About:
The NSCS Team
National Staff

Emily Snider
Manager of Member Experience
University of Central Florida
NSCS Officer 2020-21
snider@nscs.org
NSCS Board of Directors

Chris Ferguson
Vice Chair, NSCS Board of Directors
Managing Attorney, Jack O’Boyle & Associates
Joined Board Spring of 2018 – Term Ends Spring 2024
Currently Serving 3rd Board term

Lizeth Gonzalez-Smith
Member, NSCS Board of Directors
Customer Account Manager, Robert H. Smith School of Business at University of Maryland
Joined Board Spring of 2019 – Term Ends Spring of 2023
Currently Serving 2nd Board term

Julie Staggs, EdD
Chair, Board of Directors
Founder & Managing Principal
Joined Board – Spring of 2020 – Term Ends Spring of 2024
Currently Serving 2nd Board term

Kimberly Eison Simmons, Ph.D.
Member, NSCS Board of Directors
Associate Professor, Anthropology and African American Studies, Interim Director, Institute for African American Research (IAAR)
Joined Board – Fall of 2020 – Term Ends Fall 2024
Currently Serving 2nd Board term

Toni D. Avant, M.A.
Secretary, NSCS Board of Directors
Director of Career Center, The University of Mississippi.
Joined Board – Fall of 2020 – Term Ends Fall of 2024
Currently Serving 2nd Board term

Madalyn Hernandez
Student Representative, NSCS Board of Directors
Chapter President, University of North Texas
Joined Board – February 2023 – Term Ends December 2023

Savanna P. Miller
Student Representative, NSCS Board of Directors
Chapter President, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Joined Board – February 2023 – Term Ends December 2023
Honorary Board of Regents

Joan Ganz Cooney
Chairman
Sesame Workshop

Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President
Children’s Defense Fund

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Director W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University

Daniel Goldin
President Carnegie Corporation, New York
President, Brown University (1989-1997)

Alexis M. Herman
Secretary of Labor
(1997-2001)

Wendy Kopp
CEO and Founder
Teach For America

Richard W. Riley
Secretary of Education
(1993-2001)
Governor, South Carolina (1979-1987)

Harold T. Shapiro
President
Princeton University (1988-2001)