Hi I’m Jeff Weld and I direct Iowa’s statewide STEM program on behalf of Governor Reynolds for the twelfth year now. In 2018-19 I took a leave of absence to join the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy as Senior Policy Advisor on STEM Education, producing the Federal STEM strategic plan, among other things. I’m on extended leave (!) from the Biology Department at the University of Northern Iowa – ever grateful. More background here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Weld