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The Edward Ginsberg Center for Community Service and Learning

Our Ginsberg Center Team

Ginsberg Center staff members can support your community engagement interests, whether you are a student, staff, faculty, or community partner. Our undergraduate and graduate student staff provide a range of support across our programs. Our organizational chart reflects our three stakeholder groups: students, academic partners, and community partners. 

Staff bios list the main focus of our work which may help you identify who is best suited to support you. You can also use our support request form and we'll follow up with you and/or direct you to the appropriate person. 

We look forward to partnering with you!

Professional Staff

Amanda Healy, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for University-Community Partnerships
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Amanda stewards and facilitates partnerships between the university, students, and the community. Taking into account the expertise and needs of potential partners, she forms new connections between Ginsberg’s various stakeholders, and she fulfills daily administration needs to ensure that existing partnerships continue to thrive. In addition, Amanda supports Ginsberg’s curriculum development and workshops for students and university partners. 

Amanda Healy

Brendan Gallagher

Student Outreach and Engagement Manager
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Brendan’s role includes working closely with students and student organizations engaged in service projects in their local and global communities. Through trainings, consultations, and advising, he supports students in deepening their own learning, as well as the impact of their service, by centering their work on community-identified needs. Brendan also advises The Detroit Partnership, a Ginsberg sponsored student organization that facilitates weekly volunteer opportunities in the city of Detroit. 

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Brianna Christy

Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Assessment Manager
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As the Technical Assistance, Evaluation, and Assessment Manager, Brianna provides leadership and support for the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC). CTAC is a community-university partnership convened to address community partners’ universal need for data and evaluation. CTAC partnerships focus on supporting nonprofits, schools, and governmaneta agencies to build capacity, while meeting educational goals of U-M students with support from faculty.

Brianna Christy

Dave Waterhouse

Associate Director
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Dave provides strategic and administrative leadership to the Ginsberg Center which includes work with staff, students, and Ginsberg programs. His primary goals focus on building sustainable infrastructure for equitable campus-community partnerships, staff development, increasing student learning, and building authentic relationships with community partners that lead to positive results.

Jesse Carr, Ph.D.

Assistant Director for Student Learning and Leadership
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Jesse (they/he) directs the student leadership education program and promotes students' active engagement in their own learning.  Jesse co-facilitates workshops and co-curricular programs, provides consultation and training to student organizations, and partners with both campus and external partners to promote social justice and community engagement at UM. 

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Jessica Kane, Ph.D

Academic Partnerships Manager
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As the Academic Partnerships Manager, Jessica (she/her) develops Ginsberg’s classroom-based workshop curriculum, creates faculty development resources, manages the Graduate Academic Liaisons (a team of doctoral students who facilitate workshops and support other Center projects), and consults with academic partners across campus interested in community engagement.

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Juliya Wicklund

America Reads Program Manager
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As the America Reads manager, Juliya supports and facilitates partnership between University of Michigan’s America Reads tutors and local schools, nonprofits, and tutoring centers and programs in Ann Arbor, Ypsilanti, and Detroit. Juliya works directly with tutors, graduate students, school liaisons and literacy specialists, and other education stakeholders. America Reads is a federal program grounded in justice and equity by providing literacy support to K-5 students.

Kate Livingston, Ph.D.

Associate Director for Teaching, Research & Academic Partnerships
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As an Associate Director, Kate contributes to the strategic leadership of Ginsberg as part of the executive team and leads Ginsberg’s work with academic partners. In this role, she works to facilitate, expand, and sustain partnerships with centers and schools across U-M to support high impact community engaged learning. Kate provides consultation to faculty, academic program staff and graduate students to promote equity-focused approaches to community engagement in a range of academic contexts including courses and academic programs.

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Kayla Grant, Ph.D.

University-Community Partnerships Coordinator
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Kayla provides administrative and project support for the Ginsberg Center’s university-community partnerships, often by consulting with university and community groups to facilitate and steward equitable collaborations. She is also a frequent contributor to the Ginsberg Center’s blog. Kayla previously served as the Graduate Coordinator for Ginsberg’s Storytelling for Social Change Initiative, which matched U-M students with community organizations seeking to increase their capacity around communications, marketing, and storytelling.

