS and GRITS Collaborative Project
Middle Tennessee State University - Cacy DeSheles
GRITS
Middle Tennessee State University - Jennifer Allen
Development Director, College of Basic and Applied Sciences
Middle Tennessee State University - Sylvia Brown
Budget Technician
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Saeed Foroudastan, Ph.D.
Associate Dean Basic and Applied Sciences
Middle Tennessee State University - Leigh Gostowski
Program Coordinator
MTeach - Mary Moore
Principal Technologist
Eastman Chemical
- Sheila Moses
Academic Services Coordinator, Herff College of Engineering
University of Memphis - Myra Norman, Ph.D.
AAUW Murfreesboro Branch
Director, Office of Research Services
Middle Tennessee State University - Jennifer Rawls
Executive Director
Tennessee Economic Council of Women
- Rachel Rigsby, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Department of Chemistry
Belmont University - Rick Vanosdall, Ph.D.
Director, Tennessee Math, Science, and Technology Education Center
Middle Tennessee State University - Lisa A. Eccles, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Biology
Walters State Community College
- Kaylene Gebert, Ph.D.
Professor, Speech and Theatre
Middle Tennessee State University
- Mary Groff
P.E. Quality Manager, New Product Development
Schneider Electric
- Cheryl Johnson
Product Development Chemist, LMTC
Sanford - A Newell Rubbermaid Company
- Freneka Minter, MS, CHES
Health Education Specialist
Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education
- Judy Arnold-Rodgers
AAUW Regional Liaison

