Christianne Corbett is a senior researcher at AAUW and co-author of Why So Few: Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (2010). Before coming to AAUW, she worked as a legislative fellow in the office of Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and as a mechanical design engineer in the aerospace industry. She holds a master's degree in cultural anthropology from the University of Colorado and bachelor's degrees in aerospace engineering and government from the University of Notre Dame. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Ghana from 1992 to 1994, she taught math and science to secondary school students.