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Kimberly Ly

Student Learning Coordinator
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Kim supports community engagement and social justice education by coordinating the workshop administration process for students and faculty in curricular and co-curricular settings, tailoring workshop curriculum materials to different learning contexts, and providing data administration support to the academic partnerships team. 

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Maria Mora

Administrative Assistant
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Maria assists the Ginsberg Center with finances, human resources, and care of the building. She also supervises Ginsberg's student building managers.

Neeraja Aravamudan, Ph.D.

Director
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As Director, Neeraja provides strategic leadership to the Ginsberg Center, ensures alignment between our values and work at the Center and across U-M, and works to reduce barriers and challenges to equitable partnerships between students, faculty, and community partners.  Prior to this role, Neeraja served as the Associate Director of Academic Partnerships, overseeing Ginsberg's work with academic partners, supporting departments looking to foster community-engaged scholarship in their units, as well as indivdual faculty, academic program staff, and graduate students who want to integrate c

Nick Tobier

Faculty Leader in Residence
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Nick’s role is to develop and support faculty and staff from academic units across the University to collaborate in their work with community organizations and institutions. Nick aims to enable and encourage cooperative and dynamic relationships between University and community partners. He previously served as the Edward R. Ginsberg Senior Counsel to the Provost on Civic Engagement, a dual role at both the Ginsberg Center and the Vice Provost for Global and Civic Engagement.

Nick Tobier

Nicole Springer

Editor-in-Chief
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Nicole is the Editor of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, published by the Ginsberg Center. She works with the Editorial Team to oversee the publication of two issus a year focused on community-engaged scholarship. 

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Riley Wilson

Student Engagement Coordinator
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As Student Engagement Coordinator, Riley works closely with students and student organizations to help advise, support, and facilitate impactful, intentional, and ethical community engagement and social change work. Riley oversees the Alternative Breaks Grant, where they advise and support alternative break trips for students across campus.

Riley Wilson

Theresa Krueggeler, JSD

University-Community Collaboratives Manager
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Theresa works at the intersection of community, academic and student partners. Her role is to help steward and expand the Ginsberg Center’s Issue-based Convenings and Collaboratives.  She works to match community needs and University resources for mid- to long-term, multi-party efforts. She facilitates connections around community-defined issues and priorities that bring together various partners across campus and the region.

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Graduate Student Staff

AunRika Tucker-Shabazz

Graduate Consultant
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Brooke Gabriel

CTAC Student Coordinator
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Byron Brooks

Graduate Program Assistant
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Carlina Duan

Graduate Consultant
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Carlina Duan is a PhD student in the Joint Program in English and Education. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work and contributes to Ginsberg's workshop curriculum development. Carlina is committed to co-creating and supporting nurturing, empathetic and meaningful classroom experiences through community collaboration. In addition to her role at Ginsberg, Carlina is also a poet, a sister, a teacher, a cookbook collector, a fan of basketballs and Michigan gardens.

Carlina Duan

Carlos Galina

Graduate Consultant
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Carlos is a PhD student in Political Science concentrating in American Politics. As a Graduate Consultant, he facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work. Carlos is passionate about contributing to build community and strengthen democracy. In his free time, Carlos enjoys hiking, listening to all the Taylor Swift records and reading.

Carlos Perez Tabares

Graduate Consultant
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Carlos is a PhD candidate in Music Theory at the University of Michigan's School of Music, Theatre & Dance. As a Graduate Consultant, he facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work. Carlos is interested in finding avenues for arts and humanities scholars to engage with communities in equitable and mutually beneficial ways. In his free time, Carlos enjoys learning languages, listening to music, and walking his Pit Bull puppy.

Carlos Perez Tabares

Elana Goldenkoff

Graduate Consultant
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Elana is a PhD student in the School of Kinesiology. As a Lead Graduate Consultant, Elana not only facilitates workshops to prepare students for working effectively with communities, but also helps support our newer facilitators by providing feedack and creating community amonst them.. Her research explores how different regions in the brain work together to facilitate voluntary movement. Elana strives to increase diversity in STEM fields and improve access to research by promoting scientific outreach programs aimed at K-12 students.

Francy Luna Diaz

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Francy Luna Diaz is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science. 

