2008 Women of Color Honorees
Special Recognition
Special Recognition
Nadine Chin-Santos
Regina V Gibson, RN
Senior Supervising Architect & Senior
Quality Assurance Specialist AR Title XIX
Project Manager
Electronic Data Systems, an HP company
Parsons Brinckerhoff
AAS–Applied Science, in Nursing, Westark Community College, Fort Smith,
BS–Architecture, New York Institute of Technology
Arkansas
MS–Management (Construction Concentration), Polytechnic University
AA–General Studies, in Nursing, Westark Community College, Fort Smith,
Arkansas
Nadine Chin-Santos is the perfect choice to supervise a
BS–Health Sciences, University of Arkan-
New York City team of one hundred architects and engineers sas at Little Rock
who assess and survey 1,500 NYC school facilities. Problem
MA–Liberal Studies, University of Arkan-
solver, communicator, people person, and an architect with
sas at Little Rock
an aptitude for design and aesthetics, Chin-Santos manages Regina Gibson is for the cure.
an annual budget of more than $8 million. She is responsible As a breast cancer survivor
for creation of databases to and quality assurance nurse for
track building conditions, and Arkansas’ BreastCare program
making repair and upgrade she works to save lives and end
recommendations. She breast cancer by empowering
joined Parsons Brinckerhoff people, and ensuring quality
in 1998 and has a simple care.
measurement for effective-
EDS employees like Gibson have
ness: profits. “If I can prob-
increased Arkansas BreastCare program enrollment four-fold,
lem-solve, staff, and com-
helping 18,291 uninsured and under-insured women access
municate how to do the job
the resources and treatment they need to keep breast and
effectively and efficiently,
cervical cancer at bay.
we will have bigger profits,”
she says. Gibson works to improve services and access. The state pro-
gram provides screening, diagnosis, and breast and cervical
cancer treatment for uninsured and under-insured women
over 40.
Special Recognition Special Recognition
Theresa Gomes Joy Henderson
Supervisory Budget Analyst Finance Manager II–US Public Sector
Baltimore District Electronic Data Systems
US Army Corps of Engineers
BS–Accounting, Bloomsburg University
AA Accounting–Brooklyn College MS–Administration, Central Michigan
University
Theresa Gomes, 51, is an
implementer of the 2005 Base
In high school, Joy Henderson
Realignment and Closure
knew finance was her calling. She
Military Construction Pro-
says “Whether you are trying to
gram. Gomes manages an $8
run a business or keep your life in
billion budget for the Army
order, it is something you should
Corps’ Baltimore district. To
want to know and do.”
ensure her projects comply
Marilyn C. Crouther, CFO for EDS’ US Government Region,
with regulations, Gomes
calls Henderson the group’s “go-to” person, with a style that
pores through congressional
“sets the foundation for common people to attain uncommon
documents and Department
results.”
of Defense policies. Another
challenge is finding the right
Henderson oversees a $50-million capital budget, a $4-million
talent. “Our baby boomer
general and administrative expenses ledger, and a $9-million
employees are retiring, but some people don’t want to do
budget in operational support.
this [job] because it isn’t glamorous.” Gomes recalls that her
By informing EDS’ operational staffers about the intricacies of
mother wanted her to be a doctor, when she was growing up
their financial reporting requirements, Henderson provides a
in Brooklyn, New York, but she chose the accounting profes-
steady hand at the tiller.
sion and joined the Corps instead.
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