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Email: jacksonmonique@eng.vt.edu
Monique René Jackson is a primary examiner in the chemical technology area for the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va. Before joining the USPTO in 1999, she received a bachelor of science degree from Virginia Tech in chemical engineering in 1995 and continued on as a Ph.D. candidate from 1995 to 1999. During her studies at Virginia Tech, she held several leadership positions on and off campus from founding chair of the Council for the Advancement of Minority Engineering Organizations (CAMEO), Engineering Expo '97 chair for the Student Engineers' Council, and mentor for the Academic Hispanic OutReach Alliance (AHORA). She was also president of the Southwest Virginia Soccer Association (SWVSA) and den leader for Cub Scouts of America.
For more than 10 years, she has volunteered countless hours to promote the advancement of Hispanics and other under-represented groups in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM); and is currently president and CEO of a not-for-profit organization that executes pre-college programs to expose Hispanic youth to STEM, and hosts leadership development and professional development seminars for STEM undergraduate and graduate students and current professionals.
Ms. Jackson has also held numerous leadership positions with related organizations like the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE), including Founding President of the SHPE@VT Student Chapter, Professional Chapter President of the SHPE-DC Chapter, Regional Vice President on the National Board of Directors, National By-laws Committee Chair, three-time National Conference Chair, and more recently, Founding President and current Secretary of the first SHPE Chapter within a federal agency, SHPE@PTO. She has been recognized with several awards for her leadership and dedication, including the Graduate Student Leader Award at the Hispanic Engineers National Achievement Awards Conference (HENAAC) in 1998. She has served on the Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity (CEED) Industrial Advisory Council for the College of Engineering and is the proud parent of a current Hokie engineering student.