Dr. Adrienne Starks, Birmingham biological scientist, will serve on a committee that will award $40 million to help expand women’s power and influence in the United States by 2030.
The grant is dubbed the Equality Can’t Wait Challenge and opened on June 16.
Starks is founder of STREAM Innovations Inc, a nonprofit committed to helping students to develop and explore a passion for science, technology, reading, engineering arts and mathematics.
As a member of the evaluating committee, Starks will play an important role on who will be awarded the money.
“We [the committee] will be looking at all of the different proposals and the winner will be announced in 2021,” Starks said. “The top 10 will be selected and there will be a minimum of $10 million given to those proposals and then a final winner will be selected in the summer of 2021 with at least two grants of a minimum of $10 million,” she said.
Starks said she is honored to serve with women who believe that Equality Can’t Wait.
The application deadline is September 22. For more information visit, www.equalitycantwaitchallenge.org.