Career Panel

GWE’s Flagship Fall Event

The GWE Career Panel draws together successful female engineers from different disciplines: academia, industry, and national labs, for an evening of honest Q&A and discussion.

2024 Panelists

  • Negar Mehr, Assistant Professor in Mechanical Engineering
  • Anastasiia Butko, Scientist in LBNL Applied Mathematics and Computational Research Division
  • Kelly Colbert, Intern at Genetech
  • Nishita Phillip, Materials Engineer at Meta

2023 Panelists

  • Lydia Sohn, Chancellor’s Professor in Mechanical Engineering
  • Sneha Akhade, Scientist at Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi, Assistant Professor in Environmental Engineering
  • Sarah Easley, Senior Managing Engineer
  • Temina Madon, Co-founder of The Agency

2021 Panelists

  • Shauna McIntyre – President, Automotive Division at OUSTER. Board member, Lithia Motors, Electric Last Mile Solutions
  • Lourdes Valdez-Palacio – Technical Program Manager, Rolls-Royce Corporation
  • Monica Barney – R&D Scientist, Chevron. Biotech Student, City College of San Francisco
  • Lisa Pruitt – Professor of Bioengineering and Mechanical Engineering, UC Berkeley

2020 Panelists

  • Arlene Blum – Research Associate in Chemistry at UC Berkeley and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute
  • Hannah Stuart – Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering UC Berkeley
  • Qing Ji – Staff Scientist, Accelerator Technology & Applied Physics Division LBNL
  • Dorota Shortell – CEO of Simplexity Product Development