Hannah Grisham is a professional race car driver and the first female R&D driver for Pirelli USA headquarters. Joining her is her father, Tom Grisham to expand on the adventures of being a racing family. Hannah has been driving since age 3, riding motorcycles since age 4, and racing karts since age 6. She started racing cars when she turned 16 and has had over 800 competitive race starts. 

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Micky Grana is the owner and co-founder of Chuckwalla Raceway. As a husband of a motorsports businesswoman and father of a daughter who loves racing, he understands the importance of a program like Athena Racing first-hand and how it can inspire leadership and develop skills in our future female leaders.

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Diane Miller, has had a rewarding career in health care, finance and sports, and has since started her own consulting business. At the start of her career, Diane helped healthcare franchise owners and executives purchase and build  companies across the country. These organizations served children, adolescents, and adults. Shifting her focus she transitioned to Merrill Lynch to work in Wealth Management. As a Financial Advisor, Diane quickly picked her niche of entertainers and athletes.

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Sabrina’s fascination with space and engineering began at an early age, when she and her dad spent ample time playing with their small home telescope, watching the Discovery Channel, and devouring any book about space she could get her hands on. When she was a teen, she decided she wanted to pursue nuclear engineering as a field of study based on her desire to learn how physics worked at the atomic level.

Fast forward a few years: Sabrina is an accomplished aerospace engineer and a Department of Energy and Navy-certified Nuclear Engineer. Sabrina attended the United States Naval Academy and graduated with an aerospace engineering degree in 2014, in a graduating class that was only 20% female. Following the Naval Academy, Sabrina went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to further her education in Aeronautics and Astronautics, and completed a thesis in the field of human spaceflight and bioastronautics. The learning didn’t stop: she reported to her first Navy assignment and completed two rigorous schools that gave her a crash-course introduction to all things nuclear engineering.

Sabrina reported to the USS Minnesota (SSN 783), a Virginia-class attack submarine and completed a full deployment cycle during her two years onboard. As one of three women in a crew of approximately 120, she spent her first year on the boat becoming an operational expert on her boat’s nuclear reactor, and the second year developing her tactical skills as a ship driver, submarine tactician, and onboard-systems expert.

Sabrina now works for the Commander, Submarine Forces, in developing policy and personnel plans for continuing the integration of the submarine community with women. She has a strong passion for advocating STEM careers to young women and breaking gender stereotypes everywhere.

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In 2018, Erin was introduced to Flying Lizard Motorsports  and became their first female racer to compete at a professional level – perhaps one of the most famous American sportscar teams ever to grace the likes of the American Le Mans Series (now IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship).  There was a plan in the works to send an all-female Audi R8 LMS GT4 team to race the 25 Hours of Thunderhill – one of the more grueling 24 hour races in terms of the weather and hours raced in total darkness, although not as competitive as the historic 24 hour races at Daytona, Le Mans, Nürburgring, and Spa. All it wanted was a female leader and to gather a team. Through a quick collaboration, Erin and Flying Lizard put together a star-studded lineup that included Christina Nielsen (two-time World Endurance Championship winner for Porsche Racing), Aurora Straus (SRO GT4 SprintX Championship winner and BMW Motorsports Ambassador), Ashton Harrison (Global MX5 Cup Racer and Hoonigans star), and Laura Ely (two-time Porsche Trophy West Champion). The team went on to win first in class and finish 4th overall out of 46 cars, finishing at the top of the field among Radicals, GT3 cars, and prototypes.

Riding the momentum of that victory, Erin moved into the Porsche Trophy West GT4 Championship with Flying Lizard. The Porsche Trophy series is highly focused on driver development and coaching, and 2019 was a huge growth year for Erin’s driving. Claiming 15 wins and 16 podiums, Erin grabbed the Bronze Class Championship, often racing and winning against drivers in newer, faster cars. From there she partnered with pro-driver Michael Cooper to pilot a Flying Lizard McLaren 570S GT4 during the 2020 SRO GT4 America SprintX Championship, where the duo claimed multiple top-five finishes among a large and highly competitive field.

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