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Univ. of Maryland
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Debra joined the ILA after spending three
years as the Electronic Communications Coordinator for the
Academy of Leadership, where she developed their web site
into a content rich resource on leadership, and a year as
the Internet and Information Project Manager for the Kellogg
Fellows Leadership Alliance, where she developed an interactive
web site and published a quarterly print newsletter,
Splash.
Debra is ABD in American Studies from the
University of Maryland where she taught one of the first
web-based distance education classes on campus, a senior
seminar on electronic publications and virtual exhibitions.
In 2001, her web site,
www.publichistory.org,
won the National Council for Public History's graduate student
project of the year award. She has also been active in the
field of leadership studies, writing a hypertextual literature
review of the field for the Leadership Learning Community,
www.leadershiplearning.org
and teaching a junior level seminar at Maryland on the topic
of online activism and online leadership.
In the past, Debra has been politically
active around graduate student labor issues and was co-chair
of the American Studies Association's Students Committee
from 1997 - 1999. Prior to that she was involved in student
government at Cal State University, Fullerton, where she
received her Master's in American Studies and The University
of Michigan, where she received a B.A. in English Literature
(Go Blue!). Debra loves to travel, read French symbolist
poetry, go to the flicks, and play with with her son Jasper.
Her most recent publication, "Digital Junction",
appears in the September 2006 issue of American Quarterly.
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