As the Director for Annual Giving, Thomas leads the Annual Philanthropy Team in coordinating all central UW direct mail, digital media, and phone campaigns with a goal to maximize retention and acquisition of broad base support for the university. His team also serves as a resource for university units who wish to solicit their donors and non-donors on a large scale through targeted campaigns throughout the year. As a UW Tacoma graduate, Thomas takes pride in being able to be part of the important work associated with helping provide UW students, faculty, and staff with the vital resources needed for academic success. His work encompasses a wide range of special projects, university initiatives, and unit-based campaigns that directly impact the goals of UW’s campuses and the university as a whole. His team is in a constant state of innovation and he is excited to implement new tactics and technology to better serve donors and alumni communities.
Janzell’s long career at the University of Utah started with ten years in student affairs before she started managing the College of Nursing’s alumni relations over five years ago. Through these years, Janzell has directed the launch of a renewed Alumni Weekend, including a Half Century Society; Distinguished and Young Alumni Awards; and an annual spring gala, Honors for Nursing, which she and her team said goodbye to while celebrating its 25th anniversary last year. With her roots in student affairs, Janzell strives to ensure current students have a great experience in their programs in hopes that they will continue to be engaged alumni. She was born and raised in Hawaii, received her bachelor’s degree in business, moved to Utah, received her master’s in public administration and enjoys singing and performing around town. As a part Hawaiian, Chinese, Korean, and Norwegian woman, she proudly proclaims her multi-racial identities and is invested in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work. Though she does not seem old enough, she has been married for more than 18 years and adores her two “mediums” (as she calls them), while finding the right balance as a working mom. She says the best part of her job is […]
Beverly joined the Duke Alumni Association in February 2016 as the organization’s first senior director of strategic business analytics. In her four years in this inaugural role, she has been instrumental in establishing internal data governance structure that manages and monitors the quality and usability of alumni engagement data. In addition, she is working across the university to establish a common language around alumni engagement data, developing reporting and data visualization of alumni engagement data for various stakeholders, developing and implemented new coding structure to track alumni engagement data for advance analytics, and implementing Net Promotor Score (NPS) system for event tracking. She comes to DAA with more than 20 years of experience in business intelligence and analytics. Beverly holds a B.A. in business administration from NC Central University, and a M.A. in strategic communications and leadership from Seton Hall University.
Christina is an Associate Professor of Communication at Austin Peay State University, as well as a state-certified Service Learning trainer and member of the Service Learning Advisory Board for her university. Her film, Making the Connection: the Service Learning Revolution, received eight awards for excellence and design following its August 2014 release. Christina’s current projects include an online Service Learning course at APSU, and research on empathy-building activities for students. She has presented at the Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism and Service Learning, the International Association for Research on Service Learning and Community Engagement, the International Symposium on Service Learning, the Alliance Management Institute’s Nonprofit Leadership Alliance conference, the International Organization for Social Science and Behavioral Research, and her chapter, “Think Globally, Act Virtually” was included in the 2018 book, Community Engagement: Principles, Strategies, and Practices by Robert Kronick (Ed.).
Chelsea provides leadership development to faculty and staff at Columbus State University and outside Leadership Institute clients. She is a National Certified Counselor, Mindset Qualified in FourSight, and holds several self-assessment tool certifications, including MBTI, FIRO-B and RightPath. Chelsea has been affiliated with Columbus State University for the last 8 years. She enrolled in the prestigious counseling graduate school program in 2012, specifically looking to work with a variety of both clients and students. Upon her graduation in 2014, she immediately began working at the Academic Center of Excellence as an Academic Advisor, establishing new programs for every major for which she was responsible. She also established several campus-wide initiatives to help students better understand the necessary coursework for their specific educational paths. Prior to coming to CSU, Chelsea was a stalwart student athlete at Southeastern Louisiana University. Playing basketball and maintaining a constant presence on the Dean’s List, she carved out a name for herself both academically and athletically. When she’s not working, she can be found volunteering in the community, specifically with United Way and the Junior League of Columbus. She is a member of the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Columbus Class of 2020.
