Deborah Alexander '85 MSSc/'92 PhD(SSc) received the Maxwell School's Spirit of Public Service Award on April 2 in Washington, DC. The award for distinguished public service honors individuals whose leadership in public life epitomizes the highest ideals of the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. In receiving the award, Dr. Alexander said "There's probably not a day that goes by... whether I have been in Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, Macedonia, Washington, DC... that I have not thought about my work in Syracuse and my education at Maxwell. ...last fall I was in a small village called Gardez, Afghanistan, and in the crowd in front of me, as I'm walking through a marketplace, is a 13- or 14- year old and he has a Syracuse University-- Maxwell -- sweatshirt on. And I, I go running through this crowd -- here it is, this American woman running after, calling after him. And through his English and my very bad Pashto, he tells me that this is a sweatshirt from his uncle who went to Maxwell School. And so, again it was a reminder of even in Afghanistan, in a far southeast place, Maxwell was with me." Dr. Alexander served at the U.S. Department of State for 16 years, most recently as senior policy advisor, in a career that included assignments with USAID and the Department of Defense. She is a veteran of several conflict and stabilization missions -- most recently in Afghanistan; her expertise includes post-conflict elections & governance, stabilization, women's advancement, and civil-military relations. Dr. Alexander now serves as a senior subject matter expert & senior mentor with IDS International and the US Army's Joint Regional Training Center and their National Training Center. She also works with Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe on upcoming overseas elections.
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