Taking leadership to the next level

Manuel Aviles - Santiago

Associate Dean

Academic Programs and Curricular Innovation

College of Integrative Sciences and Arts

Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago is the Associate Dean for Academic Programs and Curricular Innovation at the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and the Director of the Office of Veterans and Military Academic Engagement (OVMAE). He obtained his doctorate in Media Studies at the Department of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas-Austin. He is a Ford Foundation Pre-doctoral and Postdoctoral Fellow, an award administered by the National Research Council (now the National Academies of the Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine).

He has presented his works at conferences such as the International Communication Association, Race and Media, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, Latino Studies, the Latin American Studies Association, and Veteran Studies conferences. He has published his scholarship in journals like Communication, Culture and Critique, Journal of Latin American Communication Research (JLACR), Caribbean Studies Journal, Flow TV, and Revista Cruces. He is the author of the book Puerto Rican Soldiers and Second-class Citizenship: Representations in Media (Palgrave, 2014). He served as host for PBS's segment, Break It Down, and collaborated as an editorial columnist for El Nuevo Dia newspaper.

As director of the Office for Veteran and Military Academic Engagement, Avilés-Santiago has developed programs to bridge the military-civilian gap through teaching, research, and community engagement initiatives. He is the coordinator for the Veteran, Society, and Service certificate, funded by a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. He also organized the 5th Veterans in Society Conference at Arizona State University under the themes of resilience, pedagogy, and veteran studies.

Avilés-Santiago is a recipient of Dr. Eugene Garcia's Outstanding Latina/o Faculty Research Award for his work in the advancement and support of higher education among the youth of socially and economically impoverished communities as well as underserved ethnic groups. He also received a Catalyst Award for his contributions to fostering and promoting diversity and inclusion at ASU and beyond. Manuel G. AvilésSantiago is a graduate of the VIII cohort of ASU's Leadership Academy.

Michael Baumert

Executive Director

Financial Services

Business & Finance

Michael D. Baumert is the Executive Director of Financial Services at Arizona State University and is responsible for operational accounting, financial reporting, tax, payroll, and data management services for the University. Tasked with coordinating the annual financial and federal single audits for the University and serving on multiple University committees and working groups, he is a valued functional partner among his University peers on high-profile and sensitive university transactions.

Under his leadership, Arizona State University has achieved yearly recognition from the Government Finance Officers Association and its prestigious Certificate of Achievement for Excellence in Financial Reporting program for the University’s Annual Comprehensive Financial Report. He has led University efforts to manage acquisitions and integrate operations of multiple entities, most notably the Thunderbird School of Global Management in 2015 and the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences in 2021.

He received his Master of Public Administration (MPA) from Arizona State University in 2006 and his BS in Accounting and BA in Political Science from Miami University in 2003. He began his professional career with the Arizona Office of the Auditor General as a financial auditor prior to joining the Arizona State University Financial Services office in 2012. Since that time he has held progressively more responsible leadership positions within Financial Services.

He is an active Certified Public Accountant licensed in the state of Arizona and a member of and serves on various boards of the Arizona Society of Certified Public Accountants and the Phoenix Chapter of the Association of Government Accountants. He teaches workshops with the Western Association of College and University Business Officers (WACUBO) and is a regular presenter in academic classrooms and higher education forums. He and his wife Amy have five children and reside in Tempe where they enjoy creating family traditions, studying philosophy, enjoying the products of her artisan sourdough small business and(very) occasionally sneak in a game of golf.

Marisa Domino

Executive Director

Center for Health Information Research

College of Health Solutions

Marisa Elena Domino, PhD, is the Executive Director of the Center for Health Information and Research and a Professor in the College of Health Solutions. She received her doctoral degree in health economics from the Johns Hopkins University and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in the economics of mental health at Harvard Medical School’s Department of Health Care Policy.

Dr. Domino’s research interests include the economics of mental health, relationships among providers, patients, and insurers, the diffusion of new technologies, and the public provision of health care and health insurance to low-income populations.

