Meet the 2009 Allies in Prevention Awards Keynote Speaker and Special Guest
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Robert G. Templin, Northern Virginia Community College
Bob Templin is the president of Northern Virginia Community College (NOVA), Virginia’s largest institution of higher education and one of the nation’s largest community colleges, enrolling more than 65,000 students annually at its six campuses. Over the last five years Templin has led a regional alliance of business, education, healthcare, technology, and community leaders to confront the region’s growing shortage of healthcare workers and resulting issues of growing healthcare costs and declining access to quality healthcare services.
Templin has been most recently honored by receiving the Marta V. Wyatt Award from the Hispanic Committee of Virginia for his commitment to the state’s immigrant community, the Community Foundation of the National Capital Region’s 2008 Civic Spirit award for outstanding leadership in the Washington DC metropolitan region, and the Fairfax County Chamber of Commerce’s 2008 James M. Rees Award for contributions to the economy and quality of life in Northern Virginia.
SPECIAL GUEST
Julie Carey, NBC4/WRC-TV
Julie Carey primarily covers Virginia issues and politics for News4. Carey joined News4 in 1992 and began covering Virginia soon after. Her reporting has taken her all over the Commonwealth including Richmond where she has covered the governor, the General Assembly, and every election since 1993.
Carey has also done extensive reporting on issues of regional interest including sex offenders, child abuse, the rise of methamphetamine abuse, and the integration of women into the Virginia Military Institute. In the late 1990s, she provided daily coverage of the Kenneth Starr grand jury investigations and the impeachment trial of President Bill Clinton. In 2005, she was the lead reporter in the trial of sniper suspect Lee Malvo. Prior to joining News4, Carey reported for KSDK-TV in St. Louis, WTHR-TV in Indianapolis, and KCRG-TV in Cedar Rapids, Iowa where she began her career. She graduated from Indiana University with a journalism degree. Carey was raised in Iowa in a family of journalists. She and her husband, a political editor for Bloomberg, live in Alexandria with their two children. Carey is active as a volunteer in the Alexandria Public Schools and in her church.
