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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