• Graduated AHS Class of 1993 – International Studies curriculum, student council, football, Aerial staff writer
• University of Kentucky, BA (Sociology, Communication), 1997 (Student Government Association President, Board of Trustees 96-97).
• Master of Arts, Sustainable International Development, Brandeis University, 2000 (human rights research in Argentina; environmental education in Cuba).
• Ph.D., Public & Urban Policy, The New School for Social Research (NY), 2008.
• Labor/union organizer, CWA Local 6186,Texas State Employees Union, 2001-02, Austin and El Paso, Texas.
• Author, “Miami’s Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization and Local Afro-Cuban Experience,” Palgrave-McMillan Press, 2016.
• Associate Professor, Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies, Brooklyn College (City University of New York).
• Production Assistant,Sundance Award-winning, “The Sentence” (HBO/Park Pictures), 2018
• Member, Board of Directors, National Jobs for All Coalition.
• Bylines at Rolling Stone, Boston Review, The Washington Post, The Nation, the American Prospect, Latino Rebels, Dissent, Teen Vogue and others.
• Member/Advocate, Little People of America (LPA).

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• Assistant Attorney General, Kentucky Office of the Attorney General (Opinions Branch-Open Records and Open Meetings Adjudication) 1991-2016.
• Co-founder of the Kentucky Open Government Coalition 2019.
• Recipient of the University of Kentucky Scripps Howard First Amendment Center’s James Madison Award for outstanding service to open government laws 2016.
• Director, Center for Open Government, Bluegrass Institute 2017-2018.
• Recipient of the Bluegrass Institute Liberty Award 2017.
• Named one of the Kentucky Gazette’s 2019 Notable Women in Kentucky Politics and Government.
• Consultant/Educator to citizens, media, and public officials on open government laws and advocate for the laws in the courts and in the legislature.
• 1980 Graduate of Centre College, Danville, Kentucky, and 1984 Graduate of the University of Kentucky College of Law.

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• AHS Class of 1959 Valedictorian, Member of Student Council, and Co-Captain of Basketball Team.
• Davidson College Class of 1963 Salutatorian, President of Student Body, and Guard on Basketball Team.
• Recipient of International Balfour Award of Sigma Chi Fraternity as its most outstanding graduating senior in the United States and Canada.
• As Rhodes Scholar, earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from Oxford University (Merton College) and served as Co-Captain of University Basketball Team.
• As Army Captain served as Assistant Professor of Social Sciences at U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.
• As graduate of Stanford Law School, later practiced as a Partner in the Richmond, Virginia office of the international law firm then known as Hunton & Williams.
• Serves now as Chairman of Carrell Blanton Ferris & Associates, PLC (law firm with four offices in central Virginia).
• Former Moderator (presiding officer) of Presbyterian Church in America; now serving on its Standing Judicial Commission; Elder in a PCA church in Richmond.
• Married for over 43 years; two married daughters and two grandchildren.

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• Library of Congress Certified Braille Transcriber, 1981
• Committed to quality Braille for its readers through course writing, training and consulting.
• Life Member of the National Braille Association, Rochester, New York.
• President of the National Braille Association, 2013-2015.
• Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau Rose Award Recipient, 2014.
• Crafty Graphics Stencil Embossing Kits I and II, Employee Product Developer Award.
• Kentucky Association and Rehabilitation of the Blind and Visually Impaired 25-year Service Award, 2015.
• Kentucky Braille Challenge Volunteer.

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• Division Vice President, Diversity & Inclusion, Kindred Healthcare.
• Doctor of Education (EdD) in Leadership Education, Spalding University.
• Awarded the Mary Angela Shaughnessy Leadership Education Award for dissertation research and academic performance.
• Awarded Trustees of Inclusive Equity Award by the Louisville Central Community Centers for significant impact in the areas of diversity, inclusion and equity.
• Awarded the Ferda C. Porter Award for civic leadership by the Tri-State Minority Supplier Development Council.
• Awarded the Reverend Dr. Louis H. Coleman, Jr. Torch Award for leadership in workforce diversity by the Kentucky Personnel Cabinet.
• Awarded the Impact Award for symbolizing the spirit and intent of minority economic development by the Kentucky Minority Business Council.
• Former Adjunct faculty at Cornell University, Webster University, Spalding University, Sullivan University, Jefferson Community and Technical College and the University of Phoenix.

