The American Scientific Affiliation and Christian Women in Science are please to announce that the leadership of CWIS has passed from Lynn Billman to Deb Shepherd. Deb holds degrees in physics and earned a Doctorate in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. She began her career as a research engineer and spent 10 years working on space-based sensors and training NASA astronauts for Space Lab shuttle missions while getting a Masters degree in astrophysics.

For 17 years she worked as an astronomer and project manager at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), researching star and planet formation and helping to build and commission radio telescopes in the USA, Chile and South Africa.

Deb recently completed a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as a science and English teacher at the Learning Works Charter School in Pasadena, California. She is a deacon in the United Methodist Church. Last summer she worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help Katanga Methodist University develop a strategic plan and help build a high school in the village of Muleji.

The American Scientific Affiliation and Christian Women in Science are please to announce that the leadership of CWIS has passed from Lynn Billman to Deb Shepherd. Deb holds degrees in physics and earned a Doctorate in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. She began her career as a research engineer and spent 10 years working on space-based sensors and training NASA astronauts for Space Lab shuttle missions while getting a Masters degree in astrophysics.

For 17 years she worked as an astronomer and project manager at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), researching star and planet formation and helping to build and commission radio telescopes in the USA, Chile and South Africa.

Deb recently completed a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as a science and English teacher at the Learning Works Charter School in Pasadena, California. She is a deacon in the United Methodist Church. Last summer she worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help Katanga Methodist University develop a strategic plan and help build a high school in the village of Muleji.

The American Scientific Affiliation and Christian Women in Science are please to announce that the leadership of CWIS has passed from Lynn Billman to Deb Shepherd. Deb holds degrees in physics and earned a Doctorate in Astronomy at the University of Wisconsin. She began her career as a research engineer and spent 10 years working on space-based sensors and training NASA astronauts for Space Lab shuttle missions while getting a Masters degree in astrophysics.

For 17 years she worked as an astronomer and project manager at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) and the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), researching star and planet formation and helping to build and commission radio telescopes in the USA, Chile and South Africa.

Deb recently completed a Master of Divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary and serves as a science and English teacher at the Learning Works Charter School in Pasadena, California. She is a deacon in the United Methodist Church. Last summer she worked in the Democratic Republic of Congo to help Katanga Methodist University develop a strategic plan and help build a high school in the village of Muleji.