Volunteering gives you greater visibility in the EHS profession, offers you a new way to apply and enhance your skills, and enables you to expand your professional network to learn about innovations best practices.

CSHEMA offers the following types of volunteer positions for members. You can indicate interest in serving by completing the Volunteer Interest Form. Most volunteer positions are appointed by the president annually in July following the Annual Conference.

Leading Volunteers

Leading volunteers determine and advance strategic directions, govern over long-term goals, represent the association to other members, and set the tone for the member experience.


Planning Volunteers

Planning volunteer positions work well for those interested in collaborating to create member experiences such as events, research, fundraising, and other opportunities.


Serving Volunteers

These volunteers serve by supporting peer networking and resource sharing, collaborating on projects that meet a specific need, or communicating the value of CSHEMA.


Contributing Volunteers

Contributing volunteers curate content, review materials to help make decisions, share expertise to build credibility, and welcome participants at events.


In addition to the Board of Trustees, the individuals below compose CSHEMA's volunteer leadership.

Committee Chairs
  • Advocacy Council: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Harvard University
  • Awards Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Appointed 2021), South Dakota School of Mines and Technology (Chair); This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Appointed 2022), University of Central Florida (Co-chair)
  • Conference Planning: Joe Udelhofen, Carleton College; Conference Education Subcommittee– This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Boston University
  • Membership Committee: Peter Jayasekara, CUNY-LaGuardia Community College; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Nominations Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Chair), Princeton University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (Chair), Texas A&M University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., South Dakota School of Mines and Technology; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of California
  • Professional Development Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Tennessee Knoxville; Scott Bourdon, California State University
  • Scholarship Committee: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Texas Arlington; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Florida
Task Force Leaders
  • CSAP/Complete Safety Programs Task Force: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Pennsylvania State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
  • Key Performance Indicators Task Force: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Missouri, Kansas City
  • Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Montgomery College; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Georgia
Special Representation Liaisons
  • Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC): This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Georgia
  • Chemical Insights: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of North Carolina Charlotte,
  • Center for Campus Fire Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Texas-San Antonio
  • Pistoia Alliance/CAS: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of California-Los Angeles
Community of Practice Leaders
  • Animal Research: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Weill Cornell Medical College; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Arizona State University
  • Biosafety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas A&M University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Penn State; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Washington
  • Embedded Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.,Harvard; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  • Emergency Management: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., UNC Charlotte; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Princeton University
  • Environmental/Sustainability: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Maryland, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Arizona State University
  • Facilities Management: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Virginia; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Clemson University
  • Field Research Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of California–Berkeley; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Cornell
  • Fine & Performing Arts: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Nova Southeastern University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., UMass Amhurst
  • Fire & Life Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Univeristy of Illinois at Chicago; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Nova Southeastern University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Arizona
  • Industrial Hygiene: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Washington University–St. Louis; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Oklahoma State University
  • International Campuses: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., King Abdullah University of Science and Technology; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., National University of Singapore
  • Lab Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Duke University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Marketing/Communications & Education: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Texas Tech University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Oklahoma State University
  • Radiation and Laser Safety: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Portland State University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
  • Research & Survey: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Louisiana State University; Wendy McCoy, Texas State University
  • Safety Culture: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Florida, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. University of Tennessee-Knoxville
  • Small Schools: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., University of Richmond; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Gustavos Adolphus College
  • Technology: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Yale University; This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., Georgia Institute of Technology

Want to Volunteer?

If you are interested in volunteering for CSHEMA, please complete the form below, and we'll be in touch with how you can get involved!

Volunteer Interest Form

I want to be featured!

If you are interested in being featured as a CSHEMA volunteer, please complete the form below, submit a headshot of yourself and send to Jackie Weis.

We look forward to learning more about those who lead and are a part of CSHEMA.

Volunteer Spotlight Form