Dr. Domino is deeply interested in vulnerable populations, and she has created a research agenda throughout her career which examines the efficiency of healthcare policies specifically for people with low incomes and chronic health and mental health conditions. She has substantial expertise in applied econometric analyses and has worked extensively on large administrative databases from a variety of health insurance programs. Dr. Domino’s work has focused on the effects of state Medicaid program design, especially related to behavioral health and chronic illness. She has received funding from the NIDA, NIMH, AHRQ, RWJF, and NARSAD, to examine the effect of policy changes on the use of mental health and medical services, prescription medications, and other measures of health services use, quality, and costs. Her current work examines disparities in care for opioid use disorder, the use of behavioral health nudges to affect the supply of health care services, and the impact of Medicaid transformation on access, quality, and utilization of health care services and health outcomes.

She is the recipient of the 2013 ISPOR Award for Excellence in Application of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research; the 2017 Edward G. McGavran Award for Excellence in Teaching; and the 2021 Willard Manning Award in Mental Health Policy and Economics Research

Sophal Ear

Senior Associate Dean

Student Success

Thunderbird School of Global Management

Dr. Sophal Ear is Senior Associate Dean of Student Success (previously Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs and Global Development in 2021-22) and a tenured Associate Professor in the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University where he lectures on Global Affairs, International Organizations, and Regional Business/Management Environment - Asia. He previously taught at Occidental College, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and the Maxwell School of Syracuse University. He consulted for the World Bank, was Assistant Resident Representative for the United Nations Development Programme in East Timor, Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Advisor to Cambodia's first private equity fund Leopard Capital, Audit Chair of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, Treasurer of the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, Secretary of Southeast Asia Development Program, and Corresponding Secretary of the Crescenta Valley Town Council. A TED Fellow, Fulbright Specialist, and Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, he co-chairs the Program Committee of the Board of Refugees International (Washington, DC), is Audit Chair for Partners for Development (Silver Spring, MD), President-Elect of the International Public Management Network (Washington, DC), and a board member of the Center for Khmer Studies (Siem Reap, Cambodia). He is the author of Viral Sovereignty and the Political Economy of Pandemics: What Explains How Countries Handle Outbreaks (Routledge, 2022, https://www.routledge.com/Viral-Sovereignty-and-the-Political-Economy-of-PandemicsWhat-Explains/Ear/p/book/9781032133850), Aid Dependence in Cambodia: How Foreign Assistance Undermines Democracy (Columbia University Press, 2013, http://amzn.to/UXhoWc), co-author of The Hungry Dragon: How China’s Resources Quest is Reshaping the World (Routledge, 2013, http://amzn.to/WkxCEf), and co-editor of the virtual issue of the journal Politics and the Life Sciences on Coronavirus: Politics, Economics, and Pandemics (Cambridge University Press, 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/politics-and-the-life-sciences/virtual-issues/virtual-issue-3). He served as Chair of the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Advisory Board of the Los Angeles County District Attorney in 2021-2022. He wrote and narrated the award-winning documentary film "The End/Beginning: Cambodia" (47 minutes, 2011, news blurb http://youtu.be/QwsSDPRI25E) based on his 2009 TED Talk (http://www.ted.com/talks/sophal_ear_escaping_the_khmer_rouge) and has appeared in four other documentaries. A graduate of Princeton and Berkeley, he moved to the US from France as a Cambodian refugee at the age of 10.

Ryan Given

Executive Director

Budget & Financial Services

Knowledge Enterprise

Ryan Given, Executive Director of Budget and Finance, joined ASU in 2007 with the College of Liberal Arts and Studies and the Knowledge Enterprise (KE) in 2008. In this role, he currently oversees and manages the complexities behind planning, organizing, directing, forecasting and coordinating the financial activities for the Knowledge Enterprise. Ryan works closely with the Knowledge Enterprise EVP to analyze, and forecast, the various types of funding that funnels through KE – examples, outside of sponsored research, are the indirect cost recovery (F&A), Technology and Research Initiative Fund (TRIF) and the New Economy Initiative (NEI). Additionally, he is responsible for managing the cost share component for proposal submissions alongside the Office for Research and Sponsored Projects Administration (ORSPA). Ryan holds a position on the ASU Research Enterprise (ASURE) board as the designated Treasurer and works alongside their Managing Director and Enterprise Partners (EP) to expand ASU’s research capabilities.

Ryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Management from ASU. He lives in the PhoenixAhwatukee area with his wife Lisa, an ASU alumnus, and their dog, Jax. They both enjoy the outdoors and love to golf around the valley in their spare time.

