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I am a seasoned communications professional and manager seeking contractual or management opportunities in a corporate or nonprofit setting. I have worked with nonprofits as well as several colleges and universities across the country as a faculty member, senior-level communication executive, and special assistant to the president.
Currently, I am a clinical instructor and program manager for the Business Communication Program in the Department of Marketing at Georgia State University's J. Mack Robinson College of Business. Previously, I served as a writer at Georgia State University’s Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. In this position, I wrote and edited the bi-weekly Dean’s E-News; researched and wrote articles for the school’s website and its magazine, The Briefing; and I also wrote press releases on policy briefs and other research occurring in the School.
My previous positions have included assistant professor of journalism at Florida A&M University’s School of Journalism, Media, and Graphic Arts; special assistant to the president for operations at Clark Atlanta University; assistant to the president/director of public affairs at Chicago State University; director of public relations and marketing for Meharry Medical College; and vice president for college relations at Morris Brown College.
I began my communications career with the University of Pittsburgh’s News and Publications office. I have also worked as a writer in the public relations offices of Dartmouth College and the University of Chicago. My public relations achievements include local, regional, and national media placements in the Chronicle of Higher Education, the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, and the Washington Times as well as broadcast spots on NPR’s All Things Considered, The Today Show and 20/20, to name a few.
A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, I earned a bachelor’s degree in mass communications from Clark Atlanta University and a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. I also earned the certified nonprofit professional (CNP) credential from the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance. Additionally, I am the author of the novel, "Survival in a Sea of White."
ATLANTA-Georgia State University's Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA), housed in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, has received a $10,000 gift from State Farm® to expand the organization's marketing, recruitment and program efforts in the south DeKalb area of metro Atlanta.
ATLANTA-The Georgia State University Chapter of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) student association captured two of five national awards at the annual NLA Alliance Management Institute (AMI) conference in Denver on January 5, 2017. The two honors, Student Leader of the Year Award and Mutual of America Nonprofit Partner of the Year Award, were...
Eighty-one-year-old graduating senior Joseph Crews looks forward to hanging his Georgia State University diploma on his seven-year-old granddaughter's bedroom wall after he graduates with his Bachelor of Science in Economics. "She likes to ask a lot of questions about how I'm doing in school," says Crews.
As a child, DeRon Jordan (B.S. in Public Policy '14) played with his toy cars, buses and trucks and organized them around transportation stops. Now a transit planner at Capital Area Transit in Harrisburg, Pa., Jordan has navigated a lot of rough patches, never realizing that his childhood interest would be the foundation for...
AYSPS alumnus Salvatore Alaimo was in Atlanta in Nov. 3, 2015, for the screening of his recently produced documentary, "What is Philanthropy?" at the Loudermilk Center in the heart of downtown Atlanta. Alaimo is an associate professor of nonprofit management at Grand Valley State University's School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration in Grand Rapids,...
Ben Spears breaks down barriers with Ultimate Frisbee Ben Spears spent the first half of the year in one of the most fought over and unstable regions on Earth playing a relatively obscure sport with kids. Spears is a leadership development coach with Ultimate Peace, a nonprofit organization that connects youth in areas divided by conflict through the sport of Ultimate Frisbee.
Brian Mitchell, a nationally certified counselor with over 10 years of career and workforce development experience, is the new assistant director for employer relations in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' (AYSPS) Career Services and Student Life Office. Mitchell comes to the AYSPS from North Carolina Central University, where he worked as...
Economist Sally Wallace has been named associate dean for research and strategic initiatives, a position formerly held by professor Nancy Kropf, who is now dean of the Byrdine F. Lewis School of Nursing and Health Professions at Georgia State University. "Sally has done a wonderful job as chair of the economics department, and she...
The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University is pleased to welcome 11 new faculty to its ranks for the 2015-2016 academic year. Among this year's new faculty are Second Century Initiative (2CI) professor and economist Alberto Chong, and public finance and education policy expert Ross Rubenstein, the Dan Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy.
Jaira Burke is happiest and most at peace when she is lobbying, blogging and volunteering on behalf of human rights and social and economic justice. The International Economics and Modern Languages major says she spends her every waking moment fighting for the rights of others.
