Meet the Team

Core Pathways Team

Jesse McCain
Associate Director, Public Service Pathways
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Graduate Assistant
Dreama Montrief Johnson
Director, Public Service Pathways
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Administrative and Operations Generalist
Marie-Clare Ofoegbu
Program Coordinator, Leadership and Service
Avery Wagner
Communications Manager, Public Service Pathways and Madison House

People

Planning Team
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities, Career Center, Division of Student Affairs
  • Ellen Blackmon, Senior Academic Program Officer, Office for Academic Outreach
  • Mary Denlinger, Executive Director, Madison House
  • Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Director of Programs, Karsh Institute of Democracy
  • Louis Nelson, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach; Professor, Architectural History
  • Marie-Clare Ofoegbu, Program Coordinator for Leadership, Service, and Info Desk Operations, Division of Student Affairs
  • Liz Sprouse, Director of Alumni Career Engagement, UVA Alumni Association
  • DeVon Wade, Community Partnerships Program Manager, Center for Community Partnerships
Diplomacy & Security Advisory Committee
  • Don Brown, Director of the Data Science Institute; W.S. Calcott Professor in Engineering Systems and Environment; Co-Director of the Translational Health Institute of Virginia, SEAS
  • Jack Davidson, Professor of Computer Science; Director, Cyber Defense Program, SEAS
  • Ashley Deeks, Professor of Scholarly Research in Law; Senior Fellow, Miller Center, School of Law
  • Kirsten Gelsdorf, Professor, Practice of Public Policy; Co-Director, UVA Humanitarian Collaborative, Batten
  • Jennifer Ludovici, Director of Operations for National Security Initiatives, National Security Data and Policy Institute
  • Steve Mull, Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Provost
  • John Owen, Amb. Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics; Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Miller Center for Public Affairs, Politics
  • Phil Potter, Professor of Policy, Batten School; Executive Director, National Security Data and Policy Institute; Director, National Security Policy Center
  • Elizabeth Wall, Associate Director, Public Service and Government Career Community, Career Center
Education Advisory Committee
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities, Education & Youth Development and Healthcare Communities, Career Center
  • Bethany Bell, Chair, Department of Education Leadership, Foundations and Policy; Associate Professor, School of Education and Human Development
  • Jim Soland, Professor of Research, Statistics, and Evaluation; Affiliated Research Fellow, NWEA; School of Education and Human Development
  • Rachel Wahl, Associate Professor of Education; Director, Good Life Political Project at the Karsh Institute of Democracy, School of Education and Human Development
  • Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology; Director, National Marriage Project, College
  • Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology, College
Global Sustainability Advisory Committee
  • Phoebe Crisman, Professor of Architecture; Director of Global Studies, Architecture and Global Studies
  • Howie Epstein, Professor of Environmental Sciences, College
  • Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Politics, College
  • Lela Garner, Student Outreach and Engagement Manager, Office for Sustainability
  • Cale Jaffe, Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic; Director, Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE), School of Law
  • Karen McGlathery, Professor of Environmental Sciences; Director Environmental Resilience Institute, College
  • Ash Morton, Assistant Director, Sustainability Career Community, Career Center
  • Andrea Trimble, Sustainability Director, Office for Sustainability
  • Mark A. White, Associate Professor of Commerce; Director, McIntire Business Institute, McIntire
Justice Advisory Committee
  • Lawrie Balfour, Professor of Politics, College
  • Jennifer Givens, Professor of Law, Innocence Project, School of Law
  • Sherica Jones-Lewis, Director of Community Research, Center for Community Partnerships
  • Tim Longo, Chief of Police, UPD
  • Melvin Mallory, ADA Coordinator, Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights
  • Logan Reed, Assistant Director, Pre-Law Advisor/Career Counselor, Career Center
  • Larry Rowley, Director of Strategic Initiatives, Center for Community Partnerships
  • Sophie Trawalter, Associate Professor, Public Policy and Psychology, Batten
  • Brian Williams, Associate Professor, Public Policy; Visiting Scholar, Center for Public Safety and Justice, Batten
Public Arts Advisory Committee
  • Federico Cuatlacuatl, Assistant Professor of Studio Art, College
  • Jess Harris, Associate Director of Community Partnerships, Center for Community Partnerships
