Presiding Officer: Nuzhat Mahmood
Secretary: Matt McKeever
Chair of the Day: Deb Neary
Invocator: Carol Gendler
Vocational Talk: Rebecca Miller
Cashier: Don Otis
Sgt. at Arms: Bev Karrer
Greeters: Larry McChesney & Dick Lerner
Speaker: Shonna Dorsey
Shonna Dorsey
Vice President of Sales and Marketing, AIM Institute
TOPIC: Shonna Dorsey is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for AIM Institute. AIM is a non-profit dedicated to building a connected community for tech talent in Greater Omaha. AIM creates career opportunities, youth training programs, workforce development and educator resources that help build confident, cutting-edge, high demand individuals, prepared for versatile, innovative technology careers. Today’s speaker will also touch on the topics of opportunities in tech, women in tech, empowerment and leadership.
BIO: Shonna Dorsey is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing for AIM Institute. Shonna graduated from Omaha North High School in 1997 and she is an alumnus of the University of Nebraska-Omaha (UNO) where she earned both Bachelor’s (2003) and Master’s of Science (2010) degrees in Management Information Systems (MIS). Her career includes training facilitation, project management and web development. She has earned the PMP and PMI-ACP certifications through the Project Management Institute.
Shonna serves on several boards/community councils. She is an Omaha Girls Rock Board Member, a Defy Ventures Nebraska Board Member, Business Ethics Alliance Trustee, Fund for Omaha Committee Member, Heartland 2050 Metropolitan Area Planning Agency Executive Committee Member, the Chairperson of the Heartland Workforce Solutions Youth Council, and a Nebraska Department of Education's Department of Postsecondary Career Schools Community Council Member.
In 2018, Shonna was selected by Governor Pete Ricketts to join the Nebraska Information Technology Council. In 2016, Shonna was nominated for and accepted a Women in Technology Award from InformationWeek. She is one of five Omahans selected for the 2016 Changemaker award (Greater Omaha Young Professionals), one of ten Omahans selected for the 2015 TOYO award (Omaha Jaycees), the 2015 recipient of the Tech Community Builder of the Year Award (AIM), a Leadership Omaha graduate, and a 2014 recipient of the 40 Under 40 Award (Midlands Business Journal).
