2024 Fellows
Our eighth cohort of ALI Fellows brings together eighteen advancing leaders from multiple areas of the university. Learn more about each of our Fellows below.
Our eighth cohort of ALI Fellows brings together eighteen advancing leaders from multiple areas of the university. Learn more about each of our Fellows below.
Lisa AndersonAssociate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor Graduate College Lisa M. Anderson is a Professor in the School of Social Transformation, and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Graduate College. She is primarily a semiotician whose research focuses on race, gender, and sexuality in culture, specifically in representational arts (theatre, film, television, and literature). In May, she published her most recent book, Black Women and the Changing Television Landscape (Bloomsbury 2023). She has begun work on a new monograph on Black feminist, queer, and trans science fiction, exploring the ways that these writers imagine Black futures. She is also interested in the lived experiences of decolonization and liberation and joy for Black and Latina queer and trans people, and is currently working on a co-authored book tentatively entitled Black and Latina Queer and Trans Creolizations with Jacqueline M. Martinez. In the Graduate College, she handles dismissals and academic integrity issues, and works on curriculum development, Graduate faculty, and Graduate College policy. She also participates in professional development particularly for Presidential scholars. She has held various leadership roles in the School of Social Transformation, including Faculty Lead, Associate Director of Graduate Studies, and Deputy School Director. |
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Ayse CiftciDirector School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology College of Integrative Sciences and Arts Ayse Ciftci is the inaugural Director of the School of Counseling and Counseling Psychology (SCCP), one of three new schools in the College of Integrative Sciences and Arts (CISA) launched in July, 2023. Before moving to ASU, she spent 16 years at Purdue University with her most recent positions as the Department Head of Educational Studies and the inaugural Diversity Fellow in the College of Education. In addition, she served on the Faculty Advisory Committee on Diversity and Inclusion at Purdue University to advise the Provost, Vice Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, and vice provost for Faculty Affairs on strategies for advancing campus diversity and inclusion generally and specifically supporting underrepresented faculty. Prior to these positions, she was the Program Director of an APA accredited counseling psychology doctoral program for six years. She is the recipient of the American Psychological Association (APA) 2014 Presidential Citation and an APA Fellow in Divisions 17 (Counseling Psychology) and 52 (International Psychology). Dr. Çiftçi was named Purdue University Faculty Scholar in recognition of her scholarly accomplishments. Through her leadership positions and scholarship, she has worked to identify critical factors and develop interventions that will help build more inclusive environments particularly for marginalized communities in educational and training settings. Most recently, she was the Chair of the Council of Chairs of TrainingCouncils (CCTC), where she co-chaired the 2020 Training Council Joint Conference. This conference occurs every ten years with a theme on Social Responsiveness with 160 leaders from 15 training councils and 10 liaison groups. In 2023, she served as guest co-editor for two different APA journals (Training and education in Professional Psychology and Professional Psychology: Research and Practice) that collaborated on the same special issue on “Socially ResponsiveHealth Service Psychology Education and training–The CCTC 2020 Toolkit in Action.” |
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Kimberly ClarkDeputy CIO Operational Excellence and Digital Transformation Enterprise Technology Kimberly Clark is a seasoned technology leader with a passion for innovation, audacious goals, and developing high-performing teams. She joined Arizona State University in March 2023 as Deputy Chief Information Officer where she is chartered with advancing digital transformation and driving operational excellence. |
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Heather ClarkDirector School for Biological and Health Systems Engineering Arizona State University Heather Clark is the Director of the School for Biological and Health Systems Engineering at Arizona State University and an Associate Editor at ACS Sensors. Previously, she was a Professor at Northeastern University where she was the Founding Director of the Institute for Chemical Imaging of Living Systems. She received her PhD in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Michigan and completed a postdoc in the Center for Cell Analysis & Modeling at the University of Connecticut Health Center. She is a AIMBE Fellow and has received awards for both research and teaching, including the DARPA Young Faculty Award. Her work has been featured in a live CNN interview, the Wall Street Journal, WIRED magazine and MIT Technology Review. |
