WiCyS
2022 Committees
WICYS 2022 ANNUAL CONFERENCE
General Chair
JANELL STRAACH
WiCyS Chair of the Board, Faculty
Rice University
Program Chair
AMBAREEN SIRAJ
WiCyS Founder, Director/Cybersecurity Education, Research and Outreach Center; Professor/CS
Tennessee Tech University
COMMITTEES
Local Host: Cleveland Consortium led by Cleveland State University
HANNAH FRITZMAN BELSITO
Chief Experience Officer
Destination Cleveland
JEFFREY BRANCATO
Executive Director,
Northeast Ohio CyberConsortium
COURTNEY DEOREO
Executive Director, RITE / Sr. Director, Tech Talent,
Greater Cleveland Partnership
JAY P. FORAN
Senior Vice President Industry & Innovation
Team NEO
CRYSTAL FRANKLIN
Director, K-12 Computer Science Education, CSforCLE
Cleveland State University
SHILPA KEDAR
Executive Director, CSU T.E.C.H. Hub & Co-Executive Director, IoT Collaborative
Cleveland State University
CHELSEY KOHN
Director, Tech Talent Pipeline
Cleveland Metropolitan School District & Cleveland State University
DR. JANINE SPEARS
CSU Faculty Lead for WiCyS CLE, Assoc. Professor/CyberSecurity
Cleveland State University
Program Co-Leads
Chutima Boonthum-Denecke
Professor/Director of IAC
Hampton University
Jennifer Cheung
Cybersecurity Research Scientist
NWIC Pacific
Meg Layton
Security Architecture and Engineering
Children’s National Hospital
Celeste Matarazzo
Cybersecurity Researcher
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Kelley Misata
Founder and CEO / President
Sightline Security / OISF
Program
Ridhima Agarwal
Attack Analyst
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Md. Ahsan Ayub
Graduate Research Assistant and Ph.D. Student
Cybersecurity Education, Research & Outreach Center (CEROC)
Priyam Biswas
Offensive Security Researcher
Intel
Rachael Crowthers
Senior Information Security Engineer
Optum
Melissa Dark
Founder
TeachCyber – DARK Enterprises Inc
Esther Goldstein
Software Engineer, Data Security, Salesforce
Ashley Greeley
K12 Project Lead
NSA
Courtney Hammond
Advanced Cyber Security Architect/Engineer
Honeywell
Judy Hatchett
VP, CISO
Surescripts, LLC
Hanan Hibshi
Assistant Teaching Professor
Carnegie Mellon University, The Information Networking Institute
Iulia Ion
Engineering Manager
Google
Paige Kevnick
Senior Security Analyst
Spectrum Health
Betsy Lundsten
Information Security Consultant
Securian Financial
Evette Maynard-Noel
Associate Chief
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency
Elena Peterson
Senior Cyber Security Researcher
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Sarba Roy
Governance Product Security Engineer
Intel Corporation
Miranda Skar
Penetration Tester
Aon – Gotham Digital Science
Shirley Tian
Assistant Professor
Kennesaw State University
Junia Valente
Red Team Consultant
BlackBerry
Shafia Zubair
Manager, Information Security
Morningstar
Maanak Gupta
Tennessee Tech University
Assistant Professor
Operations & Logistics
Lynn Dohm
Executive Director
WiCyS
Peter Baldwin
vCFO
WiCyS
Tia DeBord
Registration Liaison
Globaux Source
Morgan Garland
Operations Manager
WiCyS
Colleen Huber
Creative Director
The Nelly Group
Kimberly Hutcherson
Meeting Space Coordinator
Globaux Source
Pat McCain
Presenter Liaison
Globaux Source
Lana Richardson
Community Care Manager
WiCyS
Jessica Robinson
VCISO
WiCyS
Myrian Saint Jean
Financial Manager
WiCyS
Michele Tomasic
Director of Operations
Software Engineering Institute | CERT
Volunteer
Charquetta McCoy-Penn
Executive Assistant
WiCyS
Cameron Mitchell
Software Engineering Institute | CERT
Scholarship
Gretchen Bliss
Director of Cybersecurity Programs
UCCS
Stacie Bohanan
President – WiCyS Northern AL Affiliate
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Sharon Finden
Sr. TPM
Microsoft
Sharon Hamilton
Assoc VP Strategic Partnerships
Norwich University
Durba Kabir
Technical Manager
NSA
Sofia Martinez
Pre-College Program Assistant, IT & Cybersecurity Student
Illinois Institute of Technology
Danelle Mattison
Cyber System Security Engineer, SR
Lockheed Martin
Sharon Mireku
Executive Paralegal-Independent Contractor
Law Firms-Both Private and Corporate Environments
Quintana Patterson
Compliance and Security Analyst
University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
Jeff Pelzer
Assistant Professor
Hillsborough Community College
Elizabeth Rasnick
Faculty
Georgia Southern University
Penelope Rozhkova
Cybersecurity Consultant
Self
Reshma Shahabuddin
Director of Program Management
Sophos
Julie Agnes Sparks
Security Engineer
Cloudflare
Mary Wallingsford
Associate Professor
Anne Arundel Community College
Career Fair
Mary Jane Partain
Career Fair Concierge, Director
UT Dallas
Matthew Knickman
Director, Alumni Relations & Corporate Engagement
Cleveland State University
Career Village
Andrea Frost
Senior Software Security Engineer
Dell EMC
Kim Huynh
Security Program Manager
Research and Threat Intelligence at Microsoft
Michelle Linblom
Security Awareness Manager
Salesforce
Elaine G Suarez
Career Development & Exploration, Division of Enrollment Management & Student Success
Cleveland State University
Poster
CHUTIMA BOONTHUM-DENECKE
Professor/Director of IAC
Hampton University
Susan Jeziorowski
Applied Cybersecurity Engineer
MITRE
Maanak Gupta
Maanak Gupta
Tennessee Tech University, Assistant Professor
Social Media & PR
Aditi Chaudhry
Cybersecurity Engineer
Two Sigma
Maddie Witt
Social Media Specialist
The Nelly Group, WiCyS
CHELSEA CONARD
Consultant for Strategy, Risk, and Compliance
Kudelski Security
MIDORI CONNOLLY
Customer Success Manager
Yubico
ALINA THAI
Threat Intelligence Analyst
Allstate