Who We Are: Shannon Gilmartin

PhD, Research Consultant, Anita Borg Institute;
Director, SKG Analysis;
Consulting Assistant Professor, School of Engineering, Stanford University

Shannon K. Gilmartin, Ph.D., is Director of SKG Analysis, a research consulting firm, and Consulting Assistant Professor at Stanford University’s School of Engineering. Her work focuses on education and workforce development in science and engineering fields. She is a Research Consultant for the Anita Borg Institute.

Shannon received her B.A. at Stanford University and her M.A. and Ph.D. at UCLA, and held two postdoctoral research appointments at the California Institute of Technology and Stanford University before starting her own consulting practice. She has taught classes at UCLA in gender, psychology, and education, and has published in Academe, The Journal of the American College of Surgeons, The Journal of Higher Education, Research in Higher Education, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, Journal of Research on Science Teaching, Journal of Research on Adolescence, Men and Masculinities, and The Journal of the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She is the co-author of Climbing the Technical Ladder: Obstacles and Solutions for Mid-Level Women in Technology, published by the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology and the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research, and Dual-Career Academic Couples: What Universities Need to Know, published by the Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research. She also is a co-author of the recent Exploring the Engineering Student Experience: Findings from the Academic Pathways of People Learning Engineering Survey (APPLES), published by the Center for Advancement of Engineering Education, University of Washington.

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  • Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary

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  • Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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Board of Trustees

  • Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
  • Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
  • Robin Abrams, Investor
  • Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
  • Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
  • Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
  • Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
  • Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
  • Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
  • Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
  • Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
  • Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
  • Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
  • Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
  • Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
  • Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
  • Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
  • Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
  • William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
  • Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
  • Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
  • Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
  • Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
  • Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)

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