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dr.
freda porter, President and ceo
 Dr. Porter is President and CEO of PSI. She is one of the few American Indian women who have earned a doctorate in Mathematical and Computational Sciences. Dr. Porter has been featured in a PBS documentary film and has been honored by the North Carolina Equity Commission.
Dr. Porter focused her research on the problem of natural biodegradation of contaminants, specifically in gasoline spills. She has an outstanding academic record that supports her work in Environmental and Information Technology related services.
Dr. Porter serves at the pleasure of the Governor on the UNC-Pembroke Board of Trustees. She has also served on several community boards including an Advisory committee for COMtech Park in Pembroke, the North Carolina, the NC Department of Transportation Minority Expansion Council in Raleigh, the Lumbee Revitalization and Community Development Corporation loan committee in Pembroke, the Pembroke Area Chamber of Commerce, and is a founding member of the NC American Indian Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Porter has been recently nominated to the Advisory Board for the National Center for Minority Health and Health Disparities, an appointment made by the Secretary of Health and Human Services.
Dr. Porter’s academic record and honors include:
- Member, North Carolina Advisory Commission on Military Affairs, Quality of Life Chairman
- Board Member, ASCENT – Leading Multicultural Women to the Top, Inc.
- Member, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Board of Trustees
- 2003 – University of North Carolina at Pembroke Board of Trustees appointee
- 2000 - GIS Mapping Professional Training at Trimble in Mount Pleasant, SC
- 1998 - The Water Pollution Control System Operators Certification at North Carolina State University
- 1995 – Taught the Robert S. Kerr Environmental Research Laboratory Subsurface Modeling Training Course - United States Environmental Protection Agency
- 1994 - Member of the North Carolina Commission on Testing - Appointed by Governor Hunt
- 1994 – Completed Post Doctoral Studies at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Research in Groundwater Contamination
- 1991 - Graduate of Duke University with a Doctorate in Applied Mathematical and Computational Sciences
- 1989 – Student researcher in Circuit Verification with Microelectronics Center of North Carolina in Research Triangle Park, NC
- 1981 - Graduate of North Carolina State University with a Masters in Applied Mathematics, Computer Science minor
- 1979 – Completed IBM’s Graduate Internship Program
- 1978 - Graduate of The University of North Carolina at Pembroke with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Applied Mathematics
Dr. Porter has an outstanding record of service in the public interest including:
- Faculty and Professor at UNC Pembroke, and UNC Chapel Hill
- Consultant to NASA-Langley Research Center, ASEE Faculty Fellow (1994 - 1995)
- Consultant to United States Environmental Protection Agency Ecosystems Research Division in Athens, Georgia
- Consultant to North Carolina Agricultural and Technological State University, Greensboro and UNC-Pembroke, Engineering Summer Internship Program (Program Director – 3 years)
- Consultant to National Science Foundation (Proposal Reviewer)
- Consultant to American College Testing (Mathematics Test Developer)
- Consultant to American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES) (Comprehensive Enrichment Program Director – 5 years)
- Founded the UNC-Pembroke AISES Chapter in 1991 (Advisor)
- Consultant to Battelle, National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship Program Reviewer (1993 – 1995)
- Consultant to the National Institutes of Health (Proposal Reviewer)
- Consultant to IBM, Research Triangle Park, NC (outreach)
Dr. Porter is an Information Technology professional with proven business acumen in project development, management and operations and has more than twenty five years of teaching, research, consulting and management experience in Information Technology, Environmental consulting, and related fields.
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