Area Woman Earns Distinguished Alumna Award

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Barbara Nabrit-Stevens

TROY, NY (11/05/2008)(readMedia)--

Barbara Nabrit-Stephens of Tampa, FL, a 1968 graduate of Emma Willard School, has been named the winner of the Humanitarian Award, one of several Distinguished Alumnae Awards bestowed annually by the school. The award was presented at a ceremony held Friday, September 26, at Emma Willard’s campus in Troy, New York.

Nabrit-Stephens’s college recommendation from Emma Willard School stated that she had “both the drive and the capability to make a place in the world, and to achieve much for both the world and herself.”

In the years since, she has achieved much for the poor and those without access to medical care, both as a pediatrician and professor of medicine, and as an advocate for improved healthcare policy for those who rarely have a voice in the process. Nabrit-Stephens chaired the Pediatric Section of the National Medical Association, guiding the development of the strategic plan, which focuses on health disparities in minority children and families. She continues to advocate on behalf of children as a member of the National Children’s Study Advisory Board and the National Medical Association, and as a Fellow of the Academy of Pediatrics. Equally important, she has lived a personal life of civic engagement as a role model and community leader.