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ETEC - Olivia Blackmon, ORAU, Director for the Partnership for Nuclear Energy

ETEC - Olivia Blackmon, ORAU, Director for the Partnership for Nuclear Energy

Friday, February 28, 2025 (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM) (EST)

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Join us at ETEC in-person or virtually on Friday, February 28, 2025, at 7:30am to hear from Olivia Blackmon, Director for the Partnership for Nuclear Energy at Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU).  She will be discussing Shaping the Nuclear Energy Ecosystem in Tennessee. Her bio is below.


No registration is necessary for in-person attendance.

 

Click here to register for the VIRTUAL meeting: (note, NEW Meeting Link through June 27, 2025:

https://tennessee.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUrd-CgrDMiHNTsDsHqH0FyubCh2ys57LzH) 


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Olivia M. Blackmon

Director for the Partnership for Nuclear Energy

Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)

Olivia M. Blackmon, BA Sociology '99, MA '11, PhD '15, boasts an impressive background with more than 25 years of professional experience in critical infrastructure, regional innovation, partnership development and business operations.  

She earned her doctoral and master’s degrees in sociology with a concentration in education technology and statistics from George Mason University and was an EWA fellow for education policy at Harvard University.   She received a Fulbright for Education and Technology research in Kenya and Panama.

Blackmon is currently the Director for the Partnership for Nuclear Energy for the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU) STEM Accelerator. She oversees the mobilization of partners to conduct research and development, drive technical solutions, and inform and educate federal, state and local policy focused on Nuclear Energy. The Partnership for Nuclear Energy a national initiative to strengthen America’s global leadership in STEM by unifying and mobilizing a comprehensive body of leaders from various sectors to address the critical challenges in the nuclear energy education, training, and workforce development issues across the United States.  In 2025, Dr. Blackmon will be on a short-term Fulbright working across Africa to support the expansion of Clean Energy and Nuclear in collaboration with public-private partners across 10 countries.

Prior to joining ORAU, Blackmon directed a $30 million United States Agency of International Development (USAID) program for DAI, Inc., to enable the digital transformation of the Western Balkans, Black Sea Region, and South Caucasus by working with the national governments, critical infrastructure operators, private sector partners, academia, and oversight bodies to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities across critical infrastructure sectors. Her work included developing partnerships to address the necessary legal, workforce, and investment gaps needed to support critical infrastructure resilience and document lessons learned.  

Blackmon led the mobilization of over 1,000 partnerships to support MITRE’s COVID-19 Coalition, a major initiative supported by more than 20 U.S. Federal Agencies and the White House.  This private sector led response gathered healthcare organizations, technology firms, nonprofits, and academia impacting over 19 programs to include vaccine distribution, contact tracing, digital health innovation, access to health in rural areas, and other programs.   

Over the last decade Blackmon has successfully built and managed programs totaling more than $130 million with multiple federal agencies including the Department of Defense, Department of State, National Science Foundation, USAID, Department of Health Services and National Institute of Standards and Technology.
ETEC - UT Outreach Center
1201 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830 United States


Click here to register for the VIRTUAL version of the meeting


Meeting ID: 816 0982 8860
Event Contact
Hailey Lewis
Friday, February 28, 2025 (7:30 AM - 8:30 AM) (EST)


Complimentary coffee, bagels, muffins and pastries served.

The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. 
Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. 
The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked. 

-If you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); take a right onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, take a left onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. 

-Alternatively, if you are coming from Knoxville via S. Illinois Ave (TN-62W); you can take a sharp right and merge onto Lafayette Dr; turn left onto W. Gettysburg Ave; turn right onto Manhattan Ave; then at the intersection of Manhattan Ave and S. Rutgers Ave, continue straight across onto Rice Rd until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd; take a right onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. 







-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via the Turnpike, you will find us between the intersection of S. Rutgers Ave and Wallace Rd, between the Applebee's and Dairy Queen, across the street from St. Mary's School. The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked. 

-If you are coming from Oak Ridge via Illinois Ave; turn onto S. Rutgers Ave, and continue until you come to the intersection of Rice Rd and Rider Rd, across from ORNL Corporate Headquarters; after the Quality Inn, turn onto Rider Rd and you will arrive at your destination on the right.  The Outreach Center is located on the back corner of the building on the Applebee’s side. The entrance faces the Quality Inn and Applebee's. Look for an awning and sign that says University of Tennessee Outreach Center. The main entrance of the ETEC Office will be locked. 
















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If inclement weather is expected on a Friday morning, and we decide to move to an ALL-VIRTUAL Zoom format, we will notify members by 5:00 p.m. the evening before. 

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If you do not receive an email and there are no notices on the website, we will proceed with the in-person (hybrid) meeting as planned, but we advise everyone to use their own judgment based on road conditions in their areas.

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