WOMEN IN THE NEWS
continued to serve as executive vice president of Human Resources for Hewlett-Packward Company until 2010. For all of her hard work and dedication in the Human Resources field, she received the Human Capital Leader of the Year award from the Society for Human Resources Man- agement in 2009.
Having been appointed by former President George W. Bush, she was unanimously confirmed by the U.S. Senate. Also in 2008, Carranza won the Woman of Distinction award from the American Association of Univer- sity Women and NASPA. She is cur- rently the CEO of The JCR Group.
Marcela Perez
Women of Color 2010 Pioneer Award winner Alicia Abella has been awarded a 2013 Medal of Excel- lence from Columbia University, for professional and community accom- plishments. This is the first time the medal, given annually since 1929, has been conferred on an engineer. Abella holds a Ph.D. in computer science from Columbia University, a master’s degree in computer science from Columbia University and a bachelor of science degree in computer science from New York University. She first distinguished herself by building an innovative natural language dialog management system for AT&T’s “How May I Help You?” customer care service, which was deployed in 2000. Currently, she manages a group of multi-disciplinary technical staff specializing in data mining, user interfaces, IPTV, mobile services, SIP/VoIP technology. Dr. Abella has helped to increase the pool of women and minorities in science by serving as vice president of the Young Science Achievers Program and chair of the AT&T Labs Fellowship Committee.
Alicia Abella
Since her 2007 US Black Engineer & Information Technology feature, Delores Johnson-Cooper, director of sourcing operations and supplier diversity at Verizon, has won the Highest Leaf award from the Women’s Venture Fund. This award celebrates trailblazing women business executives who have shown outstanding leadership and commitment to their respective industries and other women.
Since Cristina H. Amon, Sc. D.’s feature in Hispanic Engineer & Infor- mation Technology magazine in 2005, she has made several achievements such as landing a new position as the dean of Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering at the University of Toronto in 2006. Amon was previ- ously director of the Institute for Complex Engineered Systems at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2012, she was inducted in the HENACC Great Minds in STEM Hall of Fame.
Cristina H. Amon
In 2005, Chicago native Jovita Carranza was the vice president of air operations for UPS. The following year, through 2008, she was named the deputy administra- tor of the United States Small Business Administration.
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In 2007, Latesha Young served as an associate at Northrop Grumman Mission Systems. Since then, she was promoted to test equipment asset management and metrology systems project manager for Northrop Grum- man’s aerospace systems sector. In 2010, Young received an Educational Leadership award at the Women of Conference STEM conference.
Linda Gooden retired this year as Executive Vice President of Informa- tion Systems and Global Solutions at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Gooden was inducted into the Career Communications Hall of Fame in 2011, and was recently elected to the boards of directors of WGL Holdings, Inc. and Washington Gas.
by Imani Carter,
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Patricia Elizondo, former senior vice president of major accounts opera- tions at Xerox, is now the company’s senior vice president of global sales integration-ACS/AOO. In 2010, Eli- zondo was listed as one of the Top 25 Elite Hispanic Business Leaders, which is an award that highlights executives who are leaders in their fields.
Jovita Carranza
Patricia Elizondo
Latesha Young
Linda Gooden
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