Title: Development Executive, Coordinator, Transition Specialist
Company: Boston Special Education Transition for Career Network
(B-SET), Massachusetts Advocates for Children
Location: North Grafton, MA United States
Affiliations/Associations/Societies:
- American Association on Mental Retardation
- American Educational Research Association
- And Then There Was Glass (founder, 2010-Present)
- Association for Individuals with Severe Disabilities
- Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD)
- Association of Fundraising Professionals (2012-Present)
- Association of Professional Researchers for Advancement (Apra) (2017-Present)
- Black Ministerial Alliance (technical grants consultant, 2008-2012)
- Compliance Mentor Group (advisory board, 2013-Present)
- Copman Educational Consulting Services (founder, 2002-Present)
- Council for Exceptional Children
- Employment Now (disability advocate, 2010-Present)
- Families Creating Together, Multigenerational Arts Program (pro bono grant writer, 2014-Present)
- Friends of BAA – Boston Arts Academy (2014-2017)
- Komen Community Challenge, State House, Boston, MA (selected speaker, 2008)
- Massachusetts Association of Vocational Education Special Needs Personnel
- Massachusetts Neuropsychological Society (2008-Present)
- Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus (MWPC) (2016-Present)
- New England Development Research Association (NEDRA) (2017-Present)
- New England Villages, Inc.
- Patient Navigation Bill for Breast Cancer, Washington, DC (lobbyist, 2005)
- Phi Lambda Theta
- Susan G. Komen for the Cure (grants committee, member and fundraiser, 2005-2014)
- United States Department of Education (federal grant reviewer, 1988-Present)
- Women in Development (2012-Present)
Achievements:
- Honoree, Distinguished Worldwide Humanitarian Award (2020)
- Recipient, Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award (2019)
- Featured, “Who’s Who of American Women,” Marquis Who’s Who (1999-2000)
- Recipient, Outstanding Young American Award, University of Kentucky (1997)
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