NCL to Honor Mary
Gardiner Jones with 2003 Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award
Where:
AARP Brickfield Conference Center, 6th and E Streets, NW
When:
Tuesday, October 28, 2003 at 12:15 p.m.
Who:
Mary Gardiner Jones, 2003 recipient.
What: The Florence Kelley Consumer Leadership Award is given
to an individual that exemplifies a commitment to social justice for
consumers and workers; has a willingness to give time, energy and
leadership to important causes that may not be popular; knows how to
work the system as a political strategist on behalf of social and
economic causes; has worked within and visibly supported the consumer
movement for at least several years; is a skilled public educator with
the ability to dramatize issues and make them understandable, and
cares deeply about the causes and has the capacity to work for them
with intelligence and focus.
About
Mary Gardiner Jones:
·
Federal
Trade Commissioner from 1964-1973.
·
President
and founder of the Consumer Interest Research Institute (CIRI) and
President of the Alliance for Public Technology.
·
Board
member of The Institute for the Future; the DC Chapter of the Mental
Health Association; the Homemakers Health Aide Services, Inc.; and the
United Seniors Health Cooperative.
·
Co-author
of 21st Century Learning and Health Care in the Home:
Creating a National Telecommunications Network and author of
several papers on consumer and telecommunications issues.
·
Recipient
of distinguished service awards from the Society of Consumer Affairs
Professionals, honorary member of the American Home Economics
Association, and, in 1992, the Colston E. Warne Distinguished Lecturer
at the Association of Consumer Interests.
