Sessions
The Tuskegee Airmen: Kicking Down Doors for YOU! - Col. Mark Dickerson - Armstrong 234
2:45 PM - 3:45 PM Sat
Col. Mark Dickerson is Board Chairman of the Hubert L. “Hooks” Jones Chapter of Tuskegee Airmen Inc. (TAI) and is a Western Region Representative on the TAI National Board of Directors. During a 25-year USAF career he was a fighter pilot, test pilot, and eventually became the Deputy Commandant of the USAF Test Pilot School. He is also a former Board Member with the Society of Experimental Test Pilots. After the USAF, he spent 7 years as a NASA Research Project Manager, and is the only African American to ever become a Research Pilot at NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center. He is an Emergency Response Team volunteer in his community, and a Board Member of two Colorado non-profits, supporting wounded warriors and providing scholarships to trade school students. Dickerson holds a BS in Engineering Physics from Cornell, an MS in Aeronautical Engineering from Stanford, and an MBA from Regis. He has served on the Adjunct Faculty of two different universities. He is married to the former Phyllis Dubose of Sacramento, California.