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Biographies
Biography of Jo Anne Murphy, Ph.D.
Freeman Lecturer, Drew University
Freeman Lecturer: Jo Anne Murphy, Ph.D. Gilbert 22
Phone 973-408-3820 /
jmurphy1@drew.edu
 Jo
Anne Murphy has extensive experience in designing, developing and launching
new programs and initiatives, including strategic planning, organizational
/program design/resource development for international and Non-Governmental
Organizations in both the United States and Africa.
Her international work has emphasized participatory development and the
skilled engagement of women in the development process. Dr. Murphy has
served as Freeman Lecturer at Drew University in Madison, N.J. during
2003, 2004 and 2006, introducing a new seminar on “The Experiential Study of
Black Entrepreneurship. She recently assisted Drew University as a
consultant for the initial study for a new “Institute for Social Justice and
Nonviolence.” Dr. Murphy has been appointed to the NGO Committee on
Indigenous Peoples at the United Nations in N.Y.
Dr. Murphy served as Interim Director of External Relations for the School
of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in South
Orange, N.J. Her experience encompasses a focus on developing corporate and
community-based partnerships; public housing resident opportunities
including capacity building/community organizing skills development for
low-income community organizations, employment and entrepreneurship
initiatives; grant writing aimed at making resources available for community
programs; innovative program design and implementation highlighting
sustainable development in disadvantaged areas; leadership/motivational
training, strategic planning for non-profit groups and their boards of
directors and trustees.
She served from 1996 - 1998 as Executive Assistant to Msgr. William J.
Linder, Founder/CEO of New Community Corporation [NCC], the largest and
leading faith-based Community Development Corporation in the United States.
Her responsibilities included design and implementation of NCC's
international initiatives; creation and coordination of NCC's International
Advisory Board; low-income resident initiatives for a $25 million
homeownership project in Newark, New Jersey, funded by the U.S. Department
of Housing and Urban Development; coordination and follow-up on
administrative decisions, in addition to multiple special assignments for
the Founder of NCC.
Her international work includes extensive experience with several agencies
of the United Nations system in West Africa as a rural economic development
consultant and Chief Technical Advisor responsible for program design and
implementation, focused on the creation of a model that could be replicated
in other developing countries.
She also worked with USAID as Manager of Women in Development and
Accelerated Impact village-level economic development programs, creating a
program integrating women in the development process which was selected as a
model for African countries served by USAID. She has conducted negotiations
with several African governments on behalf of Overseas Education Fund
International and established their regional office in Senegal.
Dr. Murphy lived abroad for twenty years, in Switzerland at the Graduate
Institute of International Studies in Geneva where she pursued her graduate
and doctoral studies in international relations, and in Senegal where her
research and work led to extensive travel in West African countries. She is
bilingual in English and French, conversational in Spanish and Wolof
(Senegalese indigenous language).
A native of Russell, Kansas and an experienced public speaker, Dr. Murphy
has addressed diverse audiences ranging from the national Points of Light
Foundation conferences, the National Congress of Community Economic
Development conferences, the Public Housing Directors Association (PHADA),
EDTEC’s national community-based economic development conferences, to Public
Service Electricity & Gas (PSE&G) Senior Electricity Executives.
She has served in numerous capacities as a volunteer for community
initiatives, including Board member of the UN Association/US – NJ Division
and the Morris Area Red Cross, Community Advisory Board member for Project
Hope New Jersey Community Health Workers Program, Secretary for the New
Jersey Housing Opportunity Fund, advisor to two South African
Nongovernmental Organizations, member of an Annie E. Casey Foundation/Points
of Light Foundation national project design team, and volunteer for Sunray
Meditation Society in Vermont.
In 2001, Dr. Murphy successfully defended her doctoral dissertation
entitled: “The Emerging Development Policy Formation Equation: The Role of
Global NGO Collaborative Entities in Relation to UNICEF and the World Bank.”
She completed the Certificate in Human Resources through Cornell
University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations in November 2005.
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