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Evangelina Shreeve
Director of STEM Education and Workforce Development
Evangelina Shreeve
Director of STEM Education and Workforce Development
Biography
Building a robust 21st-century workforce in science and engineering requires recognizing talent, nurturing innate abilities, and providing opportunities to succeed. Evangelina Shreeve excels at each step in creating a skilled pipeline for STEM careers. As the leader of PNNL’s STEM initiatives and programs, she is preparing the next generation of researchers, educators, and technology innovators to solve tomorrow’s challenges.
Shreeve and her staff provide hands-on, immersive science experiences to educators, community members, and students to foster the future STEM workforce.
From a humble upbringing among a community of farmworkers, she worked summers picking fruit and applied herself diligently to her studies. She went on to earn her bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s degree in public administration from the University of Washington.
Before coming to PNNL in 2009, she served as the first Latino Vice President for Columbia Basin Community College, where she established and led an effort that resulted in the school receiving the first “Hispanic serving institution” designation by the State of Washington. She also increased the Hispanic student population from 9% to 26.8% in just 5 years.
Shreeve was recently recognized by LATINA Style magazine as one of 10 finalists for the top Latina corporate executive of 2019.
“My work has always been about being a public servant,” she noted recently in a biographical profile. “I wanted to lead and be engaged in something that wasn’t only going to be for profit. I wanted to have an impact on the community and the world I lived in.”