Da'Shaun Antoinette Joseph won a Professional Achievement Award at the 2022 Women of Color STEM Conference. She is a growth-focused engineer with more than 15 years of experience in sales, program management, and consulting.
Recently, Joseph became a program manager for Google Workspace products, leading Google Drive teams to enhance consumer and user enterprise productivity.
Before joining Google, she was a portfolio manager supporting the critical mission solution sector of Jacobs Solutions, an engineering services company.
She also advocates for diversity and equity in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) careers as a STEM Initiatives chair and is a member of the Information Technology Senior Management Forum (ITSMF) board of directors.
"I didn't choose engineering, engineering chose me," she said in her acceptance speech during the Women of Color STEM awards gala. "And although that might sound a little pretentious, it is respectfully true. I knew I wanted to create. I knew I wanted to make an impact. But those were my only two goals, aside from owning a Chanel bag," she joked. "But this brown-eyed girl from New Orleans was chosen to break barriers. Even though at the time, I didn't understand what that truly meant. Engineering and STEAM [science, technology, engineering, the arts, and math] gave me the confidence to pursue purpose and purpose sparked success, and success birthed self-acceptance. While I have yet to buy that Chanel bag, this award goes with everything."
