Erin Heckler, Ph.D., is the director of the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs at Washington University in St. Louis. She serves on the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduate Research Education and Training (GREAT) Group Postdoctorate Leaders Section Steering Committee and as co-chair for the Resource Development Committee of the NPA. She received her doctorate in biochemistry from the University of Delaware and did her postdoctoral work at Rutgers University – New Jersey Medical School. Heckler is a National Research Mentoring Network (NRMN) Entering Mentoring trained facilitator delivering mentorship certificate programs for 100+ postdocs and is an author on the 2018 eLife study: “United States National Postdoc Survey results and the interaction of gender, career choice and mentor impact.