Taking leadership to the next level

Lisa Anderson

Associate 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.

Ayse Ciftci

Director

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.”

Heather Clark

Director

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.

Kimberly Clark

Deputy 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.

Prior to joining ASU, Kimberly was Head of Strategy and Operations for IT, Information Security, and Privacy Engineering at Twitter. Kimberly led strategy formulation and execution and provided oversight of mission critical projects and regulatory commitments. Her organization was also responsible for data analytics, technical program management, M&A activity for the Chief Information Security Officer and the Global Head of IT, and organizational culture. Prior to Twitter, Kimberly was Managing Director of Analytics at Charles Schwab where she enabled executive and senior leaders to make data-driven decisions across the Institutional and Advisory lines of business as well as informing regulatory, legal, and media responses. She was later chartered with and successfully established a decision support and governance practice within Schwab’s 20,000-member technology organization to support their Chief Information Officer in leading technology as a business.

Kimberly started her career in management consulting at Accenture working across aerospace and defense, insurance, telecommunications, and transportation industries. It was in this early career role where she built stamina and learned to voice her perspective unapologetically. Kimberly holds her Master of Science in Information Management from Arizona State University. She is a board member of Girls in Tech - Phoenix as part of her ongoing commitment to diversity and inclusion in the tech industry. Kimberly’s most fascinating role continues to be “The Best Auntie Ever”.

Chandra Crudup

Associate 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.

From her work with youth to community building and engagement, both locally and nationally, she combines a lens of collaboration and artistic expression through storytelling to build community, transform pedagogy and practice, and expand aspects of research while dismantling systems of oppression. She is dedicated to transforming social work and public service research, pedagogy, and practice through acknowledging the practices of oppression and exploitation in U.S. history by finding ways to dismantle the systems that perpetuate these practices. Other research interests center hair identity, multiracial identity, interracial relationships, and use of theater and storytelling as a mechanism for change in communities.

She was awarded the 2017 Catalyst Award by the Committee for Campus Inclusion at ASU, the 2017-18 Arts Hero award sponsored by the Salt River Project and presented by On Media Publications, the 2020 Transformational Educator of the Year by the National Association of Social Workers, Arizona (both Branch I and state awardee), the 2021 Faculty Women Association Outstanding Mentor Award by the Faculty Women Association and the 2023 Outstanding Leadership award by the Faculty Women of Color Caucus both at ASU.

Kerri Davidson

Executive 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.

Davidson was named 2023 Leader of the Year (Large Business) finalist and Champion of Change Awardee for those dynamic innovators and trailblazers who are changing Arizona's Business landscape through “leadership, visionary thinking and philanthropy and have earned the right to be called a Champion of Change” in the State of Arizona. In 2021, Davidson was named the 2021 Most Admired Leader by the Phoenix Business Journal, recognized for “integrity, values, vision and commitment to excellence” in business and community leadership.

Davidson played a vital role in ASU’s University and state-wide COVID response, providing free COVID-19 testing throughout the State of Arizona.  She designed, developed and scaled operations for 100’s of sites throughout the state, especially for underserved communities, vulnerable populations and the general public.

She is a first-generation college graduate in her family.  She holds a Master's degree in Healthcare Innovation from Arizona State University and a Master's degree in Organizational Leadership from Northern Arizona University. She is a Certified Project Manager and holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Management.

Stephani Etheridge Woodson

Associate 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. 

Etheridge Woodson is also a Professor in the School of Music, Dance and Theatre where she specializes in community cultural development and community-engaged practices centered in deliberative democracy . She authored Theatre for Youth Third-Space, Performance, Democracy and Community Cultural Development which won the AATE distinguished book award in 2016. She is the co-editor of Theatre, Performance, and Change with Dr. Tamara Underiner.  She is a founding member of CENAS (Cultural Engagements in Nutrition, Arts and Sciences), a transdisciplinary working group of scholars and artists who develop, implement, and evaluate innovative approaches to community and individual wellness, with arts practices at its center. Her scholarly and artistic work understands arts and design as fundamentally important components of a healthy society contributing in key ways to human thriving.

Her core values revolve around her passion as an artist, a teacher, a scholar, and a leader. Her work moves fluidly between and among these related areas creating new opportunities for community connectedness, diverse creative practices, participatory democracy, and project-oriented learning environments. She believes in: reciprocity, collaboration, the human right to cultural life, and the power of education to grow collective and individual assets contributing to solutions for today's most pressing challenges.

Chris Fiscus

Vice 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.

Sharon Hall

Ecosystem 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.

Morgan Harrison

Vice 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.

Prior to this role, she served as the strategic communications and marketing director for the Alumni Association where she created and implemented communications strategies and outreach across multiple channels and platforms to a variety of alumni constituents. Before joining the ASU Alumni Association, Harrison developed her career as a marketing, public relations and events professional.

Harrison grew up in Las Vegas, NV, and received her degree from W. P. Carey School of Business.  Her and her husband (also a Sun Devil alum) have two children, Graham and Penelope, who are already beginning their Sun Devil journey as Sun Devil Generations members.

Malcom Holmes

Executive 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.
 
He has held memberships and leadership positions in several professional organizations including the College Communicators Association of Virginia and Washington D.C., Public Relations Society of America, American Marketing Association, Fredericksburg Public Relations Society, Leadership Metro Richmond and Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Holmes attended Virginia Commonwealth University where he earned a B.S. in Mass Communication with a specialization in Advertising. He furthered his education at Norfolk State University where he earned a master’s degree in Media and Communication with a specialization in Public Relations.

