Long before Amazon announced, in 2021, that it had hired former Twitter executive Candi Castleberry as vice president of diversity, equity and inclusion, she won the 2004 Community Service Award for her contributions as co-chair of a group of diversity execs representing Fortune 500 companies.

Diane N. DeHoyos was a supplier diversity manager at General Motors (GM) when she won a community service award at the 2001 Women of Color STEM Conference. She was responsible for developing GM's network of minority suppliers. In 1999, she won the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for Community Service for service to GM's employee resource group, the Hispanic Initiative Team.

Carla J. Morales, a 2002 Community Service Award winner, combined work as a business operations specialist at StorageTek with a commitment to rebuilding computers at no cost for schools and churches. She also taught single parents how to build their own computer systems at the Mi Casa Resource for Women in Denver, Colorado.

Denise Christopher-Miller was a leader in developing outreach programs for mentoring students. Before she received the 2003 Community Service Award, the electronic systems program manager's promotion of career opportunities in STEM careers was recognized by Northrop Grumman Corporation and her community.

In 2002, Lubertha Buchanan, an information technology specialist in Lockheed Martin's human resources department, set up a program to expose inner-city kids to opportunities in science and engineering. Lockheed soon got behind the program, which went on to win national recognition when the Learning Point Foundation designated it a National Best Practice in academic educational programs. A year before she won the Community Service Award at the 2005 Women of Color STEM Conference, Buchanan received the President's Volunteer Service Award for 2004.

As a diversity officer at NASA Glenn in Cleveland, Ohio, Robyn Gordon, the 2006 Community Service Award winner, centralized diversity programs. She also expanded opportunities to the facility's supply chain and made time to serve on the board of directrs of United Cerebral Palsy.

Through Northrop Grumman's WORTHY (Worthwhile To Help High School Youth), 2008 Community Service Award winner Britt Rodgers helped students gain an understanding of engineering and business from the inside of a major company. She also helped to promote STEM in local elementary schools.

Outside of the medical centers that Coast Guard Commander Alicia Garcia Vantran worked, she also volunteered with a health program for American Indians and Alaska Natives and led community health fairs at the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May, N.J. While deployed on the Cutter Eagle, the Puerto Rico-born physician organized a team of doctors to aid 200 medically underserved Dominicans and Haitians in Santo Domingo, the capital of the Dominican Republic. She was a 2009 community service award winner.

Gihan Oraby is a civilian with the Department of the Army, and also passionate about promoting opportunities in STEM careers. She has led outreach programs such as Introduce a Girl to Engineering and Introduce a Teen to Engineering to encourage underrepresented communities in science, technology, engineering, and math to pursue STEM careers. She won the Community Service Award at the 2018 Women of Color STEM Conference.

Demetria F. Hall is an accomplished engineer at Lockheed Martin Aeronautics. She also leads a diverse team of volunteer engineers that promote STEM careers. Under her leadership, the program impacted over 30,000 students and professionals in 2019. Her actions exemplify the core values of what it means to be a great leader and role model. Hall won the Community Service in Industry Award at the 2020 Women of Color STEM Conference.

Treva Brown, 2021 Women of Color STEM Community Service Award winner, is a physical scientist at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). She is commended for founding the “Dr. B.’s Science Adventures” series, where she engages with youth while doing experiments that apply basic science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) principles.

Brown hopes to turn these ventures into a non-profit and children’s cartoon series to benefit kids across the Gulf South and beyond. She also spearheads initiatives aimed to improve diversity and inclusion within the scientific community. Furthermore, she is an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated, the National Organization of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers, and is chair of the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee for the Microscopy Society of America.

Daniel “Dani” Chambers is also a 2021 Community Service Award winner. At Lockheed Martin, Chambers is a multi-functional engineering and science manager who leads 40 personnel including associate managers, team leads, and chief system engineers, responsible for 24/7 operations of critical military systems. Chambers also volunteers through the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) Lockheed Martin Professional Chapter.

“I primarily mentor and coach college students in the Region VI area through resume building, mock interviews, and recruiting for Lockheed Martin,” Chambers said. “It is a passion of mine to help prepare college students for the workforce. It can be overwhelming and intimidating, and I want students to feel supported and that they’re not alone.”

NSBE isn’t the only effort that she volunteers with. “The pandemic has slowed me down, but I also volunteer with the Soldiers’ Angels organization.”