Gabrielle Kubi

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Gabrielle is a third-year PhD student in the Combined Program in Education & Psychology. As Student Coordinator for the Community Technical Assistance Collaborative (CTAC), she coordinates communication with and resources for CTAC's student evaluator teams. Gabrielle is passionate about community-engaged work, and "turning back out" the expertise and resources afforded by an affiliation with a higher education institution to aid schools, community partners and organizations, and youth-serving institutions.

Hanah Stiverson

Graduate Consultant
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Hanah is a PhD candidate in American Culture. As a Graduate Consultant and Campus-Community Partnerships & Collaboratives Fellow, she works closely with the Matchmaking team to build a framework for a response to what we are calling “Urgent Threats to Democracy” and to facilitate community partnerships to further this goal. Hanah's personal research focuses on the rise in U.S. fascist movements, and the dangers these pose to democratic institutions. In her free time Hanah enjoys gardening, running, and learning new baking techniques.

Hannah Bredar

Graduate Consultant
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Hannah is a PhD candidate in English Language & Literature. As a Community Engagement (CE) Graduate Consultant, she works with CE staff and community partners to connect community projects with U-M resources. Hannah also supports the CE Graduate Consultant program by researching peer programs and centers that are committed to stewarding equitable university-community partnerships. Hannah is a fan of satirical literature, non-interactive theatre, and biking along the Huron.

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Jessica Roden

Graduate Consultant
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Jessica is a PhD candidate in Communication and Media. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to prepare students for community engagement. Jessica researches perceptions of activism on social media and is interested in work that can produce a positive social impact. In her free time, Jessica enjoys bothering her cat Winslow, watching TV, baking, and, recently, trying out embroidery.

Katie Van Zanen

Graduate Consultant
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Katie is a PhD candidate in English and Education and a Graduate Consultant with the Ginsberg Center. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work and contributes to Ginsberg's workshop curriculum development. Katie is passionate about creating accessible, equitable, and reflective learning experiences in her work as a liaison and as a graduate student instructor; as a researcher, she is interested in how higher education forms students' civic and political identities. She enjoys hiking, reading, and autumn afternoons with her dog.

Kaylla Cantilina

Graduate Consultant
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Kaylla is a PhD student in Design Science and a certificate student in Engineering Education Research. Her research focuses on approaches and barriers to designing more equitable futures that humanize and center marginalized communities. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work. Kaylla values authentic institutional and interpersonal efforts to cultivate more equitable academic spaces and is passionate about radical inclusive teaching practices grounded in the notion of culturally sustaining and revitalizing pedagogy.

Kaylla Cantilina

Keiaron Randle

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Keiaron is a Master's student in Urban and Regional Planning. As an America Reads Graduate Assistant, she supports tutors with resources to inform their work with America Reads. Keiaron is passionate about shaping the environment in a way that is equitable to all.  In her free time, Keiaron enjoys painting, sewing, and completing puzzles. 

Kelley Dugan

Graduate Consultant
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Kelley is a PhD student in Mechanical Engineering. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops on entering, engaging with, and exiting communities in an equitable manner to support students who are doing community-engaged work. She is also a member of Ginsberg's Student Advisory Board. Kelley is interested in holistic engineering design, particularly design processes that value the importance of working with stakeholders. In her free time, Kelley enjoys walking around parks, reading, and yoga.

Kelley E. Dugan, Ginsberg Center Academic Liaison

LaTara McLemore

Graduate Consultant
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LaTara McLemore is a doctoral student in the English Language and Literature program, housed in the English Department. As a Graduate Consultant, LaTara facilitates workshops designed to support Michigan students who aim to responsibly work and learn with local community organizations. A former 12th grade English teacher and very proud Chicago native, LaTara is invested in integrating responsive teaching practices and methods of critical care into her classroom operations and culture--investments which are foundational to her work as a Liaison.

LaTara McLemore

Lauren Gallagher

America Reads Graduate Assistant
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Lauren is a student at the University of Michigan School of Law. As an America Reads Program Assistant, she develops tutor trainings and supports tutors with resources that allow them to approach their work with a culturally competent and social justice minded lens.

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Marisol Fila

Graduate Consultant
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Marisol Fila is a PhD candidate in Romance Languages and Literatures Spanish and Portuguese. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work and contributes to Ginsberg's workshop curriculum development.

