Our Leadership
October 14th, 2008
Alysa Ullman – Executive Director
From a very young age, Alysa Ullman was taught to value American citizenship and appreciate its benefits. She has always enjoyed combining her writing skills with her creativity. In early 2006, she started her own consulting company, Au Consulting, LLC. She has been hired by a variety of companies to manage an assortment of education initiatives, writing projects and corporate events. Prior to the creation of Au Consulting, LLC, Ullman was selected to be on a media team of 17 individuals from around the world who worked in the Athletes’ Village at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. Additionally, she worked as a Corporate Marketing Manager for Washington Sports & Entertainment, an umbrella organization that included the Washington Wizards, Capitals, and Mystics.
In June 2007, Ullman was invited to attend a naturalization ceremony at The White House. Witnessing this ceremony motivated her to write the curriculum The Path to Citizenship, which educates students on citizenship and the importance of displaying patriotism. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan.
Contact Alysa Ullman at aullman@citizenshipcounts.org
Marney Murphy – Director of Education
For over 33 years, Marney Murphy has been an educator in Cincinnati serving grades K-12. She has taught reading, language arts, information science, social studies, and mathematics at private and public schools. Since 1986, Ms. Murphy has been conducting naturalization ceremonies on the campus of Three Rivers Middle School in Cleves, Ohio. As a result, schools in southwestern Ohio now hold naturalization ceremonies at their schools exposing children to citizenship, patriotism, and global identity.
Ms. Murphy is a State of Ohio Educator of the Year with a Master’s of Education from Xavier University. As a library media specialist for grades K-12 and a reading specialist, Murphy has served on many curriculum committees including the curriculum advisory board for CET, the public television station in Cincinnati and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center where she assisted the development of the Teacher Resource Center. She serves on the National Board of Directors of UNESCO’s Transatlantic Slave Trade Project—USA. She is an alumna of the Holocaust and Resistance Fellowship Program held in Poland and Israel. In addition, she has conducted workshops for Comparative and International Education Society Conference at Columbia University; UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade workshops at Yale University, Penn State, University of Richmond, and Tulane University. Most recently in July 2010 she was selected to participate in an international conference at the University of West England in Bristol, England. She was on the international program committee for the UNESCO World Youth Forum held in Trinidad & Tobago.
Publications include Safe Passage, a multi-media kit on the Underground Railroad and contributing to The Path to Citizenship, Citizenship Counts’ core curriculum. She has also written articles for the UNESCO website on the implementation of the Holocaust at her school.
Contact Marney Murphy at mmurphy@citizenshipcounts.org
