Kristine Callis-Duehl
Driemeyer Executive Director of Education
The Donald Danforth Plant Science Center
Profile
Kristine Callis-Duehl, PhD, is the Driemeyer Executive Director of Education at the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center. Serving as a board member for the St. Louis Academy of Sciences, the St. Louis Public’s Collegiate School of Science and Medicine and Vice-Chair for the Higher Education Consortium of St. Louis, Kris brings together networks of science and education experts to create institutional and systems change. As affiliated faculty at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis University and the University of Illinois, her positions allow for cross-institutional graduate students to collaborate together on projects at the Danforth Center. She recently received the Impact Award from the Botanical Society of American for her work on engaging historically excluded communities in plant science research and fostering opportunities for students to pursue STEM careers.