The SoundBio Lab Team
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Ryan Cardiff
Ryan has been working on Education & Outreach with SoundBio Lab since 2021. He is a PhD student in the Molecular Engineering program at the University of Washington, where his research focuses on synthetic biology and metabolic engineering for sustainable bioproduction.
Orlando de Lange (He/Him), SBL President
Orlando got involved with SoundBio Lab because he loves science education and the world of community-driven science. He is from the UK and lives in Seattle with his husband and dog. By day, he teaches biotechnology, and in the rest of his time, he is the president of SoundBio Lab. He also loves sci fi books, learning languages and listening to too many podcasts
Yoshi Goto (He/Him), SBL Vice President
Yoshi is currently the Vice President of the Board at SoundBio Lab. Starting as a volunteer, he has touched every part of the organization, being in the past a Lab Manager, Director of Operations, and Board Secretary. He is also the Lab & Research Committee chair. If he's not doing something for SoundBio Lab, you can probably find him going out into the outdoors, spending time with family, or volunteering for yet another nonprofit!
Sophie Li
Sophie is a finance manager at Amazon. She joined the Soundbio Lab board with a passion in STEM education and equity in education. She hopes to bring her business perspectives into Soundbio to make it financially sustainable so that it could continue to serve the community and the people. Outside of work, she loves exploring new food scenes, doing yoga, hiking or just being around nature and reading memoirs.
Yun Lu
Yun is a senior product manager at T-Mobile and the chair for SoundBio Lab’s Development committee. She is passionate about STEM education and believes that everyone should have access to resources to help them reach their full potential. Aside from work, she enjoys traveling, hiking, and dining out at restaurants.
Felicia Watson (She/Her)
Felicia (she/her) joined SoundBio Lab in 2023 to help improve STEM accessability and education in the Seattle area. She works as an infectious disease scientist at the University of Washington, specalizing in vaccine development and immunology. Outside the lab, Felicia enjoys swimming, reading, baking, and exploring the PNW with her orange tabby, Merlin.
STAFF
Dezmond Goff (They/He/She), SBL Lab Manager
Dezmond is the Lab Manager at SoundBio Lab. Before joining our team, they worked on numerous projects ranging from the effects of nitrogen pollution on mountain soils to coral reef restoration and disease research to independent and collaborative projects in cutting-edge machine learning. They are excited by the potential of science education and open-source technology to activate our communities to make meaningful change in our own lives. You might often see them dancing to the perpetual soundtrack in their head.
Previous staff and Board members
Norma Morella (She/Her), PhD
Norma is a microbiologist who currently works in the field of sustainable agriculture. She believes everybody should have a chance to experience scientific discovery in some way, and she became involved with Sound Bio for this reason. Norma is a board member, SBL secretary, and a member of the Lab and Research Committee. In her time outside of work and volunteering, Norma loves to ski, hike, read, and snuggle with her pup Mabel on the couch.
Daniel Guion (He/Him)
Daniel is a SoundBio Lab Board member and chair of the Fundraising Committee. He joined the community in 2020 as part of the Lab & Research Committee. Outside of SoundBio, Daniel works on drug discovery and development at a biotechnology company. He enjoys community-based exercise and connecting with nature in his spare time.
Madleine (Maddy) Makori, PharmD
Maddy is a trained pharmacist and Sr. Medical Science Liaison at a start-up health-tech company. At SoundBio, she serves on the Fundraising Committee and as a liaison between the Advisory Council and the BoD. Aside from work, she loves to mentor anyone interested in STEM, spontaneously travel with her husband, and cook (and bake) up a storm for her family and friends.
Dylan Mendenhall (He/Him)
Dylan is the chair of our Lab & Research committee and the liaison between the Advisory Council and the Board of Directors. He also serves on the Development and Community Engagement committees. Outside of SoundBio Lab, Dylan is the owner and principal ecologist of Haven Ecology and Research LLC, an environmental consulting firm specializing in restoration ecology and supportive forestry services. On the rare occasion that he isn't gallivanting in the woods or tinkering around in the laboratory, you can probably find him in the garden hanging out with his cats.
Anna Schier (She/Her), SBL Treasurer
Anna is SoundBio’s Treasurer and member of the Development Committee. She first assisted the co-founders in the creation of SoundBio, and they eventually transformed by hand what was formerly a dance studio into Seattle’s first functional community bio lab. Anna is passionate about public health and if she had any free time, she’d be lost to the North Cascades.
Martha Zepeda Rivera (She/Her), PhD
Martha serves as a SoundBio Lab Board member, chair of our Community Engagement Committee, and member of our Education and Outreach Committee. Within and outside SoundBio Lab, she seeks opportunities to make sustainable and impactful change towards equitable access to science and science education. With over ten years of research experience and a fascination for how bacteria impact human health, she is currently a Staff Scientist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center. She enjoys time with her husband and dogs in her free time, often while cheering on Seattle sports teams.