Sheila Crowley
Sheila Crowley | |
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| Director of the Peace Corps (Acting) | |
| Assumed office January 20, 2017 | |
| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Carrie Hessler-Radelet |
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Sheila Crowley is a businesswoman, social worker[1] and former acting director of the Peace Corps, where she previously held the position as acting associate director of Peace Corps' Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection (VRS), and she worked for Habitat for Humanity as an associate director and as president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.[2]
Education[edit]
Crowley holds a bachelor's degree in history and Russian studies from The Pennsylvania State University and a master's degree in information science from Drexel University.[3] Her doctorate in social work is from Virginia Commonwealth University.[1]
Career[edit]
Crowley began her career in the corporate sector, where she worked for McKinsey & Company, the Mitchell Madison Group, and JP Morgan Securities.[3] From 1984 to 1992, Crowley served as executive director of the Daily Planet, a mental health and community center for Richmond, Virginia's poor and homeless people.[1]
Crowley was a volunteer for the Peace Corps between 2001 and 2003 in Ukraine, where she taught English, organized leadership and sports camps for youth, and worked at a refugee center.[3] She worked for five years with Habitat for Humanity International as associate director of the Global Village program and as a director in the office of volunteer mobilization.[3] She returned to the Peace Corps in 2010, when she took over the position of Peace Corps country director, first in Romania and then in Indonesia until 2015. Between 2015 and 2017, Crowley was acting associate director of Peace Corps’ Office of Volunteer Recruitment and Selection (VRS), overseeing the recruitment, assessment, and placement of Peace Corps volunteers worldwide.[3]
After being named acting director, Crowley presented, together with former President Jimmy Carter and Peace Corps board member Ron Stephens, the 2017 Lillian Carter Award in the Cecil B. Day Chapel at the Carter Center in Atlanta, Georgia.[4] For 17 years, she served as president and CEO of the National Low Income Housing Coalition until 2016.[1]
In February 2017, she commented on an article reporting about the number of volunteers from Connecticut College. She emphasized that the qualifications volunteers earned during their service, such as cultural competency and entrepreneurial spirit, are important assets for most jobs in the private sector.[5][6] In an article headlined "Trump administration: No changes to girls’ education effort" in May 2017, Crowley reported on the accomplishment of the "Let Girls Learn" initiative and thanked its supporters.[7] During the 2017 annual connect meeting of the National Peace Corps Association Crowely commented on budget cuts envisaged by the Trump administration, stating that she believed several organizational reforms are necessary, even if they cannot be considered to be "sexy".[8]
In 2017, Crowley made an unsuccessful run for a seat on the Virginia House of Delegates.[1]
Her appearances in Washington, D.C. at U.S. Senate and Congressional hearings in her role as president and CEO for the National Low Income Housing Coalition were televised by C-SPAN.[9]
Awards[edit]
In 2008, she was given the Special Leadership Award from the National Housing Law Project.
Again in 2008, she was given the Champion in Supportive Housing Public Policy Award from the Corporation for Supportive Housing.
In 2009, she received the John W. Macy Award from the National Alliance to End Homelessness
Also in 2009, she received the Housing Leadership Award from the National Low Income Housing Coalition.
In 2010, Crowley received a Rockefeller Foundation-sponsored residence at the Bellagio Center in Italy to research on how to reform the mortgage interest deduction.[10]
During Crowley's time as Peace Corps country director in Romania, she received for her organization the Romanian Order of Cultural Merit from the country's President.[11]
The Sheila Crowley Housing Justice Award is named for Crowley in recognition of her time as president of the National Low Income Housing Coalition.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 mwilliams@timesdispatch.com, MICHAEL PAUL WILLIAMS. "Williams: Crowley, affordable housing advocate, seeks home in House of Delegates".
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Sheila Crowley Housing Justice Award". 27 September 2017.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 "Leadership". Peace Corps. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Former President Jimmy Carter and Peace Corps Acting Director Sheila Crowley Present 2017 Lillian Carter Award". Peace Corps. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Peace Corps Announces 2017 Top Volunteer-Producing Schools". Peace Corps. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Connecticut College ranks among Peace Corps' top volunteer-producing colleges". The Day. 28 February 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Trump administration: No changes to girls' education effort". USA Today. 2 May 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ "Conference Highlights I: Conversation with Acting Peace Corps Director Sheila Crowley". National Peace Corps Association. 14 August 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
- ↑ https://www.c-span.org/person/?sheilacrowley
- ↑ http://nlihc.org/about/staff/crowley
- ↑ "Cultural Merit Order awarded to Peace Corps Romania". Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 30 November 2011. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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