Thank You Annual Conference Program Committee!

NACUA wishes to recognize the commitment and efforts of the members of the 2025 Committee on Program for the Annual Conference. Their volunteer service over the past year resulted in the relevant and informative sessions that will aid NACUA members in the practice of higher education law for the benefit of the colleges and universities they serve. We believe that the members of the Program Committee exemplified the NACUA core values of quality, service, civility, collegiality, diversity, inclusiveness, and respect. We hope you will join us in thanking them for their service! 

Ona Alston Dosunmu, President and CEO

Francisco Pardo, Director of Legal Resources

Taylor Zelman, Legal Resources Attorney

Timothy Lynch, Chair

University of Michigan

Sharmaine LaMar, Vice Chair

Swarthmore College

Emily Babb

Northwestern University

Scott Bearby

National Collegiate Athletic Association

Jack Bernard

University of Michigan

Katherine Brodie

Duane Morris LLP

Elizabeth Bullock

University of Denver 

Melissa Carleton

Bricker Graydon LLP 

Daniel Cohen

Barnes & Thornburg LLP

R. Yvette Clark

Southern New Hampshire University

Youndy Cook

University of Central Florida

Tobias Crawford

Yale University

Jessica Creighton

University of Washington

Shari Crittendon

Fordham University

Thomas D'Antonio

Ward Greenberg Heller & Reidy

Benjamin Davidson

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Thomas Dorer

Suffolk University

Iris Elijah

Florida A&M University

Maria Feeley

Washington and Lee University 

William Ferreira

Hogan Lovells US LLP

Steven Frenkil

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Susan Friedfel

Jackson Lewis PC

Heather Gaines

Syracuse University

Darren Gibson

Littler Mendelson, P.C.

Michelle Gluck

The Pennsylvania State University

Seth Goldschmidt

Thomas Coburn, LLP

Leslie Gomez

Cozen O'Connor

Neil Hamburg

Hamburg Law Group, PLLC

Kevin Hayden

Binghamton University

Esther Henry

University of Tennessee System

Sunanda Holmes

American University of Cairo

Carol L.J. Hustoles

Life Member of the Association

Derek Ishikawa

Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP

Janet Judge

Education & Sports Law Group

Stephanie Karn

Williams Mullen

Daniel Kaufman

Michael Best & Friedrich LLP

Martha Kim

Stanford University

Xinning Shirley Liu

XL Law & Consulting P.A.

LaKeisha Marsh

Akerman LLP

Swapna Maruri

New York University 

Daniel McCabe

Minnesota State Colleges and Universities

Vinita Mehra

Kegler Brown Hill & Ritter LPA

Joshua Meltzer

University of California System

Ashley Miller

George Washington University

Jared Miller

Samford University

Alexandra Mitropoulos

Hirsch Roberts Weinstein LLP

Pilar Morin

Liebert Cassidy Whitmore

Jennifer Papillo

University of Vermont

Jigisha Patel

King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Karen Petrulakis

Wellesley College 

Nicole Picard

Brown University

Maureen Redeker

Kansas City University

Mark Reeves

University of Connecticut 

Josh Richards

Saul Ewing LLP

Robert Roach

Guidepost Solutions LLC

Manuel Rupe

Central Michigan University

Gabriel Sandoval

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo

John Scherer

University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Tara Schulstad Sciscoe

Ice Miller LLP

Zainab Shakoor

University of California - Davis

Jody Shipper

Grand River Solutions, Inc.

Catherine Spear

University of California System

Jonathan Tarnow

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

Michelle Tellock

Vanderbilt University 

Danielle Uy

Saint Louis University

Stephen Vaughan

Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP

Michael Vernick

Akin

Esther Walker

Dartmouth College 

Raquel Williams

SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University