Dr. Rochelle Rollins is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). For over 25 years she has worked at the local, state, and federal level on health care and social service issues related to vulnerable populations and the social determinates of health. Within HHS, she has led work on cancer health disparities, Healthy People, the prevention of human trafficking, and oral health. Dr. Rollins co-led the effort for oral health to be one of the 12 Leading Health Indicators in Healthy People 2020. She has been a member of the HHS Oral Health Coordinating Committee for over a decade.

In the HHS Office of Minority Health, as the Director of the Division of Policy and Data, Dr. Rollins led efforts to improve health disparities research coordination, performance measurement, and data collection. Her previous position was Special Assistant to the Deputy Director of the National Cancer Institute where she co-chaired the HHS Health Disparities Council’s Subcommittee on Cancer.

Dr. Rollins received her Bachelor of Science from Wellesley College, her Master of Public Health from Boston University, and her doctorate from Brandeis University’s Heller School for Social Policy and Management where she was a Pew health policy fellow.

Jane is a clean energy and climate change expert who is currently the Western Regional Manager of Market Development at Highland Electric Fleets where she supports school districts to understand how best to electrify their fleet.

This includes community organizing, mass market education, policy advocacy, and major account political support as well as engaging with utilities, regulators, and legislators around existing and potential future programs designed to support electric school buses.

Vivian Ebisike is a graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park. While there, she majored in Criminology and Criminal Justice with a minor in Nonprofit Leadership and Social Innovation.

She is also the CEO of Stand Up Global Inc (DBA Stand Up), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that mobilizes students to be civically engaged in the Washington DC area through education, empowerment, and entrepreneurship. For more information, visit www.standuporg.com. 

Dr. Otto C. Wilson Jr. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the Catholic University of America. Dr. Wilson earned a B.S. (1988), M.S. (1991) and Ph.D. in Ceramic Science and Engineering at Rutgers University. He conducted postdoctoral research at the University of Maryland on enhanced machinability of dental ceramic materials (1995-1996) and was a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral fellow at Johns Hopkins in 1996 prior to joining the Materials Science and Engineering faculty at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Dr. Wilson became a faculty member in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at Catholic University in 2003 and established the Biomimetics, Orthopedics, and Nanomaterials Education/Composite Research for Advanced Biomaterials (BONE/CRAB) Lab. The research vision of the BONE/CRAB Lab is to develop nanophase materials to enhance the healing and remodeling of hard tissue at the whole tissue, cellular, and subcellular levels. Dr. Wilson’s research Interests include biomineralization phenomena, nanomaterials chemistry, biological liquid crystals, and the synthesis and surface modification of hydroxyapatite.

Dr Wilson was awarded a NSF CAREER Award (DMR-0645675) in 2007 for his work involving bone inspiration in research and education. He is very active in K-12 educational outreach and developing tools and teaching methodologies to encourage young people to excel in STEM education.