Giovanna Guerrero-Medina, PhD

Dr. Giovanna Guerrero-Medina is Director of the Yale Ciencia Initiative in Yale School of Medicine’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) and Director for DEI of Yale’s Wu Tsai Institute. She leads programs that broaden participation and increase inclusion and retention in STEM training and careers. She is PI of the Yale Ciencia Academy, an NIH-funded professional development program that has provided >260 biomedical and health science PhD students across the U.S. with training, mentoring, and peer support. Until recently, Dr. Guerrero-Medina was Executive Director of Ciencia Puerto Rico. Under her leadership, CienciaPR grew to a network of >17,000, a staff of 18, and the organization was recognized for their work promoting justice, equity, and inclusion in by the Union of Concerned Scientists, the AAAS-Caribbean Division, and the White House. Originally from Puerto Rico, with heritage from Ecuador and Argentina, she has a bachelor’s in biology from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and a PhD in Molecular and Cell Biology from the University of California, Berkeley, followed by science policy work with the National Academies and the NIH.