EDUCATION:
Pursuing Doctorate of Education Administration at
Columbia University, Teachers College
MA Liberal Studies. August, 1997, SUNY StonyBrook
Major: Liberal Studies:Concentration: US History
MBA Management. January, 1989, CW Post LIU,
Greenvale,NY
Major: Management:Concentration: Human Resources
BS Marketing. October, 1985, CW Post LIU, Greenvale, NY
Major: Marketing :Undeclared Minor: Mathematics
AS Business Administration, May, 1982, SUNY Farmingdale
DISTINCTIONS:
Dean's List Throughout College Career 1980-1989
Honor Societies: Alpha Beta Gamma & Phi Theta Kappa
1980-1982
Honor Society: Delta Mu Delta 1982-1988
Who's Who of Young Aspiring Americans 1991, Who's Who of
International Women, 1991,
Who's Who of American Women,1992
Who's Who of American Business and Society, 1991,
American Biographical Institute Listing for Teaching and
Disability Rights Advocacy, 1993 & 1994
American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
Biographical Listing for Scientists with Disabilities:
1995
EXPERIENCE:
Adjunct Instructor of Business. Suffolk Community College 2000-Present
Advertising
Adjunct Lecturer of Business. SUNY Stony Brook 1995-
1997
Business Policy/Strategic Management
Marketing
Adjunct Instructor of Business. Five Towns College 1995-
1996
Retailing
Adjunct Lecturer of Management. Dowling College
1993-Present
Production Management
Assistance in National Aviation & Transportation
Center's Proposal on Intermodal Transportation and
Disability
HEOP tutor of business, aviation law, computers
Windows and its applications and natural science
Adjunct Instructor of Business and Aviation
Administration.
SUNY Farmingdale, 1993-Present
Principles of Marketing
Business Communications
Aviation Economics
Adjunct Instructor. CW Post LIU 1994-
Present
Marketing Principles
Continuing Education: Americans with Disabilities Act
in the Workplace
College Orientation for Freshman
Adjunct Continuing Education Instructor. Suffolk
Community College, 1993-Present
Introduction to Computer Applications and
Wordperfect for DOS and Windows and the Internet
Adjunct Continuing Education Instructor.Herricks
Community Center, 1993-Present
Introduction to WordPerfect 5.1 and 6.0
(DOS & Windows)
Space Exploration
Adjunct Instructor. Research Foundation at SUNY
Farmingdale,
Summer 1993, Science and Math and Science Technology
Entrance Program
Space Exploration>BR>
Qualifying Certifications
Certificate in Accounting, May 1994, Suffolk Community
College
AREAS OF TEACHING AND RESEARCH:
Marketing
Retailing
Small Business
Industrial Marketing
International Marketing
International Business
Management
Human Resources
Personnel Management
Business Communications
Aviation Economics
Aviation Management
Production Management
Total Quality Management
Disability Rights Awareness
TQM and the Disabled
US Business/Economic History
Aviation History
History of the Disability Rights Movement
Sociology of Business
Intermodal Transportation Access for the Disabled
France Culture and Business
Disabled Laws and Issues in Higher Education in France
PUBLICATIONS:
"They Came from Outer Space:Space
Spinoffs that Enable",
Abilities:
Canada's Lifestyle Magazine for People with
Disabilities, Summer, 1998, Canadian Publications,
Toronto,Ontario.
"Accessibilility in the Final Frontier: Space
Colonies",Ad Astra, July/August, 1995 National Space
Society, pub, Washington DC.
"Accessibility in the Final Frontier", Able News
June and July 1993 and Journal for Space Development,
November 1993, pub: Houston Space Society, Houston,
TX.
"Space Commercialization Now", August 1992, Spacelines,
pub: Galesburg Space Society, Galesburg, IL.
"Life with a Disability: Hard Road to Success" ,
Fall 1994 Careers and the Disabled, pub: Equal
Opportunity Publishers, Inc. NY.
MEDIA APPEARANCES:
"Carol and Joe's Extraordinary Life", Manhattan Cable
(1998)Interview on the Americans with Disabilities
the Rehabilitation Act and the History
Of IQ testing, hosted by Carol Orito
"Inner Sight for the Disabled", Hauppague, NY
Cablevision (1998)
Interview on the Americans with Disabilities Act and
France's Disability Policy, hosted by Frank Perrino
"Disabled Hot Line", Cablevision, Staten Island
1995), interview on the Americans with Disabilities
Act,hosted by Martin Nieburg
"Joel Martin Show", Cablevision (1993), Panel on
Independent Living for People with Disabilities
"Able News" (1994), appeared in newspaper as a
participant in a disability panel discussing
accommodations to retailers
SERVICE:
Assisted with National Aviation & Transportation
Center functions as a volunteer, and on project on
developing an intermodal transportation system
accessible to people with disabilities: Dowling
College(1993 & 1994, 1997)
Volunteered at Hausman Center for the Disabled at
Dowling College (1993)
Volunteered for Business Department on Open House at
Dowling: Advised students on courses for business
majors (1993 & 1994)
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS:
ATHAREP Conference for University Students with
Disabilities, University of Orsay, Orsay, France.
Represented the United States on an international
panel on disability policy. Discussed American
disability policy. (March 1998).
Peer Reviewer of grant proposals for the National
Science Foundation's Program for People with
Disabilities, (December 1997)
Presented a series of lectures on disability rights
And the Americans with Disabilities Act for Fernald
Center, and other non-profit organizations in Waltham
and Cambridge, Massachusetts (1997).
Presented a paper at the Milton Plesur Graduate
Student Conference at SUNY Buffalo on the History of
the Disability Rights Movement (1996).
Presented a paper at the Ellipses Interdisciplinary
Graduate School Conference at SUNY Stony Brook: Paper
Topic: History of the Disability Rights Movement(1995)
Started a Women in Science Panel at ICON Science
Fiction Convention at SUNY Stony Brook under Dr.
Lisa Mezzacappa, (1995)
Guest Lecturer in Social Work Colloquium and Education
Seminar Classes at Dowling: Topic-Education,
vocational accommodations and services for people with
disabilities in the US and France
(1994, 1996, 1997, 1998): instructors: Professors Jim
Banks,Yolanda Harworth and Janice Markoff
Participated in Panel on Total Quality Management &
Its Impact on People with Disabilities: Suffolk County
Rehabilitation Council Conference at Dowling College
(1994)Developmental Disabilities Institute Panelists
Conducts a series of workshops and lectures on the
Americans with Disabilities Act for the Civil Service
Employees Association (1993-Present)
CW Post Learning Disabilities Center: Transition from
School to Work for Students with Disabilities (1993)
Hausman Center for the Disabled at Dowling College
Transition from School to Work for Students with
Disabilities, Series of three workshops (1993)
Lectures on Space Science Topics at SUNY Stony Brook's
ICON Science Fiction Conventions and to civic groups
such as: artificial intelligence, spinoff benefits
of space, and how the space program, assists the
disabled through microgravity and adaptive technology
(1987-Present)
PROFESSIONAL
ORGANIZATIONS:
American Production Inventory Control Society
President and Founder Suffolk Challengers for Space,
chapter of National Space Society
Long Island Business Educators (LIBEC)
LI Regional Coordinator for Planetary Society
American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics
American Association of University Women
RESEARCH WORK
IN PROGRESS:
Book in Process: Writing a biography on President
Reagan(focus on history, economic and social policy
of his presidency)