Dr. LeRoy Jones, II is a Program Director for the Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU-UP) and Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF). In addition, he serves on the Mid-Career Advancement (MCA) and Experiential Learning for Emerging and Novel Technologies (ExLENT) Working Groups. Prior to joining the NSF as a permanent program director, he served as the Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences and Professor of Chemistry at Chicago State University.   He received a B.S. degree in chemistry with a minor in religious studies from Bradley University, a Ph.D. in organic chemistry from the University of South Carolina at Columbia and served as a Postdoctoral Scholar in organometallic chemistry at Caltech. Dr. Jones and his wife, Lolita, of thirty-two years, reside in Highland, Indiana, and have three adult children: Kaiita, Kyerra, and Timothy.