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October 27, 2008
Young liberal arts alumni recognized with 2008 award
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Purdue University's College of Liberal Arts honored three young alumni with the 2008 Emerging Voice Award.Tanasha Anders, Jo Alice Blondin and Ron Carpinella are the recipients of the award, which is given by the College of Liberal Arts Alumni Board. The awards were given on Oct. 25 at a College of Liberal Arts Homecoming event and are part of Experience Liberal Arts.
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Anders earned her bachelor's degree in English from Purdue in 1994 and a master's degree in public administration from Baruch College at the City University of New York in 2001. She is director of special events for REACH Media, directing national urban events for the 8 million listeners and 120 affiliate stations of the Tom Joyner Morning Show in Dallas. She also served as interim president and chief executive officer for the Indiana Black Expo in 2007-2008.
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Blondin earned her bachelor's degree in English from Purdue in 1993 and master's and doctorate degrees in English from Arizona State University in 1998. She is the chancellor at Arkansas Tech University's Ozark campus, where she directs strategic planning efforts, collaborates with faculty and staff on program development, and advocates for the campus through government relations with the Arkansas State Legislature.
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Carpinella, who lives in Atlanta, earned his bachelor's degree in history from Purdue in 1991 and his master's of business administration from Duke University in 2005. He is team leader of ID Management for Equifax, which compiles credit reporting data from many sources and creates a credit file that reflects personal credit history. Prior to Equifax, Carpinella was the director of sales for Veoh, and a sales and branding executive for Google. He also is active in his local government.
The CLA Alumni Board created this award to recognize young alumni who are successfully achieving their career goals, serving their communities, and representing the college's mission by shaping today's world while imaging a better one, said Chris Sharp, director of alumni relations and special events for the College of Liberal Arts. Fellow alumni, students, faculty, staff and friends of Purdue and the College of Liberal Arts nominate alumni for this award. The Awards Selection Committee, a group of six Liberal Arts alumni, makes its choices from a list of nominees, and the Liberal Arts dean and alumni board grant the final approval.
Experience Liberal Arts month features a variety of lectures, films, performances, events and exhibits that reflect the college's ongoing coursework and research in the arts, humanities, social and behavioral sciences. Information about events during October can be found at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience.
The College of Liberal Arts is home to the departments of communication, English, foreign languages and literatures, health and kinesiology, history, philosophy, psychological sciences, sociology and anthropology, speech, language and hearing sciences, and visual and performing arts. Its other programs are: African American studies, American studies, Asian studies, Asian American studies, classical studies, comparative literature, film studies, Italian studies, Jewish studies, linguistics, medieval studies, philosophy and literature, religious studies and women's studies.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Chris Sharp (765) 494-7884, ctsharp@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: More information about the alumni award nomination process is available online at News Service home page