CAMBIO™ - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor EDC - Education Development Center
- Director of STEM Education Strategy
Andrés Henríquez, EDC Director of STEM Education Strategy, is a national expert in science, career readiness, educational technology, and policy. He brings extensive experience in philanthropy, having served as a program officer at the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Andrés leads initiatives to improve STEM education, career readiness, and workforce development to create a future-ready workforce. One initiative focuses on strengthening education and employment systems to boost domestic research and manufacturing of semiconductors in the US. He was a member of NSF's Directorate for STEM Education Advisory Committee, and has led work in college and career readiness standards and assessments, including the writing and adoption of the Next Generation Science Standards. He also led a partnership between Bell Atlantic and Union City Schools that fueled community transformation and received national recognition. He holds an MA from Teachers College and a BA from Hamilton College.
Job Titles:
- Director of Grants at the Exploratorium
As the Director of Grants at the Exploratorium, Anne Holmes synthesized multiple streams of work and perspectives to help form Cambio's structure and framing. Her insights on program integrity, theoretical grounding, and equity practices supported Cambio's development process.
Job Titles:
- Co - Principal Investigator Exploratorium
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor Hispanic Heritage Foundation
A native of Bolivia, Jasmin N. Zamorano moved to the United States as a teenager. She holds an AS from Northern Virginia Community College, and BS degrees in biology and psychology from Virginia Commonwealth University. During her academic career, she assisted in faculty research in neurodegenerative diseases, the molecular mechanisms of the control of the cell cycle and carcinogenesis, and human variation in relation to human behavior and its disorders. Soon after graduation, Jasmin joined the Hispanic Heritage Foundation (HHF), managing its STEM Leadership Symposia. She currently serves as HHF's Chief Programs Officer, overseeing programs ranging from Code as a Second Language, aimed at minority students learning to code, to the Hispanic Heritage Youth Awards, which awards grants to Latino students to fund their education or a social impact community project. Jasmin has a passion for inspiring Latino youth to pursue higher education, specifically in STEM fields.
Job Titles:
- Co - Principal Investigator Children 's Discovery Museum of San Jose
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor Hispanic Heritage Foundation
- President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation
Jose Antonio Tijerino is President and CEO of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, a national nonprofit focused on education, workforce, social impact, and culture. Under Jose Antonio, HHF has been honored by the White House, Congress, Fortune 500 companies, other nonprofits, and the Government of Mexico. He is also Executive Producer of the Hispanic Heritage Awards at the Kennedy Center. Prior, he was an executive at Fannie Mae Foundation, Nike, Burson Marsteller, and Cohn & Wolfe. Jose Antonio co-founded the Code as a Second Language initiative and the Latinos on Fast Track Institute, among others. As host of the Fritanga podcast, he presents Latino culture and perspectives, with guests ranging from celebrities to policymakers to opinion leaders. A Salinas Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Jose Antonio earned a BS in journalism from the University of Maryland and a PhD of humane letters from The Chicago School.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Associate
- Chairman and Distinguished Professor
Kris D. Gutiérrez is the Carol Liu Chair and Distinguished Professor and former Associate Dean at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Education and the university's Faculty Assistant to the Vice Chancellor for Research. Kris's expertise is in the learning sciences, literacy, policy, and qualitative and design-based approaches to inquiry. Her research examines learning in designed environments, with attention to culture, historicity, and ecological resilience, and approaches to literacy and STEM learning with immigrant and translingual student populations. Her work in social design-based experiments foregrounds issues of equity in learning and design. Kris's research has been published widely and she has received numerous awards including the 2025 AERA Distinguished Contributions to Research award. She served on the US Department of Education Reading First Advisory Committee, was a member of President Obama's Education Policy Transition Team, and served as member and Vice-Chair of the National Board for Education Sciences/IES.
As former Executive Director of the Association of Children's Museums, founding member of CCLI, and Advisor to GENIAL, Laura Huerta Migus contributed to Cambio's development phase and pilot cohort as faculty and coach. Laura provided key insights on organizational change practices and diversity and inclusion in the museum field.
Job Titles:
- Advisor Monterey Bay Aquarium
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Advisor UC Santa Cruz
- Distinguished Professor of Psychology at University of California
Maureen Callanan is Distinguished Professor of Psychology at University of California, Santa Cruz. She holds a BA from Mount Holyoke College and a PhD from Stanford University. Her research focuses on young children's developing understanding of the natural world in the context of everyday family conversations. Taking a sociocultural approach, she investigates young children's development in families and communities. She has a longstanding research partnership with Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose and has been PI or co-PI on several NIH- and NSF-funded projects investigating children's informal science learning. She was a partner in the Center for Informal Learning and Schools (CILS) and a co-author of the 2009 National Academies volume Learning Science in Informal Environments. She has been Associate Editor for Psychological Bulletin and Journal of Cognition and Development, past chair of AERA's SIG on Informal Learning Environments Research, and past President of the Cognitive Development Society.
As a Senior Project Manager for the Exploratorium in San Francisco, California, Stefanie acts as a bridge between specific projects and institution-wide goals and operations. She also serves on the museum's Latinx Coordinating Committee, a diverse, cross-functional group dedicated to supporting Latinx community engagement and the organizational structures necessary to enact it. By centering mentorship for peers and emerging professionals in her work, Stefanie uses her position to lead from where she is and supports others to do the same. After earning BAs in Latin American studies and literary arts, Stefanie worked in program and event production, including formative years at the arts and human-rights organization PEN America. She has applied her expertise across fields, from corporate to nonprofit to start-up. She has developed work for ASTC, The New York Times, Macmillan Learning, Brown University, San Francisco AIDS Walk, Zyzzyva literary magazine, and many other businesses. Working on the Cambio project from month 1 onward with this community of dedicated, brave, faceted professionals will forever be a joy and pride for her.
Job Titles:
- Principal Investigator Exploratorium