OUR BOARD
We are currently recruiting New board members!
Board Co-Chairs
Jon Madamba
Founder & Board CO-Chair
Jon is a Filipino-American who, through 20 years of experience in technology fields, saw just how important diversity of thought and experience is to any business, and formed STEM Paths Innovation Network to build a pipeline of opportunity for girls & students of color in STEM. He has led technology development at several international organizations including T-Mobile, Software AG and various cloud computing and big data tech startups. Jon was a founding partner at the SODO Makerspace and STEMPaths Labs in Fremont. Furthermore, he has been engaged on many boards and strategic planning committees including Seattle MESA, King County STEM Network, the Roadmap Project, and the Governor’s Extended Learning Opportunities Council driving advocacy for resources and support for economic and workforce skills development in the tech industry.
Angela Templin
co-chair
Angela is the Regional Commissioning Manager and firmwide government market sector lead at Glumac, a sustainable building systems engineering firm. She received a degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Washington and is a licensed Professional Engineer. In her career of more than 20 years, Angela has helped the Seattle-area’s rapidly growing built environment to be more sustainable, efficient, and functional. She combines senior-level management skills, technical knowledge, and hands-on field experience to commission facility systems, troubleshoot problems, and verify that all the diverse technical systems are operating according to the owner’s needs. She has commissioned the massive Alaskan Way Viaduct replacement tunnel, Vulcan’s South Lake Union Amazon Headquarters, and the North Satellite Expansion of Sea-Tac International Airport. Angela believes in the power of STEM education and regularly promotes STEM jobs for the next generation of women engineers, whether recent UW grads, colleagues, or her daughter’s friends who receive STEM toys for every birthday gift.
Board of Directors
Georgina Bukenya
Georgina Bukenya is an Associate Data Protection Officer at Meta. Prior to Meta, she worked in the international development sector leading human rights and technology for development programs with international NGOs, Foundations, and the UN in Africa, the Middle East and the South Pacific. In addition, Georgina has extensive experience in program management, organizational development, donor and stakeholder engagement, and public policy. Georgina holds a master’s degree in International Economic Law from the University of Warwick, UK. Georgina is passionate about knowledge and access equity and ensuring that underserved communities participate in and are represented by the digital revolution – a passion partly inspired by her Ugandan heritage.
India Clark
India Clark is a seasoned commercial real estate professional with over 15 years of experience in investment fund management, development, and strategic planning. She has been involved in over $567 million in commercial property transactions, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of complex deals and a commitment to exceeding client expectations. As the founder and managing director of Northwest Investment Partners, India leads a team specializing in off-market commercial property acquisitions, investment sales, and creative deal structuring in Washington State and South Carolina. Her firm is dedicated to providing innovative, proactive solutions tailored to clients’ long-term goals.
In addition to her work with Northwest Investment Partners, India is the founder of Attainable Housing Solutions (AHS), a mission-driven development organization addressing the housing affordability crisis in the Pacific Northwest. AHS focuses on creating quality, sustainable homes for middle-class homebuyers, emphasizing community-designed developments and equitable access to homeownership. Through collaboration across public, private, and philanthropic sectors, India aims to expand the housing supply and foster economic mobility for middle-income households and BIPOC communities.
India’s diverse expertise encompasses development, site selection, community engagement, pre-development planning, tenant sourcing, and pre-leasing. Her career reflects a dedication to innovative solutions and impactful development, positioning her as a leader in both commercial real estate investment and affordable housing initiatives.
dr. Rania hussein
Prof. Rania Hussein is a faculty member of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Washington. She is the Founder and Director of the Remote Hub Lab (RHLab), and an Associate Director of the UW Industrial Assessment Center (IAC).
She has over 15 years work experience in higher education as an educator and mentor to hundreds of students and alumni of electrical and computer engineering and computer science. Before joining UW, she was a research engineer at the Walt Disney Company.
Dr. Hussein has extensive experience in project management and community leadership. She has served as a founder, board member or executive director for non-profits to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion. Her DEI efforts contributed to the building and passing of SB-5166 Bill into WA State law in 2019.
