The Entertainment Committee for the 19th Annual USPTO Community Day is currently seeking talent acts to perform during this year’s festivities. The event will be held on Thursday, May 12, 2016 from 11:00am – 2:00pm. This year’s theme is “Diversity: Coast to Coast.” This call for participants is open to USPTO employees, as well as their family and friends. If you are interested, please email Sesha Moon by March 31, 2016. Each act shall not exceed 10 minutes and please be prepared to furnish audio and/or visuals on a USB drive, as well as a written script of any lyrics that will be performed for approval.
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USPTO’s Newest Affinity Group, Federally Employed Women
All employees and contractors are invited to the Installation Ceremony for the Bright Knights Chapter of Federally Employed Women (FEW) Tuesday, March 8, from 12:30 – 1:30 p.m. ET at the National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum on the first floor of the Madison Building. Light refreshments will be served.
Come in person or attend via WebEx:
Event number: 647 042 439
Event password: 12345
To join the audio conference only, call 571-270-7000 and use access code: 647 042 439.
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FEW is an “advocacy group to improve the status of women employed by the Federal government.” The USPTO chapter has 22 founding members, including chapter President Kaya Lewis Baltimore, who serves as a Program Assistant in the Office of Equal Employment Opportunity and Diversity (OEEOD) EEO and Vice President Ivana Miranda who serves as a Financial Analyst/Benefits Coordinator in the Office of Finance. The chapter plans to hold WebEx meetings, and the group is open to all.
For more information about FEW, visit www.few.org.
LGBT Health Policy & Practice Graduate Certificate Program
The George Washington University graduate certificate program in LGBT Health Policy & Practice is now accepting applications for the 2016-17 program year. The certificate is a 12-credit, combined online/on-campus interdisciplinary program that trains medical and mental health professionals to better care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people. A large number of our certificate students are enrolled medical, nursing, or other graduate mental health, public health and policy programs around the world. Others work in care settings or in policy organizations.
Click here to go to website with information about applying.
Happy New Year!
As you may have heard, this past year there were no new nominations for Lambda’s Board of Officers. We look forward to a new year and being here for each other, always.
From left to right: Yaira Resto, Chair; Jahangir Kabir, Vice Chair; Ivana Miranda, Secretary; Steve Spar, Treasurer.
Nominations for 2016 Board
Time to nominate members for the 2016 Board of Directors for Lambda PTO! Make sure you ask your nominee if they are able and willing to join the board for 2016 before you submit their name. We need a few dedicated members to volunteer their time and ideas for Lambda events, joint group events and meetings with management.
Elections will be conducted on Tuesday December 15th 2015 during our Annual Holiday Lunch at Pasara Thai Restaurant by majority vote of all present members. For full list of duties, please see the Group Charter provided on our Facebook Group or can be sent over e-mail, contact us.
Pride month video
The office of Diversity has received a contract to produce videos for the special emphasis months and would like to complete the LGBT Pride month video by March 2016. We are looking for volunteers to appear on camera as well as ideas for content. What do you wish to convey to the PTO community about pride month and LGBT employees? This is a great opportunity to present ideas and represent our group! Anyone willing, please step forward and contact us.
3rd Annual Holiday Sweater Photo
From Amando Carigo to the PTO community:
Got a Holiday (some folks call it ugly) Sweater that you just gotta show off? Well let’s take a group photo of it, yeah? Feel free to pass this invitation to a colleague or bring a guest, it’s in a public area. The more, the merrier!
Thursday December 3rd, 2015 at 10 AM
In front of the Holiday Tree, Madison Building, 1st Floor
Miserable fashion enjoys good company! See you there!
Cupcake Recipes From IFS
Thanks for supporting the International Food Sample Festival! Here are the links to all the recipes used for our famous cupcakes from your friends at Lambda PTO:
Butter Rum Cupcake
Honey Whiskey Cupcake
Hard Apple Cider Cupcake
Beer & Bacon Cupcake
Chocolate Kahlua Cupcake
Enjoy!
It Gets Better: USPTO
Meet our Executive Advisor
Mark R. Powell currently serves as Deputy Commissioner for International Patent Cooperation, effective early 2014. Since early 2011, he had been on assignment to the Undersecretary and Director, focusing on a diversity of international issues, including worksharing and harmonization efforts. Mr. Powell began work at the USPTO in 1986 as a patent examiner in the area of high-energy physics, and became a senior examiner in high-definition television technology. In 1994, he became a supervisory examiner in what is now the main IT examining sector at the USPTO overseeing user-interface, artificial intelligence, source-code management, and computer graphics examination units. Mr. Powell served as a Technology Center Director from 2003-2011 in the telecommunications area, managing some 1,200 patent examiners, all while participating in international patent matters on behalf of the agency. During the years 2001-2003, he was on assignment to the US Department of State, Bureau of Nonproliferation, focusing on WMD issues in the former Soviet Union. Mr. Powell, a native of Mississippi, USA, holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from South Carolina’s Clemson University and a Certificate of Advanced Public Administration from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, New York.
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