Julia Himberg

Director of Film and Media Studies

The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Julia Himberg is director and associate professor of Film & Media Studies (FMS) in the Department of English. At ASU, she has a decade of experience in interdisciplinary research and teaching; undergraduate and graduate mentorship; interdisciplinary curricular design; and campus, professional, and community leadership. Her research activities have coalesced around three areas of investigation: popular ideas about the relationship between media and social change; public discourses and beliefs about LGBTQ identities; and media’s structures, conditions, economics, creative practices, and influence in today’s digital and global landscape. She is the author of The New Gay for Pay: The Sexual Politics of American Television Production (2018), which examines the role of television production in creating and challenging popular notions about LGBTQ identities and social change. Her new book project Contesting the Mainstream: LGBTQ Media and Activism, considers what it means to produce queerness in and across twenty-first century media. Her work has appeared in journals such as Communication, Culture, & Critique, Television & New Media, and JCMS. Julia teaches courses on gender identity and sexuality, television, digital media, and consumer culture and was honored to be the recipient of the 2021-2022 Zebulon Pearce Distinguished Teaching Award in Humanities. She served as the Special Features Editor for JCMS: Journal of Cinema & Media Studies from 2017-2022 and is a current board member of Console-ing Passions, a feminist media studies organization and conference. Since Fall 2019, she has served as director of FMS, during which time she has undertaken significant curricular initiatives in an effort to better serve undergraduate and master’s level students in immersion and online degrees. From 2021-2022 she served as the Dean’s Fellow to Dr. Jeffrey Cohen (Dean of Humanities), a position in which she facilitated a monthly workshop for humanities leaders. Outside the university, Julia is a board member and chair of the Communications Committee for GLSEN Arizona, which seeks to create safe school environments in K-12 education, especially with regard to sexuality and gender identity. She received her MA and Ph.D. in critical media studies from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Miki Kittilson

Vice Dean and Professor

College of Global Futures

Miki Caul Kittilson, Ph.D., is Vice Dean in the College of Global Futures at ASU. In this role, she provides academic and administrative leadership, to enable the success of faculty, staff, and students in building a new college designed to address urgent global challenges and shape a future in which humanity thrives on a healthy planet. She builds strategic vision and goals around transformational global impact, to exemplify the ASU Charter and New American University Design Principles.

Miki is the Principal Investigator on the NSF-funded ASU ADVANCE Institutional Transformation program, which works to support inclusion and success of the university’s faculty in accordance with the ASU Charter. She is also the former president of the ASU Faculty Women’s Association and chaired the committee that brought the 2021 American Association for the Advancement of Science’s STEM Equity Achievement (SEA Change) Award to ASU.

Miki joined ASU in 2004, and she is a Professor in the School of Politics and Global Studies. Her scholarship and teaching address the design of the democratic process for gender justice, peace, and security.

Author of four university press books, she has also published numerous peer-reviewed journal articles and invited book chapters. Her work has been funded by the National Science Foundation, USAID, the Association for Women in Science, and the AAUW. Her most recent book is Reimagining the Judiciary: Women’s Representation on High Courts Worldwide, co-authored with Maria Escobar-Lemmon, Valerie Hoekstra and Alice Kang (Oxford University Press). The book articulates a chain of favorable influences on women’s representation on high courts: new international norms of gender equality encourage the reimagining of the judiciary; transnational advocacy organizations challenge the status quo; and domestic windows of opportunity enable change. Miki also serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Politics and she recently contributed to design of the Gender Equality and Governance Index (GEGI) from the Global Governance Forum.

Jill Koyama

Vice Dean

Education Leadership and Innovation

Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College

Jill Koyama, a cultural anthropologist, serves as Vice Dean of the Division of Educational Leadership and Innovation in Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College. She previously held the positions of Professor and Director in Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Arizona’s (UA’s) College of Education and also served as Director of UA’s Education Policy Center and the Institute for LGBT Studies. Jill’s leadership practice, and her research, are informed by her commitment to equity, inclusion, anti-racism, and social justice. Her research is situated across several integrated strands of inquiry: the productive social assemblage of policy; the controversies of globalizing educational policy; the politics of immigrant and refugee education; and community organizing and activism. For the past fourteen years, Jill’s research has centered on how, even under dire circumstances and inhospitable politics, displaced people access and create resource-rich networks, make learningcentered spaces for themselves and their families, and take civic action in the United States. Such research has led her to challenge notions of global citizenship and interrogate traditional pathways of civic engagement, leadership, and education.

