Tess Carter

Tess Carter is an environmental chemist having just graduated with a degree from Brown University (Class of '16). She received two fellowships at Brown to work on the science and policies surrounding the regulation of nitrogen and how to communicate these findings to scientists, policymakers, and citizens. A co-chair of the Chemistry Department Undergraduate Group (DUG) and in a leadership position in the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) Program, Tess both served as a mentor and also organized events on campus to support increased student-faculty communication around STEM diversity issues, to provide professional development and skill building to STEM students, and to expose students to the limitless possibilities of their chemistry degree.