DIVERSITY INITIATIVES

Sandra Evers-Manly Receives Honors

Anyone who comes in contact with Sandra Evers-Manly quickly recognizes her special qualities, as well as her passion for people and for life. As director of diversity, contributions and EEO at Northrop GrummanCorporation, Sandra has had the opportunity to involve the $15 billion aerospace and defense contractor with a wide range of organizations that provide vital services to the communities in which employees live and work.

Bridging her professional life with her personal life, Sandra is the founder and president of a non-profit organization that assists young people with scholarships and internships and she is also involved in helping to improve diverse images in film and television. She organized the First Weekend Club, an organization that asks its more than 37,000 members to attend movies, during the first weekend of release, that portray a positive and diverse African American image. Sandra is also a past president of the Beverly Hills/ Hollywood Chapter of the NAACP.

In March of this year Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. Mu Omega Beta Chapter, named her Woman of the Year for her work in the community. In the fall of this year she will be honored by the Harry A. Mier Center for her work with assisting individuals with disabilities and by the Joy Community Outreach to End Homelessness for her work to find services for people who are homeless.

In 2000 Sandra was honored by three different organizations. The 48th Assembly District of California named her Woman of the Year for her community service in the district. California State Assemblyman Roderick Wright made the presentation at a ceremony held in Sacramento.

In Los Angeles, the Black Women of Achievement Committee recognized Sandra for her accomplishments in the community. Former recipients of this award include Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and Maya Angelou, to name a few. In addition, the University of Southern California Black Alumni Association selected Sandra as an Outstanding Black Alumna for the year 2000.

In 1998, Sandra received a certificate of recognition from the California State Assembly for her work in bringing together a group of African American seamen who served in Port Chicago, California, during World War II. She also was a consultant on the 1999 television movie, "Port Chicago Mutiny," which was based on the true story of the seamen. Fifty men were court-martialed for refusing to return to work loading ammunition on a battleship following an explosion in which 320 men lost their lives. Sandra played an instrumental role in President Clinton's December 1999 pardon of one of these men.

Along with directing Northrop Grumman's equal employment opportunity and diversity program, employee volunteer activities, and charitable contributions, Sandra has responsibility for education relations. She has responsibility for the company's nationwide college relations and recruitment program and ensuring designing programs that reach out to diverse engineering students and programs and other key disciplines. Sandra's involvement in community and social causes is a tremendous asset to the company. She was recently voted President of the new Northrop Grumman Litton Foundation.

Northrop Grumman Corporation is a global aerospace and defense company with its worldwide headquarters in Los Angeles. Northrop Grumman provides technologically advanced, innovative products, services and solutions in defense and commercial electronics, systems integration, information technology and non-nuclear shipbuilding and systems. With 80,000 employees and operations in 44 states and 25 countries, Northrop Grumman serves U.S. and international military, government and commercial customers.