Meet the LANDInG Team

Brielle Bennett
(Community Manager)

Senior Program Specialist, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion AGU

Brielle Bennett (she/her/hers) is a Senior Program Specialist at AGU. Her work focuses on collaborating across departments to increase opportunities for diversity and inclusion within AGU, managing the Community of Practice and overall support of the AGU LANDInG Project. Brielle has a background and strong passion for working with historically underserved youth as an educator and social worker. She is a graduate of Illinois State University where she earned a bachelor’s degree in social work.

Margaret Fraiser
(Co-PI)

Director, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion
AGU

Margaret Fraiser (she/her/hers) is the Director of Diversity and Inclusion at AGU. Margaret served as a program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)’s Directorate for Geosciences in the Frontier Research in Earth Sciences and Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology Programs. She helped execute NSF programs focused on advancing scientific knowledge and developing an inclusive STEM workforce.

Prior to her rotation at NSF, Margaret was an Associate Professor and undergraduate faculty advisor in the Department of Geosciences at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. She is a member of the Paleontological Society’s inaugural Diversity and Inclusion Committee and was previously elected as Membership Coordinator. Margaret has served as Associate Editor and Editor-in-Chief of international, peer-reviewed, scientific journals. Margaret received a B.S. degree in geology from the University of Georgia and an M.S. and Ph.D. in geological sciences from the University of Southern California.

Pranoti Asher
(Co-PI)

Assistant Director, Grants and Education Programs
AGU

Pranoti Asher (she, her, hers) is the assistant director for grants and education programs at AGU.

She has also served as the inaugural scholar in residence at the American Geosciences Institute. Asher works in close partnership with the AGU Ethics and Equity Center as the lead staff member for the AGU Bridge Program, a component of the National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored Inclusive Graduate Education Network. The AGU Bridge Program was initiated in 2019 to develop, adopt and share inclusive practices for recruiting, admitting and retaining women and underrepresented students in STEM graduate programs.

Prior to joining AGU, Asher spent 18 years as a geoscience faculty member. In her last faculty position, she was a tenured member of the geology and geography department at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro.

She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in geology from the University of Bombay, India, and a Ph.D. in the geological sciences from the University of Connecticut.

Stephanie Goodwin
(Co-PI)

President
Incluxion Works, Inc

Stephanie A. Goodwin, Ph.D. (she/her/hers) is a nationally recognized scholar in diversity, equity and inclusion, Dr. Stephanie Goodwin has 20+ years of experience in higher education as a scientist, educator, and academic leader with expertise in diversity and inclusion, faculty development, and academic affairs. Her scholarly expertise includes social cognition and intergroup relations, including research on implicit social cognition and bias reduction. Founder of Incluxion Works, Inc., her "Speaking Up" workshops have promoted dialogue to change organizational culture and reduce identity harassment at 30+ universities and professional organizations across the US. She earned a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Texas at Austin, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Goodwin is an elected Fellow of the Society of Experimental Social Psychology.

Billy Williams
(Co-PI)

Senior Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion
AGU

Billy M. Williams (he/ him/ his) is the Senior Vice President for Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion at AGU. Williams was the Principal Investigator for the September 2016, NSF-funded workshop, Sexual Harassment in the Sciences: A Call to Respond, and serves as a co-PI on the 2017 NSF Grant, ADVANCE Partnership: From the Classroom to the Field: Improving the Workplace in the Geosciences. He is currently the PI on Catalyzing Cultural Change in the Sciences with New Resources and Tracking Tools, a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Williams was a member of the 2017-2018 National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Impact of Sexual Harassment in Academic STEMM, and the 2019-2020 Committee on Increasing the Number of Women in STEMM. Prior to joining AGU in 2012, he served as a Senior Program Officer at the National Academy of Sciences and as a Global R&D Director at the Dow Chemical Company.

Hope Garland
(Communications Manager)

Media Relations Specialist AGU

Hope Garland is a Media Relations Specialist at AGU, where she supports the organization’s press and social media operations. Her work also concentrates on promoting specific AGU programs, including AGU LANDInG, within the geosciences. Prior to joining AGU, Hope led and contributed to strategic public relations campaigns for B2B and technology brands in everything from AdTech to transportation. Hope graduated from Purdue University with a bachelor’s degree in English.

Brandon Bobisink
(Project Manager)

Director, Project Management Office
AGU

Brandon Bobisink (he/ him/ his) is the Director for the office of project management at AGU. Brandon spent the last 15 years managing projects across the globe that have supported the advancement of science and human rights. These projects have included things like developing sustainable water infrastructure in Sub-Saharan Africa, building the STEM pipeline for rural Americans and renovating the first commercial Net-zero energy building in Washington D.C.

Current Steering Committee and Advisory Board Members

Meet the LANDInG Team

Brielle Bennett
(Community Manager)

Senior Program Specialist, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion AGU

Margaret Fraiser
(Co-PI)

Director, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion
AGU

Pranoti Asher
(Co-PI)

Assistant Director, Grants and Education Programs
AGU

Stephanie Goodwin
(Co-PI)

President
Incluxion Works, Inc

Billy Williams
(Co-PI)

Senior Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion
AGU

Hope Garland
(Communications Manager)

Media Relations Specialist AGU

Brandon Bobisink
(Project Manager)

Director, Project Management Office
AGU

Current Steering Committee and Advisory Board Members

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Meet the LANDInG Team

Brielle Bennett(Community Manager)

Senior Program Specialist, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion AGU

Margaret Fraiser (Co-PI)

Director, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion AGU

Pranoti Asher (Co-PI)

Assistant Director, Grants and Education Programs AGU

Stephanie Goodwin (Co-PI)

PresidentIncluxion Works, Inc

Billy Williams(Co-PI)

Senior Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and InclusionAGU

Hope Garland(Communications Manager)

Media Relations Specialist AGU

Brandon Bobisink (Project Manager)

Director, Project Management OfficeAGU

Current Steering Committee and Advisory Board Members

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Brielle Bennett
(Community Manager)

Margaret Fraiser
(Co-PI)

Director, Ethics, Diversity and Inclusion
AGU

Pranoti Asher
(Co-PI)

Assistant Director, Grants and Education Programs
AGU

Stephanie Goodwin
(Co-PI)

President
Incluxion Works, Inc

Billy Williams
(Co-PI)

Senior Vice President, Ethics, Diversity, and Inclusion
AGU

Hope Garland
(Communications Manager)

Brandon Bobisink
(Project Manager)

Director, Project Management Office
AGU