rom Oklahoma City, Pamela Figure”, McCauley began doing FMcCauley grew up in a arithmetic operations as a child home where life principles and while looking at license plates. faith were the framework. A Today, she is a world renowned cheerleader at Wood Junior High industrial engineer, educator, School, she enjoyed team sports, entrepreneur, and researcher in attended Douglass High School the fields of ergonomics and and, during her teen pregnancy, biomechanics. Emerson Alternative School. Through her private firm, Graduating at the age of she often is called upon for her 16, she earned her Associate’s expertise. A much sought-after Degree from Rose State speaker, her leadership, diversity, College before graduating with innovation, and STEM-related bachelors, masters, and doctorate keynotes are representative of her degrees from the University of more than 100 published works, Oklahoma—the first African including an internationally- American woman to earn an recognized Ergonomics Engineering Ph.D. in the state. textbook. As an award-winning Oklahoma’s own “Hidden educator, her recognitions include being named the Black Engineer of the Year for PAMELA R. McCAULEY Educational Leadership and the OKLAHOMA CITY Women of Color Technologist of the Year. The National Science Foundation chose her to lead the Innovation Corps Program to prepare scientists “She came often to share her and engineers to accelerate the economic and societal benefits of experiences as a new college projects and discoveries towards student and encourage the commercialization. Her book Winners Don’t Quit parenting teen moms to consider a serves as an inspiration to others college education. She taught them as she shares her experiences as a young mother chasing her the concept of overcoming hardship dream of becoming an engineer. by refusing to accept it.” And she is an advocate for others to achieve their dreams. “I didn’t even know what an SANDRA BENNETT-WILLIAMS industrial engineer was when I was younger, so I had never met a female engineer, much less a black female engineer. And now, the fact that I have been given these opportunities, and to go into these places, to be an Sandra Bennett-Williams, left, entrepreneur, to own my own presented Dr. Pamela R. McCauley engineering firm, to serve as a for induction to the Oklahoma Hall of Fame. 44