Senior Researcher
Dr. Lisette Torres-Gerald (also known as Lisette E. Torres; she/her/ella) is a trained scientist and disabled scholar-activist whose work focuses on addressing racial and gender inequity and disability in STEM and higher education. She identifies as a cisgendered woman of color/Puerto Rican who was raised on the mainland U.S. in New Jersey. She earned a doctorate in Education with a Certificate in Social Justice from Iowa State University and an M.S. in Zoology with a Certificate in Ecology from Miami University. She is also an active member of Science for the People, a co-founder/former executive board member of the National Coalition for Latinxs with Disabilities (CNLD), and an advisory board member of the Women in Engineering Pro-Active Network’s (WEPAN) ADVANCE Resource and Coordination (ARC) Network, Invisible Disability Project (IDP), and the STEM Persistence Advisory Board for the Science Friday Initiative.