Legacy
Mr. Jonathan Jones Dr. Eugene M. Deloatch Legacy Award
Fermentation Improvement Engineer Dow AgroSciences
Jonathan Jones has dedicated a majority of his career to STEM outreach across multiple communities for several years. He began his career at Dow AgroSciences, LLC in 2013 in Harbor Beach, MI, as a run plant engineer. Planted in a small community with very few STEM activities, Jonathan worked to establish a Science Ambassadors branch in Harbor Beach—a Dow-sponsored STEM outreach program designed to target students, teachers, and parents—while dedicating several hours per week at local schools and hosting after-school events. His dedication to the program resulted in the Science Ambassadors’ rapid growth to more than 30 employee volunteers in less than two years. Jonathan began his current role with Dow at the Dow AgroSciences headquarters in Indianapolis, IN in 2015. He was nominated to the Global Steering Team for Dow’s Science Ambassadors program, which has 21 locations across three continents and has reached over 750,000 people since the program’s inception. In 2016 he volunteered at more than 20 events and accumulated over 100 community service hours. Some of his additional recent contributions include onboarding a number of U.S. fi eld site locations and two international sites (UK and Brazil) for Science Ambassadors, serving as the current project leader for two Dow Chemical Company Promise Grant, volunteering at School on Wheels events targeting children experiencing homelessness, and more. Jonathan also serves as a professional mentor for students at the middle school, high school, undergraduate, and graduate school level. Not only has his work had a direct impact on STEM outreach but it has had an indirect impact by inspiring others to become involved in STEM outreach.
Dr. Gregory Braxton Linda Gooden Legacy Award
Computer System Security Analyst 3 Huntington Ingalls Industries
Widely credited for his diligent work to expand educational opportunities in cybersecurity, Dr. Gregory Braxton is a computer systems security analyst 3 for Newport News Shipbuilding. His passion for education developed during a distinguished 20-year career in the U.S. Air Force. In the Air Force, he earned his associate’s degree, a bachelor’s degree, and a master’s degree. During this time, he also graduated from several Air Force leadership schools, always with distinction. As his responsibilities for managing large- scale Air Force voice and data systems expanded, he recognized the growing need for a new fi eld, which is now known as cybersecurity, and upon retirement from the Air Force, he earned his Ph.D. in this fi eld. Dr. Braxton recognizes that the shortage of a skilled cybersecurity workforce is acute and has represented Huntington Ingalls Industries Newport News Shipping (HHI-NNS) in local eff orts to grow Virginia’s Hampton
Roads area cybersecurity workforce at all levels of the education system. He represented HII-NNS as part of a local public–private partnership to compete for a National Institute for Standards and Technology grant. As the largest industrial employer in the region, HII-NNS’s support proved essential in the Hampton Roads Cybersecurity Education, Workforce and Economic Development Alliance, winning the grant.
Ms. Yvette Mouton, Esq. Dr. Freeman Hrabowski III Legacy Award
Supplier Diversity Manager AT&T
Yvette Mouton currently serves as an AT&T Supplier Diversity Manager, where she advocates and facilitates opportunities for minority-, women- and disabled veteran-owned business enterprises (M/ WBE-DVBEs). A Georgetown University Law Center Graduate, she has worked as the Assistant United States Attorney, among other legal positions, with the U.S. Department of Justice. As the Supplier Diversity Manager, Yvette mentors over 200 current and prospective diverse M/WBE-DVBEs to enable their maximum growth and professional skill sets. Additionally, she manages all AT&T Supplier Diversity communications and publishes a bi-annual Prime Newsletter that spotlights diverse suppliers and current diversity news and events, all the while providing strategic method and procedures sourcing initiatives. Yvette is also the President of the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities Supplier Diversity Development Council (SDDC). This past year, she led the development of a new state-of-the-art SDDC website in collaboration with a woman-owned IT services company. She continues to serve in a number of community-related activities in advocacy for STEM and legal careers and education.
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