In Profile: Yvonne Martin
Yvonne Martin, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
Day job: You may have seen her on TV, along with candidates Obama, Clinton and host Campbell Brown. During last year’s U.S. presidential primary, Yvonne Martin gained international visibility during the Compassion Forum at Messiah College, where she teaches business and management. “They just happened to get our row when the camera panned the audience,” she says with a laugh. “The next thing I knew I was getting all kinds of e-mails from people I worked with back in the 70s.”
What she likes about MEDA: As a business professor, Yvonne naturally likes MEDA's connection with business, something she’s always been close to. (Her mother owned a florist shop). Besides teaching marketing and statistics, she edits the departmental newsletter, Beyond the Bottom Line. MEDA’s faith-work connection comes in handy in the classroom. Her department gets extra copies of The Marketplace, which she distributes to students and gives assignments based on its content.
“Another thing I like about MEDA is the leverage that can be obtained from tiny acts, the mustard seed effect of a small bit of help, strategically applied,” Yvonne says. This resonates, too, with her involvement with Ten Thousand Villages, which back in 1946 grew out of one woman’s compassion for artisans in the developing world. “I like to remind students that one person can make a difference in making the world a better place to live.”
Hobbies: Yvonne likes to garden (flowers, mainly) and dote on her “perfect” grandsons.
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