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Dr. Thomas’s career experience includes work at: Duke Energy as a Transmission and Distribution Planning Engineer (Charlotte, NC), Lexmark International as a Hardware Sensor Design Electrical Engineer (Lexington, KY), Intel Corporation as a Facilities Power Systems Electrical Engineer (Hillsboro, OR), Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Clinical Informatics, and Electrical Design Engineer at Ebara Technologies. She received a patent award for her work in a printer capacitive toner level sensor invention. Keisha also completed a fast-track Facilities Management Certification program at Arizona State University in 2013. | Dr. Thomas’s career experience includes work at: Duke Energy as a Transmission and Distribution Planning Engineer (Charlotte, NC), Lexmark International as a Hardware Sensor Design Electrical Engineer (Lexington, KY), Intel Corporation as a Facilities Power Systems Electrical Engineer (Hillsboro, OR), Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Clinical Informatics, and Electrical Design Engineer at Ebara Technologies. She received a patent award for her work in a printer capacitive toner level sensor invention. Keisha also completed a fast-track Facilities Management Certification program at Arizona State University in 2013. | ||
| − | Dr. Thomas remains politically active in her spare time. She started being involved in political campaigns as young as 13 years old when she volunteered as a phone bank, and since, has assisted in canvassing, Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, voter registration, and fundraising/event planning. In addition, she has graduated from the Emerge Oregon program (class of 2013). Keisha's most important passion is education and mentoring under-represented youth, as she was once one herself. Since 2002, she has volunteered, developed and managed coding and computer education camps, ran after-school tutoring programs, and continues to currently manage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-based programs, and mentor youth and young engineering professionals. Keisha is a dedicated member of the service Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and spends a considerable amount of her spare time volunteering in a STEM-based program called the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy | + | Dr. Thomas remains politically active in her spare time. She started being involved in political campaigns as young as 13 years old when she volunteered as a phone bank, and since, has assisted in canvassing, Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, voter registration, and fundraising/event planning. In addition, she has graduated from the Emerge Oregon program (class of 2013). Keisha's most important passion is education and mentoring under-represented youth, as she was once one herself. Since 2002, she has volunteered, developed and managed coding and computer education camps, ran after-school tutoring programs, and continues to currently manage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-based programs, and mentor youth and young engineering professionals. Keisha is a dedicated member of the service Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and spends a considerable amount of her spare time volunteering in a STEM-based program called the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy. She currently serves on Portland Alumnae Chapter's Executive Board as Treasurer and as Fundraising Chair. She previously served as Assistant Treasurer and Chair of Education Programs for the Sorority at the June Key Delta Community Center, located in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon. Keisha's work with the Portland Alumnae Chapter's Education Programs has earned her the Steve Lowenstein Trust Award for 2016. Keisha is also the charter founder and Organizer of Black Nonbelievers of Portland, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, helping non-believers of color to connect, and find support in one another. Dr. Thomas enjoys socializing, long walks, nature, and spending time with her husband of 18 years, Paul, and family of 4 children. Keisha is a long-time fan of the New York-based National League baseball team, the Mets. |
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Dr. Keisha J. Rhines-Thomas (Dr. Thomas) is an Electrical Engineer with over 14 years of experience. Dr. Thomas was born and raised in poverty, as a middle child in a blended family of seven children from the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, NY. Dr. Thomas's parents are from the islands of Trinidad and St. Vincent (located in the Caribbean), and from eastern North Carolina. She graduated from John Dewey High School in 3 years with a Regent's Honors Diploma.
Dr. Thomas started her college education at Delaware State University (DSU) playing the baritone horn in the DSU Marching Band, participated in Gospel Choir, and volunteered in community service activities through an education sorority (Kappa Omicron Tau). However, by sophomore year, to fund her college education, Keisha had to quit activities to work full-time while attending school full-time in various jobs including: natural hair care stylist, maintenance worker, tutor, security officer, and fast-food worker. She also completed summer internships at the University of New York at Stony Brook, NASA at Langley, Virginia (with an extended co-op during the following semester), and the University of Connecticut, working in the fields of Opto-electronics engineering and Nanotechnology research.
Subsequently, Dr. Thomas received her M.S.E.E (2004) and PhD (2009) in Electrical Engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte while working full-time as an Electrical Engineer, and as a parent of two small children. She was selected as Student Body Speaker at her Master’s degree graduation, and was nominated and awarded "Outstanding Graduate Student" by UNC-Charlotte's William States Lee College of Engineering upon graduation with her PhD. Furthermore, Dr. Thomas was featured in the magazine, "Minority Engineer" in the Spring 2011 issue.
Dr. Thomas’s career experience includes work at: Duke Energy as a Transmission and Distribution Planning Engineer (Charlotte, NC), Lexmark International as a Hardware Sensor Design Electrical Engineer (Lexington, KY), Intel Corporation as a Facilities Power Systems Electrical Engineer (Hillsboro, OR), Oregon Health and Sciences University (OHSU) as a Post-Doctoral Researcher in Clinical Informatics, and Electrical Design Engineer at Ebara Technologies. She received a patent award for her work in a printer capacitive toner level sensor invention. Keisha also completed a fast-track Facilities Management Certification program at Arizona State University in 2013.
Dr. Thomas remains politically active in her spare time. She started being involved in political campaigns as young as 13 years old when she volunteered as a phone bank, and since, has assisted in canvassing, Get-Out-The-Vote efforts, voter registration, and fundraising/event planning. In addition, she has graduated from the Emerge Oregon program (class of 2013). Keisha's most important passion is education and mentoring under-represented youth, as she was once one herself. Since 2002, she has volunteered, developed and managed coding and computer education camps, ran after-school tutoring programs, and continues to currently manage Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)-based programs, and mentor youth and young engineering professionals. Keisha is a dedicated member of the service Sorority, Delta Sigma Theta Sorority and spends a considerable amount of her spare time volunteering in a STEM-based program called the Dr. Betty Shabazz Delta Academy. She currently serves on Portland Alumnae Chapter's Executive Board as Treasurer and as Fundraising Chair. She previously served as Assistant Treasurer and Chair of Education Programs for the Sorority at the June Key Delta Community Center, located in the Northeast section of Portland, Oregon. Keisha's work with the Portland Alumnae Chapter's Education Programs has earned her the Steve Lowenstein Trust Award for 2016. Keisha is also the charter founder and Organizer of Black Nonbelievers of Portland, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, helping non-believers of color to connect, and find support in one another. Dr. Thomas enjoys socializing, long walks, nature, and spending time with her husband of 18 years, Paul, and family of 4 children. Keisha is a long-time fan of the New York-based National League baseball team, the Mets.