  • Kate Melton, Interim Director of Employer Engagement, UVA Career Center
  • Kyle Sturgeon, Associate Dean of Strategic Initiatives, School of Architecture
  • Emma Terry, Programs and Communications Director, UVA Arts and Provost Office
Public Health Advisory Committee
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities; Education & Youth Development and Healthcare Communities, UVA Career Center
  • Ruth Bernheim, William Hobson Chair and Professor of Public Health Sciences; Associate Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life, School of Medicine
  • Chris Holstege, Professor of Emergency Medicine and Pediatrics; Chief of Division of Medical Toxicology; Senior Associate Vice President of Student Health, School of Medicine
  • Kelsie Kelly, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences; Associate Dean, Office of African American Affairs; Director of Peer Advisors Program, School of Medicine
  • Mohan Nadkarni, Professor of Medicine; David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator; Chief of the Division of General, Geriatric, Palliative and Hospital Medicine, School of Medicine
  • Aaron Pannone, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine
  • Rebecca Schmidt, Director of Impact and Applied Learning, School of Data Science
  • Michael D. Williams, Associate Professor of Surgery and Public Policy; Clinician Physician, School of Medicine and Batten
  • Jamie Zoellner, Co-Program Lead for the Cancer Prevention and Population Health (CPH) program; Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine
Public Interest Technology Advisory Committee
  • Renée Cummings, Professor of Practice in Data Science, Data Activist in Residence, Criminologist, School of Data Science
  • Jonathan Goodall, Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Director, UVA Engineering Link Lab
  • Jonathan Kropko, Assistant Professor of Data Science; Code for Charlottesville; Program Director, M.S. in Data Science Online, School of Data Science
  • Reggie Leonard, Associate Director for Career Connections and Community Engagement, School of Data Science
  • Garrick Louis, Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment; Director of the Small Infrastructure and Development Center, School of Engineering
  • Hannah Pede, Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development, School of Data Science
  • Siri Russell, Associate Dean for Community and Government Partnerships, School of Data Science
Founding Advisory Board (Past Members)
  • Lyndsay Alexander, Chief Operating Officer, Miller Center
  • Andrus Ashoo, Director, Office of Citizen Scholar Development and Undergraduate Research
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities, Education & Youth Development and Healthcare Communities, UVA Career Center
  • April Ballard, Associate Director of Program Development, Center for Global Health Equity
  • Megan Barnett, Vice Provost for Pan-University Initiatives, Office of the EVPP
  • Ellen Cook, Director of Student Development, Athletics Department
  • Katie Densberger, Director of Academic Student Support, Total Advising Center
  • Sarah Dodge, Associate Director of Advising Technology, Total Advising Center
  • Bevin Etienne, Assistant Professor of Commerce, McIntire
  • Funlola Fagbohun, Associate Director, First Year Experience, Division of Student Affairs
  • Mary Gentile, Creator/Director, Giving Voice To Values; Professor, Darden
  • Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Director of Programming, Karsh Institute of Democracy
  • Vicki Gist, Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director, Multicultural Student Services
  • David Leblang, Henry J Taylor & Mrs Marion R Taylor Professor of Politics; Director, Global Policy Center, Politics and Batten
  • David (Dave) Marquis, Director, Student Engagement, Division of Student Affairs
  • Paul Martin, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Batten
  • Angel Parham, Associate Professor of Sociology, College
  • Margot Rogers, Vice President for Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President
  • Josipa Roksa, Associate Provost for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Sociology and Education, Office of the EVPP
  • Noah Salomon, Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies; Director of Undergraduate Program, College
  • Jeffrey C. Smith, II, Assistant Dean, Office of African American Affairs
  • Michael J. Smith, Thomas C. Sorenson Professor of Political and Social Thought; Associate Professor of Politics, College
  • Liz Sprouse, Director of Alumni Career Engagement, UVA Alumni Association
  • Andrea Trimble, Sustainability Director, Office for Sustainability
  • DeVon Wade, Community Partnerships Program Manager, Center for Community Partnerships
  • Rachel Wahl, Associate Professor of Education; Director, Good Life Political Project at the Karsh Institute of Democracy, School of Education and Human Development