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Candace Campbell Jackson
Candace Campbell Jackson serves as Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff to Chancellor Syverud. An accomplished higher education executive, Jackson is recognized for being an exemplary strategic and operations leader with a strong record of achieving successful outcomes in all critical higher education management functions including academic affairs, athletics, auxiliary enterprises, board relations, communications and marketing, enrollment management, executive recruitment and team building, fundraising, governmental affairs, grants administration, international programs, planning, safety and strategic planning.
Upon arriving at Syracuse University in August of 2015, Jackson and Chancellor Syverud quickly joined forces to complete the building of the senior leadership team – successfully identifying and recruiting new senior leaders in the areas of academic affairs, enrollment and the student experience, finance, marketing and communications, athletics, and the Hendricks Chapel. In her role as Chief of Staff, Jackson works closely with the Chancellor and all members of the senior leadership team to advance the University’s key strategic priorities and operating goals. She works collaboratively with the Senior Vice President and University Secretary in the Office of the Board of Trustees to help support the Chancellor’s partnership with the Board and to ensure effective engagement with the senior leadership team.
Jackson oversees agenda development for all meetings of the senior vice presidents and the deans, and acts as an executive project manager to make sure the Chancellor’s annual goals are met and significant progress towards the five-year goals is achieved. In addition to chairing the University Leadership Team – a collective of the University’s top 140 leaders, Jackson also manages the operations and staff of the Chancellor’s Office.
Prior to joining Syracuse University, Jackson worked at the University of Akron in numerous leadership roles including Vice President and Chief of Staff, Vice President for Student Success, Vice President for Strategic Partnerships, and Vice Provost. Akron’s leadership team, led and coordinated by Jackson, achieved one of the most significant milestones in the university’s history – completion of a $700 million New Landscape for Learning capital enhancement program resulting in fourteen new academic and student experience buildings. Jackson’s Chief of Staff duties at Akron also included designing and leading the strategic planning process, culminating in a campus-wide and community planning and visioning process that engaged more than 3,500 members of the Akron community.
As Vice President for Student Success, Jackson provided strategic and operational leadership to nearly 600 employees in over 25 student success and student academic support units with a budget of $80 million. Under Jackson’s leadership, this division won 14 national awards, including recognition for comprehensive campus programming – Campus of the Year in 2012 and 2014 from Campus Activities Magazine.
In her capacity as Vice Provost, Jackson worked closely with the Akron provost on planning and implementing the University’s Retention and Graduation Plan, which improved retention by 8%. Additionally, she had oversight for securing and administering $7 million dollars annually in federal and state college access scholarships, which supported first-generation and low-income students and their families to successfully navigate college.
Prior to her career in higher education, Jackson was an attorney in the Public Law and Corporate departments of the law firm Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP, providing counsel to educational organizations, municipalities, healthcare organizations and private family foundations, practicing in the Akron and Cleveland, Ohio offices.
A graduate of Howard University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in journalism, Jackson received a J.D. from the University of Akron. To further develop her higher education administration skills, Jackson participated in the intensive, highly selective Harvard Institute for Educational Management program. She has been a featured lecturer in the university community in the higher education administration, leadership, sports law and administrative law areas.
Jackson has been recognized for outstanding leadership and public service by the Girl Scouts, YWCA, Inside Business, Crain’s Business and the University of Akron School of Law. Jackson is a frequent speaker on the topics of leadership, higher education administration, non-profit and private foundation management. Jackson enjoys giving keynote addresses for organizations whose work and missions inspire her.
In the Syracuse community, Jackson enjoys serving on the executive committee of the board of trustees of Manlius Pebble Hill School, an independent K-12 school and on the CNY Community Foundation Say Yes to Education Committee. She is married to Mark A. Jackson and they have four adult children and two granddaughters. Candace and Mark Jackson are proud residents of downtown Syracuse.
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Michele G. Wheatly
Michele G. Wheatly has served as Chief Academic Officer or Provost at two successive Research 1 universities, most recently at Syracuse University (2016-2020) and prior to that at West Virginia University (2009-2014). At both institutions she advanced academic rankings, led comprehensive academic strategic planning, spearheaded successful accreditation exercises and grew faculty ranks by establishing research clusters.
