Yvette Stevens
Vice President, Director of Economic Inclusion and Community Affairs
Yvette leads the planning and execution of Gilbane’s corporate economic inclusion strategies to support our commitment to the marketplace, workforce inclusion, and diversity. She is responsible for developing and implementing Gilbane’s community benefit commitments and promoting and engaging small, local, and diverse business enterprises. Yvette works to strengthen relationships with key stakeholders, organizations, associations, and trades to enhance contracting opportunities for small, diverse, and local businesses and to promote inclusion and training of a diverse workforce on our projects.
Yvette holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a Master of Civil Engineering from Old Dominion University, and a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from Morgan State University. She is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
Yvette feels entrepreneurship solidifies Gilbane’s commitment to seeing small, local, and diverse businesses build wealth for their families and communities while encouraging innovative and creative thinking by our employees.