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graduate fellowship After leaving the Labs, while program (GSP) and attain
programs for women and being employed by a dozen the Member of Technical
minorities; implemented companies. I have delivered Staff title.
programs for high school consulting services to over a At the Helm of the
students; started several hundred companies ranging Women’s Bureau,
employee career from startups to multi- Opening Doors
development programs and nationals and Fortune 500 Delores Parker Crockett
shared them from one companies. As a trainer, I
location to another; and held have trained thousands on
our first national conference. complex technologies
I was personally including Unix/C systems
instrumental in implementing and network programming;
summer experience SAP administration and
programs for high school software development; and
students and set up multiple data integration
networking social for our technologies in Asia, E
college summer employees. Obtaining my initial job at
I was also blessed to be the Bell Labs upon graduation
organization's first national was key to my personal,
president and the official technical and academic In the 1970’s the Women’s
representative of over 2,000 development. Jettye Hasben Bureau of the U.S.
employees when interacting Dash, Pamela Vaughn and I Department of Labor, under
with the Labs’ executives. I became the first black the leadership of Elizabeth
still had to perform my full- women to participate in the Kootz, worked to address
time job. Lab’s graduate study and eliminate discrimination
