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March 22, 2025
Special guest appearance with author Dr. Sandra K. Johnson
Saturday, March 22, 2025, 1 pm – 3 pm
Soft Power for the Journey: The Life of a STEM Trailblazer
By Dr. Sandra K. Johnson
Please join us for an author talk and book signing with Dr. Sandra K. Johnson on Saturday, March 22, 2025. RSVP is encouraged but not required. RSVP HERE.
About the Author: Dr. Johnson is a local author, business owner, and former IBM executive. She has won many awards for her work with IBM and holds several patients to her name including “Methodology and System for Optimizing Communications in Dynamic Lightweight Personalized Analytics”, US Patent 11,494.723. She earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University, Houston, Texas in May of 1988, the first Black woman to do so. She then became a successful global technology leader and an IBM Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Johnson has made innovative contributions in high performance computing – supercomputers – and other areas of computer engineering. She has dozens of technical publications, over 45 pending and issued patents, and a plethora of recognition and honors in her field.
About the Book: A Soft Power For The Journey is about her personal journey to becoming a STEM career-based executive with IBM, as well as one of the first in her field! This is her personal memoir, and one of several books she’s written including, Performance Tuning for Linux Servers, ISBN 0-13-144753- X, with IBM Press.
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100 Things to do in Winston-Salem Before You Die
Jeffrey L. Smith received a BA degree in Public Administration from Elon University. In 1986 he returned to
Paul is a Winston-Salem native, a graduate of R.J. Reynolds High School and Wake Forest University, where he got his first taste of the media as an announcer for the student-run station, WAKE Radio. He has earned advanced degrees in liberal arts and journalism/mass communications from Johns Hopkins University and UNC-Chapel Hill. Paul has worked as a journalist for 30 years. Locally he has worked for The High Point Enterprise, the News & Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal. Paul has been affiliated with 88.5 FM WFDD, public radio for the Piedmont and High Country, for the last 10 years. He also currently serves as an adjunct professor of the practice in Journalism at Wake Forest University.