Christine Tempesta is the Senior Director of Information Systems and Volunteer Services in the Alumni Association at MIT. She is responsible for the teams that focus on web development, data analytics, and advancement services, as well as volunteer leadership identification, recruitment, training and stewardship. Arriving at MIT in 1996 after a thirteen-year career with the American Heart Association, Christine is a strategist and ardent fan of technology, she works online and off to create community and establish meaningful interactions between alumni, students, faculty and staff. Her experience in fundraising, alumni relations, communications, social media and community organization guide her in working toward technology solutions and innovation across all aspects of advancement. Prior to her current role, she served as Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives from 2008 to 2014 and Director of Alumni Relations from 2003 to 2008. She is immediate past Chair of the CASE District 1 Board of Directors.
As the University of Central Florida’s CIO, Joel has overall responsibility for library, computing, networking, telecommunications, media services, and distributed learning activities. Joel has been an information technology consultant to both public and private sector organizations and has been active in the development of statewide education and research networks in Illinois and Florida. He has served and held offices on numerous state, regional, and national IT committees in areas including public broadcasting, distributed learning, and networking.
With more than 30 years of professional experience at various-sized higher education institutions and with a Fortune 500 company, Cindy’s breadth of public relations experience includes crisis communications, issues management, media relations, web communications, integrated marketing and advertising, photography and videography, publications, community relations, visitors centers and speakers bureaus. Cindy has provided issues management and crisis communications consultation to many universities throughout the United States, Canada, and the world. She also has provided timely webinars on a variety of crisis communications and marketing topics through Academic Impressions and HigherEd Hero, and she has been a lead instructor at past Crisis Communications Institutes hosted by Academic Impressions. As an Observer/Controller for the National Emergency Response and Recovery Training Center in Texas in the past. She provided consultation to numerous cities, counties and municipalities regarding their crisis communications and emergency preparedness. Cindy is a regular guest speaker at Harvard’s Crisis Leadership in Higher Education, one of that university’s Institutes for Higher Education programs specifically designed for Presidents, Chancellors and other senior leaders. Recently retired, Cindy served in several senior-leadership positions in public relations, communications and marketing at DePaul University, the University of North Carolina Wilmington, the University of North Carolina system and […]
