When Deb Heden was asked to speak about Shimmick and women engineers recently, she reached out for help and Natalie Yang, engineer on the BART Tunnel project, answered the call.
“I talked about Shimmick, what we do to support women, and the various roles women have here. Then Natalie spoke about specific jobs she has worked on and what she plans on doing in the future. She did a great job and had everyone’s attention! The interesting part is that the boys wanted to attend as well, so we nearly had a full classroom. The teacher was very pleased with our presentation as well as the reaction from the students,” explained Deb, who has a special connection to the school since her boys are graduates.