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Women of Color magazine emphasizes that the sky is the limit and encourages women of all ethnicities to dream big and set major goals. Below are the names of profes- sional women who have continued to make accomplish- ments in their careers, even after breaking major barriers and reaching great achievements.
Since winning the 2008 Women of Color Career Achievement award, Nora Lin was elected president of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in 2009 and served through 2010. Other leadership positions Lin has held within SWE include direc- tor of regions, Region H governor, section vitality task force chair, leadership coach, SWE-Chicago Regional Section’s president, vice president and treasurer. She has worked in engineering for more than 30 years and at Northrop Grumman’s Rolling Meadows, Ill., facility for the past 20 years. Lin began her career as a scientific programmer and rose to become an engineering technical lead/project manager, leading engineering teams in the development of real- time systems for several military programs.
Nora Lin
Pauline Bennett, a 2008 Women of Color Career Achievement in Industry award winner, has been a principal systems engineer at SAIC since 2010. She spent six years as a Booz Allen Hamilton associate (2004-2010) and was a senior scientist at The Boeing Company (1996 -2004). She has served as an adjunct professor, Radar Sys- tems at California State University, Northridge since 2011.
Nancy-Kim Yun, onetime director of integrated ship- board systems at The Boeing Company, is now corporate relations director for Development and External Relations at the Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine. Yun won a 2009 Women of Color award for Managerial Leadership in Industry.
Piali De is now CEO of Senscio Systems, co-founding the venture in 2009, with the vision of a world made better through intelligent information technologies. She is also co-inventor of Senscio’s patent pending SCIO framework. Prior to
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Senscio Systems, Dr. De was an Engineering Fellow at Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems. At Raytheon, she invented a system called Confluence, designed to deliver knowledge-based decision support in military and public safety missions. She was also responsible for managing Raytheon’s knowledge based decision support business area. Dr. De was the 2009 Women of Color Technical In- novation award winner.
2009 Special Recognition Honoree Cassie Weissert has served as senior manager engineering - ground software at Orbital Sciences Corporation since April 2010. Prior, she was technical manager for ground software respon- sible for command and control (C2) software supporting box-level development, space vehicle integration and test and mission operations center as well as factory support software at Raytheon for five years.
Dr. Zakiya S. Wilson, assistant direc- tor of graduate studies in chemistry and executive assistant of strategic initiatives at Louisiana State Univer- sity, was the 2011 recipient of the Stanley C. Israel Regional Award for Advancing Diversity in the Chemical Sciences for the Southwest Region. Dr. Wilson won the 2011 Women of Color Award for College-level Promo- tion of Education.
Dr. Zakiya S. Wilson
Gail P. Forest, a member of the Sen- ior Executive Service, was appointed director for information dominance programs, Office of the Assistant Sec- retary of the Air Force for Acquisition in June 2013. She is responsible for planning and programming all acqui- sition and modernization activities for Air Force command, control, com- munications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance programs. She served as director, plans and programs, AFRL, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, from January 2011 until her move this year. Forest was the 2011 Women of Color award winner for Professional Achievement in Government.
Gail P. Forest Piali De
Since her 2005 feature in Hispanic Engineer & Informa- tion Technology magazine, Marcela Perez de Alonso
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