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Sonia Zárate

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Sonia Zárate
Born
🎓 Alma materUniversity of California, Riverside
💼 Occupation

Sonia Irene Zárate is a Program Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI)[1] and past-president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).[2] She leads efforts to foster an inclusive scientific enterprise so that science is able to benefit from the potential that diversity holds.[3]

Education and career[edit]

Zárate is a first-generation college student who came to the United States with her parents under the Bracero program.[4] She earned her B.S. in biology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 2007 she earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside; Her dissertation "Plant responses to the silverleaf whitefly" was co-advised by Linda L. Walling and Patricia Singer and focused on defense signaling in innate immunity.[5][6] Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral research working in the field of chemical ecology.[1][where?][better source needed] She then worked leading offices of undergraduate researcher at the University of San Diego and the University of California, Los Angeles.[1]

From 2019 through 2020, Zárate was president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS).[2]

As of 2022, Zárate is a program officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).[1] In 2019 she was a featured panelist at a National Academy of Sciences discussion on diversity in the STEM workforce.[7]

Select publications[edit]

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Meet Our Team | HHMI". www.hhmi.org. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  2. 2.0 2.1 "UCR Alumna Becomes Fourth Woman to Serve as SACNAS President". Inside UCR. Retrieved 2022-03-12.
  3. Zárate, Sonia (2020-05-15). McKee, Kimberly D.; Delgado, Denise A., eds. "Making the ivory tower more inclusive: Degrees of Difference: Reflections of Women of Color on Graduate School". Science. University of Illinois Press. 368 (6492): 723–723. doi:10.1126/science.abb4923. ISSN 0036-8075.
  4. Arnett, Autumn A; Morris, Catherine; Pluviose, David. (November 19, 2015). "Seeking STEM Support". Diverse Issues in Higher Education. 32(1): 10–12 – via ProQuest.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. Yong, Ed (2019-03-25). "Pretty Sly for a Whitefly". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2022-03-16.
  6. Zarate, Sonia Irene (2008). Plant responses to the Silverleaf Whitefly. ISBN 978-0-549-52397-0. OCLC 801530447. Search this book on
  7. "STEM Workforce Diversity: Where Do We Go from Here?". www.nationalacademies.org. March 21, 2019. Retrieved 2022-03-17.

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