During Women's History Month, WOC Online will celebrate winners honored with the Technologist of the Year award at the annual WOC STEM Conference, which will mark its 30th anniversary in 2025.
Women of Color Magazine's Technologists of the Year have significantly contributed to their respective fields, and various organizations have recognized their achievements.
Notable figures on the list include Sherry F. Bellamy, vice president of Verizon in 1997, and Mei Cai, Ph.D., director of battery cell systems research at GM Chemical & Materials System Lab in 2021.
Below is the complete list of all the Technologists of the Year:
1997: Sherry F. Bellamy, Vice President, Verizon
1998: Stephanie Manuel Bailey, Vice President, Fannie Mae
1999: Dr. Chon-Yin Tsai, Principal Mechanical Engineer, Lockheed Martin
2000: Margarita Dominguez, Vice President, Tampa Electric
2001: Sherita T. Ceasar, Vice President, Scientific Atlanta
2002: Duy-Loan T. Le, Senior Fellow, Texas Instruments
2003: Vallerie Parrish-Porter, CIO, Embarq Corporation
2004: Asha Goyal, Ph.D., Vice President, IBM Global Services
2005: Nancy Stewart, Senior Vice President and CTO, Walmart
2006: Lina Echeverria, Ph.D., Vice President, Corning Incorporated
2007: Chineta K. Davis, Vice President, Northrop Grumman
2008: Irene Hernandez Roberts, Program Director, IBM Software
2009: Norma Clayton, Vice President, The Boeing Company
2010: Eleanor Valentin, Director of the Military Health System, United States Navy
2011: Sarita Rao, Vice President, AT&T Business
2012: Sonya Sepahban, Senior Vice President, General Dynamics Land Systems
2013: Camille D'Annunzio, Manager, Automated Sensor Exploitation Technology Center, Northrop Grumman
2014: Alicia Boler Davis, Senior Vice President, General Motors
2015: Delia Grenville, Ph.D., Research Scientist, Intel Corporation
2016: Aleksandra Boskovic, Research Director, Corning Incorporated
2017: Denise Gray, CEO, LG Chem Power Inc.
2018: Donna L. Bell, Ph.D., Director of Research Operations, Ford Motor Company
2019: Pamela McCauley, Ph.D., C.P.E., Professor & Laboratory Director, University of Central Florida
2020: Sylvia Trent-Adams, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, HHS
2021: Mei Cai, Ph.D., Director of Battery Cell Systems Research, GM Chemical & Materials System Lab
2022: Valerie Sheares Ashby, Ph.D., President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
2023: Mary Hor-Lao, Director of Software Engineering, Abbott Neuromodulation
2024: Bridget Chatman, Vice President, Business Development Transformation & Growth Academy, SAIC
