Executive Committee

Elly Towns
President
​Elly Towns is a Civil Engineer born in Texas, but raised in Oklahoma.  She received her Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Oklahoma State University in 2011.  She is currently working for Lee C. Moore, A Woolslayer Company, designing oil derricks and masts, along with managing small and large projects and supervising field installations on different rigs. Elly has enjoyed volunteering the past several years with SWE and is very excited to get the chance to lead the Tulsa SWE chapter in Outreach.  She loves introducing and promoting STEM to girls and families in the area. 

Abigail Contreras
Vice President of Professional Development
Abigail Contreras will be graduating with her Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from Oklahoma State University (OSU) in the fall 2017. Abigail is an active member in the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Chapter in OSU-Tulsa where she was a mentor to MacArthur’s Jr. Botball team. Abigail aspires to establish a SWE-Chapter at OSU-Tulsa to connect female engineering students to SWE and the resources that they offer. Her passion is to empower younger students to pursue STEM careers through community outreach.

Rachel Harvill
Treasurer
​Rachel Harvill is the Laboratory Supervisor at the clinical testing lab at Access Pain Solutions. She graduated from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Chemistry in 2012 and then moved to Tulsa to pursue a career in Chemistry. Before joining Access Pain, she worked at Chevron Phillips Chemical in Bartlesville working as a laboratory technician doing research on plastic additives. Rachel joined SWE due to her passion for empowering young women to be leaders and to spread her love for STEM.

Angela Ashwood
Secretary
Born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Angela Ashwood studies Mechanical Engineering at Oklahoma State University with an expected graduation date of December 2017. She has completed two internships. Her first internship was with American Fire Protection Group, Inc. where she performed installation of fire sprinkler systems, along with the design of the sprinkler systems. Her second internship was at Tulsa Heaters, Inc. completing casting calculations and working to create a design book. In her free time, she likes to do CrossFit and run her small pottery business, making mugs and anything else you can imagine. Her number one goal as an engineer and SWE member is to encourage and introduce more girls to the engineering fields. 
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Laura Finley
Scholarship Committee Chair
​Laura Finley graduated from Oklahoma State with a B.S in Mechanical Engineering in 2009 before starting her career at an architecture firm in Tulsa.  She currently works as an Operations Engineer for ONEOK in the hydraulics group where she handles producer drilling schedules to determine how the system will be affected and can be optimized for the growth.  This is the first year being involved with SWE as a professional, but Laura is excited to be a part of the organization after being a member during her years at OSU.
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