Melissa Fleming is the newly appointed Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, taking up her functions as of 1 September 2019.
From 2009 until August 2019, Ms. Fleming served UNHCR as Head of Global Communications and Spokesperson for the High Commissioner. At UNHCR, she led global media outreach campaigns, social media engagement and a multimedia news service to distribute and place stories designed to generate empathy and stir action for refugees.
Ms. Fleming is a frequent interview guest on international media platforms, and her talks are featured on TED.com. She is author of the book, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, and host of the award-winning podcast, Awake at Night.
Ms. Fleming joined UNHCR from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where she served for eight years as Spokesperson and Head of the Media and Outreach. Prior to IAEA, she headed the Press and Public Information team at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Earlier still, she was Public Affairs Specialist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, having started her career as a journalist. From 2016 to 2017, she also served as Senior Adviser and Spokesperson on the incoming United Nations Secretary General’s Transition Team.
The engagement of Melissa Danne Shaw to Gregory James Fleming, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil S. Fleming of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., has been made known by the prospective bride's parents, Mrs. Dillard Munford of Atlanta and Crawford Shaw of New York and Quogue, L.I. An April wedding is planned.
Miss Shaw, 26 years old, graduated from the Millbrook School and Colgate University and teaches at All Children's House in New York. She was presented at the Thanksgiving Eve Ball of the New York Junior League and at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. Her father is a lawyer with offices in New York and Houston. Her stepfather recently retired as the chairman and chief executive officer of Munford Inc. in Atlanta, the owner of the Magic Market convenience stores.
The future bridegroom, 26, is an associate at BOOZ, ALLEN and HAMILTON management consultants in New York. He graduated from Colgate and the Yale University Law School. His mother, Patricia Fleming, is a special-education teacher at Fishkill Plains Elementary School in Hopewell Junction. His father is the chairman of the history department at Mahopac (N.Y.) High School.
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Melissa Fleming is the newly appointed Under-Secretary-General for Global Communications, taking up her functions as of 1 September 2019.
From 2009 until August 2019, Ms. Fleming served UNHCR as Head of Global Communications and Spokesperson for the High Commissioner. At UNHCR, she led global media outreach campaigns, social media engagement and a multimedia news service to distribute and place stories designed to generate empathy and stir action for refugees.
Ms. Fleming is a frequent interview guest on international media platforms, and her talks are featured on TED.com. She is author of the book, A Hope More Powerful than the Sea, and host of the award-winning podcast, Awake at Night.
Ms. Fleming joined UNHCR from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), where she served for eight years as Spokesperson and Head of the Media and Outreach. Prior to IAEA, she headed the Press and Public Information team at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).
Earlier still, she was Public Affairs Specialist at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty in Munich, having started her career as a journalist. From 2016 to 2017, she also served as Senior Adviser and Spokesperson on the incoming United Nations Secretary General’s Transition Team.
https://www.nytimes.com/1989/12/24/style/melissa-shaw-to-wed-gregory-fleming.html
The engagement of Melissa Danne Shaw to Gregory James Fleming, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Neil S. Fleming of Hopewell Junction, N.Y., has been made known by the prospective bride's parents, Mrs. Dillard Munford of Atlanta and Crawford Shaw of New York and Quogue, L.I. An April wedding is planned.
Miss Shaw, 26 years old, graduated from the Millbrook School and Colgate University and teaches at All Children's House in New York. She was presented at the Thanksgiving Eve Ball of the New York Junior League and at the Debutante Cotillion and Christmas Ball. Her father is a lawyer with offices in New York and Houston. Her stepfather recently retired as the chairman and chief executive officer of Munford Inc. in Atlanta, the owner of the Magic Market convenience stores.
The future bridegroom, 26, is an associate at BOOZ, ALLEN and HAMILTON management consultants in New York. He graduated from Colgate and the Yale University Law School. His mother, Patricia Fleming, is a special-education teacher at Fishkill Plains Elementary School in Hopewell Junction. His father is the chairman of the history department at Mahopac (N.Y.) High School.
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Somewhere deep in the crawfish hole is the name Crawford Shaw
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