Prior to WVU, Dr. Wheatly was dean of science and math (2002-09) and chair of biology (1994-2002) at Wright State University. She ascended the academic ranks at the University of Florida (1984-1994) after completing postdoctoral training at the University of Calgary, Canada, (1980-1984). She earned both a Ph.D. (1980) and B.Sc. (1977) at Birmingham University in the United Kingdom. An internationally recognized scholar/educator (and presidential medalist in 1988), Professor Wheatly has been continuously funded by the National Science Foundation ($29.4 million over 30 years) and has contributed substantially to her field of comparative physiology (110 papers, 190 abstracts, 29 colloquia, 22 research students).
Dr. Wheatly is known nationally for her passion and advocacy for inclusive excellence, promoting access for and the success of women, people of color, and people with disabilities in the knowledge economy. Her work on universal access to STEM has received Congressional recognition (2004), and has been supported through multiple grants from the National Science Foundation. She recently keynoted at the 2019 ADVANCE Resource and Coordination Network and serves on their External Advisory Board.
Dr. Wheatly and her husband of 33 years, Stanley K. Smith III, are the parents of three adult children.
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Sue Ballard
Sue Ballard currently serves as Vice President for Alumni Engagement at Syracuse University. She is charged with creating a forward-thinking, premier alumni program that meets the goals of the Fast Forward Syracuse initiative. Prior to her work for Syracuse University, she served as the Director, Stewardship & Special Events for Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, where she led a team of 10 donor relations and events officers. Under Ballard’s leadership, the team designed and managed the implementation of an institution-wide comprehensive stewardship and donor relations engagement program that received national recognition by the Advisory Board Co.
Prior to joining Cincinnati Children’s, Ballard served as the first-ever major gifts officer for the College of Mount St. Joseph. Before the College of Mount St. Joseph, Ballard spent the majority of her career at Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in increasingly prominent positions in events, alumni engagement and development. Her tenure with BGSU included a variety of alumni and volunteer engagement activities. Through collaborative efforts, Ballard assisted with the creation of alumni engagement activities including alumni events via chapters and societies, cultivation and stewardship receptions, homecoming gatherings, regional and national centennial celebrations, career mentorship and internship opportunities, and student-centered summer admission events. In addition, Ballard has substantial board management experience through her work with BGSU’s alumni board and foundation board, as well as Cincinnati Children’s foundation board.
Ballard, a native of Rochester, N.Y., received a B.A. in political science from Hartwick College, where she was a two-time captain of the swim team and served as a representative on Hartwick’s Alumni Association Board. Ballard earned her M.A. in college student personnel at Bowling Green State University. She resides in Skaneateles with her husband, Troy, and their energetic toddler, Ben.
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Susan Cornelius Edson
As the chief communications officer for Syracuse Athletics, Sue Edson is responsible for all public relations and media relations functions for the department. She serves as a member of the department’s senior leadership and external relations teams, including communications, marketing, tickets, fundraising, corporate sales, digital media and athletics production. She supervises the Athletic Communications Department and works closely with University Marketing and Communications on athletics-related matters. In addition, she is the primary communications sport contact for volleyball, ice hockey and women's rowing.
A 31-year veteran of Syracuse Athletics, Edson was promoted to her current role in the spring of 2015. Previously, she served as associate director of athletics for communications (2006-14), assistant director of athletics for communications (2004-06) and director of athletic communications (1997-2004). From 1997 through 2014 she was the primary communications contact for the football program. Edson was inducted into the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) Hall of Fame in 2012.
Prior to her appointment as director of athletic communications in 1997, Edson was an assistant director for seven years, including four years as the department’s publications coordinator responsible for the production of 16 media guides. In addition, she handled the day-to-day public relations duties for women’s basketball.
Edson began her career at Syracuse in 1990 as an assistant sports information director where she was responsible for handling the public relations efforts for the Orange’s 17 Olympic sports.
