Angie L. Reese-Hawkins, BA/School of Communication 1979

Angie Reese-Hawkins is president and chief executive officer of YMCA of Metropolitan Washington, DC. Ms. Reese-Hawkins is a member of the Capitol Hill Kiwanis Club and Women of Washington. In addition to her BA from the School of Communication, she holds a certificate in social enterprise from Harvard University Business School and a certificate in facility management from George Washington University. As a student at AU, Ms. Reese-Hawkins was a member of the Black Student Alliance and the Gospel Choir. She was also a recipient of the Frederick Douglass Scholarship. She is American University’s 2008 Cyrus Ansary Medal recipient.

Christina Wright, BA/School of Communication 2007

Prior to her internship at the NCAA, Christina received her Bachelor of Arts in Public Communication and a minor in statistics from American University in May 2007. A four-year letter winner and Student-Athlete Advisory Committee representative of the women’s indoor and outdoor track team, Christina finished her throwing career as second on the all-time best list for discus. In 2007, Christina received the Stafford H. Cassell student achievement award, the Multicultural Affairs/International Student and Scholar Services Female Scholar Athlete award, and a NCAA Minority and Women’s Enhancement Postgraduate Scholarship for Careers in Athletics. She also was the recipient of the Executive Director’s Award of Excellence for her work as an RA in 2006. Christina served as the L.I.F.T. mentoring program volunteer program coordinator and a STEP assistant in the summer of 2005. Her research, The Token Athlete: Sports and Performance-Enhancing Drugs, was published at the 2005 National Conference on Undergraduate Research.