Cammie Jones-Friedrichs
Director
Cammie Jones-Friedrichs is the Director of the Carnegie Elective for Community Engagement. Cammie, who is originally from Dallas, TX, has spent over 16 years in higher education and nonprofit leadership, continually paving the way for social justice and civic engagement. She is a first-generation college student with a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Louisiana State University A&M.
Cammie recently served as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for Partners for Campus-Community Engagement where she oversaw several dynamic initiatives and programs that enhanced the civic capacity of nonprofit and higher education institutions in Pennsylvania and New York. She is also a Senior Fellow of the Bard Center for Civic Engagement. Cammie worked as an Assistant and Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement at Bard, where she managed global and domestic engaged learning and campus/community initiatives and supported the Carnegie Classification team, which received classification in 2020.
Furthermore, she has served in high level executive roles at Dutchess Community College, Marist College, Barnard College and Grace Smith House, Inc.
She additionally serves as an adjunct professor at Bard College/ OSUN, where she teaches civic engagement courses. Women and Leadership, Women and COVID 19: Activism, Leadership, and Global Engagement, and Women and the Pandemic are all topics that have been offered. She has also organized several international and domestic conferences on civic engagement, youth leadership development, social justice and women’s rights.
Cammie has devoted her life to service and leadership, sitting on various boards and committees for local NGOs and collecting multiple awards for her contributions to higher education and community engagement. She was recently appointed to the board of directors of the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) where she is the Special Programming Co-chair, participates in AACU’s Global Learning Conference Planning Committee and is the Civic Engagement Chair of the Westchester Black Women’s Political Caucus. She also serves on the Sister to Sister International, Inc. Steering Committee.
Cammie has garnered multiple honors for her civic engagement and community development leadership. She was named to the Chamber Foundation Inc.’s 2021 ATHENA Award, as well as the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce’s 2012 Forty Under 40 Class. Other honors include the N4A 2014 Professional Promise Award for Region 1, the AWCC 2017 Forty Under 40 Class, and the Arc of Dutchess 2017 Peggy Martinko Community Trailblazer Award.