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

Lisa Claus

NERSC

WSEC Representative

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