Shirley Malcom is senior advisor and director of SEA Change at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). In more than 45 years at AAAS she has worked to improve the quality and increase access to education and careers in STEMM for all.
Dr. Malcom is a trustee of Caltech and regent of Morgan State University. She has served in a number of science policy positions, including as a member of the National Science Board, policymaking body of the NSF, and President Clinton’s Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Malcom, a native of Birmingham, Alabama, holds a PhD in ecology from Penn State, M.A. from UCLA and B.S with Distinction. from the University of Washington, both in zoology.