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Organizers and Volunteer Mentors

Volunteer Mentors

Click here to see the mentors and their bios for the 2024/2025 AMP-UP program!

We are no longer accepting new mentors for this year, check back in April 2025!

Pair mentorship is AMP-UP's primary activity. Our mentors are recruited from current and former participants of various prize fellowships in astronomy, including the NASA Hubble Fellowship Program and its predecessor programs (Hubble, Einstein, Sagan, Chandra, Fermi, Michelson, Spitzer), NSF Fellowship Programs (e.g. AAPF), and the Heising-Simons 51 Pegasi b Fellowship. We gratefully acknowledge their labour, and the care they have shown for all participants.

  • A list of mentors and their bios for the 2023/2024 iteration of the program can be found here.
  • A list of mentors and their bios for the pilot 2022/2023 iteration of the program can be found here.

Program Organizers

2024/2025

Kaley Brauer

Jenny Calahan

Thavisha Dharmawardena


Charles Law

Justin Pierel

Zhang Zhoujian

2023/2024

Erika Holmbeck

Ryan MacDonald

Joel Ong

2022/2023 (as “NHFP Mentorship Program”)

Jane Huang

David Jones