- Dynamic higher education professional with over 25 years of teaching and administrative experience.
- Strengths-focused leader committed to building inclusive, engaged, and highly innovative teams.
- Proven track record implementing large-scale student success and completion initiatives.
- Lifelong commitment to addressing racial, social, and economic disparities in higher education.
- Highly skilled at bringing diverse stakeholders together to find “win-win” solutions to complex problems, particularly in settings requiring diplomacy, equanimity, and grace.
- Extensive curriculum design and program development experience across face-to-face, online, and blended learning environments.
- Skilled in both quantitative and qualitative research methods and committed to fostering data informed decision making at all levels of the organization.
- Highly knowledgeable in higher education assessment and accreditation practices, including extensive program review experience in both transfer and CTE pathways.
- Extensive management experience including recruiting, onboarding, developing, and evaluating instructional personnel and staff in collective bargaining environments.
- Substantial strategic planning and budgetary experience, including grant administration, fund-raising, and community outreach initiatives.
- "Do you know what intelligence is? It is the capacity, surely, to think freely without fear, without a formula, so that you begin to discover for yourself what is real, what is true. Not to imitate but to discover— that is education." -- Jiddu Krishnamurti