School of Education & Social Policy :: Six SESP Faculty, Staff Members Voted to Honor Roll

Northwestern undergraduate students elected six SESP professors and staff members to the Associated Student Government (ASG) faculty honor roll for 2009. Following are five of the recipients:
		Dorie Blesoff Dorie Blesoff is an adjunct instructor in the Master of Science in Learning and Organizational Change program. She runs an independent consulting practice that specializes in strategic leadership development and designing and facilitating sustainable change. Her work includes leading practice areas such as appreciative inquiry, participatory methods for strategic planning and employee engagement, strengthening leadership, and executive coaching in facilitating change. The courses she teaches are Executing Strategic Change, Designing Sustainable Strategic Change and Learning Organizations for Complex Environments.

		Cindy Conlon Cindy Conlon is an adjunct instructor who teaches Legal Aspects of Education and Topics in Social Policy. She both has a PhD from Northwestern University and a law degree from the University of Pennsylvania. Each year Conlon takes her students to observe at the Supreme Court, and this year the group heard oral arguments in the Redding case that involved a student search.



		Jody Kretzmann Jody Kretzmann is director of the Asset-Based Community Development Institute at Northwestern. A research associate professor in Human Development and Social Policy and Learning Sciences, he teaches Community Development, Schooling and Communities, and Introduction to Faith and Service. Kretzmann has partnered with John McKnight for more than three decades on research on community organizations and neighborhood policy. Additionally, Kretzmann has been involved in capacity building in communities across North America and on five other continents using the asset-based community development approach.

		Gina Logan Gina Logan is a research assistant professor at the Foley Center for the Study of Lives, which studies adult development. Logan is the director of the Foley Longitudinal Study of Adulthood and has extensive experience in teaching and learning in adulthood. A graduate of SESP's Human Development and Social Policy PhD program, she teaches Adulthood and Aging, Gender and the Life Course, Human Development and Psychological Services Practicum and Career Development. Her research and interest areas include gender issues in the expression of generativity, spirituality and wisdom in adulthood, and career/family transitions.

		Jerry Stermer A longtime adjunct instructor in the School of Education and Social Policy, Jerry Stermer was president of the child advocacy organization Voices for Illinois Children for 22 years. He teaches Introduction to Social Policy to undergraduates. He recently was named chief of staff for new Illinois governor Pat Quinn.

By Marilyn Sherman

Last Modified: 11/19/09