Caroline Mach graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the University of Toronto in 1993.The following year she was hired for a contract forest management planning position at the County of Dufferin. The contract became a permanent full-time position managing the Dufferin County Forest, a position that Caroline held until her retirement in the summer of 2024. During that time, she was responsible for all aspects of the management of the forest, environmental, economic, and social....
Nov 25, 2024•22 min•Ep. 38
Janelle North is a graduate from the University of Michigan - Dearborn with degrees in Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management. She has two decades of experience in the automotive industry. Her diverse roles have included design engineering, manufacturing engineering, future technology and product strategy and planning, human-centered design operations, and vehicle personalization for aftermarket accessories. Her career has afforded her extensive travel opportunities, including frequen...
Sep 10, 2024•30 min•Ep. 37
Aisha Ayoub is a Mechanical Engineer from University of Florida (BSME 2007). She has extensive engineering experience at multiple Fortune 100 companies leading development on automobiles, airplanes, spacecrafts, rockets, operating systems, and most recently augmented/virtual reality devices (AR/VR). Aisha was part of the core team at SpaceX that delivered industry leading historical firsts such as: the first ever reusable rocket (Falcon) to land and be used for reflight; the first private spacec...
Jul 07, 2024•20 min•Ep. 36
Lindsey Scopel is a client relationship and revenue growth expert in the custom software space with over 15 years of experience collaborating with Fortune 50 enterprise clients to deliver complex, full-stack programs. Her journey began in STEM as a biologist and zookeeper, before transitioning into the tech space to write logic for a major OEM's vehicle configurator and iPad wish-list app. Her leadership as a woman in tech spans from running a CMS migration program supported by more than 50 reso...
Mar 28, 2024•25 min•Ep. 35
Naseem Alizadeh is a licensed architect in Massachusetts, Michigan, and California. She currently lives in Oxford, England, with her husband and two young daughters, but practices both in the US and in the UK. She opened her own practice, Bureau for Architecture & Urbanism, in 2009. BAU focuses on client-led work and development projects. Naseem holds a Master of Architecture in Urban Design from Harvard University (2002) and a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University (1998)....
Feb 05, 2024•30 min•Ep. 34
Aileen Huang-Saad is the Director of Life Sciences, Health, and Engineering Programs at Northeastern’s Roux Institute (Portland, Maine) and an Associate Professor of Bioengineering. Leveraging her experience with design, entrepreneurship, education research, and industry, she seeks to close the gap between higher education and professional practice. Specifically, she is designing interdisciplinary experiential education life sciences, health, and engineering programs to attract, retain, and adva...
Jan 22, 2024•35 min•Ep. 33
Heather Shenkman MD, FACC is an interventional cardiologist in practice in Tarzana, California. She is author of “The Vegan Heart Doctor's Guide to Reversing Heart Disease, Losing Weight, and Reclaiming Your Life”. While Dr. Shenkman is skilled at performing invasive procedures to open blocked arteries of the heart, she is a strong advocate for a healthy lifestyle, including plant-based eating and regular exercise. She is also an avid athlete, having completed two Ironman triathlons and over 100...
Dec 12, 2023•22 min•Ep. 32
Wendy Shimata is currently the Vice President of Autonomous Systems at Varda Space Industries, a small space start-up in Los Angeles focused on in-space manufacturing and commercial reentry. She's responsible for the technical growth and development of the GNC, software and mission operation teams in an effort towards moving towards autonomous systems architectures and execution. Prior to Varda, she was at SpaceX for 7 years working software on crewed spaceflight programs, and Boeing Satellite S...
Nov 21, 2023•30 min•Ep. 31
Interview with April Perkins, Manager of Business Orchestration for SAP Center of Excellence at thyssenkrupp Materials North America, who describes her STEM journey as a series of ‘happy accidents.’ April has 24 years in the metals industry, working with teams globally and has a strong passion for building up the next generation of STEM enthusiasts. She has successfully led multiple high-performing teams at tkMNA and started a women in STEM DEI group, women@STEMX, with sights on getting more and...
Oct 10, 2023•29 min•Ep. 30
Interview with Nikita Tiwari, Sr Customer Experience Engineer at Intel's Client Computing Group. She brings the most compelling usages to the personal computer working alongside the OEM partners to manage and deliver their experience roadmap and co-engineer differentiated use cases. She has 9+ years of experience in silicon-processor debug, validation, artificial intelligence (AI) applications and automotive image processing unit (IPU). She has received a patent for her work in AI along with sev...
