斯蒂芬妮·D阁下. 内伦斯-佩奇(休斯顿,德克萨斯州)
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终身仆人领袖和慈善家, her career has spanned the public and private sectors and focused on improving outcomes for cities through infrastructure building and partnership development. Regent Nellons-Paige has more than 30 years of senior executive experience leading business and strategic partnership development with Fortune 500 companies in public transportation, 车队和设施维护和食品服务管理. She is adept at working with diverse constituencies and exhibits refined and transformative leadership that moves the pendulum toward success on complex projects.
She is the Chief Executive Officer and Board Vice Chair of the Nellons Paige Group, Inc. (NPG), a strategic consulting firm, which she co-founded with her husband, Rod Paige, U.S. 教育部长(2001-2005). 该公司为私营部门提供业务发展专业知识, 基础设施投资实体, 基金会, 学区,高等教育机构和城市, 他还为客户提供多元化和经济包容性方面的建议. NPG在运输方面帮助客户, food service and facilities maintenance industries generate nearly $1 billion in revenue and residuals.
Regent Nellons-Paige believes public transportation spurs the economic vitality of cities. 最近, her service as a Managing Director for Texas Central Railroad led to the development and implementation of a business and workforce opportunity policy to ensure economic inclusion of small, 农村, women-minority, 老兵拥有的公司参与了全国首个高铁项目. 另外, she collaborated with international partners to design and execute a workforce development plan to prepare 17,这条耗资250亿美元的铁路的建设和运营将耗资5000人.
Regent Nellons-Paige has served in numerous leadership roles in public transportation. She developed the first industry relations plan for Ryder Public Transportation (First Group America), which supported business development by educating key officials on the benefits of outsourcing and resulted in multimillion-dollar partnerships. She also led more than $40 million of practical research studies for the Transportation 研究 Board to assist transportation providers across the nation improve service to the riding public.
During her tenure with the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (WMATA), Regent Nellons-Paige made an indelible print during one of its most memorable periods of growth, 增加了60英里的铁路, a project that transitioned thousands of commuters from cars to buses and trains. 从事规划工作, WMATA的建设和运营, one of her proudest accomplishments was implementing the transportation and facilities requirements for the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 for the region.
Regent Nellons-Paige热衷于教育和劳动力发展. 像这样, she has implemented community engagement strategies for corporations directing their philanthropic contributions toward building career pathways for America's future workforce. Her work in this arena has allowed for thousands of vulnerable and low-income youth to access work-based learning solutions, 大学和职业咨询、指导和指导.
She was appointed by Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner to serve on the city’s Minority and Women Business Ecosystem Assessment and Covid-19 健康 Equity and Response task forces. She is a member of Gulf Coast Workforce Board and the Cooperative Mobility for Competitive Megaregions Advisory Board. 她还担任全球解决方案团队的顾问委员会成员, 多伦多, 加拿大和安科拉教育委员会, 位于德克萨斯州的一组私立高等教育学校, 亚利桑那州, 俄克拉何马州, 乔治亚州, 路易斯安那州, 新墨西哥, 北卡罗莱纳, 田纳西州和南卡罗来纳州.
She previously served as private sector chairman of the Education Task Force for the American Legislative Exchange Council. She was elected by peers and supported by mayors, to serve as co-chair of the U.S. 市长商业理事会会议, 它由100多家公司和基金会组成.
Regent Nellons-Paige获得了各种专业荣誉, civic and community leadership and advancing diversity and economic inclusion strategies. She is a longtime member of the Conference of Minority Transportation Officials (COMTO) and Women’s Transportation Seminar (WTS), 她最近获得了罗莎·帕克斯多元化领导奖. Her contributions have also been acknowledged by the Regional Hispanic Contractors Association and the and Regional Black Contractors Association, and in 2015 she was named one of Houston’s Top 30 Most Influential Women and one of 10 Iconic Women.
Her community service continues as a Diamond Life Member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, 合并 and as a board member for the Delta 研究 and Education Foundation, 她在哪里担任基金发展委员会成员. 作为Links的一员, 合并, she serves as national co-chair for Fund Development and chair of Vision 20/20, coordinating fundraising efforts to support the execution of their outstanding programing in communities internationally. Regent Nellons-Paige was recently named to the Motown Museum National Legacy Council, where she is actively raising funds to support the expansion of the museum in Detroit, 密歇根.
Regent Nellons-Paige来自马里兰州的巴尔的摩. She now makes her home in Houston and is a member of the Brentwood Baptist Church. She comes from a family of proud Historically Black 大学 and Universities (HBCU) graduates. 她的丈夫Rod Paige毕业于杰克逊州立大学, Jackson MS; her daughter Danielle graduated from Spelman College, Atlanta GA; and Regent Nellons-Paige holds Bachelor of Science in Urban Studies and Master of Science in Transportation Management degrees from Morgan State University, 巴尔的摩, 马里兰.