As chairman of the Intelligence Committee Louis Stokes was struck by the lack of diversity within the intelligence community, he remarked,” They were all white, a few females, and zero minorities.” He felt embarrassed by it, which led him to spearhead a program that recruited minority and disadvantaged students into the FBI, CIA, NSA, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. The program was a huge success, and Stokes continued his commitment to support programs to engage minorities in science, engineering in math right here in Cleveland. Stokes is shown here discussing the NASA Science Engineering Mathematics and Aerospace Academy (SEMAA), a project that was designed to increase participation and retention of underrepresented youth in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM.