We invite you to join us and learn more about these exceptional women
who are featured in our interactive events. This conference is devoted
to giving young women anywhere in the world who have Internet access the
opportunity to share the unique experiences of these women and expand
the horizons of their own future choices.
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Mary L. Cleave, P.h.D.,
P.E. NASA Deputy Director for Earth Science, and former
astronaut / Goddard Space Flight Center - Dr. Cleave is currently
working on Earth observations at GSFC because of her concerns that
human activity is changing the surface of the Earth too rapidly, based
on the changes she observed in the four years between her two space
flights. Dr. Cleave is the Project Manager for the Sea-viewing Wide
Field-ofview Sensor (SeaWiFS), an ocean color sensor that is monitoring
global marine chlorophyll concentration. She is a former astronaut
and has flown two missions and has logged over 262 hours in space.
(featured panelist)
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Karen Dodson - Project
Manager, NASA Life Sciences Outreach / NASA Ames Research Center
(featured in preconference webchat)
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Aprille Ericsson-Jackson
Aerospace Engineer / Goddard Space Flight Center - Aprille is
an an aerospace engineer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
in the Guidance, Navigation and Control, Design Analysis section.
She has received numerous awards including Women in Science and Engineering
award, Top 50 minority women in Science and Engineering, Black Engineers
Award. She was the first female to receive a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering
from Howard University and First African American female to receive
a Ph.D. in Engineering at NASA GSFC.
(featured panelist)
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Rondalyn Kane - Deputy Director
of US Department of Labor Women's Bureau / Department of Labor
Rondalyn S. Kane was appointed to the position of Deputy Director
of the U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau in March 2000. She
brings with her twenty years of commitment to public service through
leadership at the Federal, state and local levels and a demonstrated
interest in issues of concern to working women and minorities.
(Welcome and Introduction)
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Andrea McCurdy - Project
Manager for NASA Oceanography Outreach / NASA Headquarters -
Andrea McCurdy is a project manager for NASA Oceanography Outreach.
Andrea has worked since 1990 to help the public and the education
community understand the uses and benefits of the Internet. Most recently
she has managed several interactive streaming audio and video projects
for NASA. Andrea has a Master of Science degree in Telecommunicaitons
from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado.
(featured in preconference webchat)
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Andrea Norris Deputy
Chief Information Officer / NASA Headquarters - As CIO, Andrea's
office is responsible for advising the NASA Administrator and other
key leaders on information technology issues and representing NASA's
interests in information technology with the Administration, Congress,
and the public. In addition, her office is responsible for improving
how we deliver information technology systems and services to NASA
missions and programs.
(featured panelist)
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Kathie Olsen, Ph.D.
NASA Chief Scientist / NASA Headquarters - In her position as
Chief Scientist, Dr. Olsen serves as the Administrator's senior scientific
advisory and principal interface with the national and international
scientific community. Dr. Olsen is responsible for ensuring the NASA
programs are universally regarded as scientifically and technologically
valid and is the principal advisor to the Administrator on the budget
content of NASA's science programs.
(featured panelist)
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Adriana Ocompo Research
Scientist, Program Executive for Space Science Missions / NASA Headquarters
- Adriana C. Ocampo Uria is a research scientist at the Jet Propulsion
Laboratory where she has worked since 1973. In 1998 Ms. Ocampo was
appointed to work at NASA Headquarters. During her appointment at
Headquarters she will be working at the Office of Space Science and
the Office of External Relations as a program executive for Space
Science missions with international collaboration.
(featured panelist)
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Kim Weaver, Ph.D.
- Astronomer, Astrophysicist / Goddard Space Flight Center - Dr.
Weaver is an astrophysicist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
in Greenbelt, MD. As an X-ray astronomer, she studies particles of
light that are very energetic and emerge from regions near massive
black holes at the centers of other galaxies.
(featured panelist)
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