Shana is a certified Human Behavior Consultant and Certified Executive Coach. She is certified in a variety of self-assessment tools, including DiSC, Bar-On Emotional Intelligence, Hogan, Myers-Briggs and RightPath. Shana is the lead on strategic planning research, development, and writing for many Leadership Institute clients, including the City of Columbus’ “10 Year Plan to End Homelessness.” Shana is also extremely active in the Columbus community, serving on the board of directors for the Columbus Alliance for Battered Women, (DBA Hope Harbour Board), and as a member of the Mayor’s Opportunity Center Task Force and the Junior League of Columbus. She is a member of Leadership Georgia‘s Class of 2019. In 2016, she was named as one of Georgia Trend’s “40 Under 40.” Shana is a 2009 graduate of the Greater Columbus Georgia Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Columbus and was named one of Columbus and the Valley Magazine’s “5 Under 40” in 2012.
Johann has over 24 years of experience as a consultant working with companies in the Silicon Valley to align product development portfolios to strategy, and to prioritize them for the most effective implementation. She has served in executive R&D and Operations positions at a San Jose, CA-based biosciences company, co-founded a management consulting practice in San Jose, and co-founded a consulting practice focused on higher education. Johann was an instructor for Stanford University Center for Professional Development for eleven years, where she taught leadership and strategy courses for the Stanford Advanced Program Management credential series at corporate clients including Cisco, Google, Janssen and Merck. She is currently an instructor for Duke Corporate Education and has also taught and developed curriculum for university programs. Johann is an engaging leader with a track record of increasing organization competencies. She is uniquely capable of building rapport and influencing people at all levels of an organization, in a myriad of cultures, worldwide and collaboratively. She brings proven leadership to Academic Strategy Partners to help colleges and universities in North America align academic programs to institutional strategy and values. Johann holds degrees in Petroleum Engineering and Technical Communication from New Mexico Institute of Mining and […]
During his 18 years at SOU, Dan has served in a variety of campus leadership roles including leading SOU’s campus-wide program prioritization project and serving as the campus liaison for a four-year nationwide research project on the belongingness mindset. He also helped to create an annual international conference on the scholarship of creativity for which he continues to serve as the Executive Director. Dan has chaired a presidential task force that focused on how to infuse creativity programming into the curricular and co-curricular aspects of the university. He earned his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Tennessee and a Masters in I/O Psychology from Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minnesota.
Previously, Eden was associate professor of English and founding director of diversity studies at Mount Mercy University, where she also served as Dr. Thomas R. Feld Chair for Teaching Excellence and Deputy Title IX Coordinator. She is AtIXa trained in Title IX and Civil Rights investigation and coordination. Eden has worked as an educator at violence prevention centers and as a victim’s advocate for sexual assault response teams. She regularly publishes and lectures on how we can respond to one another across differences and in times of crisis. Her book, Reading Testimony, Witnessing Trauma: Confronting Race, Gender, and Violence in American Literature (UP Mississippi 2020) was awarded the Eudora Welty Prize for contributing a new approach to understanding literature and culture, especially through the experiences of women of color. Because of her advocacy for women and children of color, Eden was a finalist for the 2016 United State of Women’s White House Summit Award and 2018 Big of the Year through Big Brothers Big Sisters. In 2017, she was named Woman of the Year by the Women’s Equality Coalition.
Karen serves as Vice President and Dean for Graduate Education and holds academic appointments as tenured Professor in the Departments of Sociology and Department of Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia. Since her arrival at Virginia Tech, her major accomplishments include success in building a strong, diverse and inclusive graduate community; establishing the national award-winning innovative Graduate Life Center (GLC); and implementing the signature academic initiative known as Transformative Graduate Education (TGE), including the global perspectives and preparing the future professoriate programs. She also has been recognized nationally as a leader in the innovative use of technology in graduate education.
