Michelle Juarez

TITLE

Diversity Outreach Coordinator

EMAIL

michelle.juarez@stonybrook.edu

Dr. Michelle Juarez joined IACS in August 2023 as the Diversity Outreach Coordinator. Her primary focus is to grow the successful recruitment of underrepresented scholars for graduate and postdoctoral study across the STEM disciplines and more specifically for the institute science domains. Dr. Juarez has over 25 years of experience in Biomedical research, STEM Literacy, DEIAJ, and higher education administration. Her previously held roles include Assistant Professor at the CUNY School of Medicine, Science Education Fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and Assistant Director of Diversity and Research Readiness for the DNA Learning Center at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory. Dr. Juarez earned her PhD in Genetics at Stony Brook University and was a recipient of the Dr. W. Burghardt Turner Fellowship. She continued her training as an IRACDA postdoctoral scholar at the University of California, San Diego, and San Diego State University.