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32 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine ARTS, MEDIA AND ENTERTAINMENT D espite not becoming the medical missionary like she had wanted to be when she was younger, Thelma Kay Kiser has had a bountiful career in science for which she is grateful. Ms. Kiser graduated from Emory & Henry College in 1968 with a Bachelor of Arts in biology and from East Tennessee State University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science in chemistry. She also completed postgraduate coursework at The Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati. Ms. Kiser began her career in 1968 as a microbiologist for the South Carolina Board of Health. She made a career change in 1971 and was a teacher at Dickenson County Public Schools in Virginia. She taught until 1978, and went back to her science roots to be a laboratory manager and research scientist at the Mead Corp. in Ohio. Ms. Kiser called her five patents through the Mead Corp. her crowning achievement. Ms. Kiser also held similar lab research positions at Marion Merrell Dow in Ohio and Arcade, Inc., in Tennessee. From 2000 to 2009, she was a research and development coordinator at DuPont Nonwovens in Tennessee. Since 2009, she has been an independent writer at Kiser Publications. Once writing became her focus, Ms. Kiser wrote and published two books, “Saving Africa from Lies that Kill: How Myths About the Environment and Overpopulation are Destroying Third World Countries” and “Perverted Truth Exposed: How Progressive Philosophy has Corrupted Science.” Ms. Kiser won the 2019 International Book Award for “Saving Africa from Lies that Kill.” She called writing this book one of the most enjoyable moments of her career. Additionally, in 1989, she was a contributor to “ACS Symposium Series 417, Radiation Curing of Polymeric Materials.” Ms. Kiser is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Chemical Society. She calls her father her greatest mentor for believing in her when she wanted to enter the science world. She respected his self-educated knowledge and learned from him to think for herself. This is also Ms. Kiser’s advice for future generations. THELMA KAY KISER INDEPENDENT WRITER Kiser Publications Kingsport, TN