Lady Paragons Women in STEM
by Sarah Worsham
Promoting Women who excel in science, technology, engineering and math. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Please email [email protected] or go to our website at ladyparagons.com to suggest a Lady Paragon or share your story.
Episodes
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Lady Paragons Episode 38 - Interview with Caroline Mach, Retired Forester
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...
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Lady Paragons Episode 37 - Interview with Janelle North, Vehicle Line Planner at Ford Motor Company
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...
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Lady Paragons Episode 36 - Interview with Aisha Ayoub, Former Engineer at SpaceX
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...
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Lady Paragons Episode 35 - Interview with Lindsey Scopel, VP of Client Success at Mavice
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…
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Lady Paragons Episode 34 - Interview with Naseem Alizadeh, Licensed Architect, Developer & Urban Designer
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…
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Lady Paragons Episode 33 - Interview with Aileen Huang-Saad, Director of Life Sciences, Health and Engineering at the Roux Institute.
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…
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Lady Paragons Episode 32 - Interview with Heather Shenkman, Interventional Cardiologist
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...
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Lady Paragons Episode 31 - Wendy Shimata, VP of Autonomous Systems at Varda Space Systems
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 30 - April Perkins, Manager of Business Orchestration at thyssenkrupp Materials
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 29 - Nikita Tiwari, Sr Customer Experience Engineer at Intel
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+...
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Lady Paragons episode 28 - Pooja Sund, Engineering PM Director at Microsoft
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 27 - Meghann Hallock, Lead Physician Assistant at TeamHealth LongHorn Group
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 26 - Marie Adams, Director of Van Andel Institute's Genomics Core
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...
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Lady Paragons episode 25 - Kalyani Mallela, Manager of Systems Engineering, Starkey Hearing Technologies
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 24 - Jennifer Morikawa, Sr Manufacturing Engineer at GM, Past SWE Govenor
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 23 - Valerie Woolard, Software Developer at NationBuilder
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 22 - Stacey DelVecchio, Chemical Engineer, Past SWE President
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 21 - Didem Sarikaya, Developmental and Evolutionary Biologist
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 20 - Pooja Chandrashekar, Founder and CEO of ProjectCSGIRLS
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 19 - Courtney Thurston, 17 year old unmanned systems engineer
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 18 - Melanie Stegman, Biochemist, Founder of Molecular Jig Games
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 17 - Colleen Layman, SWE President-Elect, Water Resources Environmental Engineer
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 16 - Natalie Silvanovich, Information Security Engineer
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 15 - Elizabeth Bierman, SWE President, Systems Engineer
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 14 - Kaitlyn Bunker, Electrical Engineer
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 13 - Pinshane Huang, Materials Research Scientist, Applied Physicist
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 12 - Alison Criscitiello, Glaciologist
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 11 - Amanda Liesch, Soil Physics PhD Student
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.
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Lady Paragons episode 10 - Heather Olins, Organismic and Evolutionary Biologist
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
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Lady Paragons episode 9 - Lauren Aycock, Many-body Physicist
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…
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Lady Paragons episode 8 - Supriya Hobbs, Founder of Miss Possible
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 8 - Interview with Supriya Hobbs, CEO and Co-Founder of Miss Possible. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 7 - Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, Founder of Lab Candy, Cognitive Scientist
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 7 - Interview with Olivia Pavco-Giaccia, Founder & CEO of LabCandy and Junior in Cognitive Sciences at Yale University. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 6 - Shayna Simon, Electrical Engineering Student
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 6 -- Interview with Shayna Simon, an electrical engineering student at the University of Michigan. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 5 - Marlin Page, Founder of Sisters Code, Technology Executive
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 5 -- Marlin Page, Founder of Sisters Code. Marlin served as a technology executive at a Fortune 500 company, Deputy CIO for the City of Detroit and is now CEO of a Tech Staffing Company. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 4 - Marie Webster, PhD in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 4 -- Marie Webster, Post-doctoral Fellow at The Wistar Institute with a PhD in Pharmacology and Molecular Sciences. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 3 - The Amoeba Sisters
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 3 -- Sarina Peterson and Brianna Rapini, co-creators of the YouTube channel, The Amoeba Sisters. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 2 - Jessica Kirkpatrick, Director of Data Science, Astrophysicist
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 2 -- Jessica Kirkpatrick, Director of Data Science at InstaEDU and blogger for Women in Astronomy & Astrobetter. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Lady Paragons episode 1 - Katie McGill, Physics PhD Candidate
Lady Paragons, Women In STEM podcast, episode 1 -- Katie McGill, Physics PhD Candidate at Cornell University and Creator of the YouTube Channel, The Physics Factor. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Music is Light Emotions by MIGmusic.
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Promoting Women who excel in science, technology, engineering and math. Hosted by Sarah Worsham. Please email [email protected] or go to our website at ladyparagons.com to suggest a Lady Paragon or share your story.
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