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Chandra CrudupAssociate Dean Inclusive Design for Equity and Access Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions Chandra Crudup is the Associate Dean for Inclusive Design for Equity and Access (IDEA) in the Watts College of Public Service and Community Solutions and a Clinical Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at Arizona State University (ASU). She is the Interim Director of the Studio for Creativity, Place and Equitable Communities, and an affiliate faculty in The Design School. She recently served as the Downtown Representative for the Faculty Women of Color Caucus. Her practice experience is in K-12 school social work. She is on the board of Awakening Seed School and recently served as the vice president of the Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS) Association and continues to organize the international CMRS Conference. |
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Kerri DavidsonExecutive Director & Chief of Staff Office of the Chief Operating Officer Kerri Davidson is an award-winning strategist, creative problem solver, global thinker, and innovative partner with 25+ years of experience leading transformational change in higher education, business and industry, especially in highly matrixed, complex organizations. She is recognized for identifying and process engineering solutions, collecting and analyzing business intelligence, and synthesizing strategies for decision-making. Davidson brings a wealth of experience in organizational strategic planning, business development, philanthropic fundraising, communications, and has convened events globally to solve problems and improve operational efficiencies for goal attainment aligned to organizational mission and vision. She is dedicated to advancing Arizona State University's role for public good while supporting the Charter as one of the most inclusive, high performing and innovative universities in the world. |
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Stephani Etheridge WoodsonAssociate Dean for Students and Academic Programs Herberger Institute Stephani Etheridge Woodson is Associate Dean for Students and Academic Programs in the Herberger Institute—the nation’s largest arts and design school within a research-intensive university. Her duties include academic integrity and student success broadly construed. She also serves as director of the Herberger Institute's Design and Arts Corps, an initiative to partner all Herberger Institute students with the community to make the world a better place. |
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Chris FiscusVice President Executive Committee at Arizona State University Chris Fiscus is a Vice President on the Executive Committee at Arizona State University, helping to tell the stories of one of the most innovative universities on the planet. Chris leads Arizona State's Media Relations & Strategic Communications, a team of talented people in media relations, ASU News, visual communications, crisis communications, presidential communications and social media. Chris and the team of writers, editors, media relations experts, strategists, creative directors, photographers, videographers and graphic designers capture the best of ASU from all campuses, and coast to coast. The team has won numerous Emmys, Addys, Copper Anvil and Case awards, and its contributions to ASU social media have been lauded nationally by Vox and Hootsuite. Previously at ASU, Chris was an Associate Vice President and Assistant Vice President, and earlier was the Director of Communications at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and Arizona PBS. Before joining ASU, Chris spent more than a decade at national marketing agencies based in Phoenix, first at Moses Anshell / Moses Inc. and then at OH Partners. His teams worked video game launch events in New York City and Los Angeles, promoted everything from Santa Monica hotels and craft beer to colon cancer checks, sold lots of consumer products, landed attention from Adweek to the New York Times, and helped set two Guinness World Records. The hardware includes local, regional and national ADDY awards and dozens of awards for PR, social media and digital marketing - including the Phoenix-Area 2018 Agency of the Year. Before that Chris was a newspaper editor and reporter, mainly at The Arizona Republic. He covered everything from Phoenix City Hall and the state Legislature to the police beat and Kosovo refugees. He then was a Page One editor, responsible for the daily and Sunday front page and the A section of the paper, then one of the biggest in the United States. As a reporter he was a finalist for The Livingston Award in international reporting and received dozens of awards from the Associated Press Managing Editors, Arizona Press Club, and Best of the West. He is a Phoenix native, lives in Tempe with his wife, Susie, and has two college-age children, who study at ASU and at Ithaca College in NY. |
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Sharon HallEcosystem ecologist and Conservation biologist School of Life Sciences Arizona State University Sharon J. Hall is an ecosystem ecologist and conservation biologist in the School of Life Sciences at ASU, and the Associate Dean for Student Success in the College of Global Futures. In her research, Sharon and students explore the ecology and management of ecosystems that sustain humanity and the community of life. Named a President’s Professor in 2022, Sharon’s teaching and research demonstrate her commitment to improving the habitability of our planet for people and nature, and inspiring the next generation of changemakers to join this mission. |
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Morgan HarrisonVice President ASU Alumni Association Morgan Harrison serves as the Vice President at the ASU Alumni Association. She works to advance Arizona State University and its charter by producing programs and services to engage the more than 600,000 living alumni across the globe and create lifelong connections to their alma mater.
