Kate Maruyama

The board of Women’s Media Center (WMC), a premier nonprofit organization founded by writers and activists Jane Fonda, Robin Morgan, and Gloria Steinem, has just unanimously elected Dr. Janet Dewart Bell (read here) (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) as its new chair. The WMC focuses on ensuring that women are accurately portrayed and visible in the media. Highlighting powerful stories and varied perspectives the organization works to diversify sources and content throughout a variety of campaigns, initiatives, and outlets. Experienced communications strategist, activist and advocate for racial and gender justice, multimedia expert, and leadership consultant Dr. Dewart Bell is

Dr. Harriet Schwartz (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) was the featured speaker for Scholar Rounds at the University of British Columbia’s Department of Occupational Science and Occupational Therapy. She presented “Connected Teaching: How a Relational Approach Fuels Learning and Builds Faculty Resilience”.

The Public Relations Society of America recently profiled Dr. Rhoda Weiss (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) in Strategies & Tactics in the article “On Establishing Executive Presence” regarding her expertise and career (read here).

Dr. Steven Austin Stovall (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) is now Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Management at Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. He began this new role in Fall 2018 after 17 years with Wilmington College in Ohio. Recently, he co-authored two journal articles, “Embracing Differences: Experiential Exercises for Teaching Diversity in Undergraduate Business Programs” in the Journal of International Business Education and “The Times, They Are a Changin’: A Logical Approach for Developing a Promotion and Tenure Document for Uncertain Times” in the Academy of Educational Leadership Journal.

Dr. Judy R. Ragsdale (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) co-authored the article entitled, “Proposing Religiously Informed, Relationally Skillful Chaplaincy Theory” in the Journal of Health Care Chaplaincy.

Dr. Jody Levison-Johnson (PhD in Leadership and Change, GSLC) has recently solidified the merger of the Council on Accreditation, an international nonprofit accrediting body for human and social service organizations and public sector systems, with the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities, a national nonprofit strategic social sector action network. Dr. Levison-Johnson, a licensed clinical social worker with nearly three decades of experience in the field of human services, will lead this newly established and not-yet-named organization that results from the merger. Specializing in leadership of broad-scale behavioral health/human service reform within government and non-profit environments, strategic planning, policy analysis