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100 Women Leaders in STEM
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As we celebrate Women's History Month, RSVP today to be part of a special call where different 100 Women Leaders in STEM honorees will share with us their story, their challenges and what their organization is doing to promote more women and girls in STEM careers. The TownHall Conference call will take placevirtually (WebEx platform) on March 6th from 1:00-2:30PM EST.
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RSVP Today and join us for an in depth conversation about how to promote more women and girls in STEM careers!
|  Senator Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, New York Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds, Iowa Carey Smith, Honeywell Robin Saitz, PTC Cindy Moss, Discovery Education Betty Shanahan, Society of Women Engineers Jeanne McCaherty, Cargill
Karen Davies, ATK
Tonie Leatherberry, Deloitte
Kimberly Reed, IFIC Karen Peterson, National Girls Collaborative Project
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Senator Jeanne Shaheen, New Hampshire
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 The only woman in U.S. history to be elected both a Governor and a United States Senator, Jeanne Shaheen has been committed to serving the citizens of New Hampshire for decades. She has served in the United States Senate since 2009 and is a member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources among others. As a long-standing advocate for energy efficiency, Shaheen created programs while Governor that serve New Hampshire families and businesses over $1 billion through energy efficiency. In the Senate, Shaheen introduce bipartisan legislation that would create a national energy efficiency strategy to foster job creation, save businesses and customers money and reduce pollution.
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Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
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Kirsten Gillibrand was sworn in as United States Senator from New York in January 2009, and in November 2010, she won election to the seat with 63% of the vote. Prior to her service in the Senate, Gillibrand served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 20th Congressional District. Using her seat on the Environment and Public Works Committee, Senator Gillibrand has worked to increase investment infrastructure, including drinking water and sewer systems, rural broadband, healthcare information technology, and renewable energy, working closely with the Obama Administration to ensure that New York gets its fair share of federal dollars.
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Lt. Governor Kim Reynolds
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Kim Reynolds served as Clarke County Treasurer starting in 1994 until she was elected to the Iowa Senate in 2008. On June 24, 2010, Reynolds was named former Governor Terry Branstad's running mate, and on November 2, she was elected lieutenant governor of the State of Iowa. Reynolds was named co-chair of the Iowa Governor's Science, Technology, Education and Math Advisory Council, along with University of Northern Iowa President Ben Allen in September of 2011. She also serves as co-chair of the Iowa Partnership for Economic Progress board, which was created in October 2011.
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Carey Smith, Honeywell HTSI
|  Carey Smith is the President of Honeywell Technology Solutions Inc. (HTSI), a subsidiary within Honeywell Aerospace. Since September 2011, Carey has led the HTSI business that provides space, networks and communications, technical services and logistics support for the Department of Defense and civilian customers. Throughout her career, Carey has managed complex operations across hundreds of worldwide locations, delivered excellent contract performance and consistently demonstrated both top and bottom line growth. Her career in the aerospace and defense industry spans 26 years. Carey has a B.S.E.E. from Ohio Northern University and a M.S.E.E. from Syracuse University.
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Robin Saitz, PTC
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Robin Saitz is senior vice president, solutions marketing & communications for PTC, responsible for the development of messaging, positioning, and integrated marketing programs for the company and PTC solutions. Since joining PTC in 1990, she has served in positions of increasing responsibility within PTC and been deeply involved in the community. In 2006 Robin was awarded the inaugural PTC Carl Ockerbloom Humanitarian Award for community service. Robin is the Executive Advisor for PTC's "Strategic Partnership" with FIRST and on the FIRST In Boston Executive Advisory Board.
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Cindy Moss, Discovery Education
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As director of global STEM initiatives for Discovery Education, Dr. Cindy Moss designs, develops and implements initiatives to inspire students' curiosity in STEM. Prior to joining Discovery Education, Dr. Moss was director of STEM for Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools and taught high school biology and chemistry. Among her many achievements, she was recognized with a Milken National Educator Award. Dr. Moss holds a bachelor's degree in zoology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, master's degree in science from Syracuse University and doctorate in science curriculum and instruction from the Curtin Institute of Technology in Perth, Western Australia.
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Betty Shanahan, Society of Women Engineers
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Betty Shanahan became the executive director and CEO for the 20,000 member Society of Women Engineers (SWE) in 2002. Previously, Betty spent 24 years in development, engineering management, and marketing management for the electronics and software industries. Betty has earned a B.S. in electrical engineering from Michigan State University, a Master of Software Engineering from the Wang Institute of Graduate Studies, and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago. Betty participates in forums that advance the engineering profession, including the National Academy of Engineering's committee for "Changing the Conversation" in the public understanding of engineering.
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Jeanne McCaherty, Cargill
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Jeanne McCaherty is Cargill's Vice-President and Regional Director for North and South Americas Texturizing Solutions business. Jeanne currently has full responsibility for this business that manufactures, trades, and sells food ingredients that give finished food products texture. These ingredients include dairy cultures, food starches, pectins, seaweed extracts, xanthan gum, lecithin, and others. Jeanne joined Cargill's Central Research as a project chemist and has held a variety of technical and business leadership roles in the company throughout her career. Jeanne has a BS in Chemistry and Biology and a MS in Biochemistry.
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Tonie Leatherberry, Deloitte
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 Tonie Leatherberry is a principal at Deloitte Consulting LLP and is the Northeast practice leader for Information Management and Business Analytics. Leatherberry serves Fortune 100 clients in retail and consumer business. She is responsible for developing business approaches that address information technology challenges, specializing in information technology (IT) strategy, business analytics and information management. A recognized leader in the industry, she is well respected by her clients and is regularly tapped for her experience. She has recently presented on information quality topics such as "Data as an Asset" at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Information Quality (IQ) Symposium.
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Kimberly Reed, IFIC
|  Kimberly Reed is Executive Director of the International Food Information Council Foundation. Previously, she served as Senior Advisor to U.S. Treasury Secretaries Henry Paulson and John Snow; Director of the U.S. Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund; Counsel to the U.S. Congress; and Vice President at Lehman Brothers. Kimberly earned a law degree from WV University College of Law and dual undergraduate degree in biology and government with a minor in chemistry from WV Wesleyan College. She currently serves on the Alzheimer's Association National Board of Directors and WV Wesleyan College Board of Trustees.
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| Karen Peterson, NGCP | 
Karen Peterson, M.Ed., is the Chief Executive Officer of the EdLab Group and has served for more than twenty years in the education system as classroom teacher, university instructor, program director, and researcher. She is the Principal Investigator for the National Girls Collaborative Project, funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to increase the capacity of girl-serving STEM organizations via a strategic collaboration model. She is also Principal Investigator for SciGirls and the Computer Science Collaboration Project, which all address gender, racial, and socioeconomic underrepresentation in STEM.
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