Please join us for the 2025 NPAW National Kickoff brought to you by the NPA. The 2025 kickoff will include remarks provided by leaders across the postdoc community, with a brief keynote by Gretchen Goldman, Ph.D., president of the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a long-standing partner organization of the NPA. This event is free to attend and open to the full community.

Speakers: Gretchen Goldman, Ph.D., president, Union of Concerned Scientists (keynote); Azmi Ahmad, Ph.D., postdoctoral fellow, Yale School of Medicine, chair, NPA Advocacy Committee; Pallabi Bhowmick, Ph.D., postdoctoral research associate, Human Factors and Aging Lab, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, member, NPA Postdoc Council; Thomas P. Kimbis, J.D., executive director & CEO, NPA; Christopher T. Smith, Ph.D., postdoctoral affairs program administrator, Office of Research and Innovation, Virginia Tech, chair, NPA Board of Directors

Goldman is an environmental engineer who previously served in the White House and Department of Transportation before joining UCS earlier this year and well versed in the nexus of science and policy.