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Robin Delany-Shabazz has been named Director, Concentration
of Federal Efforts Program, within OJJDP. In her new position, she
will serve as Designated Federal Officer for both the Federal Advisory
Committee on Juvenile Justice and the Coordinating Council on Juvenile
Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Most recently, Ms. Delany-Shabazz
worked as the Child Abuse and Neglect Program Coordinator in OJJDP's
Child Protection Division. In that capacity and in her prior positions
with OJJDP, she focused on policy and program development and supported
a number of national and local initiatives through funding and technical
assistance agreements. Ms. Delany-Shabazz is an applied anthropologist
with a background in prevention; youth development; community, systems,
and organizational change; management and planning; issues analysis;
and research, marketing, and communication.
Elissa Rumsey is OJJDP's new Compliance
Monitor Coordinator within the State Relations and Assistance Division
(SRAD). Ms. Rumsey joined OJJDP in 1997, first serving in the Office's
former Research and Program Development Division. In 1999, she
became a State Representative and in that capacity helped states
achieve compliance with the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Act. Ms. Rumsey has served as an adjunct professor at the University
of Baltimore, teaching courses on "Solutions to Youth Problems" and "Adult
and Juvenile Corrections." Ms. Rumsey holds a bachelor's
degree in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley
and a master's degree in criminal justice from Northeastern
University in Boston.
Kerri Strug joined the OJJDP staff in March as a special
assistant. Ms. Strug is a presidential appointee who comes to OJJDP
from the Office of the General Counsel at the Treasury Department.
She also has worked as a staff assistant with the Office of Presidential
Student Correspondence. Ms. Strug received her bachelor's and
master's degrees from Stanford University and was an elementary
school teacher in the San Francisco Bay area before moving to Washington,
DC, in 2003. A native of Tucson, AZ, Ms. Strug is a former Olympics
gymnast. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, GA, she was part
of the first U.S. women's gymnastics team to win the all-around
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