About:
The NSCS Team
National Staff
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Holly H. Barclay
Senior Manager, Chapter Operations and Development
University of Louisville
NSCS Officer 2013-16
barclay@nscs.org
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Emily Snider
Manager,
Chapter Operations
University of Central Florida
NSCS Officer 2020-21
snider@nscs.org
NSCS Board of Directors
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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
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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
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Julie Staggs
Chair, Board of Directors
Founder & Managing Principal
Joined Board – Spring of 2020 – Term Ends Spring of 2024
Currently Serving 2nd Board term
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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
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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
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Madalyn Hernandez
Student Representative, NSCS Board of Directors
Chapter President, University of North Texas
Joined Board – February 2023 – Term Ends December 2023
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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
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Joan Ganz Cooney
Chairman
Sesame Workshop
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Marian Wright Edelman
Founder and President
Children’s Defense Fund
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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Director W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research
W.E.B. DuBois Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University
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Daniel Goldin
President Carnegie Corporation, New York
President, Brown University (1989-1997)
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Alexis M. Herman
Secretary of Labor
(1997-2001)
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Wendy Kopp
CEO and Founder
Teach For America
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Richard W. Riley
Secretary of Education
(1993-2001)
Governor, South Carolina (1979-1987)
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Harold T. Shapiro
President
Princeton University (1988-2001)