SER National

Entrepreneurship Session with Tracy Irby
2020-10-29 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Online – WebEx, TX, United States
Join us for a SER MUJER Entrepreneurship Session with Tracy Irby.
Topic: “Entrepreneurship Programs in Universities”
Date & Time: October 29 at 2:00pm CT
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Tracy Irby Bio
Tracy Irby has a passion for entrepreneurship. She has been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and has been a business advisor for 8 years and assisted over 1000 small business owners. She is currently the Associate Director at Texas Woman’s University – Center for Women Entrepreneur. She has a BBA & MBA from Texas A & M University – Commerce.

STEM TALK - Dr. Concepción Jiménez-González
2020-10-27 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a STEM TALK with Dr. Concepción “Conchita” Jiménez-González, the Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability global Lead for Research & Development at GlaxoSmithKline.
Date & Time: October 27 at 2:00 pm CT
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Dr. Concepción “Conchita” Jiménez-González Bio
Dr. Concepción “Conchita” Jiménez-González is the Environment, Health, Safety and Sustainability global Lead for R&D at GlaxoSmithKline. In this role, she leads the global team that enables R&D to develop medicines and consumer products safely and sustainably. Prior to this, she has had a series of roles of increasing responsibility, including Graduate Program Lead, Director of New Product Development, Director of Operational Sustainability, Director of Analytics and Reporting; among others. She has lived and worked in Mexico, UK and several areas in the US. Prior to GSK she worked as an environmental engineer for GeoEnvironmental Consultants; as a program manager, researcher and project engineer at ITESM in Mexico; and as visiting researcher at Pfizer.
In addition to her job at GSK, she is an adjunct professor at North Carolina State University’s Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Department, and serves in the Scientific Advisory Committee in Chemicals for the US EPA, and in the Editorial advisory Board for the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering and an MBA from North Carolina State University; an M.S. in Environmental Engineering from ITESM; México and a B.S. in Chemical and Industrial Engineering at the Chihuahua Institute of Technology, México.

Employment Training - "The Art of Interviewing"
2020-10-26 14:00 - 15:00 UTC
Join us for an Employment Training session with Dr. Joeletta Patrick.
Topic: “The Art of Interviewing”
Date & Time:
October 26, 2020
2:00pm CT
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Dr. Joeletta Patrick Bio
Dr. Joeletta Patrick is a native of Greensboro, NC where she attended North Carolina A&T State University and received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
Upon graduation, she moved to Houston, TX, and began her career in the NASA industry. She has worked as a Flight Controller for the International Space Station program as well as a Time-Phased Power Analyst until assuming a role in the Office of STEM Engagement.
Dr. Patrick moved to Headquarters in Washington, DC where she served in various capacities like the Agency Manager for the Minority University Research and Education Program and the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. She also worked a short-term assignment as a Senior Fellow for the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Dr. Patrick currently serves as the Director of the California Office of STEM Engagement at Ames Research Center and Armstrong Flight Research Center.
She holds a Doctorate of Business Administration and Masters of Business Administration from University of Maryland Global Campus. In her spare time, she works with the North Carolina based Lupus focused non-profit called Beautiful Butterflies and is a proud member of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.

Education Session - University Panel
2020-10-21 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a scholarship panel. Representatives from higher-education institutions will be discussing a variety of scholarship opportunities.
Higher Education Institutions represented:

Virginia Space Grant Consortium
Stanford University
UTA
Army ROTC

Date & Time: Oct 21 at 2:00 pm CT
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Entrepreneurship Session - "Access to Capital"
2020-10-15 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a SER MUJER Entrepreneurship Session with Martha Victoria Valdez.
Topic: “Access to Capital”
Date & Time: October 15, 2020 at 2:00pm CT
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A special thanks to our sponsor, Ford Motor Company Fund.

Martha Victoria Valdez Bio
Martha Victoria Valdez is the Senior Economic Development Officer for South Texas for Peoplefund. With over seven years of experience in the nonprofit lending industry, Martha is responsible for the implementation of financial education curriculums and business advising for both English and Spanish speaking business owners in South Texas.
Martha comes from an entrepreneurial family, therefore, understands the obstacles that the small business community faces. She is committed to help fellow Texans pursue the American Dream in her border town of Laredo and the rest of South Texas by providing business support and access to capital. She studied History with a concentration in Colonial America and minored in Business Administration at Texas A&M Intl University. Martha holds several positions in her community, such as: Commissioner for the City of Laredo Civil Service Commission, VP for the Webb County Young Political Organization, a member of LULAC and MileOne- Laredo’s first entrepreneur co-working space. With joy in her heart, Martha Victoria looks forward to helping small businesses thrive in her region.

STEM TALK with Manny Sanchez, Lockheed Martin
2020-10-13 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for a STEM TALK with Manny Sanchez of Lockheed Martin.
Date & Time:
October 13, 2020
2:00pm CT
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Manny Sanchez Bio:
Manny is a Systems Engineer, Senior Staff for Lockheed Martin Aeronautical Company, Advanced Development Programs (Skunk Works) in Palmdale California and has over forty-eight years aerospace experience with Lockheed Martin. Over the years he has worked on several programs and projects at Lockheed Martin and is currently assigned to the Tactical Systems Directorate. Along with his engineering responsibilities he is a Lockheed Martin University Relations Campus Recruiter and attends select universities and national events where he represents Lockheed Martin for the purpose of interviewing and recruiting the best possible future graduates for employment. As a Lockheed Martin Corporation speaker, he presents lectures, modules and workshops on professional development and engineering topics at LM Corporate supported universities, national and Non-Profit events.
Manny was born in Los Angeles, California and attended Los Angeles Unified School District schools where he got his K through 12 education from local schools in the Los Angeles area. He received his BS in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and advanced professional designations in Manufacturing Engineering Planning and System Engineering from the Skunk Works Technical Institute at Lockheed Martin.
