Lynette Osborne is a sociologist who studies gender and women in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). She earned her Ph.D. from Purdue University in 2006; her dissertation focused on the perceptions of women in engineering education. Dr. Osborne was the 2006-2007 ExxonMobil Scholar in Residence at the National Academy of Engineering's (NAE) Center for the Advancement of Scholarship in Engineering Education (CASEE) where she edited a manual for writing NSF grants on gender and STEM. She is a Professorial Lecturer in the Sociology Department at The George Washington University (GWU) and is a Senior Evaluation Researcher at Manhattan Strategy Group (MSG).