Gail Webster received her B.S. in secondary chemistry education from Virginia Commonwealth University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in analytical chemistry from North Carolina State University. She taught chemistry for twenty-five years at both the high school and college levels. Always an advocate of student-centered learning, she incorporated POGIL pedagogy in her classes in 2004 and then became active within the POGIL community. She is currently a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy. She has been a AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the U.S. Department of Energy and is currently a senior STEM Analyst with Strategic Analysis in Alexandria, VA.