WiCyS 2025

Conference Committees

WICYS 2025 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

General Chair

JANELL STRAACH

Chair of the Board, WiCyS
Faculty, Rice University

Program Chair

AMBAREEN SIRAJ

NSF*
Founder, WiCyS
(*Siraj is serving in her personal capacity)

COMMITTEES

Conference Advisory Committee

Prajakta Jagdale

Director of Information Security, Palo Alto Networks

Diana Kelley

Chief Information Security Officer (CISO), Protect AI

Marian Merritt

Deputy Director and Lead for Industry Engagement, US Department of Commerce

Program Co-Leads

Pat McCain

WiCyS (Lead)

Smriti Bhatt

Priyam Biswas

Intel

Chutima Boonthum-Denecke

Hampton University

Jennifer Cheung

Meg Layton

Children’s National Hospital

Angel Liu

Confluent

Elena Peterson

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Elizabeth Rasnick

University of West Florida

Awalin Sopan

Workday

Bich Vu

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Program

Ridhima Agarwal

JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Saja Alqurashi

Colorado State University

Safwa Ameer

MITRE Corporation

Rutuben Ataliya

AWS Security

Deborah Barnes

Cradlepoint

Basma Basem

Microsoft

Shuvra Chakraborty

Temple University

Christina Chapple

Angela Clark

University of South Alabama

Diara Dankert

ConnectWise

Mai Ensmann

Cyber Florida: The Florida Center for Cybersecurity

Bill Gardner

Marshall University

Jessa Gegax

Surescripts

Keerthi Sameera Immanni

Nicole King

SentinelOne

Cindy Kishoyian

Verizon

Danielle Kissel

US Army, Army Retirement Services

Tanvi Kolte

LinkedIn

Chris Lemmon

Secure Yeti

Jen Miller-Osborn

NetWitness FirstWatch

Omoshalewa Muhammed

FORVIS

Prathibha Muraleedhara

Stanley Black & Decker

Laura Elena Navarro Cobos

Laxima Niure Kandel

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Collins Okafor

WiCyS Houston Affiliate

Kalyani Pawar

Ana Pease

Trista Polaski

Carnegie Mellon University: Software Engineering Institute

Sneha Rangari

Visa Technology and Operations

Katie Riesing

Stephanie Scheuermann

Ford Motor Company

Jillian Seabrook

MIT Lincoln Laboratory

Amy Starzynski Coddens

Universities of Wisconsin Administration

Heather Stoner

Optum

Cindy Sutherland

Brittney Swearinger

Cisco

Junia Valente

Toyota Tsusho Systems, US, Inc.

Jaidie Vargas

Lockheed Martin

Scholarship

Janell Straach

WiCyS (Lead)

Gretchen Bliss

University of Colorado Colorado Springs

Kristine Christensen

Moraine Valley Community College

Ramona Codreanu

University of Michigan

Joe Eastman

Champlain College

Maria Fanelle

MITRE

Marcie Friedman

Norfolk Southern

Esther Goldstein

Salesforce

Deepti Gupta

Texas A&M University-Central Texas

Amy Justice

Randstad North America

Rachael Klamo

Optum

Pushpa Kumar

University of Texas at Dallas

Aleise McGowan

The University of Southern Mississippi

Angela Pena

Dell Technologies

Penelope Rozhkova

Accenture

Samantha Shields

CISA

Angela Sims-Ceja

Aurora Water – City of Aurora

Miranda Skar

Aon/Gotham Digital Science

Shannon Strum

Stripe

Mary Wallingsford

Anne Arundel Community College

Stella Whyte

River State University

Career Fair

Pat McCain

WiCyS (Lead)

Tara Lewis

Collin College (Frisco)

Career Growth Hub Planning

Andrea Frost

Dell Technologies

Julia Costin

Cyber Qubits

TERRI JOHNSON-AKSE

University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS)

Michelle Lindblom

SecureMatter

 

Career Growth Hub Operations

Kimberly Bertschy

Wal-Mart

Devi Bhattacharya

University at Albany – State University of New York

Jason Craig

 

Sharon Mireku

Independent Contractor

Heather Ricciuto

IBM

Merle Rodriguez

Erica Smith

 


 

Operations & Logistics

Lynn Dohm

WiCyS (Lead)

Peter Baldwin

WiCyS

Tia DeBord

Times 10 Association Strategies

Patty Duffy

GlobauxSource

Morgan Garland

WiCyS

Jennifer Haisten

Times 10 Association Strategies

Colleen Huber

WiCyS

Kimberly Hutcherson

GlobauxSource

Jaclyn Justice

WiCyS

Quiana Oates

WiCyS

Patti Palacios

GlobauxSource

Quintana Patterson

WiCyS

Myriam Saint Jean

WiCyS

Michele Tomasic

WiCyS

Adaeze Udoh

WiCyS

Poster

CHUTIMA BOONTHUM-DENECKE

Hampton University

Smriti Bhatt

Purdue University

Amani Altarawneh

Tennessee Tech University

Retail Store

Mary Jane Partain

WiCyS (Lead)

Reethee Ghafoor

WiCyS

Myriam Saint Jean

WiCyS

Mia Partain

WiCyS

Social Media & PR

Aditi Chaudhry

Two Sigma

CHELSEA CONARD

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIDORI CONNOLLY

Abigail Phillips

Nelly Group

ALINA THAI

Georgetown University

Volunteer

Cameron Mitchell

WiCyS (Lead)

Brooke Beyer

Lockheed Martin

Jamie Glenn

Carnegie Mellon University: Software Engineering Institute/CERT

Tricia McMahon

County of San Diego