About Our Founder.
Charity Asuquo Ikpe
Charity Ikpe is an aerospace engineer, engineering leader, educator, and founder of Engineers In Heels, a 501(c)(3) STEAM organization focused on expanding access to STEAM education for underrepresented students in the United States and Nigeria.
She currently serves as a Division Engineer at Ameren Corporation and as a part-time Aerospace Engineering lecturer at the Federal University of Technology, Ikot Abasi, Nigeria. Her long-term goal is to lead Engineers In Heels full-time and grow its reach and impact.
Before joining Ameren, Charity spent more than five years at Boeing, where she advanced from an F/A-18 structural engineer into engineering leadership and program management roles. She led mechanical engineering teams, supported major Air Dominance programs, managed more than 60 Engineering Change Proposals valued at over $37 million, and was selected as one of 25 founding members of Boeing’s Racial Equity Task Force.
Prior to Boeing, Charity spent a decade at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, contributing to programs including Space Shuttle Discovery’s STS-114 Return to Flight mission and the James Webb Space Telescope. Charity holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park, and received the 2020 Women of Color Technology Rising Star Award.
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