Taking leadership to the next level

Elizabeth Baker

Senior Associate Dean of Medical Education, School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering

Elizabeth Baker MD, MHPE is the inaugural Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education for the School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering at Arizona State University. She completed medical school at Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine, completed her residency and chief residency in Internal Medicine at RUSH in Chicago, and was a RUSH faculty member and practicing general internist. She has been an active educator throughout her career, serving as Rush Medical College’s Internal Medicine Clerkship Director, Vice-Chair for Education for the Department of Internal Medicine, and Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate Medical Education. She was an integral part of the development and implementation of Rush Medical College’s integrated flipped classroom curriculum. She has a Masters in Health Professions Education and has done work on her PhD in Curricular Studies/Medical Education at the University of Illinois at Chicago. In addition to curricular studies, Dr. Baker’s main scholarly interest is in clinical skills, specifically diagnostic reasoning. She has developed and disseminated the IDEA tool for teaching and assessing diagnostic reasoning.

Bronwyn Beabeau

Chief Operating Officer, Thunderbird School of Global Management

Bronwyn Beabeau is the Chief Operating Officer at Thunderbird. Bronwyn has over five years of experience in marketing and graphic design, including working as a Visual Designer at Arizona State University and as a Marketing Graphic Designer at Christian Family Care. In their role at Thunderbird, Bronwyn is responsible for creating and implementing print, digital, and social media campaigns to advocate and promote awareness for foster care and adoption in Arizona. Bronwyn also manages web content, helps with the implementation of digital customer touch points and data collection, and works directly with the strategy of fundraising and development campaigns.

Bronwyn Beabeau is a graduate of Arizona State University, where they majored in design studies. Bronwyn also has a bachelor's degree from the same school.

Bronwyn Beabeau reports to Sanjeev Khagram, Dean & Director General. They work with Patrick McDermott - Chief Engagement Officer, Tom Hunsaker - Associate Dean of Global Challenge Lab, and Lena Booth - Deputy Dean, Thunderbird Academic Enterprise & Finance Professor.

Matthew Buman

Director, ASU Precision Health Research Initiatives, College of Health Solutions

Professor Buman received his PhD in Applied Physiology & Kinesiology from the University of Florida, USA and completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology from Stanford University School of Medicine, USA. He is currently an Associate Professor in the College of Health Solutions at Arizona State University, USA. His research interests focus on the dynamic interplay of behaviors across the 24 hours - sleep, sedentary behavior, and physical activity - and how collectively these behaviors contribute to chronic disease. He is an expert in device-based measurement and is a leader in the design and evaluation of interventions that leverage ubiquitous technologies (i.e., smartphones, wearable sensors) to improve sleep, sedentary, and physical activity behaviors. He has published 125+ peer-reviewed manuscripts in the fields of medicine, public health, kinesiology, sleep medicine, and engineering. He recently completed service as a special consultant to the United States Health and Human Services (HHS) 2018 Physical Activity Guidelines Advisory Council, where he served on a team that reviewed the evidence on interventions to reduce sedentary time and increase physical activity in children, adults, and older adults. He is a fellow of the American College of Sports Medicine and Society of Behavioral Medicine.

Colleen Cordes

Assistant Vice Provost of Career-Track Faculty, Office of the University Provost

Colleen Clemency Cordes is the Assistant Vice Provost for Career-Track Faculty, where she leads initiatives aimed to support career-track faculty across the university. Prior to her role as Assistant Vice Provost, she served as the Associate Dean of Career Track Faculty and a Clinical Professor in the College of Health Solutions (CHS), supporting the success and development of more than 100 interprofessional career track faculty. She additionally serves as a Senior Advisor to the Interim Dean in CHS.
Dr. Cordes is a licensed psychologist, and her clinical work has almost exclusively been in integrated settings, including Banner Good Samaritan Hospital in Phoenix, AZ, the VA Hospital in Long Beach, CA, the Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial Veterans Hospital in Bedford, MA, and HonorHealth's Neighborhood Outreach and Access to Health (NOAH) clinics. She received a Certificate in Primary Care Behavioral Health from the University of Massachusetts Medical Center and completed didactic training programs in biofeedback and clinical hypnosis from the Cambridge Health Alliance, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School. She is a Past President of the Board of Directors for the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), having served as the President of the Board from 2021-2022; she was on the Board from 2015-2023. Dr. Cordes has also served as a Technical Expert to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). Her research interests focus on primary care behavioral health and workforce development for integrated primary care.
Colleen Clemency Cordes is also a proud Sun Devil, having graduated from the counseling psychology program at Arizona State University in 2009.
 

