Engage with students virtually as they present their current work in their engineering and business courses and their social entrepreneurship projects from LEADership Academy.
Panelists
Including these confirmed panelists
Roneal Josephs
Lead System Engineer, MITRE Corporation (Engineering Firm)
Andrea Thomas
President and CEO, United Planning Organization (Community Organization)
Karen Sloan
Senior Field Producer D.C. Bureau, CNBC (Media)
Lola Koiki
Senior Product Manager, Capital One (Banking)
Ateira Griffin
CEO and Founder, Building Our Nation’s Daughters Inc. (Community Organization)
Ashley Lewis
Vice President, Financial Communication & Capital Markets, Edelman (Public Relations Company)
Sueann Tennis
Senior Communications Director, United Nations Foundation (NGO)
Shawn Smith
Senior Physical Scientist for International Programs in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards at the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
Trailblazer Spotlight
Girls Global Academy is spotlighting women in and around our communities for the month of March. Our GGA Spotlights are Trailblazers who have blazed a successful path in the arts, business, education, communication, government, law, medicine, service or technology. These are exceptional women who have studied hard, worked hard, and have impacted the world for the better. Trailblazers have demonstrated how girls can make a difference in the world today.
“Understand that even though society does its best to force you to conform in all sorts of ways, that what the world craves is authenticity. So always be yourself. But be your best self.”
– Aungelic Nelson
Aungelic Nelson
Editor / National Nuclear Security Administration
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett
Sharon Nunn
Research Associate / Yale Program on Financial Stability
“Being a girl is so powerful. Don’t ever underestimate that innate power you hold within yourself, because it is tremendous. Make friends with fear. When she shows up, she’s simply telling you, You’re about to do something you’ve never done before.”
Donna Borak
Journalist
“A day without laughter is a day wasted.”
– Charlie Chaplin
Shawn Smith
Senior Physical Scientist / International Programs in the Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards / U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)
“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style”
– Dr. Maya Angelou
Chavonda Jacobs-Young, Ph.D.
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) / Agricultural Research Service (ARS) / Acting REE Under Secretary and Acting USDA Chief Scientist
“Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better,
do better.”
– Maya Angelou
Elsie Guerrero
Publisher & Author / Elsie Publishing Company
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
Catalina Talero
Foundation Director / Tikkun Olam Women’s Foundation
“Reach for the stars if do not make it, you will fall on the moon.”
Zainab Abbas
Founder & CEO / SciTecch2U Inc
She is clothed in strength and dignity and she laughs without fear of the future.
~ Proverbs 31: 25
Jacqueline Ames
Director of Treasury Management
“If you’re always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be.”
– Maya Angelou
Demetra Moore
Small Business Coach / Certified Professional Coach (CPC)
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