Dionne Clabaugh, Ed.D. has worked in education and human development since 1982, and in higher education since 1999. She lives in California and works locally and internationally. Her degrees are in Music Therapy, Organization Development, and Learning and Instruction, followed by a Diploma in Social Innovation from UPEACE (United Nations).

In her professional roles as mentor, educator, and consultant in higher education she focuses on professional and personal development in mentoring, education, communication, and intergenerational - intercultural relationships. Her focus on sustainable individual growth is grounded in Self-Determination Theory, reciprocal mentoring, and reflective practice to increase one’s effectiveness and capacity. She applies constructivist dialogue-based strategies in collaborative and kind learning environments to promote deep learning and far transfer.

Dr. Clabaugh enjoys her family and friends, organic gardening, quilt-making, and playing clarinet. She is happily married for over 30 years and has two adult children who are living creative lives.

Dr. Angela Byars-Winston is a Professor in the Department of Medicine at the University of Wisconsin-Madison (UW). She conducts diversity science research on cultural and organizational influences shaping the career development and effective mentorship of college students and early career faculty in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and medicine (STEMM). She is Principal Investigator in the NIH National Research Mentoring Network leading the Culturally Aware Mentorship (CAM) initiative. She chaired the National Academies of Sciences’ 2019 consensus study report, The Science of Effective Mentorship in STEMM, and is a current appointed member of the NIH National Advisory General Medical Sciences Council. Dr. Byars-Winston is the 2022 recipient of the Outstanding Educator for Innovation in Mentorship Research Award from the Association of Clinical and Translational Science, a 2022 Distinguished Alumni Award honoree from San Diego State University, and the inaugural Chair of the UW Institute for Diversity Science where she hosts the Diversity Science Podcast. She is the immediate past president of the South Central Wisconsin chapter of Jack and Jill of America, Inc., the nation’s oldest Black mothers organization.

Beronda L. Montgomery, PhD is Vice President for Academic Affairs at Grinnell College. She studies how individuals perceive, respond to, and are impacted by environments in which they exist, including responses of photosynthetic organisms to external light and nutrient cues. Additionally, Dr. Montgomery pursues this theme in the context of effective mentoring and academic leadership. Dr. Montgomery is a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology (2018), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020), the American Society of Plant Biologists (ASPB, 2021) and the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (2022), as well as American Society for Cell Biology Mentoring Keynote honoree (2021). She was named one of Cell‘s Inspiring Black Scientists in America, and awarded the Adolph E. Gude, Jr. Award from ASPB (2022) and 2023 Hutchinson Medal of the Chicago Horticultural Society. Dr. Montgomery is author of Lessons from Plants (Harvard University Press, 2021) and at work on her second book When Trees Testify (under contract with Holt).

As Assistant Director at the Center for Teaching Excellence, Dr. Clint Patterson invests in mentorship development initiatives, interdisciplinary activities, and graduate education curriculum (re)design. These scholarly practitioner efforts provide evidence-based information for the Center and Texas A&M academic leadership and contribute to his faculty collaborations. Clint transitioned to Texas A&M University as a postdoc in August 2018, following a doctorate in educational leadership. With 15 years as a higher education professional, Clint developed skills to advocate, support, and lead areas of student and faculty success. His career began in Student Life at Baylor University, where he oversaw many institutional initiatives and collaborations, including 16 years overseeing care for the university’s live mascots -- two American Black Bears. His research interests include mentorship development, graduate education, and oral history. He has published in International Journal for Academic Development, Advances in Developing Human Resources, and The Chronicle of Mentoring & Coaching.

Dr. Frances Kochan, is a Wayne T. Smith Distinguished Professor and Dean Emeritus, College of Education, Auburn University, Auburn Alabama, USA. She has authored and edited over 150 publications including 12 books and is the founding editor of the Mentoring and Mentorship Book Series for Information Age Press. Dr. Kochan served as secretary and as chair of the Mentoring and Mentorship Special Interest Group of the American Education Research Association. She also served on the Executive Board of the International Mentoring Association. She is the recipient of the 2023 International Mentoring Association Lifetime Achievement Award, University Council on Educational Administration Jay Scribner Mentoring Award, the 2011 Outstanding Reviewer for the Mentoring and Tutoring Journal. 2016, Outstanding Reviewer for the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education and was featured in the Emerald Literati Network 2016 Awards for Excellence Network. She is President of Kochan Consultants LLC.

Lisa Z. Fain is the CEO of the Center for Mentoring Excellence, an expert in mentoring and inclusion, a global speaker and an executive coach. She works with organizations of all types and sizes to create more inclusive workplaces through mentoring. A former employment attorney, Lisa was formerly senior director of the diversity and inclusion function at Outerwall Inc. (former parent company to automated retail giants Redbox and Coinstar). She lives in Seattle, WA.

