Cascade SFPE March 2022 - Monthly Educational Session

When
03/10/2022
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Location
Virtual meeting

Registration

Member Education
Non-Member Education

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Presentation Title: “Getting to Know Your SFPE Foundation: Overview and Opportunities for Engagement”

Dr. Marshall, SFPE Foundation Director, will provide an overview of the SFPE Foundation’s resources, activities, and opportunities for SFPE Chapter engagement. Affiliated with the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), the SFPE Foundation is a global non-profit organization that supports research and education to improve the scientific understanding of fire and its interaction with the natural and build environments. The SFPE Foundation leverages support from external grants and individual, corporate, and SFPE chapter donations to fund professional awards, student scholarships, and research grants; lead cross-sectoral research collaborations; conduct research workshops and meetings; develop new initiatives to support the next generation of fire protection engineers; and disseminate knowledge to advance the field of fire engineering and fire safety science globally. Join us to learn more about how SFPE Chapters can get involved and benefit from working with the SFPE Foundation.

Leslie Marshall, Ph.D., SFPE Foundation Director (she/her/hers)

As the inaugural Director of the SFPE Foundation, Dr. Marshall oversees all aspects of the Foundation’s programming, represents the Foundation in external partnerships and activities, drives organizational strategy and operations, liaises with the Board of Governors, and supervises all SFPE Foundation staff. Prior to joining the SFPE Foundation, Dr. Marshall served as founding Associate Director of the Center for Sustainable Business at the University of Pittsburgh, overseeing all aspects of the center’s programming. In that role, she was also Co-Principal Investigator, Project Manager, and Lead Author for the Marshall Plan for Middle America (MP4MA) Roadmap, an award-winning, non-partisan, multi-sectoral research effort to envision a more equitable and sustainable regional economic future for the Ohio River Valley and Upper Appalachia. Her academic work has been published in top academic journals, including the Journal of Experimental Political Science, The Journal of Politics, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science. She has extensive field experience coordinating large-scale data collection and research efforts in Lebanon, Uganda, and the United States, and has spent time studying in Indonesia on a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholarship. As an independent consultant, she has worked with the United Nations Development Programme, Innovations for Poverty Action, the Centre for Women in Governance (Uganda), and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies. She is an affiliate of the Economic and Social Rights Research Group of the University of Connecticut’s Human Rights Institute and sits on the Advisory Council of the Ohio River Valley Institute. She holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in Political Science from the University of Pittsburgh and a B.A. in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics from Denison University.

The Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Cascade Chapter is a 501(3)(c) non-profit organization under the umbrella of the International SFPE 9711 Washington Blvd., Suite 380 Gaithersburg, MD 20878 301.718.2910 www.sfpe.org

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