Carolina Londoño Michel is a systems-oriented geoscientist who bridges Earth science, education, and community knowledge to advance sustainable and equitable futures. Her work integrates Indigenous knowledge systems, geoscience education, and geomedicine through a convergence lens that centers people–planet relationships. In long-term collaboration with Indigenous and Hispanic communities, she co-develops research grounded in trust, reciprocity, and shared priorities.
Linnea Beckett is currently working on developing a STEM Ed+ Commons digital platform that will work alongside Knowledge Commons to share, collaborate, and build knowledge with no paywall or metadata extraction. The hope is to leverage STEM Ed+ Commons for researcher and practitioner use, expand access, participation and close the research to practice gap.
Lili Yan is a learning scientist and Research Associate at the CREATE for STEM Institute at Michigan State University. She received her Ph.D. in Instructional Technology and Learning Sciences from Utah State University in 2023. Prior to her Ph.D. program, Lili has over six years of experience teaching English in higher education institutions in China. Her research focuses on community-based and design-based approaches to understanding how people learn through interactions within and across natural, cultural, and technology-supported environments.
Ted has been with Michigan State University since 1997, College of Education since 2012, and CREATE for STEM since 2025. Over the years, Ted has managed server farms, technically supported 1,000's of faculty, researchers, staff, and students, and help shape technology for the College.
