Meet A Deac Archive

What is Meet A Deac?

Meet A Deac is a series of interviews with campus community members; these appear in the Daily Deac blog. We hope you enjoy getting to know some of the people that make Wake Forest such an extraordinary place.

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Featured Community Members

Darren Aaron

• Director of Finance and Operations, Health & Wellbeing; Associate Director, Student Health Service; and Advisor, Wake Forest Emergency Medical Services

Rebecca Alexander

• Professor of Chemistry, Director of Wake Downtown, and Associate Dean for Research and Community Engagement

Sarra Alqahtani

• Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science

Betsy Barre

• Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Teaching

Zach Blackmon

• Associate Director of Operations, Residence Life and Housing

JL Bolt

• General Superintendent in the Construction Division of Facilities & Campus Services

Gail Bretan

• Associate Chaplain for Jewish Life

Ashlee Canty

• Inclusive Practice Manager, Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Anna Marie Carr-Reinhard (’12)

• Director, Office of Family Engagement

Stephanie Carter

• Director of Residence Life, Residence Life and Housing

Betsy Chapman (’92, MA ’94)

• Executive Director of Family Communications

Samuel Cho

• Associate Professor in the Departments of Physics and Computer Science

Elizabeth Clendinning

• Associate Professor of Music and Director of Gamelan Giri

Brian Cohen

• Assistant Director for Sustainability Engagement

Rachel Conway

• Sports Psychologist, Athletics

Laura Denlinger

• Tutor Coordinator, Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (formerly Learning Assistance Center & Disability Services)

Davita DesRoches (MDiv ’21)

• Alternative Media Specialist, Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (CLASS)

Gregory Deverson

• Coordinator for Intramural Sports, Campus Recreation

Shannon Dubuisson

• Executive Director of University Events

Rob Erhardt

• Associate Professor of Statistics and Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Naijla Faizi (’14)

• Associate Chaplain for Muslim Life

Jennifer Finkel

• Acquavella Curator of Wake Forest’s Art Collections, Office of University Art Collections

Michelle Ford (’10)

• Program Coordinator, Office of Wellbeing

Jessica Francis

• Director of Global Abroad in the Center for Global Programs and Studies (GPS)

Adam Friedman

• Director of the Instructional Technology Group and Professor of Social Studies Education, Department of Education

Jackie Friedman

• Associate Director of the Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (formerly the Learning Assistance Center and Disability Services)

David Hagy

• Teaching Professor and Orchestra Director, Music Department

Ashleigh Hala

• Director of the Office of Wellbeing

Ashley Hawkins Parham (MA ’12)

• Wellbeing Program Manager, Office of Wellbeing

Suzanne Hawks

• Disability and Learning Assistance Specialist, Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (formerly Learning Assistance Center and Disability Services)

Lauren Haynes

• Assistant Director for Leadership Initiatives, Office of Student Engagement

Ashley Heffner

• Staff Psychologist, Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (formerly Learning Assistance Center & Disability Services)

Steven Heffner (MD ’09)

• Staff Physician, Student Health Service

Kelia Hubbard

• Director of the International Student & Scholar Services Office

Dana Hutchens

• Senior Associate Director in Employer Relations, OPCD

Lindsay Jamison

• Communications and Marketing Manager, Division of Campus Life

Wei-chin Lee

• Professor, Politics and International Affairs

Mary Beth Lock

• Associate Dean, Z. Smith Reynolds Library

Dan Locklair

• Composer-in-Residence and Professor of Music

Marianne Magjuka

• Assistant Dean of Students and Executive Director of the Office of Civic & Community Engagement

Warrenetta Mann

• Director, University Counseling Center

Melody Martin

• Director of Presidential Advancement, Office of University Advancement

AJ Mazaris

• Assistant Vice President for Equitable Policy, Office of Diversity and Inclusion, and Director, LGBTQ+ Center

Kim McGrath

• Director, News and Communications, Communications and External Relations

Courtney Morris

• First in the Forest Advisor for the Scholars Office

Dan Paredes

• Interim Director, University Counseling Center

Jenna Radford

• Program Coordinator for Wake Washington

James Raper (MAEd ’02)

• Assistant Vice President for Health & Wellbeing

Jennifer Richwine (’93)

• Executive Director for Wake Washington

K Monet Rice-Jalloh

• Associate University Chaplain

Jackie Sheridan

• Director of the Scholars Program and head of the Scholars Office

Ryan Shirey

• Associate Teaching Professor of English (Writing Program) and Director of the Wake Forest University Writing Center

Michael Shuman

• Director of the Center for Learning, Access, and Student Success (formerly Learning Assistance Center and Disability Services)

Christina Soriano

• Associate Professor of Dance in the Department of Theatre and Dance, and Vice Provost for the Arts and Interdisciplinary Initiatives

David Taylor

• Assistant Dean for Global Study Away

Rosalind Tedford (’91, MA ’94)

• Director for Research and Instruction, ZSR Library

Marion Tuttle

• X-Ray Tech/Clinical Specialist

Melissa Walker

• Assistant Director, Student Health Service, Business Office and Compliance

Harriet Williams

• Student Employment Program Administrator

Laurie D. Willis

• Associate Director, News and Communications,  Communications and External Relations

Wendy Wooten

• Assistant Director, Project Management, Facilities and Campus Services Department

Kyana Young

• Assistant Professor, Department of Engineering

Qiaona Yu

• Assistant Professor of Chinese at the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures

Ke Zhang-Reid

• Associate Professor, Biology