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Letter from National Chair and Executive Director

  Driving STEM Excellence and Social Justice The National Society of Black Engineers 'Game Change 2025' By Jocelyn Jackson and Karl W. Reid, Ed.D. The multiple crises of 2020 — a viral pandemic, racist killings and unnatural “natural disasters” — exposed longstanding social inequities in the United States. But in one respect, for those of us serving on the Strategic Planning Task Force of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE), they were an equalizer: no one on the team, from the college students comprising NSBE’s national leadership to the most seasoned staff and technical professionals who contributed their expertise, had ever seen such times before. Like all crises, however, these presented opportunities. NSBE’s task force realized that  now  was the time to reach even higher and think even more creatively to build on NSBE’s 45-year legacy, to continue the progress we had made toward our “10K Goal” of leading the nation to produce 10,000 new Black Engineers eac...