Dr. Tamara Shapiro Ledley is President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP), a STEM education consultant, Earth and climate scientist, Secretary of the Education Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador, and Adjunct Professor at Bentley University. She was a 2017 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow where she explored her interests in making climate change education efforts scalable and financially sustainable and to leverage these efforts to enable all climate change stakeholders to align efforts to address the local impacts of climate change. She served as a senior scientist and chair of the Center for STEM Teaching and Learning at TERC for 20 years. She received her PhD from MIT in atmospheric and climate science and her BS from the University of Maryland in astronomy.

She is the 2013 American Geophysical Union's Excellence in Geophysical Education Awardee for her work in bring Earth science data and tools to teachers and students and for her leadership in climate literacy. She serves on the CLEAN Network Leadership Board, the External Advisory Board of the Byrd Polar Research Center at The Ohio State University, the Board of Overseers of the Museum of Science Boston, and the Board of Directors of the Blue Hill Observatory.