Dr. Lisa M. Finkelstein is a Professor and Program Director of Social and Industrial/ Organizational Psychology at Northern Illinois University, where she has received the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, Presidential Teaching Professorship, and NIU’s Presidential Commission on the Status of Women’s Outstanding Mentor Award. Her research focuses on aging and work, stigma in the workplace, mentoring relationships, humor at work, and high potential designation. She publishes in a variety of journals, such as Personnel Psychology, Journal of Business and Psychology, Work, Aging and Retirement, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice, and is the co-author/co-editor of three books (Ageless Talent, Facing the Challenges of a Multi-Age Workforce, and Designing Workplace Mentoring Programs: An Evidence-Based Approach). She is a Fellow of The Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology and has received their Distinguished Contributions to Service Award (2016) and Distinguished Contributions to Teaching Award (2023).

Mica Estrada is the Associate Dean of Diversity, Inclusion and Outreach and Professor at the University of California at San Francisco’s School of Nursing in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences and the Institute for Health and Aging. Her research program focuses on social influence, including the study of identity, values, kindness, well-being, and integrative education. She is Principal Investigator on several longitudinal studies, which implement and assess interventions aimed to increase student persistence in Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics & Medicine (STEMM) careers (funded by NIH, NSF, and HHMI). Dr. Estrada’s research focuses on ethnic populations that are historically excluded, marginalized, and underrepresented in higher education, most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change, and are providing diverse and creative solutions to the pressing challenges of our day.

She received the Leadership Institute Graduate Award from the Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) in 2013, the Adolphus Toliver Award for Outstanding Research, and was selected as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute Facilitator-Scholar in 2022. She has previously served as a member of the National Academy of Science, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) study on Strengthening Research Experiences for Undergraduate STEM Students and the Advancing Anti-Racism, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in STEM Organizations census study, and serves as Roundtable on Systemic Change in Undergraduate STEM Education member. Dr. Estrada earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, and her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from Harvard University.

She is mother to three grown children and lives in the San Francisco Bay area with her sweetheart of many years. She enjoys gardening, walking in nature, and sharing meals with her extended family

Dr. Ramos-Diaz is the inaugural Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for Pacific Northwest University of Health Sciences (PNWU) and is an associate professor of pediatrics in the university’s department of family medicine. A board-certified pediatrician, Dr. Ramos-Diaz completed the AAMC’s Healthcare Executive Diversity and Inclusion Certificate Program in 2020 and the University of San Diego Restorative Justice Certificate Program in 2022.

Since 2021, she has implemented a comprehensive restorative justice program at PNWU, which includes community building circles, healing circles, and community concern circles. Additionally, her scope of work in the Pacific Northwest includes restorative justice training for the Washington State Medical Association. Finally, through a collaboration with Infinite Impact, Dr. Ramos-Diaz has led additional RJ training at the University of Washington and Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine.

Dr. Ramos-Diaz is the co-founder of Roots to Wings, a transformative co-mentoring program for Indigenous and Latinx youth living on Native Homelands to become STEM and health care professionals, and the founder of the Science Research Preparatory Yearlong Program for Indigenous and Latinx students in Washington state. She holds a Master’s degree in Religious studies from Gonzaga University, which was influential in her discovery of restorative practices through learning about the life and work of the late Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu.

Sylvia Hurtado is Professor in the School of Education and Information Studies, and serves as Special Advisor to the Chancellor at UCLA. She studies diverse students’ college experiences, the campus racial climate, and higher education equity and inclusion. She co-edited two books that each won International Latino Book Awards: “Hispanic Serving institutions: Advancing Research and Transformative Practice” (Routledge Press), and “The Magic Key: The Educational Journey of Mexican Americans from K-12 to College and Beyond (University of Texas Press). Recent work on STEMM interventions includes mentor training as part of racial equity and inclusion efforts in biomedical departments.

Mentoring became Dr. Gray’s avocation in 1978 and became his fulltime vocation in 1986 when he (and his wife Marilynne) launched Mentoring Solutions. Dr. Gray’s early efforts to encourage informal mentoring shifted once he saw the need for more structured mentoring for greater success. He began collaboratively planning formalized Mentoring Programs (with key stakeholder input) to produce more benefits – for diverse kinds of proteges, mentors and their organizations. To develop the diversified workforce, he developed Mentoring for Results Partner Training and Tools: the Mentoring Style Indicator enables virtual strangers to quickly become mentoring partners (20,000+ thus far), the Protege Needs Inventory precisely identifies what to work on, and the Mentoring Action Plan enhances Goal attainment and documents this.