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• Received a NIAAA Distinguished Service Award. Also, the NIAAA State Award of Merit.
• Served an extended term as President of the Kentucky High School Athletic Directors.
• Was the Kentucky Athletic Director of the Year in 1986 and 1990.
• Was the Athletic Director at duPont Manual High School for nineteen years and Assumption High School for four years.
• Coached football for sixteen years at Atherton, Waggener and duPont Manual High Schools.
• Was a KHSAA and a NCAA baseball umpire for nineteen years.
• Was Commissioned a Kentucky Colonel and an Honorary Citizen of the City of New Orleans.
• Board of Control Member of the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association.

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• Governor’s Cup State Champion in Composition (1990).
• Graduated Summa Cum Laude and Phi Beta Kappa from Rice University (1995).
• Won two Mellon Fellowships and Sterling Prize in the Humanities while pursuing PhD in English at Yale University (completed in 2000).
• Author of two books from University of Virginia Press: The Purloined Islands: Caribbean-U.S. Cross-Currents in Literature and Culture, 1890-1959 and The Romance of Authenticity: The Cultural Politics of Regional and Ethnic Literatures
• Earned tenure at Cleveland State University in 2005 and promotion to professor (highest rank) in 2012.
• Faculty Senator and Faculty Union President; Department Chair of English (2016-present)
• Three-time Golden Apple winner for teaching, an award given by CSU Alumni Association to faculty for excellence in educating and mentoring students.
• Won Cleveland Foundation grant to develop the Ansifield Wolf Fellowship, dedicated to promoting equity in publishing by providing professional writing, editing, and publishing opportunities to authors from underrepresented groups.

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• Four years in AHS orchestra and student council.
• Recipient of the Christine M. Jansing Memorial Award.
• Principal cellist; Bradley University Chamber Orchestra.
• B.A. in Music Performance, Bradley University.
• Greater Peoria Forty Leaders Under 40, Top 25 Women in Leadership.
• Jim Maloof Realty Top Producer, Rookie of the Year, President’s Inner Circle.
• President of Peoria Area Association of Realtors.
• Member of various committees and boards of the Greater Peoria and Illinois Realtors.

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• B.S. in Journalism from the University of Missouri.
• Master’s Degree in Social Work from Columbia University.
• Board of Directors, JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation)
• Board of Directors, Novak Family Foundation.
• Advisory Board, Wendy Novak Diabetes Center.
• Atherton Field Hockey Team.
• Established the Novak Center for Children’s Health.
• Loving wife and mother.

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• Graduated Atherton HS in 1958.
• President, Atherton Senior Class of 1958.
• Bachelor of Arts, Princeton University-1962
• Battalion Surgeon Third Battalion /Seventh Marines, First Marine Division, Republic of Viet Nam, August 1968 to February1969.
• Awarded the Navy-Marine Commendation Medal in 1969 for meritorious service while in Viet Nam.
• President, Georgia Urology Association in 1988.
• President, Princeton University Class of 1962 from 2007-2012 (50th Reunion)
• Georgia Transplant Foundation Pioneer in Transplantation April,2019

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• Served as president of the AHS French Club, wrote for The Aerial, and won the Harvard Book Award.
• Earned a B.A. at the University of Michigan and completed an M.A. at the University of Louisville, focusing her studies on literature, film and culture.
• Earned a Ph.D. in English from Michigan State University.
• Author of numerous academic essays, articles and reviews.
• Executive Director of the University of Louisville Quality Enhancement Plan.
• Designs and delivers teaching and learning training programs for faculty on campuses across the country.
• National consultant and researcher on critical thinking.
• Board member of the Library Foundation for the Louisville Free Public Library.

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