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Carole Ward Allen is an African-American politician, professor, scholar, artist, businesswoman, political consultant, transportation leader, community organizer, member of the Democratic Party and was an elected member of the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District Board of Directors. She represented District 4 (Oakland, California and Alameda, California), where she served three terms. Ward Allen became the first African American to serve as president of the California Commission on the Status of Women in 1983. In 1990, she made history again as an Oakland Port Commissioner who was elected among her colleagues to serve as president, making her the first woman to do so, and the longest African-American woman to achieve such stride with two terms. Almost a decade later, December 15, 2005, BART Director Ward Allen attained another major milestone as a woman in politics when she was elected among her colleagues on the BART Board of Directors to serve as its president and Lynette Sweet as its vice president, which made BART the first major transportation agency to be led by two African-American women in American history. ==Background== Carole is a native and current resident of Oakland, graduating from Castlemont High School in 1960. She holds a Master of Fine Arts and a Bachelor of Arts from San Jose State University and a Doctorate in Higher Education from Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. She also completed post-graduate studies at the Sorbonne, Paris, Fourah Bay College University, Sierra Leone; University of Ile-Ife, Nigeria; the University of Kumasi, Ghana; and University of Nairobi, Kenya.〔http://www.bart.gov/about/bod/bodMembersDetail_04.aspx〕 She has served as Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of Community Relations and Marketing for the Peralta Community College District. Prior to this position, she was a College Administrator at Laney, managing the largest Retired Senior Volunteer Program in Northern California, and monitoring a federal budget of $500,000 including the Office of Community Services, as well as several special grants and programs. She also served as president of the Peralta Federation of Teachers Political Action Committee (PFT-PAC) for two years (2002–2004) where she fought to improve salaries, benefits and pensions of teachers as well as oversee the Political Action Committee. The PFT-PAC endorse candidates seeking elected office(s) of the Peralta Community College District Board of Trustees. In March 2011, Dr. Ward Allen was inducted into the Alameda County Women's Hall of Fame in the category of Education. She has taught over 100,000 students in the Bay Area according to ''The Oakland Post''. In 2008, Laney College President Frank Chong recognized Ward Allen for her leadership with the President's Award of the College. Ward Allen has received multiple awards for her expertise in transportation including the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Inc. Oakland/Bay Area Chapter's Pioneer Award at the 7th Annual Madam C.J. Walker Business and Community Recognition Awards Luncheon in 2005 as the Vice President of BART. As of 2015, she is a retired Professor at College of Alameda and Laney College in the Ethnic Studies Department and the CEO of CWA Partners, LLC. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carole Ward Allen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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