The Advocates and Allies Advisory Board (A3B) is a group of women, minorities, and gender diverse individuals who work with the National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded ADVANCE team to guide and advise the Advocates Team. Guidance comes in the form of communicating and prioritizing issues that women, minorities, and gender diverse individuals experience at Michigan Tech that impede their career growth and success. Guidance and oversight also come in the form of structuring and directing the education of the Advocates via published resources and lived experiences, the best topics, and approaches for the Advocates.
When advocating for policies and practices, the goal is that the A3B and Advocates will work closely together with the goal that well-intentioned ideas translate into policies and practices that most effectively achieve the goals of equity.
Advisory Board
- Associate Teaching Professor, Applied Computing
- Program Director, BS in Mechatronics
- Program Director, BS in Electrical Engineering Technology
Research Interests
- Micro Electro Mechanical Systems (MEMS)
- Single electron devices
- Charging-effect-based tunneling devices
- Quantum electronics
- Circuit design
Teaching Interests
- Electronics
- Circuits and instrumentation
- Physical electronics
- Digital logic

Danielle Meirow
- Director of Student Leadership and Involvement
- dlmeirow@mtu.edu
- 906-487-1963
- 112 Memorial Union Building

Specialties
- Supports the Student Leadership and Involvement staff in ensuring seamless day-to-day operations and executing impactful programming.
- Leads long and short-term strategic planning for Student Leadership and Involvement based on student feedback and assessment.
- Chairs the Tech Traditions Committee in order to provide oversight and collaboration amongst campus partner.
- Teaching Professor, Visual and Performing Arts
- Director, Music Composition Program
- ecmeyer@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3015
- Rozsa 206
Links of Interest
Specialties/Activities
- Classical music composition
- Violin/viola performance, instruction

Jill Patterson
- Manager for Career and Corporate Events
- jspatter@mtu.edu
- 906-487-2313
- Administration Building 220

Responsibilities
- Manages CareerFEST! and Career Fair and other career events
- Manages First Destination Survey collection
- Manages Career Services materials and equipment
- Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Geospatial Engineering
- jperl@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3641
- Dow 863
Links of Interest
Teaching Interests
- Environmental Engineering
- Transport & Transformation of Organic Chemicals
- Boundary Layer Meteorology
- Sustainability
Research Interests
- Air and Water Quality
- Atmosphere-biosphere Exchange of Chemicals
- Micrometeorology
- Environmental Analytical Chemistry
- Sustainability
- Associate Professor, Biomedical Engineering
- Affiliated Associate Professor, Biological Sciences
- smithar@mtu.edu
- 906-487-3230
- M&M 410A
Links of Interests
Research Interests
- Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS) and Nanotechnology
- Microfluidics for cancer research
- Microenvironment platforms to characterize cellular interactions
- Sensors and devices for biomedical sensing and implantable devices