Her 2010 book, Making Failure Pay: High-Stakes Testing, For-Profit Tutoring, and Public Schools, was published by The University of Chicago Press and her 2014 co-edited volume, US Education in a World of Migration: Implications for Policy and Practice was released by Routledge Press. Her scholarship appears in ALI Cohort VII Roster | 6 several journals, including American Journal of Education, Anthropology and Education Quarterly, British Journal of Sociology of Education, Educational Policy, and Educational Researcher. She is the incoming Editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly and has served as Associate Editor and board member on several journals. Jill has received multiple awards for her research, teaching, and leadership. Most recently, she was honored with the 2020 Lydia Kennedy LGBTQ+ Leadership Award from University of Arizona Health Services.

Laura Lindsey

Associate Professor and Chair

Department of Finance

W.P. Carey School of Business

Laura Lindsey is the Department of Finance Chair and the Cutler Family Endowed Professor in the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Her research interests include entrepreneurial finance, venture capital and private equity, governance, financial contracting, and boundaries of the firm. Her work has been published in premier finance journals, including Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies.

While at ASU, she has taught entrepreneurial finance, a case-based course she created as an Assistant Professor, at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, as well as advanced managerial finance for undergraduates. In addition, Professor Lindsey has taught Ph.D. intensives focused on empirical methods both at ASU and abroad.

Dr. Lindsey’s service roles at ASU have been extensive. Prior to becoming department chair, she served as Chair of the Undergraduate Programs Committee for W.P. Carey, where she worked closely with the Undergraduate Dean and other department representatives to manage over 30 business majors, many involving partner schools. In addition, she has been active in curriculum and program design related to required data analytics coursework for undergraduate business students, the Business Entrepreneurship major, and the Masters in Innovation and Venture Development. As Department Chair, Professor Lindsey manages the delivery of finance and real estate curriculum by over 30 full-time faculty across two undergraduate majors, a real estate minor, a specialized masters program, and several MBA platforms to over 3000 students. She is also instrumental in furthering the school’s strategic initiatives around financial inclusion.

Dr. Lindsey completed her Ph.D. in Economics at Stanford University in 2004 and also holds master and undergraduate degrees from Stanford. Her consulting background includes portfolio management, securities litigation, and private equity valuation. Professor Lindsey’s current research projects include the role of hedge funds in venture capital and the tradeoffs investors’ face when implementing ESG-strategies.

Joanna Lucio

Senior Associate Dean

Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions

Joanna Lucio is serving as Senior Associate Dean of Student and Academic Affairs in Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. In this role, she oversees student services, recruitment, undergraduate advising, and academic integrity. During her tenure at ASU, Lucio has been integrally involved in handson learning opportunities and promoting student success through undergraduate research, curriculum development, and internship opportunities. She recently partnered with a program that helps students facing food insecurity obtain SNAP benefits. Lucio is committed to advancing equity goals of ASU and Watts College and works alongside her colleagues to advance programs that are welcoming and inclusive for all students.

Lucio has worked in a leadership role at Watts college since 2018, and she enjoys getting to apply the lessons she has learned from her service, teaching, and research experiences with improving student and employee opportunities. She especially enjoys making connections with community partners and providing opportunities for students to engage with their communities in meaningful ways.

Lucio joined ASU in 2006 after receiving her PhD in Urban and Public Administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. She is an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs. Lucio has taught undergraduate courses in urban studies, research methods, and capstone projects. She teaches Advanced Qualitative Methods to doctoral students. She is passionate about teaching and working with students to help them achieve their goals.

Lucio’s research explores how urban governance and policies impact diverse groups in society. She works to advance the rights of under-served residents through the evaluation and analysis of housing and neighborhood policies and programs, particularly for low-income residents. Her recent work has focused on how opposition to affordable housing impedes a “right to the city” for low-income residents. Her research can be found in leading journals, such as Critical Social Policy, Journal of Urban Affairs, Urban Geography, and American Review of Public Administration.

