Meet the Team

Core Pathways Team

Ellie Graff
Graduate Assistant, Public Service Pathways
Dreama Johnson
Director, Public Service Pathways
Jesse McCain
Associate Director, Public Service Pathways
Janie Nowicki
Administrative and Operations Generalist

People Committees and Boards

Planning Team
  • Louis Nelson, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach; Professor, Architectural History
  • Ellen Blackmon, Senior Academic Program Officer, Office for Academic Outreach
  • Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Director of Programs, Karsh Institute of Democracy
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities, Career Center, Division of Student Affairs
  • Liz Sprouse, Director of Alumni Career Services, UVA Alumni Association
  • DeVon Wade, Community Partnerships Program Manager, Center for Community Partnerships
  • Marie-Clare Ofoegbu, Program Coordinator, Student Engagement, Division of Student Affairs
Advisory Board
  • Lyndsay Alexander, Managing Director; Contemplative Sciences 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 Academic Initiatives; Office of the EVPP
  • Ellen Cook, Director of Student Development; Athletics Department
  • Katie Densberger, Director of Academic Student Support; Total Advising
  • Sarah Dodge, Assistant Director; Orientation & New Student Programs
  • Bevin Etienne, Assistant Professor of Commerce; McIntire Commerce School
  • Funlola Fagbohun, Assistant Director; Orientation & New Student Programs
  • Mary Gentile, Creator/Director, Giving Voice To Values; Professor; Darden Business School
  • Stefanie Georgakis Abbott, Director of Programming; Karsh Institute for Democracy
  • Vicki Gist, Associate Dean of Students and Director; Multicultural Student Services
  • David Leblang, Henry J Taylor & Mrs Marion R Taylor Prof of Politics; Politics Department and Batten School; Director, Global Policy Center
  • David (Dave) Marquis, Director; Student Engagement
  • 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 and Associate Professor of Politics; College
  • Liz Sprouse, Director; 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; School of Education and Human Development 
Diplomacy & Security Advisory Committee
  • Colonel Jason Bell, Commander, Air Force; ROTC
  • Ashley Deeks, Professor of Scholarly Research in Law; Senior Fellow, Miller Center; School of Law
  • Jack Davidson, Professor of Computer Science; Director, Cyber Defense Program; SEAS 
  • Kristen Eichenesehr, Martha Lubin Karsh and Bruce A. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law; Director, National Security Law Center; School of Law
  • Kirsten Gelsdorf, Professor, Practice of Public Policy; Batten
  • Elizabeth Wall, Associate Director - Public Service and Government Career Community; UVA Career Center
  • Steve Mull, Vice Provost for Global Affairs; Provost
  • John Owen, Amb. Henry J. and Mrs. Marion R. Taylor Professor of Politics, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and the Miller Center for Public Affairs; Politics
  • Phil Potter, Associate Professor; College, Batten
  • Don Brown, Founding Director of the Data Science Institute, the W.S. Calcott Professor in the Engineering Systems and Environment Department and Co-Director of the Translational Health Institute of Virginia; SEAS 
Education Advisory Committee
  • Michelle Ball, Director of Career Communities; Education & Youth Development and Healthcare Communities, UVA Career Center
  • Bethany Bell, Chair, Department of Education Leadership, Foundations and Policy; Associate Professor; School of Education and Human Development
  • Jim Soland, Assistant Professor; School of Education and Human Development
  • Rachel Wahl, Associate Professor; School of Education and Human Development
  • Brad Wilcox, Professor of Sociology; College
  • Daniel Willingham, Professor of Psychology; College
Global Sustainability Advisory Committee
  • Phoebe Crisman, Professor of Architecture, Director of Global Studies; Architecture, Global Studies
  • Howie Epstein, Professor of Environmental Sciences; College
  • Paul Freedman, Associate Professor of Politics; College
  • Cale Jaffe, Professor of Law; Director, Environmental Law and Community Engagement Clinic; Director, Program in Law, Communities and the Environment (PLACE); Law
  • Ash Jenkins, Career Counselor; Sustainability Career Community
  • Karen McGlathery, Professor of Environmental Sciences, Director Environmental Resilience Institute; College
  • Mark A. White, Associate Professor of Commerce; Director, McIntire Business Institute; McIntire
  • Andrea Trimble, Sustainability Director; Office for Sustainability
  • Lela Garner, Sustainability Specialist - Outreach and Engagement; Office for Sustainability
Justice Advisory Committee
  • Lawrie Balfour, Professor, Politics; College
  • Frank Dukes, Lecturer, Distinguished Institute Fellow; School of Architecture
  • Jennifer Givens, Professor of Law; Innocence Project; School of Law
  • Sherica Jones-Lewis, Director of Community Research; Center for Community Partnerships
  • Melvin Mallory, ADA Coordinator; Office for Equal Opportunity and Civil Rights
  • Logan Reed, Assistant Director, Pre-Law Advisor/Career Counselor; Career Center - Student Affairs
  • 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; Batten
  • Tim Longo, Chief of Police; UPD 
Public Arts Advisory Committee
  • Federico Cuatlacuatl, Assistant Professor, Studio Art; College
  • Jessica Harris, Arts Research Program Manager; Center for Community Partnerships
  • Kate Melton, Associate Director for Creative Career Community; Career Center
  • Emma Terry, Programs and Comms 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 Professor and Chair of the Department of Public Health Sciences, Director of the Institute for Practical Ethics and Public Life; School of Medicine
  • Chris Holstege, Professor; Emergency Medicine School of Medicine
  • Kelsie Kelly, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, Associate Dean of African American Affairs; School of Medicine, Office of African American Affairs
  • Mohan Nadkarni, Professor of Medicine, David A. Harrison Distinguished Educator; School of Medicine
  • Aaron Pannone, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences; School of Medicine
  • Michael D. Williams, Associate Professor of Surgery and Public Policy, Clinician Physician; School of Medicine, 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; SDS
  • Jonathan Kropko, Assistant Professor of Data Science; Code for Charlottesville, Program Director, M.S. in Data Science Online; SDS
  • Reggie Leonard, Associate Director for Career Connections and Community Engagement; SDS
  • Garrick Louis, Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment; Director of the Small Infrastructure and Development Center; SEAS
  • Hannah Pede, Assistant Director of Career and Professional Development; SDS