Engineers Without Borders, the nonprofit group of more than 9,500 construction sector students and professionals that channels technical talent to pro bono sustainable infrastructure projects in underdeveloped countries and to global emergency relief, and also boosts volunteers’ project management skills, named Jackie O’Brien as CEO.

A degreed engineer, she was vice president of business development and strategy at Vigor Industrial and is a former Alcoa vice president. Also an EWB board member since 2018, O’Brien succeeds Cathy Leslie, who has been in the role since the group began in 2002. Leslie was key in growing EWB from a University of Colorado-Boulder start-up into a global force that has been involved in 2.3 million projects in 56 countries.