Our Leadership Team

Our Leadership Team is passionate and committed to develop and support programs to increase diversity in the engineering workforce.

AMIE Board of Directors

AMIE’s Board of Directors include leaders from corporations, government agencies and HBCU Schools of Engineering working together to advance the AMIE mission and vision.

Gary Schneider

IBM Corporation,
Chair

Reginald Humphrey

General Motors Company
Vice Chair

Board Members

Everett Tucker

Abbott

Jared Zerbe

Apple

David Canada

The Boeing Company

Alex Venetta

Career Communications Group

Dr. Mark D. Vaughn

Corning Incorporated

Matt Lavelle

Boston Scientific

Rhom Erskine

Lockheed Martin Corporation

Valecia Maclin

Microsoft Corporation

Stephanie Turner

The MITRE Corporation

Terrell Reid

Northrop Grumman Corporation

Richard Target

Optum

Edgar Perez

Oracle

Odetta Scott

RTX

Theodore Brown

U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers

Dean Heshmat Aglan

Tuskegee
University

Dean Derrick B. Dunn

University of Maryland Eastern Shore

Dean Devdas Shetty

University of the
District of Columbia

Members-at-Large

Dean Joyce Shirazi

Chair, Council of HBCU Engineering Deans

J.T. (Ted) Childs

Ted Childs, LLC

Legacy Board Member

Dr. Tyrone Taborn

Career Communications Group

Dr. Eugene M. DeLoatch

Dean Emeritus
Morgan State University

AMIE Executive Office

Veronica L. Nelson

Chief Executive Officer

Avalyn Pace

Strategic Program Manager

Contact

Veronica L. Nelson, Chief Executive Officer
Advancing Minorities' Interest in Engineering (AMIE)
executive_director@amiepartnerships.org
veronica.nelson@morgan.edu

ABOUT US
AMIE is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to expand corporate and government alliances with the (17) ABET accredited Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Schools of Engineering to implement and support programs to attract, educate, graduate and place underrepresented minority students in engineering and computer science careers. The (17) ABET accredited HBCU Schools of Engineering produce over 30% of the African American engineers in the United States while representing less than 3% of the Engineering Universities.

Our Leadership Team