Talks etc.

SELECT PRESENTATIONS

“Goodness Still Sells: The Media’s Role in Re-Branding Ecotourism” presented at The International Ecotourism Society’s Global Ecotourism Conference 2007, May 14-16, in Oslo, Norway. Excerpt video.

“Goodness Sells: A Modest Proposal for Re-Branding Ecotourism in the United States” presented at The International Ecotourism Society’s first ever Ecotourism in the U.S. Conference in Bar Harbor, Maine, Sept. 14-16, 2005.

“Working With the Media to Promote Your Business” presented at the National Tour Association 2004 Annual Convention in Toronto, Ontario, Nov. 12-16, 2004.

“How to Market Your Business” presented five times from March 1999 to Feb. 2002 at various institutions of learning and small business development centers in Kentucky.

SELECT CERTIFICATIONS

Outdoor Activities/Winter Workshop certification in the Saas Fee/Matterhorn Region, Switzerland, by Switzerland Tourism, Dec. 2002.

Certified Grants Specialist given by the National Grant Writers Association in cooperation with Research Associates, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, Oct. 6, 2000.

Certificate of Distinguished Service and Loyal Support for Small Business from the University of Kentucky Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics Small Business Development Center, Lexington, Kentucky, for work with GO Women, Sept. 13, 2000.

SELECT RECOGNITION

Winner of the National Tour Association’s All-Star Employee of the Month award, 2004 and 2005.

Recipient of the Nineteenth Annual LOVE Award in the Adult category to honor hands-on volunteers by recognizing them for unselfish direct service to others, given by First-Link of the Bluegrass, a United Way agency, for work with GO Women, Lexington, Kentucky, April 24, 2003.

Nominee of the Working Woman Entrepreneurial Excellence Awards 2001 for commitment to business excellence and leadership and being an inspiration to all women, Working Woman magazine, Louisville, Kentucky, 2001.

Finalist in the Women Mean Business Conference 1999 Advocate for Women presented by the Kentucky Small Business Development Center and the Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky, 1999.

Third place winner of the Conference on Christianity and Literature’s Student Writing Contest for “The Parallel Inversion: A Study of Exodus and Covenant Imagery and the Oppressed/Oppressor Relationship in Amos and Second Isaiah,” 1989.

First place winner of the Clark M. Brink Memorial Essay Contest from the Department of English, Kansas State University, given for the most original undergraduate essay treating or exemplifying the values of humanistic studies, 1987 and 1988.

Winner of the Hallam Walker Davis Memorial Scholarship from the Department of English, Kansas State University, given for overall outstanding work as an undergraduate English major, 1987.