Alumni/ae of the Year Awards
At the 2007 Alumni/ae Banquet, held during the Iliff Leadership Conference in January, four alumni/ae were honored for their contributions to Iliff and the greater community
Outstanding Contribution to Parish Ministry:
Andy Dunning, M.Div.’94
For the past 18 years Andy has served in churches and church-related organizations in Boulder, Santa Monica (California), Denver, Calhan, Rush, and Colorado Springs in various capacities, including education minister, community minister, youth pastor, pastor in a rural two-point charge, associate pastor, and now as pastor at Salida UMC. He has been involved in ministry beyond the local church, as well as being a police chaplain for the Colorado Springs Police Department, and a chaplain to a multi-agency collaboration working to help create a community free from domestic violence in El Paso County). At the United Methodist District and Conference level, Andy is a candidacy mentor for those considering ordination in the United Methodist Church and the President of the Rocky Mountain Conference Foundation, a nonprofit agency dedicated to helping United Methodist churches finance building projects, develop endowment programs and invest money in ways consistent with the social principles of the United Methodist Church. He is part of the Chaffee County Coalition to End Methamphetamine Use as well as the spiritual advisor to Angel of Shavano Hospice. In the fall semesters, he teaches the Introduction to Philosophy course at Colorado Mountain College. During spring terms, he teaches the ethics course at CMC.
Outstanding Contribution to Specialized Ministry:
Arturo Chavez, Ph.D.’06
Arturo is the Director of Programs for the Mexican American Cultural Center in San Antonoio . He has worked for over twenty years in a variety of ministries. As a teacher and youth minister, he worked with youth in an inner city parish setting. As a chaplain to incarcerated youth, he developed pastoral care and community after-care programs. As a community organizer and activist, he founded a nonprofit organization for youth and families called JOVEN in San Antonio , TX . He is a coauthor, with his wife Mary, of the dynamic new curriculum for Latino Youth Leadership Formation called RESPETO that is being implemented in parishes throughout the country. He is a national speaker and workshop facilitator. His areas of expertise include the following: leadership in multicultural communities and Hispanic ministry; Latino youth and family ministry; Immigration; social and religious history of Mexican Americans; and Catholic Social Thought.
Outstanding Contribution to the Academy:
Charlene Galarneau, M.A.R.’88
Charlene is Visiting Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Wellesley College and an ethicist of health care and public health. Before going to Wellesley in fall 2005, she was on faculty at Tufts University in the Community Health Program for nine years (1996-2005) and at the Tufts University School of Medicine, Department of Public Health and Family Medicine from 1999-2005. From 1988-1992 she served on the National Advisory Council on Migrant Health (DHHS appointment) and served two years as its vice-president. Charlene received a Fellowship in Medical Ethics at Harvard Medical School from 1999-2000 and was a Visiting Scholar at Episcopal Divinity School (2004-05). In 2001 she received an Innovative Course Design Award from the Tufts Critical Thinking Program. Her professional involvements have included co-chairing the Religion & Ethics in Health Care Group of the American Academy of Religion, participating in education, case consultation and policy making activities of the Ethics Committee at Tufts-New England Medical Center, and serving as a reviewer for the Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law.
She is the author of several publications and has a book in progress in which she argues for the inclusion of communities as necessary moral participants in the creation of just health care.
Distinguished Alumna:
Ambassador Swanee Hunt, M.A.R.’79. Th.D.’86
Ambassador Hunt is the director of the Woman and Public Policy Program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. An internationally recognized expert on foreign affairs and diplomacy, Dr. Hunt is known for her trailblazing work to increase the participation of women in peace processes around the world. She is also President of Hunt Alternatives Fund, a private foundation committed to advancing social change at local, national, and global levels. From 1993-1997, she served as ambassador to Austria. During her tenure, she hosted negotiations and several international symposia to focus efforts on securing the peace in neighboring Balkan states.
Ambassador Hunt’s work in Europe inspired the creation of The Initiative for Inclusive Security (including the Women Waging Peace Network), an initiative she incubated at the Kennedy School, which advocates for the full participation of all stakeholders, especially women, in formal and informal peace processes. She teaches “Inclusive Security” at the Kennedy School, exploring why women are systemically excluded from peace processes and the policy steps needed to rectify the problem. She also teaches “The Choreography of Social Movements” at Harvard College.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador Hunt consults with government officials and civil society leaders around the world. She has provided news commentary and analysis on a number of international and domestic programs, including CNN, MSNBC, PBS and CBS “Evening News.” She has authored numerous chapters for edited books, and articles for newspapers and journals including “Foreign Affairs,” “Foreign Policy,” “International Herald Tribune,” “Chicago Tribune,” “Boston Globe,” “San Francisco Chronicle,” Denver Post,” and “Dallas Morning News.” She also wrote a nationally syndicated column. Her book “This War Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace,” won the 2005 PEN/New England Award fro non-fiction and includes a forward by former President Clinton. Her most recent book “Half-life of a Zealot,” was published in 2006.
Ambassador Hunt was recently inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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