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Lesli Beavers '06
Brandon Carder ’09
Title: Interim President and CEO
Title: Teacher
Organization: Beavercreek Chamber of
Commerce, Beavercreek, OH
Organization: Monongalia County School
Education:
BA Political Science and Government, WVWC,
2006
Education:
BA Elementary Education, WVWC, 2009
Adam Gearhart ’09
Title: Lighting and Technical Director
Meredith Brown '08
Organization: Marquee Nightclub
Title: Registered Nurse
Education:
Organization: West Virginia University
Hospitals, Oncology & Bone Marrow Transplant
Units
BA Technical Theatre/Theatre Design and
Technology, WVWC, 2011
Education:
BSN, WVWC, 2008
MPH, WVU (will graduate Fall 2015)
Megan Buckalew '08
Title: Scientist II
Jordan Godwin ’10
Title: Business Analyst
Organization: Snowshoe Ski Resort
Education:
BS Economics/MBA, WVWC, 2011
Organization: Potesta & Associates, Inc. in
Charleston, WV
Allison Hull '87
Education:
Title: Faculty
BS Biology w/ Minors in Chemistry & English,
WVWC, 2008
Organization: Department of Biology, WVWC
MS Environmental Science, Marshall University,
2013
BS Biology, WVWC, 1987
Accomplishments:
Master's project was the Installation of a Clean
Water System in Boaco, Nicaragua
Education:
MS Physical Therapy, WVU, 1989
Plan to complete my EdD in the not distant
future
Accomplishments:
Chairperson of the Mountain East Conference
Faculty Athletic Representatives
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Erika Klie Kolenich '01
Samantha Phillips Norris MBA '11
Title: Managing Attorney
Title: Community Outreach Director
Organization: Klie Law Offices, PLLC
Organization: Stonewall Jackson Resort
Education:
Education:
2001 BA WVWC, 2004 JD University of Akron
BS/MBA, WVWC, 2011
Accomplishments:
Board of Governors, West Virginia Association
for Justice, The National Trial Lawyers Top 100
in the United States
Lindsay Marsh '12
Title: Registered Nurse/Instructor
Sara Ogawa ’09
Title: Expressive Therapist
Organization: MacNeal Hospital, Lakeshore
Hospital (Chicago, IL)
Education:
Organization: Louis A. Johnson VA Medical
Center/WVWC School of Nursing
BA WVWC 2009 Musical Theater
Education:
MA in Dance/Movement Therapy and
Counseling, Columbia College- Chicago, 2015
BSN, WVWC, 2012
MSN, WVWC, 2015
Graduate Laban Certification in Movement
Analysis, Columbia College Chicago, 2015
Accomplishments:
Michelle "Shelly" Mayhew-Shears '08
Title: PhD candidate/student and Teaching
Assistant
Organization: Ohio University
Education:
BA, WVWC, 2008
MA, WVU, 2013
PhD to be earned in History in US Foreign
Policy (US Latin-American Relations during the
Cold War)
Accomplishments:
Fulbright Scholar ETA in Malaysia
Selected and has been serving as a Board
member of ADTA (American Dance Therapy
Association) Illinois Chapter since January 2015
Cassandra Bradshaw Poling ‘04
Title: Wedding/Event Designer
Organization: Farmhouse Fete
Education:
BA Political Science, WVWC, 2004
JD, WVU College of Law, 2007
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Robert Quarles ’10
Title: Director of Multicultural Services, Higher
Education
Organization: WVWC
Education:
BA Political Science and Government, WVWC,
2011
Med Organizational Leadership, Belmont
University, 2015
Justin Raber '08
Title: Associate and Director of Operations
Organization: Carr Law Offices, PLLC
Education:
BA In Communication and Political Science,
WVWC, 2008
JD, WVU College of Law, 2015
Accomplishments:
National PTA Shirley Igo Advocate of the Year
Award, National PTA Life Achievement Award,
National PTA State President Recognition,
National PTA’s Our Home, Our Future, Our
Legacy Campaign, Donor – Founder’s Circle,
West Virginia PTA Honorary Life Membership,
Wood County Society Celebration for Kids
Award
BA International Studies/Government WVWC,
1991 (Minors: Economics/History, graduated
“with Honors”)
MA, WVU 1999 (Specialization in Foreign Policy
and certification in Policy Analysis)
JD, American University, Washington College of
Law 1999 (Specialization in Human Rights and
International Law)
Accomplishments:
10 years’ experience in Advertising/Media
Consulting
Worked through Alex Castellanos on the
Romney 2008 Presidential bid
Experienced work on many reputation and issue
campaigns for Fortune 50 and other companies
and trade associations
Mama of Samuel (just turned 3), wife of Jason,
and fur baby Sophie (7)
Breann Thompson ’08
Title: Program Manager
Organization: Children and Family Programs;
Carnegie Museum of natural History (Pittsburgh,
PA)
Education:
BS Biology, WVWC 2008,
Deb Haynes Swider '91
MS Biology, New York University Graduate
School of Arts and Science, 2011
Title: General Counsel
Accomplishments:
Organization: Purple Strategies, LLC
Lead Educator with Carnegie Museum of
Natural History Museum on the Move program,
providing inclusive museum education
opportunities to underserved communities for
2012-2014. Museum on the Move received the
Education:
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PA Museums Institutional Award of Merit. We’re
pretty proud of the award.
Abbie Brake Williams '09
Title: Behavioral Health Counselor/Therapist
Organization: Youth Health Service, Elkins,
WV
Education:
BA Music Education, WVWC, 2009
MA Counseling, Adams State University, 2015
Zach Williams ‘09
Title: Faculty
Organization: WVWC
Education:
BA English Literature, WVWC, 2009
MFA Creative Writing, WVWC, 2013
Accomplishments:
2013-2014 Irene McKinney Postgraduate
Teaching Fellow
3 short story publications to date
Krysta Rexrode Wolfe '10
Title: Minister
Organization: St. Andrew United Methodist
United Methodist Church (St. Albans, WV)
Education:
BA Communication Studies and Christian
Education, WVWC, 2010
M.Div., Vanderbilt University, 2013
Accomplishments:
Krysta graduated Summa Cum Laude at both
institutions. She was a Fund for Theological
Fellow in college and had papers accepted by
the Eastern Communication Association three
years in a row. In grad school she was a Turner
Fellow and named a Methodist Student of the
Year in 2013. Krysta also won an imagination
grant that helped her study the Methodist
archives in Bristol, England. In her professional
life she has been on a team for the last three
years called the Radical Discipleship Academy
of Appalachia, which was awarded $80,000
through the Young Clergy Initiative grant. She
also regularly writes liturgy and has published
parts of her grad school thesis through the
Association of Practical Theology (a Related
Scholarly Organization with the American
Academy of Religion).