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Foundational Women’s Leadership Workshop

This inaugural event of the ASME Women’s Leadership Collective is a by-invitation workshop.

The Workshop will bring together key stakeholders—including women engineers, ASME leadership, and external partners in advancing equity in engineering—to discuss and shape the Collective’s long-term goals and objectives, including its mission, scope, and strategic direction.  

Workshop participants will explore how the Collective can best serve ASME’s women members, complement existing programs, and fill current gaps in leadership development for women engineers. By gathering input from ASME’s diverse community, the ASME Foundation will ensure that the Collective is tailored to the needs of women engineers across different career stages and sectors.

To foster the development of women engineers across their professional journeys, ASME is creating a Women’s Leadership Collective. With an initial focus on mid-senior executives who will emerge as our sector’s leaders and mentors in the coming years, the Women’s Leadership Collective will serve as a platform for women to hone their leadership skills, access mentors and mentees, and expand their professional networks.

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Thursday, March 20, 2025
10:00am
–2:00pm
ASME Foundation DC Headquarters

1828 L St. NW Washington, D.C. 20036

Grand Canyon Room, First Floor Conference Center

50%

WOMEN

ASME stands at a pivotal moment in its history, with its Board now comprising 50% women. While this milestone is a significant achievement, it is not reflective of the broader membership or engineering field, particularly in mechanical engineering, where women remain underrepresented.

Keynote Speaker
Dr. Errika Moore

Executive Director, National STEM Funders Network

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Dr. Tracee Walker Gilbert

Founder & CEO, STEM Innovation

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Dr. Errika Moore

Executive Director
National STEM Funders Network

Errika Moore is the inaugural Executive Director of the National STEM Funders Network. Previously, she served as Senior Program Officer at the Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, advancing educational and workforce equity for over 900,000 students. Her prior leadership roles include Executive Director of the TAG Education Collaborative, where she championed K-12 STEM advocacy across Georgia; Vice President of Member Services and External Affairs at IT Senior Management Forum, focused on increasing Black representation in senior technology roles; Vice President of Operations at the Gifted Education Foundation; HR Strategist at Southwire; Americas Marketing Director for BMC Software; and Account Executive at IBM.

Currently, Errika chairs the national Board of Directors for Project Scientist, serves as Vice President of the Board of Directors for Sankofa Montessori, and sits on the national boards of Inspiredu and Movement Strategy Center. She lends her expertise to national initiatives through advisory roles with the National Advisory Committee for the ADVANCE Research and Coordination Network, the steering committee of the National Center for Family Math, the Defense Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education Consortium (DSEC) Advisory Council, Review Panels for the National Science Foundation, Georgia Department of Education’s Computer Science Advisory Council, Junior Achievement of Georgia’s Leadership Council, and Georgia Tech’s Ivan Allen College Dean search committee.

Errika’s previous board service includes national and regional leadership with Literacy Action, the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, Per Scholas Atlanta, Ferst Readers, the Georgia Tech Black Alumni Organization, Out Teach, the University of Texas’ Parent Advisory Council Executive Committee, Florida International University’s Honors College Dean’s Advisory Board, and the National Society of Black Engineers. She has served on the advisory boards or councils for Georgia Tech’s School of Industrial Engineering, Southeast PremierCIO, Literacy for All, and the STEM Learning Ecosystem National Advisory Council. She was also the Policy Director and Co-Chair of the Tech for All Policy Conference.

Greatest Honors: Errika finds her greatest joy and purpose in being a wife to S. Gordon Moore Jr. and a mother to Jaylen and Jordan. However, Errika has been recognized twice as an Outstanding Georgia Citizen by the Secretary of State, a Nation Swell Council member, Woman of the Year by Atlanta’s Women in Technology, an Ecosystem Builder by the Tech for All Alliance, and most recently a Kapor Foundation Research Fellow. She has earned multiple honors from her alma mater, as well as inclusion in Who’s Who in Black Atlanta.

She is a published co-author, magazine editor, Forbes contributor, and a member of the Forbes Nonprofit Council. Additionally, she served as a White House Fellow and has been selected for prestigious programs including the Institute for Managing Diversity Leadership Academy, the Atlanta Regional Commission’s Regional Leadership Institute, the Georgia Partnership for Excellence in Education’s Education Policy Fellows Program, and the McKinsey Black Executive Leadership Program.


Education:
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S. Industrial & Systems Engineering, 1996
Georgia Institute of Technology M.S., History and Sociology of Technology and Science, 2024 Georgia Institute of Technology Doctoral Student., History and Sociology of Technology and Science

Dr. Tracee Walker Gilbert

Founder & CEO
STEM Innovation

Dr. Tracee Gilbert is the Founder and CEO of System Innovation, which is an AI-driven digital transformation company that supports the Department of Defense. Dr. Gilbert has over 25 years of experience leading large-scale initiatives and driving strategy and implementation for digital engineering, engineering research, and engineering programs across various domains. She has held various leadership positions at Lockheed Martin, MITRE, Engility, SAIC and served as a fellow for the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellowship (STPF) at Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Gilbert was the contractor lead and chief architect of the DoD Digital Engineering concept and strategy. She also led the initial implementation efforts across the military services, industry, and academia in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering.

Dr. Gilbert received her B.A. (Physics, Minor in Math and Japanese) from Lincoln University. She studied abroad with the Institute for the International Education of Students in Tokyo, Japan where she worked as an editor for Tokyo Classifieds. She received her M.S. (Systems Engineering) and Ph.D. (Industrial and Systems Engineering) from Virginia Tech. She is the outgoing chair of the AAAS STPF Advisory Committee and is a board member of the George Mason University Mechanical Engineering Board, the Morgan State University Engineering Executive Council, and the American Institute of Physics Team Up Together Campaign Committee. For the past two years, she has also facilitated ASME’s Intelligent Manufacturing Working Group (IMTG’s) strategic planning sessions.