Carla Mahnke

Interim Director

Human Resources

Carla Mahnke has over 18 years of leadership experience in Higher Education. As an Interim Director at Arizona State University (ASU) in the Office of Human Resources, Carla oversees teams in the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Compensation and Classification, and Employee Service Center. Carla has extensive experience leading and developing strategic initiatives and enterprise projects that support diversity and equity for staff, faculty, and students. As a leader, she builds and maintains cohesive and functional teams and produces high-quality work through partnership and collaboration with colleagues and peers. Her background includes work in training and employee development, compensation, employee relations, and diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and compliance. Prior to joining the Office of Human Resources, Carla worked in Student Affairs as a student advocate and student conduct administrator. Carla received her Doctor of Education and Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies from Arizona State University, and her Master’s of Education from Northern Arizona University.

Carla’s professional and personal interests align with principles of the university charter; she is passionate about advancing innovative programs and solutions that support inclusive work environments, employee engagement, and student success. As a Faculty Associate in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts, Carla teaches courses on diverse organizations and organizational ethics. Carla also serves as an Executive Board Member on the Committee for Campus Inclusion (CCI) at ASU, and is President of the Arizona Chapter of the professional organization CUPA-HR, College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.

Carla regularly develops and presents trainings on topics including Title IX (gender-based discrimination, harassment, sexual violence), Title VII (Civil Rights), diversity, implicit bias, microaggressions, and workplace discrimination and harassment. Training audiences include faculty, staff, students, and visiting scholars at Arizona State University, along with higher education human resources and public service professionals across the state of Arizona.

Vernon Morris

Foundation Professor & Associate Dean

Knowledge Enterprise and Strategic Outcomes

New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences

Dr. Vernon Morris is a Foundation Professor & Associate Dean, Knowledge Enterprise and Strategic Outcomes, New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He is a Senior Sustainability Scientist in the Julie Ann Wrigley School of Sustainability and an Associate Scientist in the Center for Gender Equity in Science and Technology (CGEST). He oversees the strategic growth and administration of a vibrant academic unit offering degrees and certificates in 28 programs and engaged in broad portfolio of advanced interdisciplinary research. Dr. Morris serves as one of two inaugural co-leads for the launch of ASU’s Presidential Postdoctoral Program and Graduate Scholars Program; two LIFT initiatives designed to address the production, enhanced recruitment, and improved retention of Black faculty across the academy.

Dr. Morris is passionate about broadening the participation and success of racialized groups in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). He has guided the research for more than 200 students at the graduate, undergraduate, and high school levels. Over 150 of the students were of marginalized, racialized, or minoritized identities. Prior to ASU, Dr. Morris founded the Atmospheric Sciences program at Howard University. Under his leadership, the program became a national leader in the production of minoritized PhDs; producing 60% of the African American PhDs and 30% of the Latina PhDs in Atmospheric Sciences between 2006 to 2018 in the United States. 97% of the program’s alumni are working in their respective fields across federal agencies, the private sector, and academia.

Dr. Morris’ research focuses on the chemical evolution of airborne particulate during their residence times in the lower troposphere and their implications to urban aerobiology, climate, and environmental justice. He serves on the National Science Foundation Committee on Equal Opportunities in Science and He has published over 75 refereed publications, book chapters, and technical reports and garnered over $75M in research funding. His most recent recognitions include being listed as one of the 1000 most inspiring Black scientists of 2020, the 2020 American Geophysical Union Presidential Citation for Science and Society, and an inaugural Fellow in the USC Wrigley Institute Storymakers Program (2022).

Juan Mundel

Director

Global Initiatives

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Juan Mundel (Ph.D., Michigan State University) is an associate professor and director of Global Initiatives at the Cronkite School. Cronkite Global Initiatives fosters internationalization of the curricula and is home to several U.S. Department of State programs, including the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship and Study of the United States Institutes program. Before ASU, Mundel was an assistant professor of advertising and director of the Latino Media and Communication Program at DePaul University.

