Hawaii Business – LiAnne Yu
“Phuong-Thao Nguyen’s work at Hawaiian Telcom will affect everyone in the state…She is part of the emerging technologies and integration team managing development of a new fiber-optic transPacific cable passing through Hawaii while connecting Southeast Asia and the continental U.S….Although women in Hawaii like Nguyen play leadership roles in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, the number of females in STEM jobs continues to lag far behind that of men…So we asked a diverse spectrum of Hawaii’s women in STEM to weigh in on how to increase those numbers.”(more)