Jessie B. Ramey
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- School: University of Pittsburgh
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- Department: History
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4200 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA - 15260 - Dates at University of Pittsburgh: December 2013 - December 2013
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Biography
University of Pittsburgh - History
Director, Women's Institute and Associate Professor, Women's & Gender Studies at Chatham University
Higher Education
Jessie
Ramey
Greater Pittsburgh Area
COMMUNITY BOARDS & LEADERSHIP
• Chair, Pittsburgh's Gender Equity Commission, appointed by City Council, 2017-2020.
• Mayor’s Task Force on Women in Public Art, 2017-present.
• Mayor’s Task Force on Education, 2014-present.
• Advisor to campaign of Mayor Bill Peduto on public education policy and member of transition team, 2013.
• Board of Directors, Carriage House Children’s Center (Pittsburgh), 2010-2013.
• Community Coordinating Committee, Make it Our UPMC campaign, 2013.
• Pittsburgh Public Schools: liaison to Gifted Pilot Task Force, 2008-2011; Envisioning Educational Excellence advisory group, 2013.
• Leadership team, raised $250,000 to build the Bob O’Connor Community Playground, 2006-2007.
• Advisory committee, Pittsburgh Opera, “Dead Man Walking,” 2004.
• Advisory committee, Andy Warhol Museum, “Electric Chair” Exhibition, 2003.
Experience
Carnegie Mellon University
Consultant, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
Distilled research on learning for faculty and graduate students and collaborated with them to design and implement meaningful educational experiences.
Great Public Schools Pittsburgh coalition
Co-Founder
Collaborate with community, faith, and labor leaders to promote great schools for every Pittsburgh student. Research and write reports, presentations, and campaign materials. Organize campaigns to support adequate and equitable school funding and resource distribution. Coordinate with state and national coalitions. [http://www.GPSpgh.org]
Chatham University
Director, Women's Institute and Associate Professor, Women's & Gender Studies
Founding Director of the Women's Institute at Chatham University
Yinzercation
Founder
Founded the Yinzercation blog and social media sites, which served as one of the hubs for a grassroots education justice movement in Southwest Pennsylvania with over 3,500 followers. Articles were frequently cited and re-blogged, and regularly published in the national media including the Washington Post, Huffington Post, and AlterNet. Worked with a steering committee to organize actions of an all-volunteer collective of parents, students, teachers, and community members. Met with legislators and decision makers. Staged rallies, hosted film showings and lectures, gave public testimony. Worked with state and national partners and networks. Produced events such as the national launch of Dr. Diane Ravitch’s 2013 book, which attracted over 1,000 people; and the 2014 Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Education Debate, broadcast across the state with 500 in the live audience. [http://yinzercation.wordpress.com]
University of Pittsburgh
Scholar
New Faculty Fellow in Women’s Studies and History, 2012 to 2013: two-year postdoctoral fellowship with funding granted from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). Also affiliated as a Visiting Scholar in the Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies Program: 2009 to 2011 and 2014 to present. In addition to teaching and research, gave dozens of conference presentations, invited talks, and keynote speeches, nationally and abroad.
Education
Carnegie Mellon University
MA
History
Carnegie Mellon University
Ph.D.
History
Carnegie Mellon University
Consultant, Eberly Center for Teaching Excellence
Distilled research on learning for faculty and graduate students and collaborated with them to design and implement meaningful educational experiences.Sarah Lawrence College
MA
Women's History
Publications
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages
University of Illinois Press
Winner of the: • Lerner-Scott Prize in women's history from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). • Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). • John Heinz Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages
University of Illinois Press
Winner of the: • Lerner-Scott Prize in women's history from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). • Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). • John Heinz Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
For the Public Good: Urban Youth Advocacy and the Fight for Public Education
Children and Youth Services Review
Place, Power, and Possibility: Remaking Social Work with Children and Youth. (special edition edited by Janet L. Finn, et.al.) Vol. 35, No. 8 (August 2013): 1260–1267.
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages
University of Illinois Press
Winner of the: • Lerner-Scott Prize in women's history from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). • Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). • John Heinz Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
For the Public Good: Urban Youth Advocacy and the Fight for Public Education
Children and Youth Services Review
Place, Power, and Possibility: Remaking Social Work with Children and Youth. (special edition edited by Janet L. Finn, et.al.) Vol. 35, No. 8 (August 2013): 1260–1267.
"I Dream of Them Almost Every Night": Working Class Fathers and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929
Journal of Family History
Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2012): 36-54.
Child Care in Black and White: Working Parents and the History of Orphanages
University of Illinois Press
Winner of the: • Lerner-Scott Prize in women's history from the Organization of American Historians (OAH). • Herbert G. Gutman Prize from the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA). • John Heinz Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI).
For the Public Good: Urban Youth Advocacy and the Fight for Public Education
Children and Youth Services Review
Place, Power, and Possibility: Remaking Social Work with Children and Youth. (special edition edited by Janet L. Finn, et.al.) Vol. 35, No. 8 (August 2013): 1260–1267.
"I Dream of Them Almost Every Night": Working Class Fathers and Orphanages in Pittsburgh, 1878-1929
Journal of Family History
Vol. 37, No. 1 (January 2012): 36-54.
The Bloody Blonde and the Marble Woman: Gender and Power in the Case of Ruth Snyder
Journal of Social History
Vol. 37, No. 3 (spring 2004): 625-650.
