Meet the Leadership Team
Erika Machtinger
Project Director
Associate Professor of Entomology
Pennsylvania State University
Vincenzo Ellis
Assistant Professor of Wildlife Disease
University of Delaware
Risa Pesapane
Associate Professor
The Ohio State University
Rebecca Trout Fryxell
Professor of Medical and Veterinary Entomology
University of Tennessee
Professor
Melanie Sal
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Professor
Kim Bjorgo-Thorne
West Virginia Wesleyan College
Assistant Professor of Infectious Diseases, Microbiology, and Immunology
Danielle Tufts
University of Pittsburgh
Program Manager
Olivia Bognanni
Pennsylvania State University
Meet the Education and Evaluation Team
Emily Struckhoff
Education Program Specialist, Penn State
Michael Skvarla
Assistant Research Professor of Arthropod Identification
Pennsylvania State University
Extension Educator, Penn State
Lidia Azurdia Sierra
Kara Fikrig
Assistant Professor of Entomology
Pennsylvania State University
Drew Lysaker
Education Program Specialist, Penn State
Calvin Norman
Assistant Teaching Professor of Forestry
Pennsylvania State University
Angela Tucker
Medical Entomology Education Specialist, University of Tennessee
Jamie Kopco
Extension Educator
Pennsylvania State University
Indira Chakravarti
Evaluation Specialist, Penn State
Meet the VectorED Education and Evaluation Collaborators
Shannon Cruz
Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Sciences
Pennsylvania State University