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Ethics Center welcomes new staff members

The Ethics Center is proud to welcome two outstanding women to our professional staff. Stacia Brown joined the Ethics Center team this summer as manager of special events and the Ethics Library and Resource Center. Brown earned her B.A., summa cum laude, in Religion from Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California in 1994. In May 1998, she was awarded a Master's of Divinity degree (summa cum laude) and a Certificate in Women's Studies from Emory.

Prior to coming to Emory, Brown worked as day program coordinator for The Episcopal Sanctuary in San Francisco, a city shelter for 300 homeless adults, and as a researcher for the Justice Education Department at St. Anthony Foundation in San Francisco. In Atlanta, as a Woodruff Scholar for theology, she served as a counselor for the Youth Theology Institute, co-editor of the Candler Exchange, and has been involved in local community activist groups. Brown is co-author of "Vision, Vocation, Voice: The Westmont College Urban Program," in To Serve and Learn: The Spirit of Community in Liberal Education (Peter Lang, 1998).

On September 1, Melissa Wiginton began work as a program associate for the new D. Abbott Turner Ethics and Servant Leadership initiative. Wiginton brings experience as an attorney (J.D., University of Texas, 1982) and theological training (M.Div., summa cum laude, Candler School of Theology, 1998) to her work for the Center. She draws on personal public service experience as well. While practicing law, Wiginton co-created an award-winning workshop "Moving Through: Basic Tools for Divorcing Parents," led the Austin Family Mediation Project, and was recognized by the Texas Senate in 1995 for her work on behalf of the state's citizens. More recently, Wiginton served on the faculty of the Youth Theology Institute, teaching "American Law and Christian Ethics" to seventeen-year-olds, and she co-taught with Andy Fleming the Ethics Center's course, "The Ethics of Shaping a Professional Life," at Emory Law School. This year Wiginton was presented with the Emory President's Award for Professional Scholarship on Women's Issues.

[ Posted by Donna Price at September 2, 1998 04:36 PM | More General Center for Ethics News articles ]

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