Marley Duerst

SERVE Program Assistant
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Marley is a senior from Ann Arbor, Michigan studying Spanish, International Studies, and Education. She has worked as a building manager with Ginsberg for two years and has shifted to working as a SERVE Program Assistant this year. She loves being part of the Ginsberg team and helping to serve the greater student and Ann Arbor community. Marley is interested in working in immigrant education in the future. In her free time, she loves to run, cook, read, and spend time with her friends and family.

Marley Duerst

Morgan Cox

Graduate Program Assistant
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Patricia Jewell

Editorial Assistant, Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning
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Patricia is a joint PhD candidate in English and Women's and Gender Studies. As the editorial assistant of the Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, she connects and communicates with journal partners, organizes and maintains the journal review process, and reviews and drafts feedback for authors. Patricia is passionate about supporting and promoting the work of emerging scholars, especially junior scholars, and thinking critically about how to make editorial and review processes equitable.

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Paulina Fraser

Graduate Consultant
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Paulina is a PhD candidate in Educational Studies at the School of Education. As a first-generation Filipina, Paulina's interest include representation, (counter)storytelling, and colonial histories. She is currently researching ethnic studies curricula and pedagogy, specifically around Filipina/o/x American studies. As a Graduate Consultant, she facilitates workshops to support students doing community-engaged work. In her free time, Paulina enjoys laughing, soaking up the sun and being near the water, cooking, NPR Tiny Desk concerts, face masks, and being around her community.

Rachel Smith

Graduate Consultant
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Rachel is a 3rd year PhD student in English and Women's and Gender Studies. As a Graduate Consultant in the Community Engagement track, she provides administrative support to Ginsberg’s University Community Partnerships Manager who connects campus and community partners to develop long-term partnerships. Rachel emphasizes community care and Black feminist thought in her scholarship and her life. In her free time, Rachel enjoys knitting, hanging out with her cat, Gloria, and spending time in her hometown of Minneapolis, MN.

Undergraduate Student Staff

Aidan Gleason

Building Manager
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Aidan is a second-year student studying Industrial and Operations Engineering, with a minor in Spanish. He hopes to work in the automotive industry, possibly in Spain. He wants to determine, though, what career path he wants to take, finish making a resume, apply to internships, and is aiming for a high GPA. In high school, Aidan was President of Interact Club, which was a group that organized charity events throughout the school year and was in close communication with the superintendent.

Amanda Putti

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Christian Hudson

Building Manager
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Chris is pursuing a Dual-Degree in Information and Cognitive Science, with a minor in Entrepreneurship; he hopes to find a career in Design and Development Product Management.

Last Semester he was a Design Operations Intern for IBM in New York City, leading a team of designers and developers on restructuring branches of IBM's w3 intranet.

Personal goals: Maintain healthy habits; consistently look for opportunities to learn; develop his own platform; create data development tools to use for his own habit facilitation; read more.

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Hailey Gross

Building Manager
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Hailey is a third-year student studying Sociology and Gender & Health. She wants to do some sort of patient advocacy within a reproductive health setting. During the summer, she lived in Ann Arbor and worked as a barista, and aims to learn more about social work and the jobs within that field, specifically with an eye to healthcare at an individual level rather than institutional. She has a wealth of experience in community service and loves cooking, baking, puzzles, going on walks, watching sitcoms, and doing cross-stitch projects.

Jaylen Armey

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Julia Watt

Building Manager
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Julia is a third-year student studying Women's & Gender Studies + Spanish double major, with a minor in music. Over the summer of 2022, she interned with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin and did research for the Spanish Department at U of M. She is in the marching band on the drumline and is enjoying her game day Saturdays! She is passionate about LGBTQ+ rights, intersectional feminism, education, and environmental justice and hopes to pursue a legal/writing based career in the future that also allows her to incorporate her creative interests in writing and fine arts.

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Maria Fields

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Nikolina Nava

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Rebecca Trychel

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Rebecca is a senior undergraduate pursuing a BA in Honors Political Science with a dual minor in both Public Policy and Music.

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Rhianna Womack

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Rhianna is an undergraduate studying Sociology and Social Work in the school of LSA. As a third year America Reads tutor and a member of the Student Advisory Board, she seeks to create change both on a personal and institutional level. She values empathy and diversity as a top qualities toward social change and in her personal life as well. In Rhianna's free time, you can find her reading, taking photos, or going for a walk around town.

Sarah Chung

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