Pam McLeod previously held roles as the director of education and outreach and manager of diversity and inclusion for the National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center at Stanford University. She has worked with geographically dispersed teams for over a decade. Prior to her work at Stanford and U.C. Berkeley, Pam was an actress for live role play games and was a biology teacher at a top Bay Area school. She earned a PhD in Engineering from Stanford University and a BS in Environmental Engineering from Manhattan College.