Team

President and Founder

I am easing into my second act. As a child I wanted to be a teacher and practiced on my younger sisters and friends. Today, I am an aerospace engineer and I am grateful for the opportunity to share my excitement about the future with anyone who will listen.

As an engineer, investor, consultant, and techie with decades of experience in various industries — aerospace, automotive, telecommunications, and consumer products — I am proud to work on products which benefit humanity. I strive to use my blessings in the service of others and provide a hand and lightpost, for other women, especially to follow their dreams like I have.

I am the mother of four wonderful and kind adult children and was a wife for 32 years. Between 2015 and 2018, my late husband became sick and died from cancer. Lopolopo was birthed as a project to celebrate life and to share the blessings I had received because of my STEM career. Join the Journey!

Vice President & Treasurer

Queenie is a dynamic finance leader with a proven track record of 30+ years in senior roles, including Vice President of Finance and Director positions in Fortune 500 companies such as UTC Fuel Cells, Cigna, and Pratt & Whitney. 

She holds an MBA in Finance and Master’s degrees in Taxation and International Studies. She's also a Founder and VP of Finance at Lopolopo, where she's overseen financial operations and plays a key role in establishing financial and tax reporting, developing strategy, and enhancing corporate governance.

She leverages her skills to contribute to organizational success through strategic financial leadership and innovative solutions.

Director

Dr. Valda Crowder, affectionately known as ‘Dr. V,’  has been a board-certified emergency medicine physician for 30 years and has treated patients during four pandemics, one mass shooting and a category four hurricane. 

Dr. Crowder possesses a unique blend of clinical knowledge, public health, public policy, and business acumen, well suited to advise companies on weathering the global pandemic. She also provides all expert medical opinions for US Virgin Islands Office of the Attorney General. 

As an appointee on the Presidential Task Force during the Clinton Administration, Dr. Crowder identified areas of critical workforce shortages and strategies to improve health outcome and eliminate health inequities. She also developed policy which became part of the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act and the Affordable Health Care Act. 

Other notable achievements include leading teams which developed new ways to address drug addiction, mental health and violence in health care systems, such as Cooper Hospital/UMDNJ Health Care System in Camden, New Jersey and Corizon Health, a health service provider for people in prison. 

She serves as National Chair of the Health Committee for Black Women for Biden.