Kelly Davis

Assistant Dean of Faculty Affairs, Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation

Kelly Cue Davis, PhD is the Assistant Dean for TT/RT Faculty Affairs and a Professor in the Edson College of Nursing and Health Innovation as well as a licensed clinical psychologist. Her primary research interests include health risk behaviors, with a particular emphasis on the intersection of sexual violence, sexual risk, and substance use. Her work has targeted sexual assault assessment, response, prevention, and policy in both K-12 and higher education institutions as well the military and legal system, with an emphasis on the role of alcohol in sexual assault perpetration and victimization. She is a recipient of a MERIT award from the National Institutes of Health and a 2023-2024 Fulbright Scholar.

Vanessa Fonseca-Chavez

Assistant Vice Provost, Polytechnic Campus; Associate Professor of English

Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez is an Associate Professor of English and Assistant Vice Provost of the ASU Polytechnic campus. In her role as Assistant Vice Provost, she works on the strategic implementation of ASU's goals at the Poly campus by providing campus-level engagement to advance Poly priorities. She supports enrollment growth, community building, and student success, as well as communicating Poly's contributions to the ASU Charter and fostering relationships with external stakeholders. Prior to this role, Fonseca-Chávez served as the Associate Dean of Inclusion and Student Success for the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts from 2021-2025.  
At ASU, Fonseca-Chávez teaches undergraduate courses in English, Interdisciplinary Studies, Liberal Studies, and History. She is an affiliate faculty member of the School of Transborder Studies, the School of International Letters and Cultures and the Department of English at ASU Tempe.
Fonseca-Chávez co-directs the Following the Manito Trail project, which looks at the Hispanic New Mexican, or Manito, diaspora from the mid 19th century to the present. The Following the Manito Trail team has produced three documentaries, five museum exhibits, and has published numerous articles and book chapters. 

Kate Howells

Executive Director, Strategic Marketing and Communications, Knowledge Enterprise Office of the Executive Vice President - Operations

Kate Howells serves as the Executive Director of Strategic Marketing and Communications for Arizona State University’s Knowledge Enterprise. Kate oversees strategic storytelling initiatives that amplify the impact of ASU’s Knowledge Enterprise. Her efforts are focused on creating integrated narratives that highlight ASU’s groundbreaking research and foster connections with key stakeholders across academia, industry, and the broader community.
She brings a range of leadership experience across global go-to-market strategy, operations, marketing, and consumer insights. Kate began her career in the advertising agency space serving clients of traditional media programs, then spent a decade at Google working with the world's largest global advertisers and agencies on their integrated digital marketing strategies. She then served as the VP, MarCom at a non-profit dedicated to advancing women in technology, leading all aspects of the marketing strategy.
A collaborative and inclusive leader, Kate is deeply committed to fostering a culture that combines human connection and creativity with data-driven wisdom and decision-making. She has a strong passion for advancing initiatives that align with ASU’s charter of doing research and discovery for public good.
Beyond her work with the University, she sits on the board of her family business, a boutique financial services firm. She lives in North Phoenix with her husband and two children.

Beth Huebner

Director, School of Criminology & Criminal Justice

Beth M. Huebner is the Director of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice and Watts Endowed Professor of Public Safety at Arizona State University. She spent much of her career at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, nearly half of which she served as the director of graduate programs. She received her Ph.D. from Michigan State University, where she worked with Dr. Tim Bynum. Her principal research interests include punishment, the collateral consequences of contact with the criminal legal system, and public policy. She has spent most of her career partnering with local agencies and organizations on community-led reforms. Her research has been funded by the MacArthur Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, Pew Charitable Trusts, and Arnold Ventures, among others.  She has served on many journal boards and has held leadership positions for Criminal Justice and Behavior and the Oxford Bibliographies in Criminology. She has served as the Vice President and Executive Counselor of the American Society of Criminology and the President of the Association of Doctoral Programs in Criminology and Criminal Justice. She has had the privilege to work with many talented students and is the parent of two young adults, who have served as constant inspiration for her work.

Kelly Knudson

Associate Dean of Faculty, The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

Kelly Knudson is the Associate Dean of Faculty in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is also a Professor in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change, where she directs the Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory. Her research focuses on human responses to climate change and mobility and migration in the past through biogeochemistry. Funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Justice, Knudson has authored more than 110 peer-reviewed papers and two textbooks, and has co-edited two edited volumes.
 

