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With Experience and Knowledge OLGA BONFIGLIO has extensive experience as a manager and a leader. (Her complete résumé and bio
are available on this site.) As director of community relations for Borgess Medical Center, she managed a communications and press relations staff. As a professor at the Haworth College of Business at Western Michigan University she taught classes in business communication, intercultural communication, and the global economy. As a professor of social studies education at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, she trained aspiring and practicing teachers in the citizenship component of elementary and secondary education. As a fellow in the prestigious W. K. Kellogg Foundation National Fellowship Program, she traveled in Europe, Latin America, China, and Russia studying the emerging global economy. As part of her program, she helped to organize a trade mission to South Korea and Japan for the Michigan Department of Commerce.
Business Ties BONFIGLIO
has also been a consultant and trainer to business people and educators in the area of intercultural communication. And, as outreach coordinator for the Center for Advanced Study of International Development at Michigan State University, she was an important link between schoolteachers, the university and many professional organizations.
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Bonfiglio Brief:"My relationship with Western Michigan University and my doctorate in education from Michigan
State University put me in a unique position to help create partnerships between businesses and area educational institutions."
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BONFIGLIO
is active in community affairs. She is currently chair of the Community Development Act Advisory Committee which disburses over $2 million each year to housing-related programs in the city of Kalamazoo. She is also a member of the Kalamazoo County Economic Development Corporation.
BONFIGLIO
has served on the allocations committee of the United Way and on the finance committee of Catholic Family Services. Many television viewers will recognize her from her cable access public affairs program,
Public Voice. An Educated Choice BONFIGLIO's relationship with Western Michigan University and her doctorate in education from Michigan State University put her in a unique position to help create partnerships between
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