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A polished and inspiring speaker, Sheila T. Harty brings topics alive for her audience. Her use of humor and keen insight make her an enlightening educator, and her political and personal ethics are applicable to the individual, the village, and the world. |
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Her consulting work included contracts with international organizations, such as the World Bank, the United Nations University, the International Organization of Consumers Unions in The Hague and in Penang, the Centre for Applied Studies in International Negotiations in Geneva, and the National Adult Education Association in Dublin. Other freelance contracts included the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, Time-Life Books, the U.S. Catholic Conference, the National Trust for Historic Preservation, and the American Assn of Retired Persons. Her versatile work experience saw her as an editor for the Congressional Budget Office, Communications Director for a national science literacy project at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a Division Director at the National Wildlife Federation, a drug counselor for the U.S. Army, a theology teacher at a Catholic high school, and a script writer for children's educational films. Harty is also a published and award-winning author. Her first book, Hucksters in the Classroom: A Review of Industry Propaganda in Schools, won the 1980 George Orwell Award for Honesty & Clarity in Public Language, which each year awards the book that best exposes the abuse of language. This award was also won by Ted Koeppel, Noam Chomsky, Sissela Bok, Neil Postman, and Walter Pincus. The Hucksters book brought her speaking engagements around the world --Toronto, Mexico City, Dublin, Galway, London, Edinburgh, Oslo, Geneva, Versailles, Madrid, Penang, Singapore, and Bangkok -- as well as national and international television and radio appearances, including the Today Show with Phil Donahue, National Public Radio, and the BBC. Harty answers the question "where are you from?" with "conceived in Italy, born in Germany, and weaned in England." In 1996, she moved for the 38th time to St. Augustine, Florida, to care for her aging parents now (2007) in their 90s. Since leaving her political work in Washington, D.C., Harty has resuscitated her theology degrees with a lecture series, predominantly with Unitarian Universalist Fellowships throughout NE Florida and SE Georgia. In addition, Harty became an Adjunct Faculty member of St. Leo University, teaching "Catholic Tradition" at two branch campuses: one at the Mayport Naval base in Jacksonville, and the other in St. Augustine. |
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