1 Shawna E. Sweeney Assistant Professor Department of Policy ...

speaker themes on women’s rights issues; publicizingthe Symposium in a variety of media venues; assistingin the layout, content and development of a web pagefor the event; developing flyers and other publicitymaterials; organizing event logistics; budgeting andreimbursement; and overall coordination of theprogram.Sept. 2002 – May 2003 Official Coordinator, University of MassachusettsDartmouth Annual Policy Studies Lecture Series &Symposium on Science and Technology Policy, Center forPolicy Analysis.Responsibilities included researching and developingspeaker themes on Science and Technology Policy;publicizing the Symposium in a variety of media venues;assisting in the layout, content and development of aPolicy Studies Lecture Series web page; organizingprogram logistics; budgeting and reimbursement; andoverall coordination of the program.February 2000 – May 2001 Official Conference Coordinator, 1 st InternationalConference on Marine Environmental Challenges,University of Massachusetts, Center for Policy Analysis,The School for Marine Science & Technology (SMAST),and InterCampus Graduate School of Marine Sciencesand Technology (IGMAST).Over 100 oil spill experts, environmentalists, lawyers,shipping industry representatives, journalists, policymakers, academics, and other interested persons fromaround the country and the world attended thisconference.Responsibilities included developing and organizingroundtable discussions, panel sessions and conferencerelatedevents; serving as the official communicationsliaison between the conference co-conveners and thepress, university officials, panelists, and audiencemembers; development of press releases andconference summaries for online and hard copypublication; assisting in the layout, content and longtermdevelopment of a conference web page; designingofficial conference program; responsible for publicizingconference in a wide variety of regional, national, andinternational venues.14