Sylvia Acevedo

Sylvia Acevedo has served as director since November 2020. Ms. Acevedo served as Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of the USA from May 2017 to August 2020, and as interim Chief Executive Officer from June 2016 to May 2017. She was a board member from 2008 until 2016. Ms. Acevedo served as a member of the President’s Advisory Commission on Educational Excellence for Hispanics from May 2011 to September 2016, with a focus on educational policy around dual language in early childhood. Earlier in her career, she held senior positions with IBM, Apple and Dell. As an engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Ms. Acevedo developed algorithm programs for space missions to the sun for the Solar Polar mission, and also analyzed scientific data from the Voyager spacecraft’s flyby of Jupiter and its moons, Io and Europa. Ms. Acevedo holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from New Mexico State University and a M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.