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Atomic Women Resource Group

Networking opportunities, support and education for women in science and engineering at the Laboratory

Contact Us  

  • Athena Sagadevan
  • (505) 396 0554
  • Email

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Standing together for women in science

Atomic Women is an ERG that provides support and networking opportunities for women in STEM fields, to help them thrive, at work, at home, and in the community.

Our WHY

Atomic Women began in the summer of 2007 in an effort to connect female students with female Lab employees.

Our initial goal was to introduce women summer students to women scientists, and our first event was a panel discussion on graduate schools and early careers in science. When the summer ended and the students returned to their universities, we discovered that we enjoyed meeting, networking, providing interesting programs and speakers at our meetings, and we continued to meet monthly, the last Tuesday of each month, from noon to 1 pm.

With the involvement of P-Division women, and women and men in several other LANL Directorates, we have grown in numbers.  

WHAT we do

Goals

Our primary goal is to provide networking opportunities, and support and education for women in science and engineering at the Lab.  We have no officers, no dues, no budget, and no paperwork.  The tasks are minimal:  sending email announcements, coordinating with guest speakers, leading the meeting.  Though we have core leaders now, we are open to rotating leaders for specific meetings.

Interests and activities

The group organizes panel and informal discussions with invited speakers on such topics as: 

  • mentoring, career development 
  • stress management and resiliency 
  • HR issues, gender bias in science and engineering, diversity issues 
  • workplace communication 
  • leadership skills 
  • coaching 
  • work-life satisfaction
HOW to get involved

Anyone at the Lab (students, post-docs, scientists and engineers, managers) who supports women in STEM fields is welcome to join the group.  We also welcome non-Lab employees who are active in or retired from a STEM related career. 

If you are interested in participating in any of our meetings or events please contact us!

Date Time Event Name Location
September 26 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Crisis Leadership - Lessons Learned from Management in Extreme Situations for Today's Challenges Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
May 28 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Virtual talk and discussion with Unica Viramontes, LANL Associate Director for Defense Protection Program. This talk is co-hosted jointly with HOLA ERG Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
April 30 12:15 p.m. -1:15 p.m. Hybrid talk and discussion with Evelyn Mullen ,Special Advisor to the Texas A&M Vice Chancellor of Research for TAMU Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
February 27 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Atomic Women talk and discussion with Katherine Haight, Diversity and inclusion at LANL Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
January 30 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Atomic Women talk and discussion with Mary Hockaday, Getting beyond Why to Why not Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
December 6 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Atomic Women discussion with Holly Trellue, LANL Engineering Leadership Council Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
October 31 12 p.m. -1 p.m. Atomic Women discussion with Michelle Mittrach, LANL Research Library Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
September 13 3 p.m. - 4 p.m. Atomic Women panel discussion with “Women of Emergency Management”,  hybrid meeting: Study Center (JRO 1-2) and via teams Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
July 27 1 p.m. - 2 p.m. Virtual Discussion with Erica Wolf of DOE NNSA on Underrepresentation of Black Women in the Senior Executive Service Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
June 27 Noon - 1 p.m. “Getting from why to why not” -- Atomic Women talk and discussion with Mary Hockaday, NEN Division Leader Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
May 30 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women meeting with Sara Mason and Prism Employee Resource Group Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
February 28 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women Discussion with Katherine Haight, LANL Diversity Officer Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
January 19 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women Meeting with Ginger Williams and Madonna Hernandez of Girls Inc of Santa Fe (https://girlsincofsantafe.org/) Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
November 16 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women Meeting with Dr. Michelle Lee and Kat Cook Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
August 30 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women virtual meeting with Maryann Gallagher on Gender-Balanced Decision Making/Gender-Mainstreaming Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
July 26 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women discussion with astrophysicist Nicole Lloyd-Ronning Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
May 31 Noon - 1 p.m. Monthly Atomic Women Meeting – Moderated Discussion with Melissa Mann, IFAM CEO Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
May 25 Noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women Book Group Discussion – Machiavelli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith, chapter on Support and Mentoring. Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
March 9 Noon - 1 p.m. Virtual talk by Corey Hinderstein, DOE NNSA Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
February 15 Noon - 1 p.m.  Atomic Women book discussion - Machiaveli for Women Book Group will be discussing Chapter 2 on money

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details

January 25  noon - 1 p.m. Atomic Women Book Discussion (Machiaveli for Women by Stacey Vanek Smith) 
Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
November 9, 2021 noon - 1 p.m.  Atomic Women monthly meeting with Elena Reinisch of LANL APS-IDEA Ally/Mentor Network and Kevin Veal (Office of International Safeguards) on IAEA gender parity initiatives Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details 

September 30 2021

 

noon - 1 p.m.

 Atomic Women meeting with Cindy Mazur, LANL Ombuds

 

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details 

July 27, 2021 noon - 1 p.m.

Pronouns 101 – how to use them and why it matters. Talk by Robin Pekar and Sara Mason

 

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details 

June 29, 2021 noon - 1 p.m.

What I Learned about Being A Manager – discussion with Sara Del Valle, Kary Myers and Angela Herring

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details

June 1, 2021 3 p.m. - 4 p.m.

Atomic Women Discussion with John Sarrao, LANL women’s employee resource groups champion and Deputy Laboratory Director for Science, Technology and Engineering

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details

May 25, 2021 noon - 1 p.m. Briefings and discussion with Matt Pacheco and Cassandra Casperson on GEM, graduate fellowships, and LANL students Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details

 

April 27, 2021 12 - 1 p.m. Overview of Summer Physics Camp for Young Women and the Athena Program by Anna Llobet, Michelle DeCroix, and Elli Vigil Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
March 30, 2021 1 - 2 p.m. Virtual Talk by NSRC Team - "The Women of Project Y" Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details
March 17, 2021 4 - 5 p.m. Talk on Diversity Inclusion Efforts at LANL by Katherine Haight/ODSS

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details

March 10, 2021 3 - 4 p.m. Picture a Scientist movie – virtual discussion with women’s Employee Resource Groups

Please contact Atomic Women leaders for meeting details