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Professional Experience
- Tennessee Technological University - Graduate Teaching Assistant in Chemistry
- CNS Y-12, LLC. - Laboratory Radiochemist
- Leadership Platform Acquisition Corporation - Faculty Advisor
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Research Assistant
Awards
- 2025 Neutron Science Day: Neutron Science Directorate - Outstanding Technical Support Award
- Titleholder of the 2015 Miss Black America Tennessee Pageant, American Institute of Positivity
- 2008 Women of Achievement Award from the Commission for Women at the Chancellor's Honors Banquet at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Education
- Oak Ridge High School
- High School Diploma with Honors
- The University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Bachelor of Science in Biological Sciences
- Tennessee Technological University
- Master of Science in Chemistry*
Professional Affiliations
- tnAchieves Mentor
- U.S. Women in Nuclear
- American Chemical Society
- Neutron Scattering Society of America
- Girls Inc of Oak Ridge - Alum
- Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
- Cultured Pearls of the Secret City Foundation - Board Member
- Fox Hollow Association, Inc. (HOA) - President & Board Member
Specialized Equipment
- Alpha Spectrometer
- ATR-FTIR
- Bio-SANS
- Fluorescence Spectroscopy
- Gamma Spectrometer
- Gas Flow Proportional Counter
- GP-MS
- GP-SANS
- HPLC
- ICP-OES
- Liquid Scintillation Counter
- NMR
- Raman Microscope
- Small Angle Neutron Scattering
- UV-Vis Spectrophotometry
Other Publications
- Wellington Leite; Sai Venkatesh Pingali; Felicia Gilliland; Yingrui Shang; Kevin Weiss; Qiu Zhang; Honghai Zhang; Volker Urban; Hugh O’Neill. “Developments at Bio-SANS instrument enables enhanced structural analysis of biological systems and biomaterials.” Struct. Dyn., 12, 2, 2025, A262.