Cathee Johnson Phillips, M.A., assumed duties as the Executive Director of the NPA in September 2008. She came to NPA from Morningside College, where she had been employed since 1999. She holds a master’s degree in leadership from Bellevue University in Omaha, Neb., and a bachelor’s degree in English and Spanish from Morningside. She has had extensive experience with strategic planning, organizational behavior, external and internal communications, information technology, fundraising, public relations, media relations, and marketing research. At Morningside, she most recently served as the director of Foundation and Grant Development, chair of the Leader-ship Exploration Committee, adjunct instructor with the Department of Mass Communication, and as an active member of the Institutional Research Board (IRB). She also served as the President’s chief researcher and writer for the college’s strategic plan and co-authored grant proposals that garnered a $1.2 million award from the U.S. Department of Education, Offi ce of English Language Acquisition, and, most recently, a $600,000 award from NSF for a S-STEM program. She has numerous publications as an employee of Morningside and as a freelance writer.
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