Anna M. Quider leads The Quider Group, a consultancy focused on STEM policy and advocacy. She is an Affiliate Senior Research Fellow at Northern Illinois University, where she previously served as Assistant Vice President for Federal Relations. Quider is the chair-elect of the APS Forum on Physics and Society and formerly served as Innovation Program Manager at the US Department of State and as Legislative Fellow in the US House of Representatives. She holds a PhD in astronomy from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Marshall Scholar.