Rose Albert

Vice PrEsident (she/her) | contact

Rose supports PSPDG’s President by coordinating partnerships with external policy organizations and leading communications for PSPDG.

Rose grew up in Meridian, Mississippi and graduated with a BS in Chemistry and MPH in Environmental Health Sciences from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. While in Alabama, she developed a deep connection to southern environmental justice issues. Now as a PhD candidate in Pharmacology and lung biologist-in-training, her long-term goal is to return to the South to provide scientific support to communities most impacted by the climate crisis.

Georgia Mies

Treasurer (She/her) | contact

As the Treasurer of PSPDG, Georgia oversees finances for all three branches of the group. She also seeks new funding opportunities for PSPDG, manages its grants, and coordinates member reimbursements and purchase orders.

Georgia completed her bachelors degree at the University of Michigan with a double major in Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and Evolutionary Anthropology. She is now a PhD candidate in the Genomics and Computational Biology graduate program through the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn. She studies statistical and population genetics, with projects ranging from identifying variants contributing to cancer risk to studying selection in ancient human populations.

Katie Mossburg

President Emerita (she/her) | contact

As the President Emeritus of PSPDG, Katie provides advice and support to the President and Executive Leadership team in long-term strategizing, financial planning, managing relationships with outside organizations, and developing PSPDG’s future leaders.

Katie grew up in West Virginia, and earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Biomedical Engineering from Boston University. She is now a fourth year PhD student in Bioengineering at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on developing ultrasmall metallic nanoparticles as novel contrast agents for breast cancer imaging.

Walker Gosrich

President Emeritus (He/Him) | contact

As President Emeritus of PSPDG, Walker provides advice and support to the President and Executive Leadership team in long-term strategizing, financial planning, managing relationships with outside organizations, and developing PSPDG’s future leaders.

Walker hails from the far reaches of upstate NY, and earned his Bachelors in Mechanical Engineering from the University at Buffalo. He is currently a PhD Candidate in the GRASP Lab at University of Pennsylvania, researching the coordination of multi-robot teams via graph theory and machine learning. His policy interests are in regulation of autonomous weapons, and in the governance of AI and its use in large-scale human-facing systems.

Lindsey Fernandez

President Emerita (She/Her)|Postdoctoral Fellow | contact

As the President Emeritus of PSPDG, Lindsey provides advice and support to the President and Executive Leadership team in long-term strategizing, financial planning, managing relationships with outside organizations, and developing PSPDG’s future leaders.

Erin K. Reagan

President Emerita (she/her) | contact

As the President Emeritus of PSPDG, Erin provides advice and support to the President and Executive Leadership team in long-term strategizing, financial planning, managing relationships with outside organizations, and developing PSPDG’s future leaders.

Erin grew up in rural Pennsylvania, not far from Philadelphia. She earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry and Physics from Hofstra University and recently completed her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she researched the use of mRNA vaccines for preventing infectious diseases. She currently serves as an Eagleton Science and Politics Fellow placed within the New Jersey Legislature.

Past Leadership

Throughout PSPDG’s history, we’re grateful to have been led by extremely motivated and hard-working individuals. Our previous leaders have devoted time, energy, and skill to the vision and activities of the group, and given current and future leadership the framework to succeed in our endeavor to share science with the world.