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What’s It Like to Be a Fellow? Part I: A Year of Service

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Speakers:

Estevan Santana, 2016-18 Executive Branch Fellow, National Institutes of Health, Office of Science Policy

Dr. Santana is a Microbiologist who left the lab to pursue a career in public policy. He got bit by the policy bug during his first fellowship experience working in the California State Legislature where he was exposed to fast-paced, high stakes work analyzing pharmaceutical, health care, and education policy (among others). Estevan next moved to Washington, D.C. to participate in the AAAS S&T Policy Fellowships. After STPF, Estevan joined the PhRMA Science and Regulatory Advocacy team working on multiple FDA regulatory issues. Estevan later joined Genentech’s State Government Affairs focusing on state policy issues.

Andrea Gaede, 2017-18 Judicial Branch Fellow, Federal Judicial Center

Dr. Gaede is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in locomotor biomechanics at the Royal Veterinary College in London, UK. She is a neurobiologist specializing in investigating how the nervous system uses sensory information to guide complex locomotion in birds. Dr. Gaede received a B.A. in Neuroscience from Vanderbilt University in 2006, and her Ph.D. in Advanced Medicine from Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) in 2012 where she was supported by the International Research Excellence Scholarship and other awards.

Faith Dukes, 2017-19 Executive Branch Fellow, National Science Foundation, Division of Human Resource Development

Dr. Dukes currently serves as the Director of K-12 STEM Education Programs within the Government and Community Relations Office, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her work is at the intersection of scientific research, STEM education, policy, and diversity, equity and inclusion. She has honed her skills as a science communicator in positions at the MIT Museum and as a AAAS S&T Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation. She holds a bachelor of science from Spelman College and completed her Ph.D. in physical chemistry studying photocatalytic semiconductors at Tufts University.

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