Shalini Singh

Membership Chair

Shalini Singh is currently working as a Partner Program Analyst at Intel. Prior to this she was working as a Facilities Electrical Engineer. She has a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and a MS degree in ECE from the University of Houston. She grew up in India and moved to the US in 2015. She moved to Portland in 2017 and has been involved with SWE CRS since June 2019. ​

Alexa Baldwin

Webmaster

Alexa Baldwin is a native Oregonian currently working as a Software Engineer at Seeq Corporation. She graduated in 2019 from University of Portland with a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Mathematics. In her spare time she enjoys playing board games and hanging out with her cat Kramer.

Nnennaya Udochu

Inventory Chair

Bio coming soon!

Irina Belozerova

Scholarship Chair

Irina has been engaged with Columbia River Section leadership team as VP of Outreach, then VP of Collegiate Relations and now as a Scholarship Chair. Professionally, Irina is an Environmental Engineer at
Intel focusing on modeling and forecasting of air and wastewater emissions for Intel sites globally to ensure environmental compliance. Prior to her engineering position in the industry, Irina conducted research in academia, in topics ranging from environmental microbiology to biosensing platforms. Her last academic endeavor was a postdoc in Applied Physics at New York University, researching sustainable
waste management solutions. As a passionate conservationist and engineer, Irina enjoys giving back by being actively engaged with engineering and scientific organizations and societies.

Coral Jean Cotterell

Data Officer

Coral Jean is a senior member of SWE and has been a member since February 1981. She continues to be active in SWE because of the STEM Outreach opportunities. She thinks that it is important to introduce children to STEM. Currently she is responsible for maintaining the section database. She is a retired Process Control Engineer with a degree in Electrical Engineering. Her first college degree is in Biology (Microbial Genetics). She worked in cancer research at the Primate Center in Aloha for several years before returning to school to obtain an engineering degree.​

Stephanie Chin

Bylaws Chair

Stephanie is passionate in using data to drive technological and sustainability solutions. As a R&D Yield Analysis Engineer at Intel, she analyzes production data to identify patterns and drive decisions that are critical to the development and manufacturing of the next-generation logic technologies. Prior to her current role, she was a technical lead ensuring environmental compliance along every step of the microprocessor manufacturing process. Stephanie and her team created a relational database to track all the chemicals used in the process and their impacts to the environment and applied this knowledge to develop predictive models and compute long-range projections to assess compliance risks globally. Without her work, Intel's factories would not be qualified to manufacture. Stephanie holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, where she first became involved with SWE. Stephanie enjoys giving back to the engineering community and helping young women engineers to pursue their passions in STEM! ​

Social & Event Planning Chair - OPEN

Social Chair and Event Planning Coordinator 

Bio coming soon!

Ingrid Liao

Marketing/ Social Media Chair

​Ingrid Liao is currently a PTD Lithography Engineer at Intel Corporation, with an MS in Materials Science and Engineering and BS in Chemistry from the University of California, Riverside. Previously she had served on the board of her university’s SWE, IEEE, and AWIS chapters while attaining her degrees, supporting STEM education and programs for the underrepresented and youth. While focusing on her highly technical career path, she has parallel interests in creative productions and visual arts. At Intel through the NextGen Employee Resource group, she founded Art Hour and co-produce The Kitchen Circuit, both virtual creative learning and entertainment programs for employees after work hours. During her free time Ingrid enjoys spin classes, traveling, visiting art museums, and chasing waterfalls.

Ellen Classen

Newsletter Editor

Bio coming soon!

Kari Nichols

Food Bank Coordinator

Kari is a Water Resources Manager at Mead & Hunt. She specializes in stormwater management and environmental compliance employing creativity and critical thinking to collaboratively solve complex problems.She enjoys establishing relationships with strong teaming partners, participating in professional organizations to expand her technical knowledge and connecting with clients. Kari is active in groups fostering the growth of engineering and science fields through involvement with STEM related activities.

Sireesha Akula

Nominating Chair

Bio coming soon!

Outreach Chairs - Multiple OPEN

• Elementary School Outreach Lead
• Middle School Outreach Lead
• High School Outreach Lead
• FIRST ORTOP Lead
• Oregon Engineers Week Lead
• Girl Scout Lead
• SWENext Lead

Fundraising Chair - OPEN

The Fundraising Chair strives to generate funds by designing and selling apparel and other merchandise sales. Funds are to be applied towards Scholarships, Professional Development Events, or Outreach Activities. 

Diversity & Inclusion Chair - OPEN

Help the section lead diversity and inclusion initiatives through hosting discussions and other events geared towards advancing SWE’s mission surrounding diversity and inclusion. (https://alltogether.swe.org/2019/06/get-down-with-di/)

Awards Chair - OPEN

Identify awards that individuals and the section can apply for, then nominate those individuals and the section for those awards. This can be split up between multiple people to apply for the following four award opportunities:

• WE Local Awards Application
• Annual Conference Individual Awards Application 
• Mission Awards Application
• SWENext Awards Application
• External Awards 

Conference Chair - OPEN

Organize section meet-ups at local and annual conferences, gather attendee interest, keep the section up to date with deadlines and any other needed conference planning information.

• Annual Conference
• WE Local Conferences

Corporate Sponsorship Chair

Identify awards that individuals and the section can apply for, then nominate those individuals and the section for those awards. This can be split up between multiple people to apply for the following four award opportunities: WE Local, Annual Conference, SWENext, and External Awards.

Program Development Grant (PDG) Chair - OPEN

Determine which section events have potential to receive PDG funding and apply for the funding. Work with section leadership to develop events that could receive PDG funding.
(https://swe.org/support-swe/program-development-grants/)

Mentorship Coordinator - OPEN

Coordinate collegiate and professional mentoring programs. Find and pair together mentors and mentees.

Historian - OPEN

Take pictures at events and work with social media/marketing chair to make sure they are published to social media channels and the newsletter. Develop post-event evaluation forms to capture best practices for annual and repeated events.

Advocacy Chair - OPEN

Stay up to date on SWE’s advocacy efforts and how our local section can get involved (https://alltogether.swe.org/category/advocacy/). Lead efforts to support local and state-wide legislation and initiatives that will advance SWE’s mission.