Alumni Connection 

      

UMass Amherst alumna

wins top honor in Washington

An alumna of the University of Massachusetts Amherst Labor Studies program was awarded a top honor in the labor movement this week.

Doris Reed, who received her M.S. in Labor Studies from the UMass Amherst Union Leadership and Administration program in 2000, was honored with the 2008 JC Turner Award for Outstanding Trade Unionist by the Metropolitan Washington D.C. Council of the AFL-CIO. Ms. Reed is the Executive Director of ASASP, the Association of Supervisory and Administrative School Personnel in Prince George's County, Maryland.

Ms. Reed works closely with another alumnus of the UMass Amherst Labor Studies program, Hugh Weathers, who received his M.S. degree in 1998 and serves as the Assistant Executive Director of ASASP. The organization "takes great pride in improving the educational process for students by helping members become more effective in their various roles as educational leaders."

Ms. Reed and Mr. Weathers were students in a unique Master's Degree program at UMass Amherst, the Union Leadership and Administration program. Since 1995 this program has made graduate education possible for working men and women who never dreamed of opportunity in the past. It attracts a diverse group of union and community leaders from across the U.S. and Canada.

The award was presented to Ms. Reed at the Council's 31st Annual Evening with Labor Awards Dinner and Dance on March 22, 2008, at the Hilton Washington Hotel. 

To see Doris receiving her award, click here.