May Woodard-Hickey

About May Woodard-Hickey

May Woodard-Hickey is an administrative assistant at Harris Public Policy, where she works with approximately thirty-two faculty and lecturers. Her responsibilities include such duties as scheduling appointments and meetings, scheduling travel arrangements for faculty and invited guests for conferences and workshops, ordering office supplies and textbooks, ordering food and refreshments for workshops, assisting with formatting documents, duplicating materials, maintaining the workshop website, and other administrative duties as assigned.

Before coming to Harris, May worked at Louisiana State University Medical Center-School of Allied Health Professions as Department Secretary for nine years. After relocating to Chicago, she was employed by Northwestern University-Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center as Program Assistant for five years, and at the University of Chicago-Department of Pathology as a Pre-Award Grants Assistant for fourteen years.

May graduated from Southern University-Shreveport with an associate of science degree in office administration. She also received a BS in business management from Louisiana State University-Shreveport. To keep abreast with the latest changes in office technology, May enrolled in the Microsoft Office Specialist program at Moraine Valley Community College and received her certificate in 2015