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Sonia Zárate
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Sonia Irene Zárate is a Program Officer at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) and past-president of the Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS). She leads efforts to foster an inclusive scientific enterprise so that science is able to benefit from the potential that diversity holds. Education and career Zárate is a first-generation college student who came to the United States with her parents under the Bracero program. She earned her B.S. in biology from California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. In 2007 she earned a Ph.D. from University of California, Riverside; Her dissertation "Plant responses to the silverleaf whitefly" was co-advised by Linda L. Walling and Patricia Singer and focused on defense signaling in innate immunity. Following her Ph.D. she did postdoctoral research working in the field of chemical ecology. Select publications * * * 
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