CONFERENCE SPEAKER BIOS

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CONFERENCE SPEAKERS AT A GLANCE

Keynote speakers

Wednesday

Anthony P. Carnevale, Ph.D
Director of the Georgetown University Center on Education
and the Workforce

Thursday

Lynn Pasquerella, Ph.D
President of Mount Holyoke College

Speakers

LaChan Anderson
Former Transfer Student, University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill, Exec. Assistant to the CEO,
Bennett Aerospace

Stephanie Balmer
Vice President for Enrollment and Communications
and Dean of Admissions, Dickinson College

Jennifer Benn
Founding Director, Kaplan Education Foundation

Cathy Burack, Ed.D.
Senior Fellow for Higher Education at the Center for Youth
and Communities in the Heller School for Social Policy
and Management, Brandeis University

Louis Caldera
Vice President of Programs, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Youlonda Copeland-Morgan
Associate Vice President for Enrollment Management
and Director of Scholarships and Student Aid,
Syracuse University

Mark Davies
Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management,
Bucknell University

Dilip A. Das
Assistant Provost for Academic Affairs,
University of Michigan

Rebecca Egbert
Assistant Director of Admissions,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Paul Erickson
Visiting Lecturer, Cornell University

Brent Evans
Doctoral Student, Stanford University

Stephen Farmer
Associate Provost/Director of Undergraduate Admissions,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Nicole Farmer Hurd Ph.D.
Executive Director, National College Advising Corps

Tonya Forbes
Dean of the Mathematics and Sciences Division,
Wake Technical Communitity College

Emily Froimson
Director of Higher Education, Jack Kent Cooke Foundation

Aaron Fulkerson
2002 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate
Transfer Scholar, Co-founder and CEO, MindTouch

Thomas Gould, Ph.D.
Dean and Department Head of the Arts and Sciences,
and University Transfer Department at Duhram Technical
Community College

Stephen J. Handel, Ph.D.
Senior Director of Higher Education Relationship Development and Community College Initiatives, College Board

Perry Hardison
C-STEP Advisor, Alamance Community College

David Hartino
Former Transfer Student, Cornell University
Instructor, Cornell's Sibley School of Mechanical
Engineering

Kerin Hilker-Balkissoon
Director of the Pathway to the Baccalaureate Program,
Northern Virginia Community College

Caraleigh Holverson
2005 Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Transfer Scholar, Georgetown University Youth Venture

Norm Jones
Assistant to the President, Dickinson College

Gregory Kienzl, Ph.D.
Director of Research and Evaluation, Institute for Higher Education Policy

Susan Lanspery, Ph.D.
Scientist at the Center for Youth and Communities in the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University

Lucy E. Laufe , Ph.D.
Professor of Anthropology, Montgomery College in Maryland

Dory Leahy
Dean of Retention Services, Harrisburg Area
Community College

Rebecca H. Mack
Career Counselor, Monroe Community College

Consuelo A. Nelson
Transfer Student, Mount Holyoke College Graduate Student, American University

Becky Wai-Ling Packard, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Psychology and Education, Mount Holyoke College

Dorothy Plantz
Director of Transfer Center, Howard Community College

Cathleen Sheils
Director of Admissions, ILR School, Cornell University

Elizabeth Tankersley-Bankhead, Ph.D.
Executive Director, Missouri College Advising Corps

Kurt Thiede
Vice President for Enrollment Management,
Bucknell University

Susan Tobia
Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs,
Community College of Philadelphia

John A. Vasquez
Assistant Director for the Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, University of Michigan

Ronald Williams, Ph.D.
Vice President, College Board

Joshua Wyner
Senior Advisor, Proof Points