Dr. Hussein is an award-winning educator who has been nationally recognized. She is also the recipient of IEEE region 6 outstanding engineering educator, mentor, and facilitator in the area of STEM award for the year 2022.
ojaswani Suley
Ojaswani Suley, is a regulatory and governance leader with over 15 years of experience in compliance and technology innovation. She currently leads hardware compliance initiatives at Amazon Web Services (AWS), and prior to that was at Microsoft, steering commercial software products (such as Azure, MS teams, M365), through complex regulatory landscapes while enabling innovation at scale.
Beyond her professional work, Ojaswani is actively involved in community andyouth development through STEM education. As a FIRST robotics coach and mentor, she is passionate about creating accessible learning opportunities for young people, helping students build technical skills, confidence, and teamwork, empowering the next generation to thrive in our AI-driven world.
ginny kozemczak
Ginny Kozemczak is a Privacy Risk & Compliance Manager at Rivian with prior experience at civil society organizations including The International Digital Accountability Council and The Open Society Foundations, where she led high-impact strategic planning initiatives. She is a current member of the Washington State Bar and has obtained degrees from New York University, Columbia University, and Cardozo School of Law. Ginny is passionate about the transforming power of education and continues to be inspired by her mom, who was a high school science teacher for over 25 years.
Angela Liao Schofield
Angela Liao Schofield is a Scaled Partnership Lead at Reality Labs Research at Meta. As a technology strategist and business problem solver, she has over two decades of experience driving cross-functional initiatives from ideation to execution at companies including Microsoft, Merrill Lynch, Unity, and Meta. Her background encompasses leading M&A investments, launching products, leading strategic partnerships, managing innovation, establishing joint ventures, and successfully overseeing acquisitions and investments. In addition to her work at Meta, she is passionate about education, serving on the MIT Educational Council and the SAAS Family Association. She is dedicated to using her experience to broaden access to high-quality education and build strong, diverse communities.
David Smith
David Smith is a knowledge systems and program leader with deep experience at the intersection of education, technology, and global health. He most recently served as Associate Director at PATH’s Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, where he led portfolio operations and knowledge for vaccine development and delivery worldwide. He also led the development of AI agents that transform complex research data into usable insights, significantly reducing the time required for analysis and reporting.
Over the course of his career, David has worked across organizations including the Brookings Institution, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the Peace Corps, building systems that improve how teams manage information, collaborate, and make decisions.
David’s interest in education and youth development was shaped during his Peace Corps service in the Dominican Republic and Timor Leste, where he created community-based technology programs and taught problem-solving through computer clubs. He has also served on the board of Fondo Quisqueya, supporting scholarship access for student-leaders from low-income families.
He holds a master’s degree in education from Stanford University and bachelor’s in philosophy from Connecticut College. David brings the conviction that learning about technology can be a vehicle for essential life skills: critical thinking, community building and resiliency.
Stephanie L. Bailey, Ph.D.
Dr. Bailey is a physicist, microsimulation scientist, and educator dedicated to making STEM more inclusive, equitable, and connected to the human experience. She earned her Ph.D. in nuclear physics from the College of William and Mary and has contributed broadly across research, education, policy, and advocacy.
She began her career as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University School of Medicine, where her work on a breast cancer microsimulation model informed the 2009 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force mammography guidelines. She later led projects modeling obesity prevention in India, child welfare in the U.S., HIV in Haiti, and developed her own model examining sex trafficking in Eastern Europe.
As an AAAS Science & Technology Policy Fellow, Dr. Bailey worked with USAID and the U.S. Embassy in Nicaragua to advance LGBTI inclusion and human rights initiatives. In academia, she has pioneered arts-integrated physics education at UC Santa Cruz and Chapman University, designing community-centered learning experiences that connect science with creativity.
A disabled physicist, Dr. Bailey is also a leading advocate for accessibility in STEM. Through research, writing, and public engagement, she champions systemic change to ensure science reflects the full diversity of human experience.