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June Live Chat

Ask a Fellow Anything: Why Pursue Science Policy Through STPF?

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Join the AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships (STPF) on June 11 at 1 p.m. ET for our first installment in a series of live chats! Established in 1973, meet fellows who illustrate STPF's 50 years of science policy impact. Learn how fellows used the fellowship to explore career paths they had not previously considered. Find out how they leveraged their experiences, grew their skill sets, and expanded their networks during the fellowship. You will also have the chance to ask fellows your questions. If you’ve ever wanted to meet an STPF fellow or are curious about life as a fellow and how it can impact your career path, you don’t want to miss this.

STPF Eligibility Criteria

STPF is open to U.S. citizens who hold doctoral level degrees in any of the following fields:

  • Biological, Agricultural or Life sciences.
  • Physical or Earth sciences.
  • Social and Behavioral sciences.
  • Computational and Information sciences.
  • Mathematics and Statistics.
  • Medical and Health Sciences.
  • Engineering disciplines (applicants with an M.S. in engineering and three years of professional engineering experience also qualify).

Applications are open from June 1 - November 1.


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Live Chat Speakers:

Angelica Zamora-Duran, 2023-24 Executive Branch Fellow, U.S. Department of Energy

Angelica is serving the Office of Energy Jobs at the U.S. Department of Energy in her first year as an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow. She is currently working to support policy design, analysis, and data integration to develop workers, especially women and minorities, in the energy sector. Angelica received her bachelor’s degree in biology from University of Virginia, and both her master’s degree and Ph.D. in biological oceanography/marine biology from the Florida Institute of Technology, where she studied climate change impacts to coastal ecosystems. Angelica’s experience working for an environmental consulting firm at the intersection of research, education, and community engagement fueled her passion for tackling environmental and climate justice issues. Angelica is motivated by facilitating policy efforts that develop inclusive and equitable solutions toward a clean energy transition.
Alexandra Phillips, 2023-23 Congressional Fellow, Office of Sen. Alex Padilla

Dr. Alexandra Atlee Phillips is the first AAAS STPF Fellow in Climate Science. She currently works for Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) where she acts as a policy advisor on environmental issues relating to climate and energy. During her fellowship she has written legislation to regulate fusion energy, establish low carbon fuel standards, upgrade oceanographic research vessels, improve atmospheric river forecasting, study equity in National Parks System reservations, and more. Before her work in the Senate, Alex worked as a professional science communicator for UC Santa Barbara, where she also did her postdoctoral research and undergraduate studies. She holds a PhD in geochemistry from the California Institute of Technology. Following her fellowship, Alex will be returning to UC Santa Barbara at the Bren School, where she will join the faculty to teach and research environmental communication and policy. In her free time, she enjoys facetiming with her cat Tuna who is still residing in California and sprinting on the peloton at her apartment gym to Taylor Swift music. 

Vince Tedjasputra, 2019-2021, Executive Branch Fellow, National Science Foundation

Vince Tedjasaputra, Ph.D., is the Director of Scientific Communications at the American Lung Association, where he helps to the story of the impact of lung disease research to patients, donors, and lawmakers who support the organization. Prior to the American Lung Association, Dr. Tedjasaputra was an AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow in the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation. As a former college athlete-turned-scientist, and classically trained operatic singer-turned-science communicator, he encourages all budding scientists to purposely blur the lines between work and play.

Traci Hall, 1992-94 Executive Branch Fellow, U.S Agency for International Development, Bureau for Research and Development

Dr. Hall earned her B.S. in biochemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, and her Ph.D. in pharmacology and molecular sciences from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. She was a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow with the U.S. Agency for International Development and a postdoctoral fellow with Professor Daniel J. Leahy at Johns Hopkins before joining the NIEHS in 1998. She served as acting Lab Chief for the NIEHS Laboratory of Structural Biology from 2012–2014. Currently, Dr. Hall serves as the Acting Deputy Chief and Principal Investigator in the Epigenetics and Stem Cell Biology Laboratory at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS).