Career Communications Group (CCG) has announced its theme for the 2022 Women of Color (WOC) in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Conference. According to CCG, "The Struggle, the Progress, and the Future" is the theme for the fall conference, scheduled to take place in Detriot and the WOC digital twin experience (DTX) platform from October 6 through 8.

The WOC STEM Conference recognition program is more critical than ever before. One landmark study projects the number of jobs in STEM in the United States is set to increase in the coming years. Click here to register.

For more than two decades, WOC STEM has highlighted the outstanding contributions of women of color to inspire the next generation of skilled workers best positioned to secure high-wage jobs.

At the same time, the event has highlighted the continuing challenges that bias, discrimination, and harassment pose to diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts.

That's why the 2022 conference theme is a call to action while reflecting the development and progress being made to achieve universal workplace gender equality. Click here to register.

In the year 2000, Margarita "Maggie" Dominguez was honored as the Women of Color Technologist of the Year. A year earlier, she had made the cover of Career Communications Group's Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine.

Dominguez was the first woman engineer hired by Tampa Electric in 1975. During her trailblazing career at the utility company, she held many management positions, including director of environmental services for energy supply and director of marketing and sales for energy services.

Sales was one of her areas of expertise, having served as director of the Tampa Electric Bulk Power Department which was responsible for power sales to other utilities and municipal power systems. In addition, much of her experience was in customer services having spent many years taking care of Tampa Electric’s internal and external customers.

When Dominguez was promoted to vice president of information technology and telecommunications services, she continued to have responsibility for Tampa Electric's facility services, real estate, and corporate purchasing functions.

"I am originally from Havana, Cuba," she wrote on LinkedIn, featuring her current role as a realtor. "My parents immigrated to Tampa in the '60s. I graduated with a degree in engineering from the University of South Florida in 1975," she continued. "After graduating, I had a long career with Tampa Electric Company and TECO Energy now an EMERA company where I rose through the ranks to the level of Vice President of Technical and Support Services.