After graduating high school, Hattie enrolled in the Bennett College for Women in Greensboro, North Carolina in the Fall of 1966.
[1] After graduating from Rutgers University in 1971, Hattie Carwell obtained a position with the U.S. Department of Energy as a health physicist, providing radiation safety oversight in several national laboratories.
[2] Carwell went on to work in Vienna, Austria from 1980 to 1985 where she served as a nuclear safeguards inspector and group leader at the International Atomic Energy Agency.
[3] In 1985, she moved to Oakland, California and worked with the Department of Energy, contributing to the development of new radiation safety policies, as well as how to streamline them while conducting research.
"[6] In March 2020, she served on a panel about higher education leadership at the 50th Annual Conference of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools.
[7] She was an attendee at the 2014 National Academics of Science, Engineering, and Medicine workshop entitled Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program: Middle-Skilled Workforce Needs.
[14] Carwell travelled to Antarctica in the winter of 2021 to provide a virtual experience that MAAT patrons could follow along with to learn more about climate change and the uniqueness of Antarctic political agreements.
[15][16] Carwell also serves as the Coordinator of the Coalition of Hispanic, African and Native Americans for the Next Generation of Engineers and Scientists (CHANGES).