Shalyn Williams (BENG’10, DENGR’07), the first female African-Nova Scotian engineer, works in the Maritime Advanced Training Test Site in Lockheed Martin’s Dartmouth facility. (Photo: Christian LaForce)

Dal alumnus Shalyn Williams (BENG’10, DENGR’07) is the first female African-Nova Scotian engineer.

Williams graduated from Dal in 2010 with a degree in electrical engineering. She currently works for the military contractor Lockheed Martin in Dartmouth.

Williams says she isn’t comfortable being in the limelight, but shares her story in the hope to inspire other girls to pursue their dreams and break out of the mold society creates for them. “[If] one more girl came in and did it after me, then that’s all the difference,” she says.

Read “African-Nova Scotian woman bridges the gap” in the Chronicle Herald.