Dr. Frank Gomez is the Executive Director of STEM-NET, a multicampus consortium at the California State University Office of the Chancellor where he leads STEM initiatives for the 23-campus system. Frank holds his BS from Cal State LA and PhD in Chemistry from UCLA and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. He has mentored hundreds of college and high school students in his career and has published 130 publications and two books, served as a mayor, city council member, and school board member, and is a proven community leader in Orange County.