Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy

Crawford B. Bunkley III, a Senior Public Affairs Representative for ExxonMobil,  grew up in Dallas, TX. He is a 1971 graduate of the St. Mark's School of Texas and received his B.A. in American History from Brown University in Providence, RI in 1975. He received a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin in 1978.  He also received his Accreditation in Public Relations from the Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) in 1998.

 

Crawford joined the Public Affairs Department of Exxon Company, U.S.A. in Houston in 1978 focusing on Houston-area contributions and community relations. In 1982 he transferred to the company's Western Production office in Los Angles and, subsequently, Thousand Oaks, CA where he assumed government relations responsibilities for the company's business in Washington State, Oregon, and Nevada. He returned to Houston in 1984 and held a series of Public Affairs assignments in Community Relations, Government Relations and Media, where he worked on issues relating to the company's Marketing operations nationwide.  These assignments also included an opportunity to help develop for and present to a national education audience information regarding the company's response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in Prince William Sound, Alaska.

 

In 2000, following the merger of Exxon and Mobil, Crawford assumed responsibility for managing ExxonMobil's philanthropic contributions to Africa and Europe, which included traveling to such countries as the United Kingdom, Nigeria and Equatorial Guinea.
From 2003 - 2005, he served as a Loaned Executive to the National Action Council for  Minorities in Engineering (NACME) providing media relations and fund development assistance to the nonprofit.

From 2005 to the present, Crawford has been assigned to assist with the management and implementation of the ExxonMobil's various science, technology, engineering and technology (STEM) initiatives, including the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy, the ExxonMobil Bernard Harris Summer Science Camps, and, most recently, the Bernard Harris Dream Tour, sponsored by ExxonMobil. In Houston, he also manages the company's business-school partnerships with more than twenty of the areas' 50-plus school districts. Also manages employee-based volunteer education programs in Houston and nationwide, including the ExxonMobil Science Ambassador Program and the Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day program, which each year mobilizes more than 300 ExxonMobil employee-volunteers nationwide who reach more than 3,000 middle school students.

Joe joined NSTA in May 2006 as Program Director of the Mickelson ExxonMobil Teachers Academy, NSTA’s Building a Presence for Science, and NSTA New Science Teacher Academy. He brings to the Academy extensive elementary classroom experience having taught second, fourth, and fifth grades. Recently, he was an assistant professor at Rhode Island College where he taught science methods in the elementary education department. His academic training includes a B.S. in behavioral sciences from Point Park University, an M.Ed. in elementary education from Duquesne University, an M.S.I.S. in information systems from University of Pittsburgh, and an Ed.D. in instructional leadership from Duquesne University. Joe’s dissertation focused on the teaching of science through inquiry.