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ASHANTI PYRTLE博士是南佛罗里达大学（USF）海洋科学学院的助理教授，也是扩大参与研究所的高级科学家。她的研究领域，海洋和地球科学，面临着极度缺乏代表性不足的少数民族（URM）专业人员的问题。她认识到有必要影响大量代表性不足的学生，为他们提供指导和指导，以及大多数本科生和研究生无法获得的战略专业发展机会。Ashanti J. Pyrtle博士认识到有效鼓励学生追求科学事业的重要性，并投入了大量的精力来指导。Pyrtle为她的辅导活动提供了非凡的项目支持。她撰写了一个独特的项目，专注于创建一个科学家社区，在同龄人、资深导师和专业组织的支持下帮助学生的专业发展。Pyrtle博士曾担任许多项目的主任，这些项目对所有教育水平的指导都很重要；美国国家科学基金会环境研究与教育咨询委员会成员、美国南加州大学海洋科学学院海洋GK-12奖学金项目和佐治亚理工学院FACES项目。Pyrtle博士为满足对多元化，具有国际竞争力和全球参与的STEM劳动力的需求做出了重大贡献。她开发并实施了一个便携式模型，创建了一个社区，成员在这里分享对他们在STEM领域取得成功至关重要的相关经验。这个模型可以也应该被其他机构使用，以实现增加STEM职业中有竞争力的科学家数量的目标。

ASHANTI J. PYRTLE Institute for Broadening Participation Dr. Ashanti Pyrtle is an Assistant Professor at the College of Marine Science, University of South Florida (USF) and a Senior Scientist at the Institute for Broadening Participation. Her research areas, marine and geosciences, suffer from an extreme shortage of underrepresented minority (URM) professionals. She recognized the need to impact a large numbers of underrepresented students and provide them with coaching and mentoring, coupled with strategic professional development opportunities that are unavailable to most undergraduate and graduate students. Dr. Ashanti J. Pyrtle recognized the importance of effectively encouraging students to pursue careers in science, and has devoted substantial effort to mentoring.Dr. Pyrtle has generated extraordinary programmatic support for her mentoring activities. She authored a unique program that focuses on creating a community of scientists that assists students' professional development with support from peers, senior mentors and professional organizations. Dr. Pyrtle has served as director of many programs important to mentoring at all educational levels; the Minorities Striving and Pursuing Higher Degrees of Success in Earth System Science Initiative, the USF College of Marine Science OCEANS GK-12 Fellowship Program and Georgia Tech's FACES program serving as a member of the US National Science Foundation Advisory Committee on Environmental Research and Education. Dr. Pyrtle has made a significant contribution to addressing the need for a diverse, internationally competitive and globally engaged STEM workforce. She has developed and implemented a portable model that creates a community where members share relevant experiences essential to their success in STEM fields. This model can and should be used by other agencies to achieve the goal of increasing the number of competitive scientists in STEM careers.