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WOMEN OF COLOR AWARD WINNERS COMMUNITY SERVICE


personal interest in the lives of students, often attending sporting events and student functions.


Ms. Edwards earned a Masters of Business Administration in management from Seattle Pacific University in 2012. She earned a Masters of Science in electrical engineering in 2006 and a Bachelors of Science in electrical engineering in 2005, both from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma.


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Jovonia Edwards


Airplane Systems Senior Skill and Strategy Leader The Boeing Company


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s. Jovonia Edwards understands the importance of community service and reaching out to help others. She has benefited from several mentors, who taught her the benefits of delivering results, having high expectations, and good communication skills. Based on her actions, it is clear she believes community service can make the world a better place.


She has more than 11 years of engineering experience, and is a well-respected leader at The Boeing Company. Ms. Edwards is valuable to the company because of her engineering skills, but also because she has the ability to improve workplace morale, manage risks and establish strategies to help the company grow. Her engineering skills have helped her build a great career, but her dedication to helping others puts her above the crowd.


Ms. Edwards is a respected leader in her community. She often volunteers to help others improve their lives. She was recently in Haiti with a team from her church to help young women who escaped the slavery of human/sex trafficking. While in Haiti, she taught the women about self-defense, nutrition, health and self-confidence. She was in charge of planning for the mission, and responsible for finding supplies, self-defense instructors, and volunteers.


She is a board member of the Snohomish County NAACP, and played a role in developing its NAACP Youth Development Program. As a mentor to students between the ages of 15 to 22, she helps them develop life skills. She participates in pound discussions that focus on topics such as financial basics, proper use of social media, and career choices.


Ms. Edwards dedicates a great deal of time to working with high school students. She prepares them for college by helping them with interview techniques, dressing for business, and math and science tutoring. She takes a


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Stephanie Brown-Houston Education Program Specialist NASA Glenn Research Center


STEM workforce of the future through a diverse portfolio of education initiatives that target America’s K-12 students, especially those in traditionally underserved and under- represented communities.


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As part of her responsibilities as the NASA Research Announcement (NRA) technical officer for the agency, she advises the selection of officials at NASA for competitive selection of grants, assists with the recruitment of external peer reviewers, and provides civil servant oversight to JPL for external expert review for online and face-to-face review of proposals, and reviews proposals for compliance with the NRA to advise the selection official on eligibility. The selecting official for this NRA is the deputy associate administrator for education at NASA.


This position requires a mastery knowledge of K-12 education concepts and principles to develop new approaches to attract and retain students in STEM fields of study along with an in-depth knowledge of the mission, activities and polices of the Glenn Research Center, and of the Agency in order to develop educational activities that are aligned with NASA’s vision and mission.


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sing her talents as a natural-born teacher, Ms. Brown- Houston contributes to the development of the nation’s


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