About Me

I grew up in Vermont and completed an undergraduate degree in business at the University of Vermont. I then shifted course toward a career in higher education and started with a job at Wesleyan University in Connecticut. I moved to Indiana and earned my master’s degree in student affairs at Indiana University. Afterward, I stayed on at IU working at Bradford Woods Outdoor Leadership Center which is where I first connected with Tau Kappa Epsilon. I helped establish the initial relationship between TKE and Bradford Woods and served as an external facilitator for Leadership Academy IX. I initiated onto the Grand Chapter scroll at the next year’s Academy in June 1999, and I consider the Leadership Academy – in a sense – to be my home chapter and have attended at least part of every Academy since being initiated. I was involved as a volunteer for 15 years and am honored now to serve as a staff member at the Offices of the Grand Chapter. I have over twenty-five years of experience working in higher education, leadership programming, and organizational development. I have worked in many different functional areas at both public and private universities. In my last campus-based position, I was the Director of the MBA Program at Radford University. I am proud of having developed myself as a generalist; the consistent threads in my career have been leadership, team and community development, creativity, and program design. A mentor of mine always urged me to be “future-oriented and solution-focused.” I strive to make this a reality in my professional life and am eager to bring this perspective to the professional staff of the Fraternity and the Foundation.