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Elizabeth Warman, director of the Boeing Company's Global Corporate Citizenship program, northwest region; and Steve Mason, senior manager, EHS and Chemical Value Chain, Boeing Commercial Airplanes – Portland, will speak at the spring 2011 MBA Social Issues in Business Speaker Series at Washington State University Vancouver. The lecture will be held at 7 p.m. March 30 in the Undergraduate Classroom building, room 1. The lecture is free and open to the public. Warman will discuss Boeing's stakeholder initiatives in the Pacific Northwest with an emphasis on state and local government relations, employee volunteerism and corporate philanthropy in her lecture, "The Boeing Company's Global Corporate Citizenship Program in the NW Region." Warman served as manager of government relations, northwest region, with the Boeing Company for 25 years. In 2010, she transferred to Boeing's Global Corporate Citizenship program to direct the company's philanthropic programs for the Northwest. When Mason takes over the microphone, he will highlight Boeing's environmental efforts in his presentation, ''Boeing and the Environment.'' Mason spent 19 years in materials and process technology for Boeing prior to moving to Portland in 2000. His 30-year career with the company has included leading hazardous waste minimization programs, providing technical support in the development of federal aerospace-specific air quality regulations and industry leadership in the implementation of wellfield protection regulations in Portland. Boeing's Global Corporate Citizenship program helps the company create innovative products and services, operate in a responsible manner from a foundation of customer satisfaction, safety and quality, and partner with organizations to improve education, health and human services, arts and cultural programs, and environmental awareness around the world. WSU Vancouver's MBA Social Issues in Business Series brings business leaders to campus once a se