PLEN Women in STEM Policy

Sharla Artz serves as the Vice President of Government Affairs, Policy and Cybersecurity of the Utilities Technology Council, where she focuses on bringing attention to cross sector interdependencies in critical infrastructure protection efforts. Ms. Artz was formerly the Director... Read More →

Lila Nieves-Lee is Legislative Assistant to U.S. Senator Tim Scott (R-SC), a member of the SenateCommittee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.  She handles issues relating to Banking, Housing, & Urban Affairs; Commerce, Science, and Transportation; as well as trade. Prior to... Read More →

Sara earned her PhD in physics from the University of Oklahoma in 2015 where she studied remnant planetary systems around white dwarf stars. After graduate school, Sara moved to DC for a one-year AAAS/AIP Congressional Science Fellowship with the House Science Committee. During her... Read More →

Priyanka Hooghan is the Subcommittee Staff Director of the Environment Subcommittee of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Prior to her current role, she served as a STEM graduate fellow with the American Petroleum Institute and in the office of Senator Mazie K... Read More →