Engaging Community Members

June 17, 2021 @ noon-1 PM

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Building partnerships with external stakeholders and community members can be an essential aspect of developing a compelling grant application for a variety of research funders. This seminar will highlight resources from across Stanford that support community engagement, outreach, and broader impacts efforts. The speakers will share best practices for working with their groups to develop grants that incorporate community engagement.

The target audience is junior faculty at Stanford but it is open to all Stanford affiliates.

Speakers:

Kyle Cole,PhD, Director of the Office of STEM Outreach. Kyle Cole is the Director of the Office of STEM Outreach (OSO) which serves as a nexus connecting Stanford faculty, students, and postdocs with youth, schoolteachers, nonprofit organizations, and the broader community.  He has worked in science outreach since 2005, most recently serving as the Director of Precollege Programs at Oregon State University where he oversaw programs ranging from teacher professional development, to afterschool clubs, to undergraduate online-mentoring of K-12 students.

Jennifer Saltman, PhD, Director of Outreach Education, School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences. Dr. Saltzman earned her Ph.D. in Biological Oceanography from the University of Rhode Island and B.S. from The University of Michigan. She has been the Director of Outreach in the School of Earth Sciences since 2005. Her prior experience includes teaching and managing environmental education at the Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association, the Adler Planetarium, Millersville University, and the US Naval Academy.

Patricia Rodriguez Espinosa, PhD, MPH, Associate Director of Research, School of Medicine Office of Community Engagement. Dr. Rodriguez Espinosa is an Instructor in the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health and also serves as the Associate Director of Research for the Office of Community Engagement at Stanford Medicine. The ultimate goal of her research is to decrease health inequities among racial/ethnic minority populations, particularly Latinxs and immigrant communities, through transdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship. Her research aims to understand factors that create and maintain health inequities (e.g., racial residential segregation) and use these insights to develop novel multi-level interventions and health promotion programs to address the inequity gap and that include multi-sectoral collaborations. Dr. Rodriguez Espinosa’s research has also centered around developing the science of Community-Based Participatory Research, citizen science, and other participatory research approaches.

Wei-ting Chen, PhD, MA, Associate Director of Community Partners, School of Medicine Office of Community Engagement. Dr. Chen came to Stanford University after serving as the Nutrition, Family &Consumer Sciences Advisor with UC Cooperative Extension where she oversaw the local implementation of federally funded nutrition education programs, supported volunteer-led public education programs, and conducted community-engaged research projects. Her own research interests center on how poverty and social inequality shape people’s life chances. She enjoys working with students, faculty, and community partners to build new research and education opportunities.

Route to Getting Grants (R2G2) is a monthly seminar series specially designed for junior faculty. Sessions cover all aspects of grant writing, delivered through panel sessions, workshops and focused talks. R2G2 will also provide unique networking opportunities, enabling cross faculty collaborations and multidisciplinary partnerships. R2G2 ensures that junior faculty have all the tools and strategies to lead them to grant success and on to independent research careers.

Jointly sponsored by Stanford Vice Provost and Dean of Research, School of Medicine’s Office of Faculty Development and Diversity,  Engineering Research Administration in the School of Engineering, and Stanford Earth.