STEM advocate
SWE Late Career and Retiree Affinity Group
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
Jan Williams is a SWE Fellow and Distinguished Service Award recipient. After 35 years in a national security career, mostly with Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, she is spending her retirement advocating for enhanced STEM education at the local and national levels, including introducing STEM legislation in New Mexico. She is one of six authors of Women Engineering Legends 1952 - 1976: Society of Women Engineers Achievement Award Recipients. Jan is active in the SWE Late Career and Retiree Affinity Group and held many SWE local and Society positions over 40 years of membership. She holds a BSME from the University of Missouri, Kansas City and an MSCE from the University of New Mexico. She enjoys travel and shares her passion about women in STEM aboard Cunard Lines as a shipboard lecturer. An avid swimmer, she has competed in team triathlons.
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