Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.—Domestic abuse may often happen behind closed doors, but the problem never is bound by age, ethnicity, gender, income, race or other factors.
During a Tuesday [March 1] program at Mississippi State, Christy Pickering will share personal experiences from an abusive relationship—and how eventually she found happiness.
Free to all, the presentation titled “Girl, You Deserve Better” begins at 6 p.m. in Lee Hall’s Bettersworth Auditorium. The university’s Center for Student Activities and Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life are sponsors.
Pickering is a Biloxi certified public accountant and member of the Board of Trustees, State Institutions of Higher Learning. A business administration graduate of the University of Southern Mississippi, she was appointed to the College Board by Gov. Haley Barbour in 2008.
Over the years, Pickering has received numerous awards for service to her local community and state. In 1996, she was named the Small Business Accountant Advocate for the State of Mississippi, and two years later, received the Harrison County Small Business Excellence Award.
Pickering was recognized as Rotarian of the Year in 1991 by the Biloxi Rotary Club, which she had previously served as president, secretary and treasurer.
Also a member of the 1991 inaugural class of Leadership Gulf Coast, Pickering was recognized in 2009 as an Outstanding Community Leader of South Mississippi by the Sun Herald and Mississippi Business Journal.
For more biographical information, visit www.mississippi.edu/board/commissionerdetail_pickering_christine.asp.
Additional details about the program are available by contacting the Center for Student Activities at 662-325-2930 or visiting Suite 314 in the Colvard Student Union.
MSU is Mississippi’s leading university, available online at www.msstate.edu.