Mrs. Claudia Morales, a supplier quality assurance systems staff specialist at Bell Textron Inc., is the 2020 nominee for the Women of Color Educational Leadership Award.
Morales has worked at Bell Textron Inc. for the past 27 years. Her career accomplishments include leading the requirements and testing of quality systems during a business systems modernization project, developing computer applications, and solving system issues for inspectors and factory workers that prevent them from doing their job.
She also mentors students in middle school and high school participating in the FIRST Lego League, which guides youth through STEM learning and exploration at an early age, and the FIRST Robotics Competition. She's been committed to both activities for several years.
“Claudia is an asset to our education outreach programs at Bell. She has a passion for it, and it shows! I am very proud to serve with her,” said Tricia Hiros, an airworthiness lead and project engineer at Bell.
She told Women of Color magazine that growing up, her home only had two bedrooms but books and encyclopedias covered two walls from floor to ceiling.
At Bell, she plans events such as the Bell Family Day-STEM Experience, and coordinates Bell volunteers to support Engineering Week at the Perot Museum of Science in Dallas, and other STEM-related activities hosted by organizations and school districts in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.