David Law is the interim associate vice president at Utah State University and oversees the Uintah Basin campuses. He is a family studies professor. Law earned his bachelor's degree from USU, his master's degree in marriage and family therapy (MFT) from the University of Wisconsin-Stout, and his Ph.D. in MFT from Brigham Young University. He has published in marriage and family therapy, family life education, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and mentoring in academia. He has received awards for mentoring undergraduate students, recently recognized as the Emma Eccles Jones College of Education and Human Services Faculty Mentor of the Year. Law has overseen the design, implementation, and evaluation of the faculty-to-student mentoring programs for the Uintah Basin campus and the USU statewide campus system for the past seven years. Law is co-editor of the recently published book Making Connections: A Handbook for Effective Formal Mentoring Programs in Academia.

Maggie Werner-Washburne, PhD, is Regents’ Professor emerita in the Department of Biology at the University of New Mexico (UNM) who currently works with the Mentoring Institute and Chicana and Chicano Studies at UNM.  Dr. Werner-Washburne devoted most of her research career to the genetics, molecular biology, and genomics of stress response in yeast. Maggie, whose mother was from Mexico, has mentored more than 600 students from diverse backgrounds at UNM and nationally, helping many get advanced academic and professional degrees. She founded STEM-Boomerang, which has helped graduates find good careers, mostly in NM. She is a SACNAS past president and has served twice on the SACNAS Board.  She is an AAAS Fellow, 2011 Harvard Foundation Distinguished Scientist, and has received other awards for research and mentoring, including two US Presidential awards. In 2017, Dr. Werner-Washburne was awarded the AAAS Lifetime Mentor Award.

Dr. Natasha Mickel holds a Doctoral degree in Instructional Psychology & Technology from the University of Oklahoma. Currently serving as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Family & Preventive Medicine at the University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center (OUHSC), she plays key roles as the Assistant Director for Faculty Development, Director for the Oklahoma Center for Mentoring Excellence (OCME), and Director for Multicultural Engagement for the College of Medicine.

In her multifaceted position, Dr. Mickel is dedicated to advancing professional development opportunities for faculty members at OUHSC. Her responsibilities encompass organizing curriculum vitae review workshops, providing mentor training for clinical and translational researchers, leading mentor training initiatives for a campus-wide mentoring network, and offering targeted training to enhance inclusivity on campus. With a robust educational background and an administrative perspective, she has successfully developed and implemented training programs and workshops supported by federally funded grants.

Dr. Mickel's expertise extends across diverse academic fields, including education, mathematics, aeronautics, engineering, and biomedical sciences. This breadth of experience positions her as a collaborative force, bringing together various learning communities to achieve common goals in education, research, and community service. As she looks ahead, Dr. Mickel is enthusiastic about building and nurturing her faculty career at OUHSC within the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine.

Laura Lunsford is an expert in evaluation, mentorship, and leadership. A U.S. Fulbright Scholar (Germany), she has written over 50 peer-reviewed articles, case studies and chapters on these topics. She wrote the definitive guide for mentoring programs The Mentor’s Guide: Five steps to Build a Successful Mentor Program, now in its second edition. She co-edited the Sage Handbook of Mentoring, and co-authored Faculty Development in Liberal Arts Colleges. Laura received the International Mentoring Association’s Hope dissertation award. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute for Decision Sciences, and the Department of Education among others. She has a research affiliation with Campbell University, where she was a tenured full professor and now serves as an evaluator for the National Science Foundation in the Evaluation and Assessment Capability section.

Professor (Emeritus) Bob Garvey is an internationally known leading academic practitioner of mentoring and coaching. He is an experienced mentor/coach working with a range of people in a variety of contexts. Bob subscribes to the ‘repertoire’ approach to mentoring and coaching. He is in demand as a keynote conference speaker, webinar facilitator and workshop leader. Bob is an active researcher and very widely published. His latest book, with Paul Stokes, Coaching and Mentoring: Theory and Practice was published in 2022 as a 4th Edition. He is a founding member of the EMCC and has been awarded the EMCC’s Mentor award. In 2014 he received a Lifetime Achievement award. Currently, he is part of the team designing delivering three Micro Credentials o mentoring for the IMI. He is an active researcher.

Tamara is best known as the Millennials Mentor, and is a recognized thought-leader in next generation leadership. She is the founder of Real Mentors Network, a web based platform for mentoring. Tamara trains, coaches and mentors professionals from across the globe sharing her expertise in leadership development, navigating our cultural differences, and intergenerational collaboration.

Tamara has a MA in Leadership and Training from Royal Roads University in British Columbia, Canada and is a published author and researcher. She is a serial entrepreneur, and has taken her business and brand global, working with organizations in the Americas and Europe. She is the host of the Making Connections Podcast which features mentoring experts from across the U.S. and has been a guest expert on the top podcasts, blogs and radio shows for Millennial leaders. You can read more about her and her work at www.tamarathorpe.com .