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104 MILLENNIUM-SECOND EDITION in a timely manner into biology classrooms and health professions education nationwide. While there, she represented the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism on the NIH Diversity Council, earning an achievement award. She retired in 2003 due to family caregiving responsibilities. Having been successful in all phases of her career by persevering through early anti-feminist obstacles, Ms. de Zafra-Atwell considers her career highlight to have been chairing a federal inter-agency workgroup that developed the first government-wide training standards in information systems security applicable across all civilian agencies, featuring a model learning continuum. Ms. de Zafra-Atwell welcomes future opportunities to serve on boards and advisory committees of nonprofit, public-sector, and academic organizations in a meaningful capacity and would like to speak to community organizations and schools regarding civic engagement and careers in public service. F or more than three decades, Dorothea E. de Zafra-Atwell achieved a successful career in the federal civil service through flexibility in applying her education and growing skill set to new public policy areas in collaboration with subject-matter experts to make a positive difference on a national scale. In her personal life and in retirement she pursues lifelong learning and “pays it forward” to enrich the lives of others. Through the encouragement she received from her parents and the inspiration she received from President John F. Kennedy for public service, Ms. de Zafra-Atwell earned a Master of Public and International Affairs. She worked in the field of international education, then accepted a management internship with the U.S. Public Health Service. There, she found her niche helping to define the then-new field of fair information practices and for 13 years coordinated the implementation of the Privacy Act of 1974 across the nine distinct, diverse health agencies to protect the privacy of individuals identified in government records. This was followed by 10 years building a policy and oversight program in information systems security to implement the Computer Security Act of 1987. Finally, she was transferred to the National Institutes of Health to create and administer a science education program that would facilitate the transfer of research results DOROTHEA E. DE ZAFRA-ATWELL RETIRED SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER AND ANALYST Rochester, NY