Three members of the Andrew Young School faculty and staff were celebrated at a recent luncheon for their excellence as servant-leaders who go beyond the call of duty in the classroom, in their research and through their caring spirit to serve and go the extra mile.
Take a stroll around downtown Atlanta on any given day and you will see a neatly uniformed Downtown Ambassador pointing a conventioneer in the right direction, another steam cleaning the sidewalks, and others doing any number of activities. They work around the clock to foster a safe and inviting downtown for the area's visitors, workers and residents.
Every summer finds Fred Brooks distributing Requests for Proposals to several Atlanta social work agencies, nonprofits and other community agencies. The RFP asks for projects that can be completed by teams of second-year Master of Social Work students and will provide a tangible return to the agency or nonprofit.
In the United States more than 1.2 million people with mental illness are in jails or prisons, in contrast to the approximately 70,000 people in psychiatric hospitals, according to the Federal Bureau of Justice Statistics and the Department of Justice.
When it comes to living and working in the Atlanta metropolitan area, the issue of transportation brings about lively discussions. From MARTA to the new downtown streetcar system to the Beltline, Atlantans always have an opinion about transportation and its impact on our community.
Georgia State University professor W. Bartley Hildreth was named the new executive director of the National Tax Association (NTA) during its annual Conference on Taxation in Santa Fe, New Mexico, November 13-15, 2014. An expert in public budgeting and finance, particularly in tax policy and municipal securities, Hildreth serves on the faculty in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies' Department of Public Management and Policy.
ATLANTA-Professors Paul Ferraro of Georgia State University and Kent Messer of the University of Delaware will head the newly created Center for Behavioral and Experimental Agri-Environmental Policy Research (CBEAR), supported with a $750,000 award from the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA).
When Sebastian Beckham Nix graduates in December, he hopes that the diploma for his B.S. in Public Policy-Nonprofit Studies will have the correct name on it. Nix, a transgender man known as Becks, entered Georgia State University in 2010. While Becks is comfortable talking candidly about his past, he's the exception rather than the rule.
Professor Brian E. Bride, an expert in the field of secondary traumatic stress and compassion fatigue, joined Georgia State University's Andrew Young School of Policy Studies on August 1 to direct its School of Social Work. Bride comes to the Andrew Young School from the University of Georgia (UGA), where he directed the School of...
Graduate students Caroline Neidhold, Andrew Brown and Angela Smith are spending the summer as student trainees in the U.S. Government Accountability Office's Atlanta regional location. GAO is an independent, nonpartisan agency that works for Congress. Often called the "congressional watchdog," the agency investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars.
Since his days at Benjamin Mays High School, newly elected Atlanta City Councilman Andre Dickens knew he wanted to be an elected official. And though his initial academic and career pursuits as a chemical engineer and retail furniture owner took him to other states, he never lost sight of wanting to make a difference in his native home.
CHICAGO - The Georgia State University Chapter of the Nonprofit Leadership Alliance has been recognized as the best chapter in the United States at the organization's national conference in Chicago. The 2014 Sprint Campus Program Excellence Award was presented to chapter members attending the conference in a presentation on January 7.
Alumnus John Avery is a modest gentleman whose spirit of generosity and humility is evident as he speaks fondly of a life spent working and giving back to his church, family and friends. The Hiawassee, Georgia, resident enjoys the quietness of his beautiful mountain environment, just minutes from the Helen Alpine Village tourist area.
Students who attend college in Georgia rather than out-of-state because of the HOPE scholarship award appear to be more likely to leave the state after college, according to Professor David L. Sjoquist, the Dan E. Sweat Distinguished Chair in Educational and Community Policy, and alumnus John V.
Christian Izco is passionate about fighting against the commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC) and human trafficking in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The public management and policy graduate fellow has taken her platform to the classroom, the community and the Georgia Legislature.
Imagine going to a city where bike riding or public transit are the only forms of transportation. Picture living where wind turbine energy is the rule rather than the exception. Or envision an economic utopia that is 44 percent forest and boasts low unemployment, high wages, cutting edge technology and the corporate headquarters of Siemen's, Mercedes-Benz and Porsche.
Five social work students from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies took their skills to the community when they founded the Fulton Effect program at the Frank McClarin High School, an alternative school in south Fulton County in metro Atlanta, last January.