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Julia B. Henderson Award
Soonhee Kim
Soonhee Kim is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and a Senior Research Associate at the Campbell Institute of Public Affairs in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University. A native of Cheongjoo, South Korea, Kim holds a bachelor’s degree in public administration from Ewha Women’s University and M.P.A. degrees from Korea University and the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy of the University at Albany. She received her Ph.D. in Public Administration and Policy of New York.
Professor Kim’s areas of expertise include public management, human resources management, electronic government, local governance and leadership development. As part of the Maxwell School’s Executive Education program, Professor Kim regularly speaks to senior government officials from China and India about human resources management and government innovations. She conducted a research project on building management capacity for enhancing transparency in local governance and organized a UN workshop on transparency and local governance held in December 2008, in Beijing, China. She also led a workshop on volunteer management in non-governmental organizations held in March 2008, in Beirut, Lebanon. Her current research projects investigate how human resources management capacity, adoption of advanced IT, and leadership affect government performance and public trust in government in China, Japan, South Korea, and Southeast Asian countries. Professor Kim is the co-editor of a new book, The Future of Public Administration Around the World: The Minnowbrook Perspective (Georgetown University Press,) 2010.
Rita Mae Kelley Award
Sharon Mastracci
Professor Sharon Mastracci teaches and conducts research in several areas related to employment policy, human resource management, and gendered dynamics of workplaces and labor markets. She authored Breaking Out of the Pink Collar Ghetto in 2004 and co-authored Emotional Labor: Putting the Service in Public Service in 2008; both published by M.E. Sharpe, Inc. Her research has been published in a number of leading scholarly journals including the American Review of Public Administration, Public Administration Review, Policy Studies Journal, and Public Personnel Management.
Marcey Crowley Award
Phin Xaypangna
Phin Xaypangna is the Diversity Manager. Organizational Development Consultant for Mecklenburg County since 2005. She provides strategic leadership and guidance to increase the organization’s effectiveness through diversity management, strategic planning, organization design, leadership development, change management, and coaching. She is an advocate for access, equity, and inclusion for the diverse communities. She also has over 15 years of experience in the design, delivery, and evaluation of training and development programs for the public sector. Currently, she serves on the board of the Levine Museum of the New South, Section for Women in Public Administration, and the Women’s Advisory Board of Hinrichs Flanagan, a Mass Mutual General Agent. Phin is a native of Laos and is fluent in Laotian and Thai. She received her B.A. in Political Science from Western Carolina University and a Master’s degree in Public Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
Joan Fiss Bishop Award
Mary Jane England, M. D.
Mary Jane England, M. D., is President of Regis College, Weston, MA. Taking her medical degree from Boston University in 1964, she launched an international career as a child psychiatrist; the first commissioner of the Department of Social Services in Massachusetts (1979-83); associate dean and director of the MPA Program, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University (1983-87), president of the American Women’s Medical Association (1986-87) and of the American Psychiatric Association (1995-96) and CEO of Prudential, 1987-90, Washington Business Group on Health, 1990 2001. England is the mother of two daughters and a son, and grandmother of two.
In 2004-2005, Dr. England chaired the Institute of Medicine committee that produced the “Crossing the Quality Chasm” report on adaptation to mental health and substance use. She recently chaired an IOM Committee on parental depression and its effect on children and other family members and participated in the ACT project in Colorado.
Dr. England is a member of the blue-ribbon taskforce of professional experts in the new Commission for the Protection of Children in the Archdiocese of Boston. She has the following awards: Action for Boston Community Development, the annual Elizabeth Blackwell Award for a distinguished American woman physician the Saul Feldman Award. Under England’s leadership. In the wake of the 2010 Haiti earthquake she has fostered the College’s continuing outreach with immediate relief and long term solutions.
Congratulations 2010 SWPA Scholarship Winners! |
The SWPA Scholarship Committee* congratulates the winners of the 2010 SWPA Scholarships! Each scholarship recipient is awarded $500 to help defray the costs associated with attending the 2010 ASPA conference in San Jose. Please stop by and offer your congratulations to these ladies at the SWPA Members meeting and the SWPA Breakfast! See you in San Jose!!! |
Brandi L. Blessett
Brandi Blessett is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Urban Studies and Public Administration at Old Dominion University (ODU). Her research interests include administrative responsibility, social capital, citizen participation, and urban policy. Her dissertation involves the forced displacement of African-Americans and the poor in some American inner cities. Brandi was the recipient of the 2009 National Forum for Black Public Administrators Scholarship and the 2008 Pindur Scholarship for Applied Public Service at ODU. Brandi is co-chairing the Education Committee for Planned Parenthood of Southeast Virginia, a voluntary organization to promote sexual and reproductive health in local community. |
Shanthi Karuppusamy
Shanthi Karuppusamy is a doctoral candidate in political science at Wayne State University. Her research interests are in local government structure and urban policy. She has published three articles in The American Review of Public Administration and Urban Affairs Review. She teaches undergraduate courses in American Government, Public Administration and Public Policy. Her dissertation centers on understanding how bureaucratic professionals function as epistemic communities to facilitate intergovernmental and intersectoral collaboration. Shanthi was selected as a Founder’s Forum Fellow in 2009 ASPA. She has earned her MPA and MA in English Literature from the University of Madras, Tamil Nadu, India. |
Priyanka Joseph
Priyanka Joseph a second year MPA student at Roger Williams University (RWU) in Rhode Island. She is currently working for Americans for Informed Democracy, a D.C. based non-profit organization, as Regional Coordinator intern for the North East. Her academic focus is on U.S.-South Asia relations, non-profit management, disaster management, sustainable development, and civic action. Priyanka was one of 14 students from India awarded a Fulbright fellowship in 2005 to function as a cultural ambassador to the United States. She co-founded the Muslim Students Association at RWU. She was also an Elected Student Council President for 2004-2005 at Stella Maris College, India where she studied for her bachelor’s degree. |
* Scholarship Committee: Barbara Lewkowitz, Kim Moloney, Gail Nehls, and Yahong Zhang
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