Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Jacqueline Sales
Jacqueline Sales
|
|---|
| Other authors / contributors: | Sales, Jacqueline, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
|
|---|
| Sound characteristics: | digital
|
|---|
| Digital file characteristics: | video file
|
|---|
| Notes: | Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
Recorded Lanham, Maryland 2013 May 24.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
|
|---|
| Summary: | Environmental engineer Jacqueline White Sales was born on May 8, 1946 in Jamaica, New York. She graduated from Howard University with her B.S. degree in microbiology and her M.E. degree in environmental engineering. Upon graduating in 1968, Sales served as Chief Technician of the Georgetown University Rheumatology Laboratory at the District of Columbia General Hospital. In 1979, she became the first African American woman environmental engineer hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Toxic Substances. She also served as Unit Chief in the U.S. Department of Energy. Sales founded HAZMED, Inc. becoming the president, CEO and owner of the Johnson Browne Business Center. She received a Bronze Medal for Commendable Service and the Outstanding Women in Science and Engineering Award from the EPA. The Network Journal named Sales one of the Top 25 Influential Women in Business, and HAZMED was named one of Maryland's Top 100 Minority Business Enterprise.
|
|---|
