Sandra Gesing is an international leader in the research software engineer ecosystem. She contributed to the Sloan grant to the U.S. Research Software Engineer Association for $800,000 and, as general chair, is helping to bring the first US-RSE conference to Chicago, in October. Gesing is also on the advisory board of the NSF project INTERSECT Research Software Engineering Training and is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery and the Research Data Alliance.