LGBTQ+ Pride in the Engineering Workplace

Join WE@RIT for this all-alumni panel discussing issues pertaining to LGBTQ+ people in the engineering workplace.  Panelists will share first-hand accounts from their own experiences being lesbian or trans, challenges they’ve faced as a result, as well as ways they’ve found support and advocated for themselves and their community within the engineering workplace.  Audience questions will be taken.  Open to the RIT community.

Panelists:

Maura Chmielowiec (She/Her), Senior Specialist, Systems Engineering at L3 Harris (RIT MECE '16);

Samantha Cuddy (She/Her), Associate Manager, Program Scheduler, L3 Harris (RIT Info Technology '05);

Alexandra Capidicosa (She/Her), Scientist 1 at QuidelOrtho, Materials and Process Development (RIT BME '21);

Samantha Jacobson (She/Her), Systems Engineer for Applied Systems at Ocean Insight (RIT CE '21)