2009 Women of Color Award Winners
2009 WOMEN OF COLOR AWARD WINNERS
Technologist of the Year Award Managerial Leadership Special Recognition
Norma Clayton Steffanie B. Easter Cynthia J. Banks
Vice President, Learning, Training and Assistant Commander for Acquisition Research Biologist
Development Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) US Army Engineer
The Boeing Company Research and Development Center
Nancy-Kim Yun
Career Achievement - Government
Director, Integrated Shipboard Systems
Irma Burden
Jacqueline Akinpelu, PhD
The Boeing Company Acting Command Deputy EEO/Diversity Officer
Naval Surface Warfare Center
Assistant Supervisor, Intelligence
Naval Sea Systems Command
Systems Engineering Group
New Media/IT Leadership
The Johns Hopkins University Tiwanna Hayes
Cynthia Calhoun
Applied Physics Laboratory
Systems Integration Business Analyst
Chief, Program and Project Assurance Division
Senior Staff
Jacqueline Toussaint-Barker
NASA Glenn Research Center
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Chief of Electronics Exploration Branch
Luna H. Chiu
Sensors Directorate
Pioneer Award
Air Force Research Laboratory
Integrated Product Team Manager
Force Master Chief Laura A.
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Career Achievement - Industry
Martinez
Jayanthi Iyengar
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery
Demonia Dean
Director of the Hospital Corps
Associate
Director and Chief Engineer
US Navy
Booz Allen Hamilton
Hybrid Electronic Vehicles Product Development
Chrysler LLC
Professional Achievement
Mercedes Concepcion-Gray
Cheryl Johnson Yvette Thornton
Program Director
CSC
Senior Associate Towson Engineering Center Manager
Booz Allen Hamilton Network Centric Systesms
Deborah Hall-Greene, PhD
Raytheon Company
Community Service
Sr. Corporate Business Partner/HR Director
Melissa Sandlin
Susan X. Ying, PhD
The MITRE Corporation
Executive Program Integrator
Manager, Talent Management
Jerainne Johnson, PhD
Phantom Works Office of President
Northrop Grumman Corporation
The Boeing Company
Guest Researcher
University of Pennsylvania
CMDR. Alicia Garcia Vantran, MD
Professional Achievement -
Senior Medical Officer
Lily O’Byrne
Government
Medical Services Department Vice President, Program Assist
US Coast Guard Amalia Barrios Information Systems and Global Services
Scientist, Atmospheric Propagation Branch
Lockheed Martin Corporation
Corporate Promotion of Education Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific
Angela Leimkuhler Moran, PhD
US Department of the Navy
Wilhelmina Pierce, PE
Resident Engineer, Special Ops Resident Office
Professor
Mei-Hwa Liao US Army Corps of Engineers
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Department of the Navy
Chief, Applied Structural Mechanics Branch
US Naval Academy
Engineering Directorate
Sheila Prather
NASA Glenn Research Center Manager, Systems, Reliability Analysis
Margaret Paulin
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Research Leadership
College Campus Relations Manager
Northrop Grumman Corporation Donna Dillenberger
STGC Donna Robinson
Distinguished Engineer
Senior Chief Enlisted Leader, 25th Company
Corporate Responsibility Chief Architect, IT Optimization
US Naval Academy
Cheryl Horn
IBM Corporation
Gynelle C. Steele
Manager, Community Relations
Yichun (Connie) Wang, PhD
Program Manager
Northrop Grumman Corporation
Research Manager, Science and Technology
Small Business Innovative Research/
Traceé Strum-Gilliam
Director, Corning Research Center Taiwan
Small Business Technology Transfer Program
Corning Incorporated
NASA Glenn Research Center
Supervising Environmental Engineer
Parsons Brinckerhoff
Student Leadership
Command Master Chief
Diversity Leadership
Brandy Rogers
Charlene Terry
Command Master Chief
Jeannie Johnson, PhD
2011, Tennessee State University
US Navy
Corporate Director, Human Resources
Technical Innovation
Information Systems (HRIS)
Lieutenant Jennifer Tietz
Northrop Grumman Corporation Patty Chang-Chien, PhD Instructor, Mechanical Engineering Department
Section Manager (Wafer Scale Assembly) US Navy
Educational Leadership
Semiconductor Products
Hortense B. Burt
Northrop Grumman Corporation Cassie Weissert
Acting Chief of Education Programs and
Technical Manager, Software
University Research
Piali De, PhD
Advanced Information Systems
Lead, Higher Education Projects
Engineering Fellow General Dynamics
NASA Kennedy Space Center
Raytheon Company
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