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Valerie Dell Huber says that when she was taking courses at Lake Michigan��College in comprehensive social science, she may have been daunted to think that��30 years later she would be working in Washington D.C. with Congress and the��White House to draft legislation as the president of the DC-based National Abstinence��Education Association (NAEA). But today the agency she co-founded provides��advocacy for children and for the schools, health departments, and other organizations��across the country that provide mentors and risk-avoidance education to youth.��

Valerie credits her time at LMC as part of the foundation for her accomplishments. LMC��introduced her to the interplay between social policies and their very real impact on��people. She went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in history with an emphasis in political��science and a master’s degree in education at Cedarville University in Ohio.

After college, Valerie developed a new outlet for everything she had learned: she had��four children. She was a very involved parent, and it became clear to her that her��children’s friends and peers didn’t all have the same advantages as her own and other��children. So as her children grew, she began to channel her energies into practical��efforts that empower youth to make healthy decisions for themselves so they will flourish��as adults.

The��Clarence Beckwith Distinguished Alumni Award was presented to��Valerie Dell Huber in 2014.