BOOZ ALLEN'S NEW EMPLOYEE SLAMS A HOME RUN

Spring 2022 was a busy time professionally for Alexis (Lex) “Scrappy” Hopkins. She joined Booz Allen’s Melbourne, Florida, team as a junior developer. And she was drafted by the Kentucky Wild Health Genomes from Lexington, Kentucky, making history as the first female drafted by the Atlantic League of Professional Baseball.

This summer, Hopkins is a Genomes bullpen catcher developing for an on-field role. At the same time, she’s working on what she calls “technology with a purpose” for Booz Allen and its clients.

How can someone pursue—and fulfill—two dreams simultaneously? Booz Allen’s BE3 Promise is a big part of the answer.  

The BE3 Promise—“Be You. Be Booz Allen. Be Empowered.”—encourages employees to create a career and life that’s meaningful to them. 

Through understanding that each employee's experience is different, BE3 empowers them to be self-initiated and self-driven. Employees can take advantage of many different benefits—including flexible time off, skill-building and continuous learning, and holistic wellness programs—to create diverse and fulfilling experiences aligned with both their career and personal goals. 

All of this was good news for Hopkins.

For years as a biomedical engineering student and varsity softball athlete at the Florida Institute of Technology, she’d been working toward a career in STEM and a goal “to make a difference and make the world a better place.” This included sharing her work at four international science fairs, interning at the Air Force Research Laboratory, and ultimately earning her B.S. degree.

Today at Booz Allen, she’s taking the next step in her career: developing code for customized applications for the defense and national security clients and creating solutions to complex problems.

In a video interview with the Atlantic League after tryouts held in March, Hopkins reflected on her journey in sports.

“Two or three years ago in one of my college classes, they said write down a dream of yours and I was going to put down a professional baseball player,” said Hopkins. “I actually didn’t because I was like that’s never going to happen. But I guess here we are today making the dream come alive.”