Mundel has more than 13 years of experience working on projects related to global engagement and internationalization. He has led short-term study abroad programs in Paris, London, and Amsterdam (International Advertising in Europe, Michigan State University); Amsterdam, Cannes, and Barcelona (Advertising and Society in Europe, Michigan State University and DePaul University); and Buenos Aires and Cordoba (International Social Marketing, Michigan State University, and DePaul University). These programs connect students with leading markets in mass communication and provide opportunities to develop much-needed global-ready skills.

He teaches courses in strategic communication and digital audiences at the graduate and undergraduate levels. His research, which focuses on consumer behavior, multicultural and international audiences, and ALI Cohort VII Roster | 9 social media, has appeared in the Journal of Advertising, the Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services, and the Journal of Product and Brand Management, among other outlets.

He is the Editor of the Journal of Advertising Education. Mundel is also on the Global and Multicultural Committee for the American Academy of Advertising. At ASU, he is part of the Marketing Inclusivity initiative and co-principal investigator for an interdisciplinary USAID grant aimed at curbing gender-based violence against women and sexual minorities. He was selected for the 2020 “35 under 35” Young Leaders Making an Impact awarded by Chicago Scholars, and the 2021 Early Career Excellence in Teaching Award by the Advertising Division of the Association for Educators of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Eduardo Pagan

Associate Dean

Barrett – West Campus

The Honors College

Eduardo Obregón Pagán the Bob Stump Endowed Professor of History and an Associate Dean of Barrett, The Honors College. He is a proud native of Arizona and graduated with a BA from Arizona State University. He went on to receive an MA from the University of Arizona, and second MA, and a Ph.D., from Princeton University. Prior to returning to ASU, he was a faculty member at Williams College and a senior program officer at the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington, D.C. He is a versatile interdisciplinary historian whose research focuses primarily on the American West, although his interests can take him far abroad. He has published in literary, geology, anthropology, sociology, as well as history journals, and is the author of Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon: Zoot Suits, Race, and Riot in Wartime L.A. (University of North Carolina Press, 2004), and Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence (University of Oklahoma Press, 2018). He is currently under contract with the University of Oklahoma Press for a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled: “The Wretched West: The Underworld of Sex Trafficking and Narcotics on the Frontier, 1872-1938.” In addition to his scholarly work, he has been active as a public historian, publishing two books on the history of Phoenix with a trade press, serving as a co-host of the popular PBS and PBSUK series History Detectives, and has been featured in several domestic and international television shows and documentaries. He is also serving as the adjunct curator of history at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum in Wickenburg, where he has curated exhibitions on Apache life and on Latino folk art. While at ASU, he has served as a vice provost, associate dean, department chair, president of the University Senate, and on multiple university- and college-wide committees, working groups, and task forces.

Warick Pond

Executive Director

Enterprise Technology

Enterprise Technology Office

Warick Pond is Executive Director for Enterprise Technology at Arizona State University. He brings a wealth of experience in IT portfolio and project management from both higher education and industry. In his role at ASU, he works with diverse teams resulting in the successful implementation of the tools, techniques, and methodology being utilized to assess, prioritize, manage, and monitor the hundreds of initiatives comprising the institution’s IT portfolio.

Previously he served as Assistant Vice President for the Planning and Programs team; leading a team of professionals that strive to provide expert knowledge and value in project management best practices, methods, and tools for enterprise IT projects across the university. He is a founding member of the ASU Project Management Network.

Driving strategic initiatives toward implementation at ASU, Warick focuses on valuable partnerships that result in student success. With over twelve years in higher education and seven in the private market, Warick brings a unique perspective to building project management maturity. His most notable projects include managing the technology efforts for Starbuck's College Achievement Plan and eAdvisor Tracking, which won Information Weekly's Top 500 Technology Innovators award. His latest efforts include XR @ ASU and Dreamscape Learning.

Previous to ASU, Warick worked 7 years at the University of Utah as a portfolio manager. His efforts in establishing an integrated PMO that leveraged frameworks within portfolio, project and resource management in combination with strategic governance at the University of Utah & University of Utah Health Science Center have been highlighted in the publications, Taming Change with Portfolio Management and A Compendium of PMO Case Studies. His experience in adult instructional design in the laboratory science industry with ARUP Laboratories and business development with Staples, Inc., brings a unique view to how technology services impact business capabilities. Warick is a Certified Project Management Professional as well as a Certified Scrum Master. Warick holds a Bachelors of Science in Applied Science and Technology from Weber State University and a Masters in Business Administration from Arizona State University.

