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2004 Women Of Color Community Service


CANDI CASTLEBERRY-SINGLETON Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, UPMC


Candi Castleberry-Singleton is responsible for developing UPMC’s inclusion strategy, as well as over seeing progress toward goals involving 50,000 employees. In 2008, she launched the Center for Inclusion in Health Care. She has an exceptional record of coaching senior executives and partnering with y business process own- ers and community leaders to build sustainable inclusion practices for the workplace, marketplace, and workforce. Her successful initiatives have been implemented at Mo- torola, where she was vice president of Global Inclusion and Diversity, and at Sun Microsystems, where she led the Global Inclusion Center of Expertise.An experienced strategist, Ms. Singleton created The Integrated Inclu- sion Model TM, a systems integration model that helps companies to transition from compliance-driven processes led by human resources to activities that shift responsibil- ity for achieving an inclusive culture to every employee. The model is featured in Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference (Harvard Business School Press, August 2009). She received an M.B.A. from Pepperdine University, a bachelor’s degree in legal stud- ies from UC Berkeley, and graduated from the Stanford University Human Resources Executive Program. She has received numerous sales, customer satisfaction and diver- sity leadership awards. Recently she was named one of the top 25 Influential Black Women by The Network Journal and a “Woman of Humility” by Point Park University in Pittsburgh. In 2009, she was recognized by Diversity MBA magazine as a Top 50 under 50 Executive Leader.


2007 Most Important Blacks in Technology Honoree


THELMA B. THOMPSON, PH.D. President, University of Maryland Eastern Shore


Dr. Thompson has held her current role since 2002. She has taught at all levels of education (elementary to graduate) since beginning her career in 1960. In the 1970’s, she taught English and literature at Howard University, the City University of New York, and Bowie State University. Dr. Thompson began her 11- year service to the University of District of Columbia in 1979 working as director of Freshman English, assistant chairperson in the Department of English, and, ultimately associate dean and professor in the College of Liberal and Fine Arts. From 1990-1998, Dr. Thompson was dean of the School of Arts & Letters at Norfolk State University. She later served as the vice president for Academic Affairs at Norfolk State from 1998-2002 before becoming president of University of Maryland Eastern Shore. The Modem Language Association, the National Council of Teachers of English, Phi Beta Kappa and the African-Amer- ican Writers’ Guild are among her many professional associa- tions. Dr. Thompson also has served as co-chair of a Southern Association of Schools and Colleges leadership task force for redesigning the accreditation guidelines for a number of south- ern institutions. Dr. Thompson has been the recipient of several scholastic honors and awards, including: election to Phi Beta Kappa, and a special award from the University of the District of Columbia for promoting understanding between peoples of different cultures.She earned a diploma in teacher education from Bethlehem Teachers College in her native Jamaica and her Bachelor of Arts (cum laude) in 1970, a Master of Arts degree in English in 1972, and her Doctoral degree in English literature in 1978, all at Howard University.


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