FREDERICKSBURG, VA, March 30, 2020 /24-7PressRelease/ -- Marquis Who's Who, the world's premier publisher of biographical profiles, is proud to present Mary Elizabeth King, PhD, with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award. An accomplished listee, Dr. King celebrates many years' experience in her professional networks, and has been noted for achievements, leadership qualities, and the credentials and successes she has accrued in her fields. As in all Marquis Who's Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. Factors such as position, noteworthy accomplishments, visibility, and prominence in a field are all taken into account during the selection process.
Dr. King is a recognized political scientist, educator and author who began her career in 1963 as a communications officer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee in Atlanta. After working in Washington, D.C., as a program officer for the United States Office of Economic Opportunity and as the deputy director for ACTION, a sub-cabinet federal agency, she spent the next 11 years as a freelance consultant from 1981 to 1992. While an international consultant, Dr. King was a special advisor to former President Jimmy Carter in Atlanta and later served as an advisor appointed by the government of India for five years between 1998 and 2003.
In her academic life as well, Dr. King was a professor of international politics at St. George's University in Grenada, West Indies, from 1991 to 2001. Since that time, she has served as professor of peace and conflict studies at the UN-affiliated University for Peace in Costa Rica and has been a Distinguished Rothermere American Institute Fellow at the University of Oxford in Britain since 2004. Holding the role of president of Global Action in 1988, Dr. King also served on the board of directors for Amideast in Washington, D.C., from 1989 to 2010 and previously spent time as a member of the International Commission on Peace and Food in Chennai (Madras), India, from 1989 to 1994. Since 2017, Dr. King has served as Director of the James Lawson Institute, a nonprofit educational institution.
Co-authoring "Sex and Caste: A Kind of Memo" with Casey Haydon in 1966, Dr. King authored "Freedom Song: A Personal Story of the 1960s Civil Rights Movement" in 1987, which won her a Robert F. Kennedy Book Award the following year. She is also the author of "Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr: The Power of Nonviolent Action," which was first published in 1999 with a second edition released by the Indian Council for Cultural Relations in 2002. She is the acclaimed author of major works on the nonviolent transformation of conflict. Furthermore, Dr. King has contributed numerous articles to scholarly journals throughout her career as well.
A member of the Peace and Justice Studies Association, Dr. King holds further affiliation with the Authors Guild and the Middle East Studies Association. She is also notably the co-founder and a past president of the National Association of Women Business Owners in Washington, D.C. Locally, she has served as a member of the board of directors for the Arca Foundation since 1980, on the board of selectors with the Jefferson Awards Foundation in Wilmington, Delaware, since 1993 and on the board of directors of the Albert Einstein Institution in Boston since 2003. Dr. King formerly served on the board of directors of the Save the Children Federation in Westport, Connecticut, from 1980 to 1991.
Scholar-in-Residence at the American University Center for Global Peace in Washington, D.C., from 1997 to 2010, Dr. King was also twice an Albert Einstein Institution Fellow. She received the Jamnalal Bajaj International Award named for Gandhi's silent financial backer in Mumbai, India, in 2003, was named to the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1992 and was presented with a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Women's Equity Action League in 1977. Dr. King has notably held a Bachelor of Arts from Ohio Wesleyan University since 1962 and a Doctor of Philosophy from Aberystwyth University in Britain since 1999. Awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws by Ohio Wesleyan University in 2011, that same year she was named an Honorary Fellow of Aberystwyth University, their equivalent of the honorary degrees bestowed elsewhere.
In recognition of outstanding contributions to her profession and the Marquis Who's Who community, Dr. King has been featured on the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement website. Please visit www.ltachievers.com for more information about this honor.
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