Organizations Filed Purposes:
The SoundBio Lab provides a lab space thats available to community members to use for their own independent research. SoundBio also runs workshops, open to the general public, within its lab space focused on hand-on science learning. SoundBio also takes science out into the local community by attending tabling events throughout Seattle.
SoundBio is a community of amateur and professional scient enthusiasts dedicated to providing access to biotechnology, equitable science education, and supporting the next generation of young scientists.
Community Biology Lab Space - SoundBios physical location is a community biolab, equipped with all the key equipment necessary to perform most molecular biology work and related scientific activities. This space is used by members for their own independent research projects as well as by members of the public who wish to participate in community projects that help to engage locals in citizen science. SoundBio currently has over five independent research projects underway as well as two communtiy projects with meeting attendance between 2 and 10 people each session.
Outreach - Sound Bio brings science education to the Greater Seattle area by attending many tabling events. These events reach a variety of audiences, often targeting middle school age and below as well as reaching low-income communities that otherwise dont get much exposure to hands-on science learning. In 2019, SoundBio attended 13 tabling events throughout the city, engage 65 volunteers, over 200 colunteer hours, and reached 1,200 individuals across the community.
SoundBio hosts a high school iGEM team within the lab. iGEM is an international synthetic biology competition that provides the students hands-on, real world experience in running a full-scale research team, from fundraising, product developement and design, gathering stakeholder input, and communicating their work to the public, in addition to conducting the scientific work. In 2019, the team had about 15 students who each worked an average of 8-12 hours per week to move the project forwrad before presenting their work in Boston.
Executives Listed on Filing
Total Salary includes financial earnings, benefits, and all related organization earnings listed on tax filing
| Name | Title | Hours Per Week | Total Salary |
|---|
| Yoshitaka Goto | Secretary / Ops. Dir. | 35 | $32,451 |
| Holly Sawyer | Director of Outeach | 15 | $8,750 |
| Andy Firpo | Board Member | 1 | $0 |
| Anna Schier | Treasurer | 2 | $0 |
| Regina Wu | Vice President | 10 | $0 |
| Orlando De Lange | President | 10 | $0 |
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