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Who We Are

Organizers and Volunteer Mentors

Volunteer Mentors

Our applications for the 2026/2027 program are now closed.

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

2026—

Sanskriti Das

Sanskriti Das

Ward Howard

Ward Howard

Dominick Rowan

Dominick Rowan

Nicholas Rui

Nicholas Rui

2024—2026

Kaley Brauer

Kaley Brauer

Jenny Calahan

Jenny Calahan

Thavisha Dharmawardena

Thavisha Dharmawardena

Charles Law

Charles Law

Justin Pierel

Justin Pierel

Zhang Zhoujian

Zhang Zhoujian

2023—2024

Erika Holmbeck

Erika Holmbeck

Ryan MacDonald

Ryan MacDonald

Joel Ong

Joel Ong

2022—2023 (as “NHFP Mentorship Program”)

Jane Huang

Jane Huang

David Jones

David Jones