Hi everyone, I’m Lou and I’m the founder and director of the Center for Scientific Collaboration and Community Engagement (CSCCE). At CSCCE, we’re really interested in the human elements of collaborative work in STEM - including how to improve the success of communities and collaborations by supporting community managers. We run trainings, engage in consultancy projects, publish resources, and host our own community of practice so that anyone working to support STEM communities has access to useful information and others doing the work!
It’s been great to work with MJFF on this project and we can’t wait to hear your feedback on Discourse and shape where we go next to establish this new - and much needed - community of practice.
A little about me: I’m a biochemist by training and increasingly a social scientist by disposition, with research experience in Germany, Spain and the UK. I’m currently based in Portland, Maine after many years in Washington, DC. I love to hike, bike and explore the amazing local food scene.