To our talented Dallas SWE Members,
I am greatly looking forward to the opportunity to serve you as President for FY23! Thank you for
trusting me to guide Dallas SWE for this year. I have been involved with SWE since 2008, and with Dallas SWE since 2017. I have held many of the officer roles within Dallas SWE since that time, and it has been wonderful to see SWE grow through its array of programming and innovations over the years!
The outgoing officers of FY22 and incoming officers for FY23 just met on July 23rd for our annual
transition meeting, and we are very excited about the great things in our pipeline for this year. Our VP of Membership, Claire Jordan, our Treasurer, Katie Mills, and our Secretary, Sammy Zellner, are going to continue doing amazing work in their roles. We have elected two new officers, our VP of Outreach, Cyonna Holmes, and our VP of Professional Development, Ana Gonzalez, to serve for FY23 and we are excited about the experience they bring!
One of our goals for our Dallas SWE Professionals is to oversee an impactful year of professional
development and member networking, so that you can get the value that helps you advance in your path even faster. Ana and Claire are already crafting exciting programming on these topics.
We will also build off our impactful outreach programs so we can influence more young women to be interested in engineering. Cyonna has a great head start on outreach for this year, with new
partnerships and opportunities in the pipeline.
We also intend to grow our sponsorships. Katie has been doing a great job in securing new partnerships for FY23 already, and we look forward to growing the list of companies that sponsor Dallas SWE so that we can continue to put on more great events. If you work for, or know of, a company that might want to sponsor Dallas SWE, please let us know so we can begin having those important conversations.
On that note, if you participated and enjoyed any of our programming from last year, from Outreach, to Professional Development, to Member Socials, to Social Media interaction, to Fundraising, and more, please consider volunteering for a committee. Fill out this survey if you’re interested, and we will be in touch with you soon to get you added to our monthly committee calls.
Also, please remember to renew your SWE membership if you have not already done so. Renewing your membership allows you continued access to the dozens of events we put on a year, networking opportunities, and career support. You can renew your membership by logging into your profile on the SWE Website. Please let me know if you have any questions about the renewal process or any feedback about renewing your membership.
Finally, I would like to thank and recognize our previous SWE President, Amanda Alsbrook, for all that she has done to keep Dallas SWE moving forward in our past two years, especially with navigating through the strain the pandemic has caused. Amanda, thank you for all of your hard work and effort to improve Dallas SWE and get us to where we are today!
We look forward to a great FY23!
Rana Karimi
Dallas SWE FY23 President
