Charity and Other Activities

I support my church activities and other volunteer activities that are important part of my personal life.  These activities are listed below.

  • Church Activities
    I support my church during special funding events and celebration of the “Annual Harvest” festivities.  I help with the setup of festival booths, food preparation and distribution, and overall area clean up activities.  The “Annual Harvest” festivities draws hundreds of dancers performing the traditional Japanese dances with participants dressed in traditional, colorful Japanese dance kimonos.  It is a wonderful celebration that brings the church members and local community together in an annual celebration of thanks for a bountiful annual harvest.
  • Women In Engineering (WIE)
    As Vice President at Northrop Grumman and in my role as IEEE Division VIII Director (Board of Directors), I have attended in Women In Engineering events.  As Vice President, I encouraged active participation in WIE events in Southern California and sent my senior women program manager to attend those events.
  • Wounded Warriors Program
    As Vice President at Northrop Grumman, I was one of the Northrop Grumman senior representatives that supported Wounded Warrior events held in the Southern California and San Diego region.  Working with my Human Resources manager, I was part of the Northrop Grumman Wounded Warriors employment program that sought to assimilate our military service personnel into the aerospace workforce.
  • Golf Club President
    As President of the Logicon Golf Club, I schedule all golf tournaments for the year, handle all golfer’s handicaps, and organize the monthly tournaments.  Since golf is one of my main sports activities, this volunteer work fits perfectly with my personal passions.
  • IEEE Foundation Board of Directors
    I serve on the IEEE Foundation Board which is the conduit for conducting philanthropic work of IEEE. We review new humanitarian projects, approve projects that meet philanthropic criteria, assign funding, conduct yearly review of projects and support fund raising efforts to create a sustainable funding source for approved philanthropic projects.  A short list of the Board’s notable projects are:

    • Smart Village:   Projects which bring electrification to under-served regions of the world.  There are 24 projects underway bringing electric capability to over 300,000 villages in remote villages in Africa, East Asia, Pacific regions, and Himalayas.  These projects also educate local villagers to maintain and operate the portable electrical systems as a sustaining local business.  The results in terms of uplifting the human spirit have been very rewarding to see how the young villagers now see a future for themselves.
    • Scholarship Plus:  This is a Power & Energy Society humanitarian project that offers scholarships to young professionals who are seeking a career in the Power & Energy industry.  To date, over 1,500 scholarships have issued in North America (US and Canada) with over 25% to female participants.  This project allows young professionals to enter the workforce and gives them a future longterm career to structure their future around.
    • REACH – Raising Engineering Awareness through the Conduit of History:  These projects use historical engineering events to bring an awareness of the impact of past engineering accomplishments on our society to the attention of the K1-12 students.  One successful project was to highlight the accomplishments and the impact on society of Claude Shannon’s work on the quantification, storage and communication of information theory.