Chena Tucker: A Catalyst For Change

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When SUNY Oswego professor Richard Shineman died in 2004, his wife, Barbara, set up the Richard S. 0Shineman Foundation to make a difference in the community he loved.

Since then, the foundation has awarded more than $7 million in grants to more than 100 organizations in central New York, the Syracuse Post-Standard reports.

Now, the foundation's director says, she's "getting my head wrapped around everything right now."

Chena Tucker graduated from SUNY Oswego in 1993, but she moved to Oregon for 13 years to pursue a bachelor of arts in architecture, then started working in the restaurant and hospitality industry.

While there, she earned her MBA while working for a company that offered health insurance and 401Ks.

"That's how I got by�all while earning my MBA while at the college," she says.

Tucker earned her MBA while working at SUNY Oswego's Office of Business and Community Relations, where she oversaw federal and state contracts, grant development, and management, and community engagement.

She's since been promoted to director of the Office of Business and Community Relations at SUNY Oswego, as well as director of the Shineman Foundation.

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