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Kareen Coulombe, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Engineering at Brown University in the Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine (I-BEAM). She earned a B.S. in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Rochester summa cum laude in 2001 and was a Whitaker Pre-doctoral Fellow, earning a Ph.D. in Bioengineering at the University of Washington in 2007. She was an NIH Ruth L. Kirschstein post-doctoral fellow in Pathology at the University of Washington where she won an NIH Pathway to Independence K99/R00 award in 2012, and started her research program at Brown in 2014. She was named a Rising Star in 2017 by the Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Group of BMES; was a Finalist for the Young Investigator Award at the Regenerative Medicine Workshop at Charleston (2019); was awarded a 2021 NSF CAREER Award; and was named as a 2021 Young Innovator of the CMBE. Dr. Coulombe served as the Director of Graduate Studies in Biomedical Engineering for five years (2019 – 2024), holds a leadership certificate from the Leadership Institute for Tomorrow (2006) and facilitated these workshops (2007-2009), was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Mentoring in Engineering (2019), and won the I-BEAM Outstanding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Leadership Award (2024). She received facilitator training from the Center for the Improvement of Mentored Experience in Research at the University of Wisconsin Madison to facilitate the NIH-funded, evidence-based workshop on “Culturally Aware Mentoring."