Council, she helped form the joint City-County Planning Committee to develop the Master Plan for Cincinnati's Central Riverfront and to determine the location of the two stadiums. In 1998, she ensured the expansion of the city's premier riverfront park system by insuring that money was budgeted for the construction of the Theodore M. Berry International Friendship Park. Roxanne was recognized for her strong supports of Cincinnati's arts and cultural community. She was one of three founders of Artworks, a youth employment program that teaches young people work skills by producing public art. She supported the construction of the internationally recognized Contemporary Arts Center, the Aronoff Performing Arts Center, and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, and supported funding of small arts organizations. In 1998, Roxanne was an unsuccessful candidate for Congress. When she completed her last term in office, Roxanne pursued her dual passions of policy and urban design and planning. She served as a Fellow in the Institute of Politics at Harvard Kennedy School (Spring 2000); she served as a 2001 member of the Loeb Fellowship in Environmental Studies at Harvard's Graduate School of Design; and she graduated in 2002 from the Kennedy School with a Master's in Public Administration. Recent activities Qualls currently is an Executive Sales Vice President with Sibcy Cline Realtors in Cincinnati OH. She received her Ohio real estate license in 2010. She is licensed in Ohio and Kentucky. Qualls served as a Visiting Professor at Northern Kentucky University from 2004 to 2007. She taught in the Masters in Public Administration Program. She taught Executive Management, Urban Policy, and Citizens and Governance. In 2005, she became Director of Public Leadership Initiatives. Under her direction, NKU's Institute for Public Leadership and Public Affairs has presented New Leadership Kentucky, a three-day residential program in political leadership for undergraduate women from Kentucky and the Greater Cincinnati metropolitan area. This non-partisan, non-ideological program was developed by the Center for American Women in Politics. In 2007, the Institute began the Advancing Women in Political Leadership project in collaboration with the Women's Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation. Professional achievements Awards and honors Post-Corbett Award Special Award in Arts Education for Artworks, 1997 National Homebuilders Association, Public Official of the Year, Region C, 1997 Project Interchange Seminars in Israel, American Jewish Committee, Women Leaders Exchange, 1997 Honorary Doctorate, Cincinnati State Technical and Community College, 1996 Ohio Public Employees Lawyers Association Award