MENTORING COMMITTEE
The IDEA Mentorship Working Group is a cross-divisional and cross-functional group of passionate advocates for mentorship. In October 2021, the IDEA Senior Leadership Council (SLC) agreed to support a Lab-wide mentoring initiative that could fill employee needs beyond what existing divisional mentoring programs provide. As a result of the SLC’s feedback, the Mentoring Committee has spent the past year developing this effort, named MENTORING@LBNL, to pilot impactful Lab-wide mentoring events and resources.
There are two workstreams that our IDEA Mentorship Working Group manages simultaneously under the Mentoring@LBNL umbrella: one is dedicated to piloting the Just-in-Time (JIT) Mentoring program, which launched in November 2022 and the other is adapting a DOE-developed program called Entering Mentoring to upskill aspiring mentors on best-practices which began in early 2023. There is a subcommittee dedicated to each workstream.
Caren Chung
Co-Chair
Sr. HR Partner, OCFO
Alexandra Degg
Co-Chair
Pr. HR Business Partner, Biosciences Area Office & Biological Systems & Engineering Division
Linda Louie
Co-Chair
Career Development Program Manager, Career Pathways Office
Meg Rodriguez
Co-Chair
Director, Career Pathways Office
Ann Almgren
CSA Representative
Department Head of Applied Mathematics Department & Senior Scientist, Applied Mathematics & Computational Research Division
Mary Barnum
Ops Representative
Business Manager,
Office of the Deputy Lab Director for Operations/COO
Jerri Carmo
ETA Representative
Deputy of Operations,
Energy Technologies Area
Kate Coldwell
EESA Representative
Sr. HR Business Partner,
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Rebecca
Hartman-Baker
CSA Representative
Group Leader, User Engagement, NERSC
Kenneth Higa
Early Career ERG (ECERG) Representative
Research Scientist: Battery Group
Shannon Kotter
ETA Representative
Sr. HR Business Partner,
Energy Technologies Area
Susan Lucas
CSA Representative
Deputy of Business Operations, ESnet
Jimmy Mai
Ops Representative
Computer Systems Engineer,
IT Division
Maria Maroudas
Ops Represenative
Principal HR Business Partner, Laboratory Directorate,
Human Resources, Security and Emergency Services
Natasha Nelson
ETA Representative
Business Manager,
Energy Technologies Area
Asmita Patel
PSA Representative
Deputy of Operations, ATAP
Justin Placencia
Ops Representative
Operations Analyst
Career Pathways Office
Brian Quiter
PSA Representative
Staff Applied Physicist/Engineer and Deputy Head of the Applied Nuclear Physics program,
Physics Division
Ambily Rajappan
ESA Representative
Sr. HR Partner,
Energy Sciences Area Office,
Chemical Sciences,
Material Sciences
Erin Scharfstein
Co-Chair
Program Coordinator,
IDEA and Learning & Culture
Amanda Suppanich
Co-Chair
Culture & Change Management Specialist, Learning & Culture
Ashley White
ESA Representative
Interim Deputy for Strategy, Director of Communications, Advanced Light Source
Antoine Wojdyla
ESA Representative
Research Scientist,
Advanced Light Source
Charlette Lim Yankowitz
ETA Representative
HR Business Partner,
Energy Technologies Area