Sep 19, 2023•27 min•Ep. 29
Interview with Pooja Sund, Engineering PM Director at Microsoft, where she leverages her passion for technology, data analytics and leadership. She is a Gold medalist and three-time CFO Award winner, showcasing her commitment to delivering exceptional results. She has 17+ years of global experience in setting visionary goals and successfully executing them by leading high-performing teams. Pooja also actively contributes as a Board member at Pacific Northwest University and co-leads the Women at...
Aug 22, 2023•25 min•Ep. 28
Interview with Meghann Hallock, Lead Physician Assistant at TeamHealth LongHorn Group. Currently, she is the Lead APC at St. David’s South Austin & Bastrop Emergency Departments, where she was recently nominated for APC of the year. She has a Masters in Physician Assistant Studies and a Bachelor’s of Science in Health Professions with a Minor in Aging and Adult Life, both from Grand Valley State University. Her Master’s Research Thesis was on “The Timeliness of Antibiotic Administration in N...
Aug 02, 2023•24 min
Interview with Marie Adams who is the Director of Genomics Core at Van Andel Institute and an expert in the latest next-generation sequencing techniques. Marie earned a M.S. in genetics from Iowa State University and also serves as president (2023-2024) of the Association of Biomolecular Research Facilities (ABRF).
Jul 10, 2023•36 min•Ep. 26
Interview with Kalyani Mallela who is Manager of Systems Engineering at Starkey Hearing Technologies. She has also held multiple positions with the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) including president of the Minnesota Section. Kaylani has a Bachelors of Engineering in electronics and communications engineering and Masters of Science in electrical engineering and management of technology.
Mar 20, 2015•19 min•Ep. 25
Interview with Jennifer Morikawa, Sr Manufacturing Engineer at General Motors and past SWE Region H Governor. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Mar 06, 2015•24 min•Ep. 24
Interview with Valerie Woolard, who is a Software Developer at NationBuilder. She's also been a Search Quality Associate at Google and interned at McSweeney's as an assistant editor, fact checker, copy-editor and journalist.
Feb 27, 2015•24 min•Ep. 23
Lady Paragons, Women in STEM podcast, episode 21 -- Interview with Stacey DelVecchio, Chemical Engineer at Caterpillar, Past SWE President. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Feb 11, 2015•34 min•Ep. 22
Lady Paragons, Women in STEM podcast, episode 21 -- Interview with Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist, soon to be Harvard PhD. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Jan 27, 2015•16 min•Ep. 21
Lady Paragons, Women in STEM podcast, episode 20 -- Interview with Pooja Chandrashekar, Founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Jan 20, 2015•18 min•Ep. 20
Lady Paragons, Women in STEM podcast, episode 19 -- Interview with Courtney Thurston, 17 year old unmanned systems engineer. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Jan 13, 2015•25 min•Ep. 19
Lady Paragons, Women in STEM podcast, episode 18 -- Interview with Melanie Stegman, Biochemistry PhD & Founder of Molecular Jig Games. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Jan 05, 2015•22 min•Ep. 18
Interview with Colleen Layman, who is President-Elect of the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) and Vice President and Resources Business Group Water Principal at HDR. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Dec 16, 2014•22 min•Ep. 17
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 16 - Interview with Natalie Silvanovich, who is a security engineer on the Android Security Team at Google. Natalie enjoys hacking tamagotchis in her spare time. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Dec 09, 2014•19 min•Ep. 16
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 15 - Interview with Elizabeth Bierman, President of the Society of Women Engineers and Senior Project Engineer at Honeywell Aerospace. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Dec 02, 2014•20 min•Ep. 15
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 14 - Interview with Kaitlyn Bunker, who has a phd in electrical engineering from Michigan Tech and recently joined Rocky Mountain Institute. Kaitlyn is interested in microgrids and distributed renewable resources. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Nov 04, 2014•27 min•Ep. 14
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 13 - Interview with Pinshane Huang, who has a phd in applied physics and is a postdoc at Columbia University in the Materials Research Science & Engineering Center. She is a photographer for tiny things. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Oct 27, 2014•28 min•Ep. 13
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 12 - Interview with Alison Criscitiello, a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of Calgary, as a glaciologist studying ice core chemistry. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Oct 21, 2014•28 min•Ep. 12
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 11 - Amanda Liesch, Master Hole Digger, Queen of Soils and a Soil Physics PhD Student at North Carolina State University. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Oct 06, 2014•28 min•Ep. 11
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 10 - Interview with Heather Olins, PhD candidate in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University, studying deep sea hydrothermal vent microbial ecology. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic
Sep 30, 2014•23 min•Ep. 10
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 9 -- Interview with Lauren Aycock, Graduate student in Physics at Cornell University & Joint Quantum Institute. Lauren is doing guest research at National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST) on many-body physics. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
Sep 22, 2014•30 min•Ep. 9
