Esther Elena López-Mulnix Editor & Author

Mimi Wolverton graduated from Northern Illinois University with an undergraduate degree in mathematics and a minor in geology in 1967. She encountered no women on the faculty in either department. That year, women in STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) accounted for 8 percent of PhDs. and less than 25 percent of baccalaureate degrees. After working a number of years in heavy construction, she earned both an MBA and a PhD in education leadership and policy studies at Arizona State University and spent several years in academia, retiring in 2007 as a full professor. Salwa A. Zaki is an elementary school principal in Nevada. Esther Elena López-Mulnix is an associate professor and program director for Mental Health Counseling at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York.