WASHINGTON – The National Federation of Municipal Analysts has announced two winners of its annual Peter Fugiel Scholarship and acknowledged three honorable mentions.
Susanne Siebel, a candidate for a master of public administration concentrating in public financial management and financial market regulation at the University of Albany, SUNY, and Allison LeMay, a candidate for a masters of public administration with an emphasis in public finance and policy analysis at Indiana University in Bloomington, both won the scholarship in its second year of existence.
NFMA created the scholarship to honor Fugiel's work as a municipal credit analyst as well as a professor and an educator. He was a past NFMA chair who died in 2014.
The scholarship was originally designed to award one student with a stipend to cover the registration fees and travel costs associated with attending NFMA's educational event, Introduction to Municipal Bond Credit Analysis, which Fugiel developed. But given the high caliber of applicants for the 2015 award, NFMA decided to expand the scholarship to include two winners and three honorable mentions, according to its release.
LeMay and Siebel, along with the three honorable mentions, attended the NFMA's introductory course, which was held in Philadelphia on Nov. 12 and 13. The two winners also received a one-year student membership with NFMA as part of the scholarship.
The three individuals NFMA chose as honorable mentions are: John Creedon Jr., who attends the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University; Lauren Kesselring, who attends the University of Kentucky; and Ivette Tapia, who attends the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