In 2006, Edson was honored with the Eastern College Athletic Conference-Sports Information Directors Association’s (ECAC-SIDA) Irving T. Marsh Award for excellence in the field of sports information. The following year, she was recognized with the Greater Syracuse “40 Under 40” award for her contributions to the workplace and local community.
Edson has been the media coordinator for the NCAA Men’s Basketball East Regional in Syracuse five times and served as the media coordinator for the first and second rounds of the NCAA Women’s Basketball Championship at the Carrier Dome in 2016 and 2019. She served on the ECAC-SIDA Board of Directors for eight years and was the organization’s president in 2002-03.
Previously an adjunct professor in Syracuse University’s S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, Edson taught a class in sports public relations from 1994 through 2013.
She serves on the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame Board of Directors and the Women’s Fund of Central New York Leadership Council. Previously, she was co-president of the Jamesville-DeWitt Youth Athletic Association Board of Directors and served as co-coordinator of the basketball program.
Edson graduated from Syracuse in 1990 with a dual degree in broadcast journalism and policy studies. She resides in Jamesville. Her son, Thomas, is an Ithaca College graduate currently pursuing his master’s degree in public relations at Newhouse. Her daughter, Tracey is a sophomore at Syracuse University. Edson’s late husband, Rob, was an athletics administrator at Syracuse and the director of athletics at Onondaga Community College before his passing in 2013.

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Elisa Dekaney
Elisa Macedo Dekaney is the associate dean of research, graduate studies, and internationalization in the College of Visual Performing Arts (VPA) and professor of music education at Syracuse University. Dually appointed by the School of Education (teaching & leadership) and VPA (Setnor School of Music), she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in the areas of choral music, music education, music research, and world music and cultures. From 2014 to 2020 Dekaney was a core faculty member for the Renée Crown University Honors Program, and in 2020 she was named a Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor for Teaching Excellence.
Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Dekaney earned a bachelor’s degree in sacred music (piano) at the Seminário Teológico Batista do Sul do Brasil and a bachelor’s degree in communications from the Universidade Federal Fluminense. She continued her studies in the United States, earning a master’s degree in choral conducting from the University of Missouri-Kansas City under Eph Ehly and a Ph.D. in choral music education from the Florida State University under André Thomas, Judy Bowers, Clifford Madsen, and Rodney Eichenberger.
An active researcher, Dekaney’s scholarly research focuses on aesthetic response to music, world music and cultures, International Phonetic Alphabet, Indigenous and Afro-Brazilian culture, and clinical simulation applied to music education. She has published books, book chapters, and articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Research in Music Education, Research Studies in Music Education, The Choral Journal, International Education, Music Educators Journal, Contributions to Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, and Update. Her choral arrangements of Brazilian folksongs for middle school choirs are published by Carl Fischer and BriLee. Her latest book, “Music at the Intersection of Brazilian Culture: An Introduction to Music, Race, and Food ” (Routledge, 2021), takes an interdisciplinary approach by utilizing several aspects of Brazilian music, race, and food as a window into understanding Brazilian culture, with music at the core.
Dekaney and husband Joshua Dekaney are the founders and directors of Samba Laranja: the Syracuse University Brazilian Ensemble. Under their direction, the group has performed numerous concerts for K-12 schools, churches, and communities across the northeastern United States and several times at Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City. Additionally, Samba Laranja is the recipient of three Syracuse Area Music Awards (SAMMY) for Best Recording Other Style for the recordings “Native Orange” (2011), “Pathways” (2015), and “Guaraná” (2019).
As a conductor, music educator, and scholar, Dekaney has presented at various interdisciplinary conferences and music symposia. She has conducted all-state choirs, honor choirs, and choral festivals in the U.S. and abroad. As part of her service to her profession, Dekaney has served for several years in the American Choral Directors Association (ACDA) as repertoire and standards chair for ethnic and multicultural perspectives in New York State and the Eastern Region. She also served as chair of the Special Research Interest Group in Learning and Development of the National Association for Music Education (NAfME). Currently she serves on the ACDA Research and Publication National Standing Committee and on the ACCelerate Festival of Creativity and Innovation steering committee, an interdisciplinary festival sponsored by the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) institutions and the Smithsonian Museum of American History.