Jason Marcuson

Executive 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.

Jason previously led strategic university and industry partnerships for Simplilearn. In this role, he prospected for and collaborated on blended online learning programs focused on skills-based outcomes.

Prior to that, while part of Kaplan Enterprise Learning Solutions, his teams built learning pathways from community colleges and provided online degree solutions to employers' workforce development initiatives.

In addition, Jason drove numerous high-growth initiatives at Wiley. Beginning in branding and marketing, progressing to sales and partnership leadership, and highlighted by transformative international development results in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and South America.

He serves as a board member with TechPoint Foundation for Youth, a mission-driven foundation providing STEM learning opportunities for underserved you.

Pamela Marshall

Interim 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. 

Prior to arriving at Arizona State University in 2003, she was an assistant professor at SUNY College at Fredonia.  She was drawn to ASU in part because of the promise of serving diverse communities in Arizona.  She has served a variety of roles at ASU, including as the Director of the first S-STEM award at ASU’s West Valley campus, the Transfer to Interdisciplinary Mathematical and Natural Sciences (TrAIN) Scholarship; co-Director of the New College Environmental Health Science Scholars, a summer undergraduate research program for place bound students; and as a Faculty Instructor for the STEM TRIO Program at the West Valley campus.  In 2022, a project on which she is a co-PI, “STEM and Social Capital; Advancing Families through Learning and Doing” (NSF award to Eugene Judson PI)  won the ASU President’s Award for Social Embeddedness. 

Her laboratory research focuses on how cells respond to environmental changes and stress, both through modulation of gene expression as well as alterations in cellular architecture and signaling.  She also researches approaches to allow inclusive access for all in STEM courses, more recently focusing on Course Based Undergraduate Research Experiences, developing resources for faculty members to adopt this inclusive pedagogy.  She is a Fellow of the Arizona Nevada Academy of Science and a Senior Member of the National Academy of Inventors, having been awarded several US Patents for her work.

Marisol Perez

Professor

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.

As Associate Dean of Graduate Initiatives for The College, Marisol assists in the vision planning for The College, including assisting in the development of new program proposals, and revitalization and refreshing of existing graduate program, using state level economic data and global job market trends in decision-making. In addition, she works towards increasing the quality and operational efficiency of current graduate programs, increasing research scholarships and other funding mechanisms for graduate students, and assisting units in better addressing the charter initiatives on inclusive excellence. She also assists with identifying and addressing unit level needs, as well problem-solving when issues arise.

David Schwartz

Vice 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.
 
David left Mayo Clinic in 2004 to become Vice President of Titan Development, where he oversaw business development, venture investment and innovation activities. In 2010, David returned to Mayo Clinic within the Office of Business Development, before transferring to Mayo Clinic in Arizona in 2012. David shifted into a hybrid role in 2016, splitting time between Corporate Development and Planning Administration, leading strategy and operational planning. In January 2022, David was named Director of the newly formed Strategy Department, supporting Mayo Clinic in Arizona and working closely with executive leadership on large strategic initiatives.

David has mentored many start-up and growth stage companies on innovation, strategy and navigating the complex healthcare environment. He has served as an advisor for a wide array of incubators and accelerators, including Tallwave High Tide, ASU Furnace and the Mayo Clinic and ASU MedTech Accelerator, amongst others.  He continues to selectively consult with industry at the intersection of healthcare innovation, design and technology.

In August 2023, David joined ASU Health as Vice President, Strategic Alliances and Business Development.  In this role, he will help shape ASU Health’s strategy and collaboratively build a portfolio of strategic partnerships to drive differentiated growth, value creation and healthcare transformation. David lives in Fountain Hills with this wife, Heather and their three children, Ryder (freshman @ Barrett), Beckett (16) and Mirabel (10).

Matthew Scotch

Assistant 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.

Matthew teaches a variety of courses within the undergraduate and graduate biomedical informatics (BMI) programs as well as elective courses within the college. This includes an advance topics course for BMI undergrads and an NIH grant writing course for PhD students.

For service, Matthew is involved in committees at both the college-level and the university-level. This includes the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC) and the President’s Academic Council. At the national level he is the Chair of the NIH National Library of Medicine’s (NLM) grant review study section.

Matthew’s main administrative responsibility is as the Assistant Dean of Research for CHS where he is responsible for the research success of the college. His main focus here is to design new and innovative ways to grow our yearly research expenditures by securing large federal grants and growing the network of collaborations across ASU and beyond.

Kyle Siegal

Executive 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.

Jennifer Wilken

Associate 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.

Jennifer’s current portfolio challenges include: thoughtful use of data to advance inclusive excellence, student-centered measures of progress, and evolving frontiers in privacy and data governance, particularly with emergent augmented intelligence technologies. She gratefully counts as partners in this body of work her extraordinary team members, partners, community of data professionals, and colleagues in all colleges and units committed to fulfilling the ASU charter.

Jennifer joined ASU in 2005, serving initially in the offices of the University Planner and Office of Planning and Budget. Prior to that, she had a first career in for-profit start-ups in the financial sector. She has been self-employed as a professional organizer, is a certified Spiritual Director, and most significantly for her own state of mind, a practicing poet.

Jennifer graduated in 1992 from Oklahoma State University with a B.S. in Mathematics, minor in French. She then, “just for fun” earned an M.A. in Religious Studies from ASU in 2014, culminating with a thesis on Christian Yoga in the United States. Jennifer reads, writes and facilitates workshops on leadership, transformation, and creativity.