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Paxton Williams
 Paxton Williams '00Diamond, Mo. gwcstory@hotmail.com Paxton is the first executive director of the George Washington Carver Birthplace Association (CBA), a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization started in the early 1940s with Dr. Carver's support. Today, the CBA works to advance historical, scientific, educational, and interpretative programs at George Washington Carver National Monument and across the nation. Paxton received a bachelor's degree in political science and communication studies in 2000. As his capstone project in the honors program at Iowa State, he wrote and performed "Listening to the Still Small Voice," a one-man play on the life of George Washington Carver. The play has been performed nearly 70 times in 15 U.S. states and in England. Paxton serves as a director on the Political Science Alumni Advisory Board and the Thomas Hart Benton Festival Planning Council. He holds a master's degree in public policy from the University of Michigan and a master's in health care management from the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom, where he studied under the auspices of a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship. |
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