GWE’s Flagship Fall Event
The GWE Career Panel draws together successful female engineers from different disciplines: academia, industry, and national labs, for an evening of honest Q&A and discussion.
2024 Panelists
- Negar Mehr, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Anastasiia Butko, Scientist in LBNL Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division
- Kelly Colbert, Intern at Genetech
- Nishita Phillip, Materials Engineer at Meta
2023 Panelists
- Lydia Sohn, Chancellor’s Professor in Mechanical Engineering
- Sneha Akhade, Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
- Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering
- Sarah Easley, Senior Managing Engineer
- Temina Madon, Co-founder of The Agency

2021 Panelists
- Shauna McIntyre – President, Automotive Division at OUSTER. Board member, Lithia Motors, Electric Last Mile Solutions
- Lourdes Valdez-Palacio – Technical Program Manager, Rolls-Royce Corporation
- Monica Barney – R&D Scientist, Chevron. Biotech Student, City College of San Francisco
- Lisa Pruitt – Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

2020 Panelists
- Arlene Blum – Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute
- Hannah Stuart – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering UC Berkeley
- Qing Ji – Staff Scientist, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division LBNL
- Dorota Shortell – CEO of Simplexity Product Development