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Malcom HolmesExecutive Director of Strategic Initiatives Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication Arizona State University Malcom Holmes currently serves as Executive Director of Strategic Initiatives at Arizona State University’s Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication. His professional portfolio includes marketing and strategic communication, partnerships, contract administration, DEI and workforce development through the school’s CronkitePro initiative. Holmes most recently served for 10 years as Marketing Director at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia. Prior to that role, he served for nearly 20 years as Director of Marketing Communications and Public Affairs at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in Richmond, Virginia. |
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Jason MarcusonExecutive Director of Enterprise Education CareerCatalyst Jason Marcuson is Executive Director of Enterprise Education for CareerCatalyst. Serving as the general manager for ASU’s university-wide workforce and executive education portfolio, he works collaboratively across the ASU enterprise to develop and executive a vision and strategy for the portfolio, oversee program development and implementation, and partner with marketing and business development teams in go-to-market activities. |
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Pamela MarshallInterim Director School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences Pamela A. Marshall currently serves as the interim Director of the School of Mathematical and Natural Sciences. She earned a BS in Biological Sciences with minors in Chemistry and Women’s Studies from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX. She then earned her PhD in Cell Regulation at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, studying the yeast peroxisome. |
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Marisol PerezProfessor Department of Psychology Arizona State University Marisol Perez is a professor in the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University. Her programmatic line of research focuses on the prevention of unhealthy eating behaviors, cardiometabolic risk indicators, and eating disorders, with an emphasis on ethnic minorities. Her research focuses on individual, familial, cultural, and contextual factors that impact eating behavior, health, and mental health. She has consistently been grant-funded for the past 16 years by industry partners and NIH, and has 98 publications publishing in journal outlets related to ethnic minority psychology, eating disorders, behavioral medicine, and health psychology. She currently serves as editor for Clinician's Research Digest, is past-President for the Society for a Science of Clinical Psychology, a JEDI Faculty Fellow for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and serves on the Board of Scientific Affairs Task force on Inequities in Academic Tenure and Promotion for Faculty of Color for the American Psychological Association. |
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David SchwartzVice President Strategic Alliances and Business Development ASU Health David Schwartz joined Mayo Clinic in 1997 as a Research Associate in Experimental Pathology to help develop xenotransplant research protocols. A third generation Mayo Clinic employee and Rochester, MN native, David attended undergraduate school at Concordia College in Moorhead, MN and graduate school at the University of St. Thomas and Arizona State University, receiving a Master of Business Administration from the latter. |
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Matthew ScotchAssistant Dean of Research and Professor of Biomedical Informatics College of Health Solutions Matthew Scotch Currently serves as the Assistant Dean of Research and Professor of Biomedical Informatics in the College of Health Solutions (CHS), and the Assistant Director of the Biodesign Center for Environmental Health Engineering. Additionally, Matthew serves as a faculty honors advisor in Barrett, The Honors College. Matthew came to ASU in 2010 after completing a postdoc at Yale University. He is research focus is in genomic epidemiology and bioinformatics of RNA viruses with a particular interest in influenza A viruses in humans and birds. Here, he uses a combination of molecular and bioinformatics approaches to study virus sequences and their evolution and spread. Currently, Matthew has sponsored grant awards from the NIH and the NSF. |
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Kyle SiegalExecutive Director and Chief Patent Counsel Skysong Innovations Kyle Siegal serves as Executive Director and Chief Patent Counsel at Skysong Innovations, the nationally recognized non-profit technology transfer firm for Arizona State University. Kyle holds a bachelor’s degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Southern California, a master’s degree in biotechnology from Johns Hopkins University, and a juris doctor (law) degree, magna cum laude, from the University of Arizona. Leveraging a unique combination of skillsets in leadership, business, law, science, and technology, Kyle leads a multidisciplinary team of licensing executives, venture development experts, and scientists and engineers that have become patent attorneys and patent agents. Together, they protect innovations, negotiate technology licensing deals with go-to-market commercial partners, and help entrepreneurs advance new technology companies in the Valley and beyond. These mission-oriented efforts generate real-world solutions for the public good, local economic impact (jobs and revenue), and economic development/reputational benefits for Arizona. Kyle has served with Skysong Innovations for around seven years. Previously, Kyle worked as a patent/intellectual property lawyer at the Phoenix office of Lewis Roca, a nationally ranked Am Law 200 firm. Before entering private practice, Kyle served as a regulatory affairs specialist at W.L. Gore & Associates, a global medical device company. |
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Jennifer WilkenAssociate Vice Provost of Data Strategy, Analysis, and Planning ASU Academic Enterprise Jennifer Wilken serves as Associate Vice Provost of Data Strategy, Analysis and Planning for the ASU Academic Enterprise. She advances collaborative, sustainable, decision support to inform and transform enterprise capabilities and impact. She is managing lead for AE offices responsible for institutional metrics, research, analysis and evaluation, planning, and instrumentation of a modern analytic stack to empower university-wide student success initiatives. These efforts inform action and policy around enrollment, financial aid, student outcomes and other university capacity-building strategies. Jennifer serves the data community more broadly through co-leadership of the Reporting and Warehouse User Group and the Student Success Analytic Collaborative and as champion of a culture of analytic questioning and data excellence. |