About Victoria Pilate, Ph.D.
Victoria Pilate is a researcher and former statistician and economist with the federal government.
She is an author and the founder the Crandell & Rose publishing house.
She received recognition from the President's Council on Integrity and Efficiency and the
Executive Council on Integrity and Efficiency in 2004. Her awards include 2002 UMBC Graduate
Dissertation Assistantship Awardee; 1999 USDA Service Award; 1997 Secretary’s Exceptional
Achievement Award; 1992 National Consortium for Educational Access Fellow (not taken); 1992
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Special Fellow. In late 2005, she was named by the
University of Maryland Baltimore County as an outstanding alumnus, being featured by the
Graduate School's Horizon Program.
Pilate earned undergraduate degrees in economics and business administration (magna cum
laude) from Florida A&M University. There she was an SBI Gold Star Scholar and Presidential
Scholar for four years. Her honors include being President of the Presidential Scholars
Association for two years and Florida Leader magazine's Florida Student of the Year (honorable
mention). At Florida A&M University, she founded the B.L. Perry, Jr. Scholarship Fund which
awarded three $500 scholarships in its first year. At FAMU, she was one of two Florida students
to be named in 1988 a Prudential College Future Leader, participating in the Prudential College
Future Leaders Conference. FAMU named her most outstanding female student in 1989 winning
the Rattler Pride Award.
Pilate completed a master's degree in economics from Howard University. She holds a Ph.D.
from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
In 2007, Pilate was named to the Business Executives Advisory Board of the University of
Maryland, Eastern Shore's School of Business and Technology. Victoria Pilate is a member of
the Southeast Association of Colleges and Employers, the Southern Association of College
Student Affairs, the UMBC Alumni Association, and Sigma Beta Delta.