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ASALH MEMBERS SPOTLIGHT

Tameka Hobbs is mentioned in this video along with AARLCC and Spady Heritage Museum

Sylvia Cyrus and Audrey Peterman were awardees of the National Parks Conservation Association’s Centennial Leader Award in 2022.

Dr. Joan Cartwright interviewed them Saturday, February 11, 2023 @ 10 a.m. to 12 noon EST

See Audrey’s article for information on Blacks in National Parks:

Rest Assured, Gov. DeSantis: Black History is Secure in Florida’s National Parks – The Westside Gazette

There will be a Q&A after the first 45 minutes of the zoom meeting. Post your questions in the chat, please.

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After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Dr. Joan Cartwright, Treasurer

ASALH South Florida, Inc.

http://www.asalhsouthflorida.wordpress.com
954-740-3398

Dr. Valerie Robinson

Zoom on Tuesday, December 21, 2021, 4 pm EST Zoom

Dr. Valerie L. Patterson is a Clinical Professor in the public policy and administration program at Florida International University (FIU). She received a Ph.D. in public administration from Florida International University in 1995 and is a lifetime member of its Alumni Association. She is the current director of FIU’s African & African Diaspora Studies program. She serves as affiliated faculty with FIU’s Center for Women’s and Gender Studies. In June of 2020, Dr. Patterson was appointed by President Mark B. Rosenberg as one of three chairs of FIU’s Equity Action Initiative.

Her most recent research examines the post-racial performance of race, gender, and policing in majority-minority communities. She is the co-chair of the Graduate Certificate in Human Resource Policy and Management offered by the Public Policy and Administration program and teaches several of the graduate courses in the certificate, including Human Resource Policy and Management, Administration and the Role of Women, Government and Minority Group Relations and Applied Organization Theory and Behavior.

She has published in Public Voices, Public Performance & Management Review, Public Personnel Management, and several other journals. Her guest-edited symposium Locating/Deconstructing Ways of Performing Government in the age of Excessive Force, Hyper-Surveillance, Civil Disobedience, and Political Self-Interest – Lessons Learned in a “Post-Racial” America symposium, was published in Public Voices (Fall, 2018).

Many of her panel presentations have focused on ethics, women in administration, diversity, and hip-hop culture. She has presented before the Leadership Training Institute of the National League of Cities, International Trade and Finance Association, Florida Association of Black Faculty and Staff, Florida Association of Women in Education, Conference of Minority Public Administrators, Florida Women in Government, Center for Nonprofit Management, National Forum for Black Public Administrators, the Foundation for Democracy in Africa and numerous other organizations and groups.

In January 2013, Valerie was the fifth honoree inducted into the Martin Luther King Hall of Fame at Florida International University. In 2013 she was also honored by the ASPA South Florida chapter for Outstanding Service Excellence and received the Tendaji Award from FIU’s Black Student Union.

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