Deva-Marie Beck is a Canadian / American nurse, author, educator, and Florence Nightingale scholar who serves as a volunteer International Co-Director of the Nightingale Initiative for Global Health (NIGH). Currently, she is developing — in teamwork with a growing group of nurses from around the world — an updated approach to NIGH’s mandate — engaging nurses, student nurses, retirees and concerned citizens to share their voices out across the global public space with their care, commitments, and concerns for a better world.
To prepare for this project, Dr. Beck has also been an active member of Toastmasters International (TI) and served as an 2018-2019 Area Director for TI District 64. Based on eight years of accomplishing a series of 40 required public presentations and related leadership
activities — to educate and empower the personal and professional growth of her peers—she achieved the highest-level education Award from TI — as a Distinguished Toast Master ‘DTM.’ She now aims to use this ‘credential’ to develop innovative ways to educate, encourage and engage nurses and concerned citizens to share their voices and tell their stories at local, regional and global levels.
