Alumnae named to moral leadership program

Megan Barry and Joanne Sandberg have been named associate directors of Vanderbilt University's Cal Turner Program for Moral Leadership in the Professions, according to program director Bart Victor.

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Barry will serve as associate director for external relations, and Sandberg will be the associate director for research and internal relations.

The mission of the Cal Turner Program is to foster understanding of moral behavior, ethical practices and individual responsibility in such professions aslaw, medicine, business and ministry. The Cal Turner Program includes both University-focused and community-based initiatives.

Barry served as director of corporate social responsibility for Nortel Networks, Northern Telecom, from 1994 to 1999 and then started her own consulting firm to help multinational corporations address issues such as human rights and ethical decision-making. She is a 1993 graduate of Vanderbilt's Owen Graduate School of Management.

Barry's primary focus will be to bring together the Nashville business and academic communities through public policy forums, conferences on issues of moral and ethical concerns and public lectures on moral leadership. Barry is an emeritus board member of the Ethics Officer Association, and she also served as the first chairperson of the Conference Board's Global Council on Ethics and Business Practices. She has been invited to speak to various organizations and conferences including the Federal Trade Commission, the World Bank, the United States Congressional Sub-committee on Business Ethics and the Caux Roundtable. She has traveled extensively throughout the world and spoke at the first conferences on business ethics held in China, Japan and Brazil.

Her first project with the Cal Turner Program was to organize a roundtable of businesspersons and entrepreneurs Aug. 31, to talk about corporate social responsibility with ice cream magnate Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc.

Sandberg, a graduate of Harvard Divinity School, will develop and pursue a research agenda involving a broad understanding of moral leadership as it impacts the professions and professional education. She will also guide an effort to draw faculty and students into a cross-professional and inter-departmental dialogue on moral and ethical aspects of the issues of the day.

Sandberg was an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at Tennessee Technological University prior to joining the Turner Program. Her primary research interests have been in the area of work and family. She has both published and given presentations on the use of family leave.

Sandberg taught at Vanderbilt and Belmont University while pursuing her Ph.D. in sociology at Vanderbilt. Her dissertation is titled, "Making it (at) Work: Gendered Resources and Constraints of Family Leave-Taking."

Sandberg served as a victim advocate in the Nashville/Davidson County Office of the District Attorney General from 1990 to 1992. She provided support and information about the legal process to child abuse victims and their non-offending parents. She also served as a counselor at New Beginnings Domestic Violence Shelter in Seattle in 1989. Sandberg earned her M.A. in sociology at Vanderbilt in 1994. She graduated with honors from Swarthmore College in 1984.

Cal Turner Jr., chairman, president and chief executive officer of Dollar General Corporation, pledged $4 million to Vanderbilt in 1994 to endow in his father's name the Cal Turner Program in Moral Leadership for the Professions.