Arthur Mitchell - Executive Director
Arthur is an active voice for underserved populations and a change agent for issues of equity and access, especially in STEM education. He is a seasoned educator who has worked in some of the most impoverished and affluent school systems in the Greater Philadelphia Region. His broad experiences have convinced him that assisting organizations in developing a systems approach when addressing STEM education will give them a stronger foundation and clearer vision for what they are trying to achieve.
As he partners with organizations to ensure that all student groups are being served, his most rewarding work always comes from direct interactions he has with students.
He was recently appointed as an Equity Fellow for the Philadelphia Regional Institute for STEM Educators (PRISE).
Cheryl Rush Dix - Principal Director
An educator with Aerospace Engineering – Teaching – Program Administration career trajectories in roughly equal arcs, Cheryl Rush Dix is dedicated to establishing access and opportunity for STEM education. Her tenure in a large urban Pennsylvania district included developing science initiatives to enhance district-wide, inquiry-based science education for 10,000+ PreK-12 students through major corporate grants, accomplishing a long-held district goal of shifting a struggling, ninety-percent poverty, ninety-percent minority school into ninety-percent proficiency on the state science assessment. She currently serves STEM education and her community as a Fulbright Research Alumna, NSF project investigator, and Trustee for the Erie County Community College.