Meet the Team

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
  • Eric Hunter, Associate Director of Alumni Career Services, UVA Alumni Association
  • DeVon Wade, Community Partnerships Program Manager, The Equity Center
  • 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
  • Eric Hunter, Associate Director, Alumni Career Services; Alumni Association
  • 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; Equity Center
  • 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
  • Vacant, Assistant Director for Sustainability Career Community; Career Center - Student Affairs
  • 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; Equity Center
  • 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; Equity Center
  • 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; Equity Center
  • 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