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Meet ILA's Staff
Cynthia Cherrey, Ph.D. Dr. Cynthia Cherrey serves as vice president for student affairs
at Tulane University, executive director of the International Leadership
Association, and a senior fellow at the Academy of Leadership, University of
Maryland. She completed her Ph.D. in Communications with a concentration in
organizational leadership and management.
Shelly Wilsey has over 20 years of experience in organizational
development and management. In her current role, Wilsey handles organizational
development, strategic planning, financial management, and conference
organizing. She also supports the ILA Board and was the editor, with Larraine R.
Matusak and Cynthia Cherrey, of the ILA publication Building Leadership
Bridges, 2001.
De 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. Intellectually, she has also been active in the field of leadership, 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.
Jaromir Sedlar, or Jaro (pronounced “Yaro”) was born in Kosice, Slovakia where
he spent his childhood, mostly playing soccer and ball
hockey. He received his Bachelor’s degree in Political
Science, International Relations and European Studies
from Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. He
received his Master’s degree in Liberal Studies with an
emphasis on Organizational Leadership from Fort Hays State University.
His areas of interest in leadership include development of leadership
in transforming countries of Central and Eastern Europe, self-development
of leaders, and leadership in higher education. He is also
interested in the role of mistakes as learning opportunities. Besides his
interest in leadership, Jaromir has published several articles and chapters
in the textbooks on the Slovak political system. Among his many
exciting responsibilities at the ILA, Jaro will be taking the lead on our
2009, 11th annual conference in Prague
as well as member recruitment, retention, and involvement.
Claudia Katherine Del Castillo (Kathy) was born in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Economics from Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Bolivia; in 2000 she joined a group of economics student leaders in a very competitive election for the Economics Student’s Leadership Association, where she spent 2 years as the Treasurer of the Association. She loves to travel and truly enjoys multicultural environments; in 2002 she did one semester as an exchange student holding the CRISCOS scholarship in Arequipa-Peru. Her senior thesis was an Economic Research, “Proposal of a Sustainable Development Program through Tourism Ecological for the Community of Candelaria in the National Area San Matias, Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 2004” which received an special recognition from SERNAP Bolivia (National Services of Protected Areas) and Candelaria Community. She received a Master’s Degree in Economics from Western Illinois University, where she was a member of the Economics Student Association as well as of the Finance Club. She also spent a winter break as a Missionary student at the Guaymí Community in Costa Rica. Prior to joining the ILA she was part of an Internship Program at the Organization of American States (OAS) in Washington, DC where she was the leader of a group of ten interns. Her areas of interest in leadership are the courageous leadership and public leadership for the improvement of life’s quality and the development of the countries, among others. |
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