Civic Morning Musicals awarded Dekaney the 2006 Paul and Veronica Abel Award for Outstanding Contribution to the Art of Choral Performance and the 2015 Tiffany Award for Outstanding Service to the Cause of Music. She is also a recipient of the 2007 VPA Outstanding Faculty Award and the 2017 Visionary Community Award (Hispanic Heritage). She was a 2011 fellow with the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Curt Silberman Seminar and a 2018 fellow with the ACC Academic Leaders Network.
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Meghan Florkowski
Meghan Florkowski is Director of the WISE: Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship Women’s Business Center (WBC).
WISE is hosted by Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University and is one of 135 U.S. SBA designated Women’s Business Centers across the nation, reaching over 500 unique CNY women entrepreneurs annually with the tools and resources needed to reach their small business goals.
Among her professional experiences, Florkowski led a portfolio of entrepreneurship training programs at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families at Syracuse University. One notable program in this portfolio (V-WISE) was for women veterans, which Florkowski grew into a nationally-recognized program that reached over 2,000 women veterans across 49 states.
Florkowski also worked in employer relations at Le Moyne College, as an operations manager for the USO, as a military transition career training leader in Europe, and as a captain in the U.S. Army, among other positions.
She earned a bachelor of science degree in engineering psychology from the United States Military Academy at West Point and a master of science in exercise science and health promotion from California University of Pennsylvania.
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Marie Garland
Dr. Garland serves as the assistant provost for faculty affairs. In this role, she supports all operational functions and strategic initiatives within Academic Affairs as they relate to the faculty career progression, ongoing professional development, and leadership support with a specific emphasis on enhancing equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility. Specifically, she provides guidance on broadening faculty recruitment, structures orientation and mentoring for new faculty, and supports programs that encourage work/life and wellness.
She also supports development opportunities for department chairs, program directors, and other emerging leaders. Finally, she implements and evaluates changes in processes designed to enhance faculty support services. Her academic training and expertise is in organizational development and workplace communication.
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Pam Gavenda
Pam has over 20 years of Human Resource Management experience working primarily for professional service firms and educational institutions. Currently her focus is on learning and development within SU’s HR department. She is a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and also a SHRM - Senior Certified Professional (SHRM – SCP). In addition to being a certified trainer for Crucial Conversations, she is also an instructor for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) Certification Preparation course.
Pam is a graduate of Syracuse University and Leadership Greater Syracuse. She is also a Past International President of Delta Phi Epsilon and a Past President of the CNY Society for Human Resource Management.
In addition to her professional roles, she is the Colorguard Instructor with the Syracuse University Marching Band.
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Catherine Gerard
Catherine M. Gerard is Professor of Practice of Public Administration and International Affairs at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. She served as Director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC) from 2005-2020 and as Associate Director of Executive Education. Her focus is research, education, and practice of managers and students in the skills of collaborative leadership and change.
Ms. Gerard teaches leadership and collaborative management for managers at many levels. Her graduate courses and training programs in leadership, group conflict, and conflict fundamentals at the Maxwell School are targeted for mid-career managers from public and nonprofit organizations in the United States and abroad. She consults with public and non-profit organizations in the areas of strategic planning, leadership/management, organizational change, team-building and conflict resolution.
She is the author of several publications on collaboration, conflict, and human resource management. Most recently, she is co-editor of Overcoming Intractable Conflicts: New Approaches to Constructive Transformations (2019).
Before joining Syracuse in 1995, she was Assistant Director for the New York State Governor’s Office of Employee Relations where she led a consulting and training organization that designed and implemented an award-winning statewide management training and organizational effectiveness system. In addition, Ms. Gerard served as adjunct faculty member at the Rockefeller College of Public Affairs at SUNY Albany.
Ms. Gerard sits on the Boards of CNYArts and Interfaithworks of Central New York, where she is the Chair-Elect.
