Meet Booz Allen's 2023 Women of Color STEM Awardees

Since 1995, the Women of Color STEM Conference has brought women together to improve their education and career opportunities in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) while recognizing their contributions in STEM fields.

At the 2023 event in Detroit, 16 employees from across Booz Allen received Outstanding Achievement Awards.

Jandria Alexander is a data science, cybersecurity, and engineering leader. She also holds executive roles in Booz Allen’s Women in AI group, Cyber Technical Exchange Group, African American Network, and Women’s Business Resource Group.

Crishelle Lytle shapes strategy for Booz Allen’s commercial data security business. She’s also an avid volunteer—mentoring Girl Scouts, launching a group for Black engineers, and connecting families to low-cost internet and remote learning.

Kemi Somuyiwa is a system integrator who helps federal agencies implement policies, such as drug price transparency. In her spare time, she shares her Agile knowledge with young students in the classroom and with people making career transitions through the Booz Allen Foundation. 

For Booz Allen’s law enforcement clients, Tiara Taylor recovers digital data from badly damaged devices, innovating cutting-edge techniques for micro-level electronic repairs and data recovery. Within the firm and at George Mason University, she’s bringing the next generation of women into engineering and cybersecurity.

Jayne Chang started her career in environmental sciences. After just six years at Booz Allen, she is a team leader, hiring manager, member of the firm’s Innovation Engine Group, and application team lead for the firm’s work with the Federal Reserve Bank.

Alissa Fujimoto has led data science initiatives related to children’s health and development, psychological health, and traumatic brain injury, and currently supports Booz Allen’s life sciences portfolio.

Dr. Mayriam Robles helps federal agencies prepare for public health emergencies and improve health outcomes. Within Booz Allen, she’s vice chair of the Multicultural Business Resource Group and chair of the Middle East and North African Network.

Nicole Wishart is a lead systems integrator who supported the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, helping the single largest payer for healthcare in the U.S. to comply with the No Surprises and Transparency in Coverage Act.

Air Force veteran Katrell Crenshaw is the cybersecurity lead supporting one of the nation’s most important homeland defense missions, a cyber mission specialist, and a valued member of Booz Allen’s Battle Control System-Fixed team.

Senior software engineer and project manager Angela Thomas helped upgrade a mission-critical support system for the intelligence community to streamline access to multiple aeronautical databases.

Marion Tinio has played a key role in many Booz Allen milestones, including the first AWS Marketplace listing of Booz Allen Virtual Cloud Defense and the Department of Treasury’s first FedRAMP High authorization.

Chelsea Thorpe develops tools that help Booz Allen’s defense clients track economic investments and military engagement of a near-peer adversary and analyze the impact of air, space, sea, land, and cyberspace campaigns.

Machine learning engineer Dr. Karolyn Babalola led a team of senior researchers and graduate students in a women in data science workshop in the summer of 2023, and her natural language processing (NLP) applications have received Congressional-level attention and praise.

Jamila Duckett brings advanced analytics, data science, and secure hosting to federal defense and intelligence clients. She is a champion for representation among the next generation of STEM leaders, sharing her own experiences navigating the technology industry, and inspiring others at Booz Allen and beyond.

Shruti Juneja is pivotal to Booz Allen’s cloud practice, supporting the firm’s cornerstone Virtual Cloud Defense solution, leading a complicated website migration for the Department of the Treasury, and exploring new knowledge and capabilities in data privacy.

Trisha Lovley began her career in literature, anthropology, human performance, and marketing. Today, she’s helping federal clients and Booz Allen apply digital twin technologies to challenges, including climate change and protecting the national air space.