This has been quite the year for Susanne Tedrick. February saw the launch of her first book, Women of Color in Tech, as well as being when she was awarded IBM’s Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. March brought a global pandemic, quarantining her and her husband in their apartment in New York City. In May, she was appointed to the steering committee of the nonprofit NPower. June included the recognition as a Women of Color STEM Conference Technology Rising Star. Then, by September, she returned to graduate school at Virginia Polytechnic Institute.
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Meet the New Chair: Castillo Eyeing a More Regional Approach
As we turn the corner into 2021 and her one-year term begins, Jenifer Castillo is still processing her new role as IEEE Women in Engineering (WIE) Committee chair. “It’s a dream,” she says, explaining that when she took her first IEEE leadership position as chair of her WIE student Affinity Group (AG) at the University of San Buenaventura, Bogotá, she never imagined she would make it to this level of leadership. “I’m as excited as I am accountable,” she continues. “I know this is a big responsibility.”
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