Shawn Lawson

Interim Director, ASU Media and Immersive eXperience Center, Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts

Shawn Lawson is a computational artist and researcher creating the computational sublime. He performs under the pseudonym Obi-Wan Codenobi where he live-codes real-time computer graphics with his open source software, The Force. Lawson’s other work explores a range of technology: stereoscopy, camera vision, touch screens, game controllers, hand-held devices, random number generators; and output formats: print, sculpture, mobile apps, instruction sets, animation, and interactive.
He has performed at NIME, Australia; Radical dB, Spain; ICLI, Portugal and UK; ICLC, UK, Canada, Mexico, Spain; ISEA, Canada; GENERATE!, Germany; Live => Coding, Brazil; CultureHub, NYC, CCRMA, and more. Shawn’s artwork has exhibited or screened in museums, galleries, festivals, and public space in England, Denmark, Russia, Italy, Korea, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Turkey, Malaysia, Iran, and Canada; locally in ACM SIGGRAPH, IEEE ProCams, ACM MM, The Art Institute of Chicago, Milwaukee Art Museum, Chelsea Art Museum, Eyebeam, Aperture Foundation Gallery, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, MIT, OSU, ASU, and LTU. He has given workshops in programming or live coding in Europe and the USA. Shawn is published in the proceedings of ICLC, ACM CC, ACM SIGGRAPH, ACM SIGCHI, ACM MM and the Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture.
Lawson has received support from the Electronic Media and Film Program at the New York State Council on the Arts, the Experimental Television Center’s Finishing Funds Program, Kamel Lazaar Foundation, CultureHub’s Micro-Residency, and Signal Culture’s Toolmakers in Residency. Lawson studied fine arts at Carnegie Mellon University and École Nationale Supèrieure des Beaux-Arts. He received his MFA in Art and Technology Studies from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2003.
 

Andrea Lore

Senior Associate Athletic Director, Student-Athlete Development and Well-Being, Sun Devil Athletics

Andrea is the Associate Director for Student and Staff Development in the Office of Student Athlete Development, Sun Devil Athletics (SDA). Andrea's duties include oversight of daily operations of the Office of Student Athlete Development Learning Programs (Tutoring, Mentoring, Computer Lab and Study Programs), supervision of a part-time and full-time staff members, development of Staff Development Initiatives (OSAD and SDA) and serves as the Academic Coach for the ASU Women's Gymnastics Team.
Andrea holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from the University of North Carolina- Wilmington, and a Master's Degree in Behavior Analysis from the University of North Texas.  Prior to joining Sun Devil Athletics Andrea worked as an Instructor at the University of North Texas teaching courses in Behavior Analysis.

Miriam Mara

Director and Professor, School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies

Miriam Mara investigates contemporary Irish literature and film. Her second research stream includes research in health humanities and medical rhetoric. She is a professor in the School of Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies in the New College of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.  
During the 2016-17 academic year, Dr. Mara collected interview data from health care professionals in Kenya as part of a Fulbright U.S. Scholar award. This culminating piece followed preliminary analysis of Kenyan medical documents and the fiction of Kenyan author Margaret Ogola. The resulting book Globalism and Gendering Cancer was published by Routledge in 2020.
Going forward, she is expanding work on embodiment and identity in Irish literature with a new book project titled Food Sovereignty in Post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. It will analyze on the ground agricultural and ecological practice as well as a group of contemporary Irish texts about returning to farm life, including novels like Belinda McKeon’s Solace and John Connell’s memoir, The Cow Book. This book will unpack the current state of Irish agriculture in the European Union context alongside ongoing challenges to food sovereignty in a globalized world. In that framework, the argument suggests that the sub-genre of farming texts creates a way for Irish writers to reframe an Irish identity through connection to land and agricultural traditions, in the face of identity loss after the Celtic Tiger. Those texts also reflect a growing awareness in Irish letters about the ecological peril the small island faces. Mara was named a 2019-20 Institute for Humanities Research Fellow to build this project.

Kyle Mox

Associate Dean of National Scholarship Advisement, Office of National Scholarship Advisement

With over 20 years of experience in higher education, Dr. Kyle Mox has successfully advised hundreds of applicants for national scholarships and prestigious fellowships, including winners of the Rhodes and Marshall Scholarship, Truman Scholarship, Goldwater Scholarship, and Fulbright US Student Program, among others. He is a vocal presence in the professional field of competitive fellowships advising and is the former President of the National Association of Fellowships Advisors.

As Associate Dean for National Scholarship Advisement, Mox creates and manages progressive student development programs that encourage creativity, interdisciplinary thinking, and intensive self-reflection. His most rewarding academic experience is to mentor students over a period of time as they pursue opportunities for personal, professional, and intellectual development.
Originally from Michigan, Mox has lived in New Orleans, Louisiana; College Station, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; and Phoenix, Arizona, where he now resides with his family. In his free time, he enjoys cooking, hiking, home brewing, and coaching youth lacrosse.