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Cydney M. Johnson
Cydney Johnson serves as the Vice President of Community Engagement and Government Relations, reporting to Vice Chancellor J. Michael Haynie. Johnson was hired by Syracuse University as executive director for state and local government relations in the Spring of 2018. Johnson leads the community engagement team as it continues to advance the University’s robust portfolio of community-connected programs and initiatives. In addition to overseeing all facets of the University’s community engagement efforts, Johnson will assume strategic responsibility for developing and implementing the University’s legislative and advocacy agenda, retaining her responsibility to serve as advisor to the University leadership on issues at the city, county and state level.
Cydney brought to her alma mater more than two decades of experience in government relations, higher education, and nonprofit/business development. Cydney is a double alumna of Syracuse, having received her undergraduate degree and MBA from the Martin J. Whitman School of Management. Johnson also spent seven years as an adjunct professor in the David B. Falk College of Sport and Human Dynamics, with responsibilities for program coordination and external business partnership support. Prior to returning to Syracuse University, Johnson served as Chief of Staff to the President at SUNY Morrisville, and as an Associate professor of Business.
Johnson has previously served as senior vice president of U.S. accounts at Blueprint LTD, a small global marketing firm; vice president of consumer marketing and sales at Oneida Limited; and director of development at the Whitman School. She is a member of the Central New York Regional Development and Planning board, a board member of the Syracuse Partnership Council with the Syracuse City School District, and board member of Syracuse Stage. Previously, Johnson served as a Board member of the Central NY Community Foundation, the Women’s Fund, and as a member of the transition teams for Onondaga County Executive Joanie Mahoney and Onondaga County Sheriff Eugene Conway.
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Beth Myers
Beth Myers is the Lawrence B. Taishoff Assistant Professor of Inclusive Education and Executive Director of the Taishoff Center for Inclusive Higher Education. She is a faculty member in the Teaching and Leadership Department in the School of Education at Syracuse University, teaching in the Inclusive Elementary program where she started in 2014. She oversees InclusiveU, a model program for college students with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Dr. Myers has been awarded over $12 million in awards from the US Department of Education and from New York State for her work on Transition and Postsecondary Programs for Students with Intellectual Disabilities (TPSID), the Mid-State Regional Partnership Center, the School-Age and Early Childhood Family and Community Engagement Centers, and Pre-Employment and Transition Services for Students with Disabilities, serving students, families, teachers, and school districts. Dr. Myers has served on the Fit Families research team and has published several articles and book chapters in that area. Myers co-authored the special issue of TASH Connections: Post-secondary Education and Self-Advocacy. Her book, Autobiography on the Spectrum: Disrupting the Autism Narrative, was published in 2019 by Teachers College Press. Her second book, Narrating Higher Education: Intellectual Disability with co-author Michael Gill, is in press with University of Minnesota.
Myers has conducted research to study the autobiographical works of adolescents with autism, which won the Ralph C. Preston Award for Scholarship and Teaching Contributing to Social Justice and Educational Equity. Myers currently serves on the National Down Syndrome Society Inclusion Committee. She is the founding Executive Editor of the Journal of Inclusive Postsecondary Education. Dr. Myers was awarded the CNY Business Journal’s Business Woman of the Year in Higher Education for 2018 and the Meredith Teaching Recognition in 2021. Dr. Myers holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in elementary education, special education, and literacy from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia and a doctorate from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Tina Nabatchi
Tina Nabatchi is the Joseph A. Strasser Endowed Professor in Public Administration and a professor of public administration and international affairs at the Syracuse University Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, where she also serves as Director of the Program for the Advancement of Research on Conflict and Collaboration (PARCC).
An elected fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Nabatchi has over 80 publications on a variety of topics including public participation, collaborative governance, conflict resolution, and challenges in public administration. She has won several national and international awards for her research. Nabatchi also has several university-based teaching awards, including the Birkhead-Burkhead Teaching Excellence Award (2012, 2018), the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research (2013), and the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professors of Teaching Excellece (2021), as well as a national award, the Leslie A. Whittington Excellence in Teaching Award (2019), which is given by the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration.
