Amy has worked at Georgetown University for nine years. Prior to that she was an architect in private practice. With over 25 years of experience, her focus as a planner and architect at Georgetown has been overseeing capital project design, emphasizing thoughtful responses to campus-wide, built-environment challenges that incorporate Georgetown’s rich cultural history, mission and context. She has been involved in the planning, programming, design, and construction of multiple student-focused projects, including the Residential Improvement Master Plan, Healey Family Student Center, Lauinger Library Special Collections, Ryan and Freedom Halls (residence hall), and the Northeast Triangle (residence hall).
Tanya oversees ACE veterans initiatives. In this role, she works in collaboration with institutions of higher learning, employers, veteran and military service organizations, and other key stakeholders to identify promising practices and partnerships that will build and enhance a smoother transition from military service into post-secondary education and the civilian workforce. Tanya has worked in higher education for over 15 years in a variety of roles, including Administrative Analyst for the Vice President of Student Affairs Office at California State University, Fullerton and Associate Registrar at Vanguard University, where the majority of her work focused on the non-traditional student, including military and student veterans. Ang serves on the Secretary of Veterans Affairs’ Advisory Committee on Education.
Bruce provides strategic leadership for the center as a direct report to the Vice President of Academic Affairs. Kelley also serves as the Accreditation Liaison Officer (ALO) between the University of South Dakota and the Higher Learning Commission. Kelley is the author of two books and numerous articles, including the highly acclaimed Preparing Your Campus for Veterans’ Success: An Integrated Approach to Facilitating the Transition and Persistence of our Military Students (Stylus, 2013).
Domenick Pinto is an Associate Professor of Computer Science, as well as the department chair and director of both the Master’s in Computer Science and the Master’s in Cyber Security at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT. He has been with Sacred Heart for 40 years and has been chairperson for 29 of those years. Domenick has presented at numerous conferences in his career including the Academic Chairperson’s conference, the CIC Chair’s workshop, the International Conference on Teaching and Learning at which he received 2 excellence in teaching awards and has been an invited workshop presenter. He has published numerous times in the Department Chair publication and has been honored several times at Sacred Heart for his outstanding leadership and service and teaching. In addition, Domenick has served as University Academic Assembly president twice.
With 25 years of fundraising leadership experience, Fiona Newton is currently Director of Donor and Volunteer Engagement for Johns Hopkins University. Her responsibilities include improving the engagement of some 1800 leadership volunteers (trustees, advisory council and other volunteer leaders) and ensuring high quality, effective stewardship and recognition of top institutional donors during the university’s $5 billion fundraising campaign, Rising to the Challenge: The Campaign for Johns Hopkins. Previously at Johns Hopkins, she worked as Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations for the School of Nursing, exceeding the School’s $55 million target for the last campaign, and as Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations for the Bloomberg School of Public Health. In 2003, Fiona moved to the USA from the UK, where she worked as a fundraising strategy consultant for Marie Curie Cancer Care, Big Brothers Big Sisters UK and Johns Hopkins University, and prior to that as Director of Development and Communications for the Royal Academy of Music, and as a Head of Regional Appeals for the NSPCC, a leading UK children’s charity. Fiona has a Masters in Management from Ashridge Business School. She is interested in organizational development and talent management of staff and volunteers in the nonprofit […]
Formerly Treasurer and Executive Director of Real Estate and Business Development at Boise State University, Jared has approximately 20 years’ experience in higher education. Jared has presented at numerous conferences, and has published many articles on various topics, including public/private partnerships. Jared has been involved in numerous P3 projects for several years, including two recent projects, one opening in 2016 and one in 2017, that will add almost 300,000 square feet of facilities using the P3 model. Facilities uses included student housing, dining, offices and classroom spaces. Jared has a bachelor’s degree in supply chain management from Arizona State University and masters of business administration from Boise State University.
In her role at UCA, Christina helped create and oversees the division of University Relations and Creative Services which includes video, photography, creative services, media, social media and web content for the university. Christina made the switch from television news to higher education in March 2014. Prior to joining UCA, Christina spent 11 years at KATV Channel 7 where she was the evening anchor alongside Scott Inman for nine years. Throughout her time at KATV, Christina covered a variety of stories and events which took her all over the state, nation, and even to Mexico to highlight the work of Arkansans there. She covered presidential campaigns, sporting events, and her favorite – feature stories about Arkansans overcoming adversity. Christina came to Little Rock from Duluth, Minnesota, where she was a reporter for KDLH, the CBS affiliate. Prior to that she worked behind the scenes at WCCO in Minneapolis. Christina received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Mass Communications with an emphasis in Broadcast Journalism and a minor in Spanish from the University of Minnesota. Christina is also a published author. She and former KATV News Director, Randy Dixon, created a book in memory of Anne Pressly, a KATV anchor/reporter who […]
Jessie McHeffey is a digital communications specialist committed to building high impact communications strategies for dynamic non-profit organizations and universities. She is currently the advancement communications project manager for Stony Brook University, and is responsible for the management of content for all of Stony Brook Advancement’s digital media channels. Through the development of websites, reports, newsletters, email communications, and social media, she tells the Stony Brook story to University alumni, prospects and donors with the goal of advancing excellence and raising funds to support the University’s mission. In 2015, she was named a CASE Simpson Scarborough scholar, an award given to promising communications and marketing practitioners in the educational advancement profession, and her work on Advancement’s innovative 40 Under Forty website was recently recognized with a 2015 Web Marketing Association WebAward and a 2016 SUNYCUAD Award of Excellence Judges Citation for Website Design.
Since his arrival at St. Mary’s in 2013, Ross has worked to develop an institution-wide student retention plan, rooted in research and supported by data and strategic analytics. He works closely with various divisions to bridge the retention and student success initiatives in an attempt to streamline efforts and provide a campus-wide scope for student success. He successfully implemented an early alert program as a way to help students as well as collect data and develop a predictive model to address success barriers and develop programs to address pervasive issues affecting student retention. Ross completed his graduate work at Drexel University in higher education administration with a concentration in institutional research and planning, where the focus of his research was the retention of at-risk students, specifically low-income and first-generation students. Additionally, he is nearing the completion of a second graduate program in predictive analytics from Northwestern University.
Harry coaches leaders, designs and delivers leadership development initiatives, and writes about leadership. He has held executive roles in four multinational corporations and teaching roles at several universities, and he serves on two nonprofit boards. His books include: Leadership in Nonprofit Organizations: Lessons from the Third Sector, and Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate Your Organization’s Most Powerful Resource.
