Shana Wiley, a resident of Waldron, has been named the recipient of the Hari Mirchandani Community Service Award. This award is given annually to an Ivy Tech Community College-Columbus student in recognition of his or her love of community and selflessness in service to others. It is named after Hari Mirchandani, the first full-time faculty member to be employed by Ivy Tech-Columbus, who was greatly respected and appreciated by his students because of his concern for and willingness to help them achieve.
Shana Wiley received a bachelor’s degree, cum laude, from the University of Evansville. She joined the Peace Corps in 2000 and was assigned to Romania from 2000 until 2002, where she taught English. She returned to Indiana and graduated in 2004 from the Licensed Practical Nursing program at Ivy Tech-Columbus.
In 2006 she moved to Illinois and completed her master’s degree in Health Education. She continued to work for the Peace Corps until 2008 when she returned to Indiana. She then worked as a school nurse and in 2009 enrolled at Ivy Tech-Columbus again to complete an associate of science in nursing, cum laude. Her plans are to volunteer with Indianapolis groups providing international health interventions, such as in Haiti and Chile.
Wiley was given the award because of her “continued desire to serve people locally and internationally.”