Patrick Rossol - Allison

Associate Vice President

Strategic Initiatives

Learning Enterprise

Patrick Rossol-Allison, is Associate Vice President, Strategic Initiatives, for the Learning Enterprise. In his role, he finds opportunities to create innovative tech-enabled solutions to democratize the knowledge and opportunities that have traditionally been held by only a few. Patrick develops early-stage learning ideas into executable and fundable concepts and oversees enterprise-wide strategic initiatives.

Previously, Patrick created and was Head of ASU Local, specifically designed for equitable education outcomes. He redesigned the university experience so that students could pursue over 100 bachelor’s degrees in locations across the country while embedded in a tight-knit local community.

Prior as Senior Program Officer at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he invested over $30M in higher education initiatives. He oversaw relationships and investments including those of the Aspen Institute, Harvard University, and the American Institutes for Research. He evaluated all of the foundation’s investments in community colleges, HBCUs, research universities, and state systems with the goal of adopting and scaling of innovations associated with improving student success and institutional sustainability.

Earlier in his career, Patrick was in the chief strategy officer position at one of the largest community colleges in the country at Johnson County Community College. He created renowned national benchmark initiatives in the areas of student success, finance, and workforce education with over a quarter of all community colleges in the country participating.

Patrick holds an MA in Political Science, Modern History, and Public Law from the University of Bonn in Germany. He attended Duke University as a national German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholar. He has been a national advisor to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Lumina Foundation, the Association for Institutional Research, NACUBO, and NASPA.

Patrick is a first-generation immigrant who grew up in Germany, Canada, and Costa Rica and is fluent in English, Spanish, and German. He resides in Seattle, Washington with his family.

Paola Sanguinetti

Director

Design School

Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Paola Sanguinetti is the Director of the Design School at Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. Paola has two decades of teaching experience in architecture and computational design. Paola received a Bachelor of Architecture at the University of Kansas, a Master of Science in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, and a PhD from the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in High Performance Buildings and Design Computation. Paola worked in Prof. Chuck Eastman’s Digital Building Laboratory, developing tools to automate data exchanges between building-information models and simulation models. Her current research focuses on energy efficient 3D-printed construction.

Paola has been recognized for her excellence in teaching, including DesignIntelligence's most admired educators in 2014. Her passion is mentoring students and supporting the participation of underrepresented groups in her area of expertise: building simulation, robotic fabrication and virtual reality in architecture.

She has an active BIM consulting practice. Paola has worked professionally in New York and London, gaining experience with several internationally distinguished architectural practices, including those of Emilio Ambasz and Zaha Hadid.

Karen Smith

Chief Financial Officer

EdPlus

Karen Smith is the Chief Financial Officer for EdPlus at ASU. She joined EdPlus in 2016 after more than 20 years of financial leadership in both publicly- and privately-held companies. Karen has experience in auditing, financial management, information technology, and operations across a variety of industries including copper and gold mining, higher education, and manufacturing.

At EdPlus, Karen works in collaboration with senior ASU officials and EdPlus leadership to develop and execute EdPlus’ strategy while supporting their financial, resource management, and accountability functions. She leads a team responsible for financial planning, forecasting, and analysis support to all EdPlus’ functions from outreach to technology and student support. She and her team evaluate and inform executive teams on the economics of new and ongoing mission opportunities for informed transparent decision making.

Karen’s professional experience in higher education began as an assistant professor of accounting at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University where she taught both MBA and undergraduate accounting courses. Later she taught both online and traditional instruction at several not-for-profit and for-profit institutions. Karen also spent several years at Apollo Education Group leading its financial ALI Cohort VII Roster | 12 planning and analysis group. Karen considers herself curious and enjoys discovering new ideas, places, and challenges. She also describes herself as dedicated and loyal to her work, her friends, her principles, and her hobbies. Her desire for discovery, as well as service, compelled Karen to enlist and serve as a Specialist in the US Army Reserve and Arizona National Guard. Karen holds a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting from the University of Delaware and a PhD in Accounting and Quantitative Methods from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Arizona. Karen’s hobbies include training for and participating in triathlons of various distances, and traveling across the United States and internationally.