2016. Acevedo is a former board member of the Hispanic Scholarship Consortium, Con Mi Madre and the Trinity School. Acevedo served on the founding executive board of the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders. In July 2016 she was appointed interim CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA. Acevedo was appointed permanent CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA in May 2017. Under her tenure, the Girl Scouts introduced over 100 badges in Outdoors and STEM badges in areas such as robotics, coding, engineering, and cybersecurity. In a Crain’s New York interview, Acevedo said, “Girl Scouts has always been an important part of my life, helping me as a young girl to develop the skills to become a leader,” Acevedo said in a statement. “My focus [at GSUSA] has been to raise the profile of the Girl Scout movement and mission, with the targeted aim to grow membership.” In 2018 she was listed on Forbes’ "America's Top 50 Women In Tech". In 2018, Fast Company named Acevedo one of its “100 Most Creative People in Business”. Acevedo was awarded the 2019 Hispanic Heritage Award For Leadership. In 2019, InStyle named Acevedo in The Badass 50: Meet the Women Who are Changing the World. Acevedo stepped down as CEO of the Girl Scouts on August 10, 2020. Acevedo joined the board of directors of Qualcomm in November, 2020 and serves on its Governance Committee. Significant publications 2018: Clarion Books, Path To the Stars, My journey from Girl Scouts to Rocket Scientist, an aspirational middle school memoir. Sylvia Acevedo 2016: Harcourt Mifflin Houghton, Critical Growth Needs for English Learner Preschoolers, Sylvia Acevedo 2016: UCLA White paper: Realizing the Economic Advantages of a Multilingual Workforce, Dr. Patricia Gandara, Sylvia Acevedo References Girl Scouts of the USA national leaders Jet Propulsion Laboratory faculty NASA people New Mexico State University alumni Systems engineers American women chief executives Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 1950s births Engineers from South Dakota People from Las Cruces, New Mexico Engineers from New Mexico Businesspeople from South Dakota Businesspeople from New Mexico 20th-century American engineers 20th-century women engineers 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American businesspeople 20th-century American businesswomen 21st-century American engineers 21st-century women engineers 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American businesspeople 21st-century American businesswomen