Engineering Ambassadors
Co-founded the Engineering Ambassadors Network, an alliance of universities that aims to educate a cohort of diverse and technically skilled engineering undergraduates on how to excite K-12 students about engineering.
Since its founding in 2009, the Engineering Ambassador Network (EAN) has grown to 40 programs across the nation stretching to all corners of the US and Puerto Rico. EAN provides professional development to undergraduate students and outreach to K-12 students in engineering and STEM, and has been funded by the National Science Foundation to run national workshops aimed at teaching other universities how to start their own Engineering Ambassador Programs.
ABET Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity
Selected as a recipient of ABET’s Claire L. Felbinger Award for Diversity in 2017 “for tireless, long-term advocacy of diversity, for leadership throughout her career mentoring and promoting underrepresented colleagues and students and for founding the Engineering Ambassadors Network with its outreach emphasis.” The award recognizes “extraordinary success in achieving or facilitating diversity and inclusiveness in the technological segments of our society.”
Diversity Through Service Leadership
Led several initiatives with my faculty colleagues at Penn State and Virginia Tech to diversify the people and the research portfolio, develop faculty mentoring programs that supported new faculty, and promote activities to build communities, especially among women. Was a co-lead of Virginia Tech’s ADVANCE Program.