Awards-Crisis Management-Education
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Awards-Public Relations and Social Media
- Award for contributions to the Correctional Education Association
- Award for marketing-Combined Federal Charities
- First place award-Washington Film Festival-technical assistance
- Award for Significant Community Impact for Television Production-DCTV
- Who’s Who Among Executives and Professionals
- National Media Award-American Probation and Parole Association
- Social media site called a “National Model of Communications” by the National Community Corrections Association
- First Place-Television Production-American Correctional Association
- First Place-Television Production-DCTV
- First Place-Television Production-Prince Georges Television
- Top-Ten Government Websites-Government Computer Magazine
- Website of the Month-Government Video Magazine
- Finalist (two years) Fed Pitch
- Included in the federal ”Best Practices” page for the General Services Administration.
- Award from the US Department of Justice for work on the “McGruff-Take a Bite Out of Crime” national media campaign, the nation’s most successful public service advertising campaign
- Award from the Maryland Vehicle Theft Prevention Association for successful statewide anti-theft media campaign
- Four awards for national clearinghouse operations-National Criminal Justice Reference Service, National Institute of Justice, US Department of Justice
- Received Maryland Governor’s Citations for:
- Exemplary Public Information Office
- Emergency Management
- Saving’s Bond Campaign and United Charities Campaign
- Successful statewide carjacking media campaign
- The return of American hostages before the start of the first Middle East war
- Received Governor’s “Salute to Excellence” for nomination for state employee of the year for all state agencies
Crisis Media Management:
Successfully handled major events that received international, national and regional news coverage. Examples include:
- Hurricane Katrina (first non-FEMA employee at FEMA headquarters working public affairs)
- 9-11 events
- hurricanes
- tornadoes
- blizzards
- plane crashes
- community evacuations
- prison riots
- major crimes
- police shootings
- the return of American hostages before the start of the Middle East war at BWI airport,
- And endless news stories with major policy considerations.
Education:
- The Johns Hopkins University—Baltimore, MD: Certificate of Advanced Study (post-Master’s degree) — Liberal Arts
- University of Baltimore–Baltimore, MD:Master of Science –Criminal Justice/Criminology
- Towson University—Towson, MD: Bachelor of Science–General Studies/Law Enforcement and Criminology
