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Nashlie Sephus is an American technology executive who received the Ada Lovelace Award in 2019. She works as an applied science manager for Amazon's AI initiative. Before that, she worked as chief technology officer for a visual recognition technology company, Partpic. It was acquired by Amazon in 2016. She also founded the Bean Path, a tech consulting nonprofit organization in Jackson that helps local businesses with their tech needs.

https://www.inc.com/teneshia-carr/nashlie-sephus-jackson-mississippi-bean-path-tech-hub.html

https://www.amazon.science/working-at-amazon/amazon-scientist-dr-nashlie-sephus-focuses-on-ensuring-accuracy-in-machine-learning

https://www.innovate.ms/mentors/dr-nashlie-sephus-stem-entrepreneur-and-non-profit-founder/

https://afrotech.com/amazon-scientist-nashlie-sephus-is-building-a-25m-tech-hub-in-her-mississippi-hometown

Deborah Parker Stewart (also Deborah Stewart Coleman) is an American business executive. She became the first woman to manage an automotive assembly plant in the United States in a joint venture of Ford Motors and Nissan Motors in 1999 called The AutoAlliance which employed about 3,100 people.

Education
She got her bachelors degree from Southern Illinois University. She then completed her masters degree in psychology from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and and a masters in business administration from Baker College.

Career
In 1987, she joined Ford he joined as an area manager at its Wixom Assembly Plant. She was then assigned management roles at Wixom, Chicago and Dearborn.

In September of 1994, she was appointed manager of the Ohio Assembly Plant, serving there for two years before becoming the company's Quality Director for Vehicle Operations.