Sabrina is a decisive, action-oriented, results focused Senior Engineering Manager. She brings with her Sixteen years of government contractor and leadership experience serving both foreign and domestic customers through development and sustainment systems. Experience includes leading both: software/systems and requirements development, procurement activities, planning and monitoring cost, schedule, and risk management. Driven by new challenges and desire to be successful in all endeavors.

Sabrina has strong interpersonal skills by building confidence from colleagues that work around her and across the organization. She leads by example and is one that rolls up her sleeve to get the job done. She finds solutions to what keeps the leadership team up at night.

It is Sabrina’s unusual ability to communicate and bridge the gap between what has been done and what others say can’t be accomplished that makes her stand out above the rest when it comes to leadership and abilities.

Background
Sabrina currently serves as the Senior Engineering Manager for a team of 13 Engineering Managers and over 100 Systems Engineers within L3Harris Technologies, Inc. Space and Airborne Systems. She leads these various teams within Mission Avionics, Military Displays, Robotics, Electronic Warfare and Cyber Security. Her teams are spread geographically throughout the U.S and the United Kingdom. She previously served as Change Manager and as the Chief Requirements Engineer for L3Harris on the F35 Technical Refresh Program (TR3).

Prior to working for L3Harris Sabrina worked for Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin Corporations. She served in multiple roles including Requirements Manager for the E-2D Hawkeye program, Deputy Program Integrator on the Presidential Helicopter Program, Project Manager on the S92 Helicopter Program as well as Sr. Project Engineer on the FASFAC Radar System Program.

Sabrina has found the key to personal and professional work life balance. She is the mother of 4 Children: Travers, Kierre, Whitley and Joshua. She’s an active member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc and Jack and Jill of America, Inc. Sabrina leads various efforts within those organizations and volunteers over 100 hours each year.

Core Competencies:

Engineering Management
Program/Project Management
Change Management
Systems Engineering
Requirements Development
Risk Management
Earned Value Management

Education/Training:

S Computer Science Kentucky State University
S Technical Group Management Johns Hopkins University
S Systems Engineering Florida Technical Institute (In Progress)
Graduate of the Sikorsky Aircraft (a Lockheed Martin Company) Inaugural class of the Program Management Rotational Program (PMRP)
Graduate of Sikorsky’s Program Management Academy (PMA)
Private Pilot License (PPL) In Progress

Contact Sabrina Morton here: MortonSabrina007@gmail.com

Founder, Kids Impact Initiative

Senior Fellow, UCLA Healthier Children Families & Communities

Founder & Senior Advisor, The Children’s Partnership

Ms. Lazarus is a leading advocate and policy expert on a wide range of children’s issues, having spent more than thirty-five years working on the front lines for children throughout the nation. She is the Founder of Kids Impact Initiative, a start-up venture to support and strengthen existing advocacy for children by increasing accountability on issues that affect children’s well-being and helping develop the next generation of advocates.

Her distinguished career includes founding and leading The Children’s Partnership for 22 years, serving as the Children’s Defense Fund’s first Director of Health in Washington DC, serving as founding Vice President for Policy for Children Now, and as a consultant to the Conrad Hilton and Piton Foundations. Throughout the years, she has helped secure improved health care, child support, access to information technologies, and other vital resources for hundreds of thousands of children and families.

Under her leadership at The Children’s Partnership, between 1993 and 2015 Ms. Lazarus helped define children’s interests in the burgeoning digital economy, creating and raising the profile of the first-ever children’s digital opportunity agenda in the United States. Ms. Lazarus helped secure first-in-the-nation technology policy gains in California and has directed the development of an online technology policy resource used across the country and internationally. She has accomplished pioneering work on the content dimension of the Digital Divide, having co-authored the first comprehensive report on internet content from the standpoint of the needs of underserved Americans and produced a widely used Parents’ Guide to the Internet.

Ms. Lazarus has authored more than 25 reports and articles on a wide range of topics affecting children and is frequently turned to as an expert and strategist by policymakers, advocates, grant-makers, and the media. She has been interviewed by dozens of media outlets including: ABC World News Tonight, Tavis Smiley Show, The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Jose Mercury News, Sacramento Bee, San Francisco Chronicle, Chronicle of Philanthropy, and CNET.

Ms. Lazarus serves as a board member or advisor to a number of national, state, and community-based organizations and companies. She served on California State Superintendent Delaine Eastin’s Educational Technology Task Force, Governor Schwarzenegger’s Broadband Task Force, and National Institute of Health’s Child Health & Human Development Council, among others. She also developed and taught a graduate-level course in child advocacy at UCLA.

Ms. Lazarus graduated from Yale University in Yale's first class of women graduates, and received her Master's degree in Science in Public Health from the University of North Carolina. She lives in California with her husband and has two adult children.

Co-Founder of Nodat, the first marketing automation company designed to help small businesses drive consistent repeat revenue. Co-Founder of Twende, the first accelerator for Black and Brown entrepreneurs at the Nashville Entrepreneur Center. She is a Nashville Business Journal 40 Under 40 Inductee.

Aireka is a powerful and dynamic speaker on topics related to entrepreneurship as a BIPOC founder, women's and youth empowerment. Aireka speaks transparently about her experiences to teach organizations who aim to help BIPOC founders achieve access to capital and early BIPOC entrepreneurs who seek the psychological skills to keep themselves motivated.

Aireka has a decade of experience in high scale customer loyalty with AT&T and American Express Plenti Loyalty. She is a strong advocate for small and medium businesses.

Senior Public Affairs Manager, Community & Social investment

AT&T Corporate Social Responsibility Team

As Senior Public Affairs Manager, Community & Social Investment, for AT&T’s Corporate Social Responsibility team, Meghan directs philanthropic strategy for a portfolio of nonprofits in the education space, as part of AT&T’s signature education initiative, AT&T Connected Learning. Meghan manages the relationships and end to end programs that intentionally leverage technology to accelerate access and acquisition of the skills of tomorrow.

Meghan also manages the relationships with national policy organizations addressing digital equity and STEM learning in the classroom. Meghan served as the CSR organizational expert on girls and women in STEM and collaborates across the Community Engagement, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Sponsorship teams at AT&T to support companywide initiatives in gender equity. Meghan holds an MBA from Pepperdine University with concentrations in Organizational Behavior and Marketing. Prior to graduate school, she studied Psychology at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts before working as an event planner for two hotel groups (The Charles Hotel and Hyatt Hotels) in Boston. Meghan is from, and currently resides in Seattle, WA.