Please join for our annual Membership Appreciation Holiday Party on Saturday, December 12th! Let’s gather ’round and come together for a festive event with our SWEsters as we recognize and appreciate our members for all the great things we have done this year.
We will be conducting a virtual dinner party and gift exchange! More details to come on how to participate. As our annual membership appreciation event, this event will be sponsored in part by Dallas SWE for Dallas SWE members. We look forward to having you!
Congratulations to Dallas SWE’s November Member of the Month: Daphne Jackson Hornbuckle!
Daphne Jackson Hornbuckle earned her B.S. in Computer Science from Hofstra University in Long Island, NY. She is the North Texas IT Manager for Charter Communications (formerly Time Warner Cable). For the past decade she has managed the Desktop Support team to provide technical and project support for the North Texas Region. She also oversees the development and implementation of the IT infrastructure for various business units. Prior to joining Time Warner Cable, Daphne owned her own IT consulting firm, Diamond Technology Group, LLC. The clients for this successful IT consulting firm included American Airlines and other Fortune 500 companies.
She has served the Dallas community as an IT professional and entrepreneur for 20 years. Her passion is only rivaled by her proven commitment to service. Through her leadership and vast IT career, she has been a tireless champion, working to steer young adults toward higher education and STEM fields. In 2007, Daphne led the efforts in establishing the Dorethea N. Hornbuckle Memorial Scholarship, under the umbrella of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., a business and professional women’s organization. This national scholarship, named after her late mother-in-law and the sorority’s Past National President, has been given to numerous deserving students majoring in the sciences. As a past President of Iota Phi Lambda Sorority, Inc., Psi Chapter, she provided leadership forums for young women and educational programs for young girls. Under her leadership, Psi Chapter contributed significantly to the Dallas/Fort Worth community. In 2016, she accepted the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce’s Connie Davis Rosborough Volunteer of the Year Award. During her four year term as President, she received the Outstanding Chapter President Awards on both regional and national levels from 2014-2017.
Daphne, a two-time breast cancer survivor, turned a life-threatening experience into hope for others. She organized the Celebrating Life Foundation’s breast cancer support group, The Victorious Ones. This group presented an open forum for breast cancer survivors to express their feelings, share information and provide encouragement. Due to her outreach, she received the Joanie Hatcher Inspirational Survivor of the Year Award and the Warrior Award. In 2016 and 2017, her outstanding community service achievements were recognized and celebrated as she was inducted into the Third and Fourth Editions of Who’s Who in Black Dallas.
Currently Daphne serves on the Dallas Black Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors and Hofstra University’s Women in Leadership Advisory Board. She is a member of the Dallas Society of Women Engineers (SWE), National Association of Parliamentarians and Women in Cable Telecommunications. In 2017, this Dallas SWE member was actively involved on the Design Your World (DYW) STEM Planning Committee. Not only has Daphne volunteered for the DYW, but over the years she has participated on the Programs Committee and Mentoring Program Task Force; she has volunteered for the Dallas Wings STEM Expo and the DISD STEM Expo; and so much more.
“As a member of Dallas SWE, I thoroughly enjoy working with and mentoring the young ladies to develop their passion in engineering and technology. The Design Your World STEM Conferences have been very successful. These conferences have inspired and empowered young ladies in many ways. It is truly wonderful to know you are making a difference in the lives of many.”
Daphne Jackson Hornbuckle
The Dallas SWE Scholarships support women pursuing a degree in engineering, technology or computer science. This year Daphne increased her volunteer efforts and became a judge on the Scholarship Review committee. Due to her passion for STEM, she has brought in volunteers from her sorority to assist with various Dallas SWE events.
Daphne is a New York native who now resides in Dallas, TX with her husband, Jesse Hornbuckle, III. Together they own multiple businesses, including residential and commercial real estate. Outside of her passion for volunteering and mentoring, she enjoys traveling abroad.
October’s Professional development meeting was held October 19. Raytheon’s Women’s Network (RWN) and Dallas SWE hosted a lunch panel discussion on Effective and Practical Communication. Attendees were able to submit questions before and during the event for our panelist, Dawn Treece – HWEC Electro-Optical (EO) Electronics Department Manager (Raytheon Intelligence & Space) , Serena Dalhamer – Principal Project Engineer (Collins Aerospace), Leslie Ledda – Principal Engineering Fellow (Raytheon Intelligence & Space). The panel discussed ways managers can effectively communicate to engineers they manage, other managers and executives. The panel discussed how to firmly communicate with others in a polite way and gave tips on how to communicate when someone is not polite and may not have good intentions. “Sometimes if you continue to consider they may have good intentions, they may become high stressors” when their intentions were not good to begin with. Some of the tips given by the panel include: (1) Add a due date to the subject or highlight it in the body when you know someone is busy and your request is urgent. (2) Listen to listen, not to respond. (3) Learn to walk away to collect your thoughts in high tension situations.
Event attendees at the October Professional Development Meeting.
Exciting news! Mark your calendars for Design Your World Mini-Series: Coding Edition on Saturday, December 5. We are inviting 5th and 6th grade girls to this high-energy, hands-on coding event. Volunteers will help participants bring their ideas to life with Squishy Circuits, think creatively while learning to code using Scratch Coding, and inspire aspiring programmers. Registration opens today! For more information, visit designyourworld.dallaswe.org or email us at designyourworld.swe@gmail.com.
Are you interested in fellowship and books? Come join the Dallas SWE Book Club! We’ll be reading “Talking to Strangers” by Malcolm Gladwell & chatting over some afternoon tea on GoToMeeting on 1/23/2021!
Inspire young women on Tuesday, November 17 from 5:30-6:30 pm by participating in the Women in STEM series. Dallas SWE will lead a panel of industry professionals as they discuss the opportunities and challenges for women in STEM and answer questions submitted by the students themselves. If you are interested in being a panelist, register on Eventbrite and email your headshot and bio to designyourworld.swe@gmail.com.