Nabatchi presents to and trains a wide variety of executive and student groups both in the United States and abroad and has consulted for and worked with several United States federal agencies and national and international nongovernmental organizations.
Before joining the Maxwell School, Dr. Nabatchi was the Research Coordinator for the Indiana Conflict Resolution Institute at Indiana University, where she was responsible for the design, implementation, analysis, and publication of various research projects focused on alternative dispute resolution (ADR) programs in government agencies.
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Dara Royer
Dara Royer is the Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer. In this role she responsible directs all internal and external marketing efforts including strategic marketing campaigns, digital and content marketing, and brand stewardship. Her team of professionals are champions for promoting and protecting Syracuse University’s reputation as one of the pre-eminent and inclusive student-focused research universities.
Prior to her appointment at SU, Royer served as Chief Development and Marketing Officer for Mercy Corps, a leading global organization operating in 42 countries. Royer was responsible for private, corporate and foundation fundraising, global marketing and brand development. She also served as a member of the Executive Leadership Team. Under her leadership, her division substantially increased private fundraising while dramatically elevating the organization’s profile. In 2017 Harris Poll EquiTrend recognized Mercy Corps the “Brand of the Year” and “Most Loved” International Aid nonprofit. She and her team were also honored with multiple national industry awards for the development and global rollout of a new brand identity.
Before joining Mercy Corps in 2013, Royer served as Vice President of Brand Marketing for ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the largest healthcare charity in the world. There, she was responsible for overseeing a large and diverse marketing team driving hundreds of national fundraising and awareness campaigns annually. During her tenure fundraising grew from $300 million to nearly $1 billion annually.
Royer began her career as an Emmy and AP award-winning television journalist with ABC, CBS and NBC affiliates across the country. Royer received a certificate from Cornell University for Executive Women in Leadership and an Executive Leadership certificate from Harvard Business School. She earned her BA in History from Indiana University in Bloomington.
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Stephanie Salanger
Stephanie Salanger began as director of communications at Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) and Office of Veteran and Military Affairs (OVMA) in 2017, bringing with her more than 25 years of experience in advertising agency and corporate communications roles, covering integrated marketing, public relations, and media relations in a variety of business industries.
Salanger is responsible for driving the national strategy of both the IVMF and OVMA as well as enhancing the reputation of the Syracuse University brand with regards to its imperative of supporting military-connected audiences. She spearheads the communications and design team to deliver impactful messaging and reputation management for the 10 programs within the entrepreneurship, community engagement, education and research portfolio pillars of the IVMF and OVMA.
Salanger previously held senior-level communications roles at Eric Mower and Associates, Time Warner Cable and Charter Communications. She helped with the development and execution of Time Warner Cable’s national Connect a Million Minds STEM Initiative – a national program challenging parents, mentors, students and employers to increase involvement in after-school STEM-related activities. Her STEM in Sports initiative and STEM Regional Science Festival received telecommunications industry Beacon Awards in 2014 and 2015 and she was awarded several Public Relations Society of America and American Advertising Federation awards for her community engagement, publicity and marketing efforts on behalf of a variety of former clients.
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Jamie Winders
Jamie Winders is Professor of Geography and Director of the Autonomous Systems Policy Institute (ASPI) at Syracuse University. As ASPI’s Director, she oversees interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives focused on the technology/design, policy/governance, and societal impacts of autonomous systems and their varied uses in the world around us. Her work associated with emerging technologies addresses topics like smart and connected communities, STEM and pipeline/pathway issues, AI and concepts of risk, and technology and public perceptions. Within the social sciences, she is also known for her interdisciplinary work on international migration and contributions to geography’s engagements with race, labor and social reproduction.Winders is editor-in-chief of the International Migration Review and associate editor of cultural geographies. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and joined the Syracuse University faculty in 2004. Winders has been involved in a number of interdisciplinary research and teaching initiatives in fields from environmental studies and science to landscape studies and art history. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and Russell Sage, among other sources.