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Author of the highly acclaimed books
Professional
Event Coordination and Risk Management for
Meetings and Events, and a four-time ISES Esprit Award winner for Best Industry Contribution for her
educational programs, Julia currently teaches Meeting & Event
Risk Management and Meeting & Event Coordination online for the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She has served on the Board of Governors
and Certification Committee of the
International Special Events Society and as Curriculum Consultant
and lecturer for The George Washington University Event
Management Certificate Program.
She designed and wrote the Event Management Training Program for South Africa's
Tourism Learnership Project National Certificate in Tourism: Event Support, as
well as numerous distance learning lectures, instructional videos, CD ROM
lectures, books,
and magazine articles on event management topics, and she lectures
all over the world on event management practices. Julia is also heading up the
Event Management Body of Knowledge (EMBOK) Project, an
international endeavor to establish global process standards for the event
industry, recognized by the International Special Events Society with the 2004
Esprit Award for Best Industry Contribution.
Julia started her career(s) at age 14 in the community theaters of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. Since then she has been a costume designer, melodrama and
vaudeville performer, art history librarian, hand painted silk
clothing designer, arts & crafts fair manager, and President
& Creative Director of a special event design and
production firm in Albuquerque, for which she
designed hundreds of customized themed events for social,
convention, and corporate groups of 50 to over 5,000, from unique
southwestern galas to outrageous intergalactic receptions. With a background in both the visual and
performing arts, as well as solid writing and analytical
skills, Julia brings a unique understanding and
entertaining perspective to each program she creates and presents.
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Julia Rutherford Silvers, CSEP,
and Janet Landey,
CSEP,
accepting the 2003 ISES Esprit
Award for Best Industry
Contribution
for the Event Management Training
Program for South Africa.
Julia as a Virginia City
Player in 1976 |
