Ken Holley, winner of the 2016 Black Engineer of the Year Award for Community Service, was honored for the many ways he gave back to the science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) community. Among his achievements at Sandia National Laboratories, Holley founded the Black Leadership Committee, an employee resource group, in 1985.
Holley retired in 2016, but last month, Prairie View A&M University lauded the Black Leadership Committee for the critical role it had played in creating the Securing Top Academic Research & Talent for Historically Black Colleges and Universities (S.T.A.R.T. HBCU) initiative.
In the statement, Rahni Johnson, a technical business development specialist at Sandia National Laboratories, said the engineering and science laboratory along with members of the Black Leadership Committee, presented S.T.A.R.T. HBCU as a solution to some of the challenges that Black Americans face at computer science or computer engineering when it comes to recruiting and retention.
“We presented this to Susan because she is the Chief Research Officer, and Academic Partnerships is housed in her division. Many of us are alumni of these schools and have recruited for a long time. We wanted to see a relationship that included but was more than recruiting.” said Johnson, a PVAMU alumna who is also the program lead for S.T.A.R.T. HBCU.
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