Ms Thomas' Bio

Ms. Jeena Thomas (she/her/hers) is a Program Officer with the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering, and Medicine (CWSEM) at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine since October 2020. Ms. Thomas works primarily with the Action Collaborative on Preventing Sexual Harassment in Higher Education as the staff lead for two of its four working groups: the Prevention and Remediation Working Groups. In addition to her work on the Action Collaborative, Ms. Thomas has also supported other National Academies projects like the 2021 consensus study, “The Impact of COVID-19 on the Careers of Women in Academic Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.” In the last year, Ms. Thomas also led efforts for bringing together experts and leaders from across the world to consider transformations needed from research and higher education institutions in the next 75 years to better address complex, global challenges at the September 2022 Endless Frontier Symposium.

Prior to joining the National Academies, Ms. Thomas was selected as a Postbaccalaureate Fellow through the highly competitive National Institutes of Health Intramural Research Training Award Program and then was recruited to the Extramural Research Program to become the Operations Coordinator and Policy Liaison for the Division of Translational Research in the NIMH. Ms. Thomas earned her M.S. in Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University and her B.A. in Biology from the University of Virginia.