Christina Ngo

Assistant Vice President of Social Embeddedness, Office of University Affairs

Christina Ngo is the Executive Director of Social Embeddedness at Arizona State University. Christina’s work focuses on advancing the mission of the New American University by evaluating university-wide social embeddedness efforts and initiatives. In this role, she facilitates and amplifies collaborative, mutually beneficial partnerships and innovations across the university and throughout our communities. She is also a faculty associate at ASU's Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions. 
Her portfolio includes working on the university-wide adoption of Collaboratory, a digital platform that allows users to capture the variety of ways ASU staff and faculty work with over 2,0000 individual community partners and organizations to collaboratively address challenges. The platform serves as a connector between different ASU units and community partners.
She was a 2021 ATHENA Young Professional Award finalist, and Arizona Women in Higher Education recognized her as the 2024 Mentor of the Year. Christina is a first-generation college student and received her B.A. in Sociology from The University of Texas at Austin, her M.Ed. in Secondary Education from ASU and her Master’s in Business Administration from the W. P. Carey School of Business at ASU.

Samuel Robertson

Assistant Vice President Facilities Management, FDM Facilities Development and Management

Robertson comes to ASU from the University of Richmond, where he was executive director of Facility Operations. He spearheaded transformative initiatives across the campus including a steam plant renovation, an improved utility processing strategy and the implementation of smart-metering technology.
Robertson’s 17-year career in the higher-education sector has led to pivotal leadership roles at Virginia Commonwealth University, Indiana University and the University of Utah. His experience includes strategic energy management, asset preservation and environmentally sustainable daily operations.
Robertson earned a bachelor’s degree in facility management from Brigham Young University and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in business administration from VCU. He holds certifications in real estate, facility management and safety preparedness.

Christiana Sletten

Assistant Vice President & Director of Residential Life, Educational Outreach and Student Services

Christiana Sletten is Assistant Vice President in Educational Outreach and Student Services.  In this role, she is focused on the educational persistence and success of students through the application of principles centered on holistic wellbeing, skill development, connection and resiliency.  She is focused on educational access for students and works to reduce barriers to their success.  Christiana's background showcases her commitment to fostering an environment where students can thrive personally and academically.
During her tenure at Arizona State University, Christiana has had the honor of serving as the Associate Director of ASU Wellness Services.  In this role, she oversaw strategic university initiatives focused on health and wellbeing, and worked to develop outreach programs for students.  Prior to this time, she served as the Associate Director for ASU Health and Counseling Services where she managed operations, inclusive of the pharmacy, x-ray, laboratory services, medical records, and patient services.  She also oversaw the quality improvement program and health accreditation. In each of these roles, she worked to develop comprehensive relationships with the academic colleges in order to promote inroads for the health and wellbeing of students in the classroom.
Christiana holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration, and a Masters Degree in Clinical Social Work.  Christiana is board certified with the Board of Behavioral Health Examiners as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker.  She has previously directed mental health programs within underserved and underrepresented communities with patients who had minimal access to treatment and healthcare.  In her prior roles in community mental health, she was instrumental in the integration of physical and behavioral healthcare services to ensure wrap-around care provision for patients and clients. 
 

John VandenBrooks

Associate Dean for Immersive Learning, EdPlus at ASU

John VandenBrooks is a Professor in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts and the Associate Dean of Immersive Learning in EdPlus at Arizona State University. He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry at the University of Michigan, his doctorate in geology and geophysics at Yale University, and was a postdoctoral fellow in physiology at Arizona State University. 
Previously, VandenBrooks was an Associate Professor of Physiology at Midwestern University (2014-2022). While there, he served as the Associate Director of Veterinary Physiology in the College of Veterinary Medicine. In this role, he was a founding faculty member of the College of Veterinary Medicine and led the development, alignment and mapping of the basic science curriculum culminating in the successful accreditation of the college. In recognition of his outstanding achievement as an educator in the field of veterinary medicine, he was awarded the American Association of Veterinary Colleges Distinguished Veterinary Teacher Award. At Midwestern, VandenBrooks also served as the chair of the IACUC overseeing all animal use for research and teaching on campus and he was the core facility director managing centralized research facilities on campus and multi-million dollar capital equipment budgets.  
VandenBrooks accepted a position as the Associate Dean of Immersive Learning in EdPlus at Arizona State University in 2022. In this current role, he leads the Dreamscape Learn and Neo Bio initiatives, along with overseeing partnerships with ASU Health and the Global Futures Laboratory. Dreamscape Learn is a partnership between ASU and Dreamscape Immersive that combines Hollywood storytelling and cutting-edge technology to enable students to conduct collaborative research in a virtual world. Neo Bio is a fully aligned adaptive biology curriculum that combines innovative skills-based pedagogy with narrative-driven Dreamscape Learn VR experiences to increase student outcomes.  
 

Bonnie Wilde

Executive Director, Enterprise Technology Affairs

Strategic leader and inclusive systems builder with deep expertise in higher education technology. I specialize in transforming complexity into clarity—aligning people, products, and partnerships to deliver scalable, human-centered solutions. With a background in program development, enterprise platforms, and community engagement, I lead initiatives that bridge digital transformation with equity, access, and excellence. Known for building trusted relationships, driving cross-functional collaboration, and designing systems that empower both teams and learners.