Executive Advisory Board
Adele Brumfield
Adele Brumfield is vice provost for enrollment management at the University of Michigan. Ms. Brumfield is responsible for providing administrative and financial leadership for the Office of Enrollment Management that oversees undergraduate admissions, financial aid, the university registrar and new student programs. A first-generation college graduate with more than 25 years of experience, she previously served as the director of admissions and recruitment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the associate vice chancellor for enrollment management at the University of California at San Diego.
Douglas Christensen
Douglas L. Christiansen is vice provost for university enrollment affairs, and dean of admissions and financial aid at Vanderbilt University. He is also an associate professor of public policy and higher education in the Department of Leadership, Policy and Organizations at Vanderbilt’s Peabody College. Dr. Christiansen and his team have led the integration of enrollment and admissions systems across the university to integrate academic systems that support institutional enrollment goals at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional levels. He has been in higher education and admissions for thirty years.
JT Duck
JT Duck has served as Dean of Admissions at Tufts University since 2019, where he oversees admissions to the School of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts. Over the last twenty-plus years, JT has held senior admissions positions at Haverford College, Brandeis University, MIT, and Swarthmore College. He also served as Director of College Counseling at Boston University Academy. He is a first-generation-to-college graduate with a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Haverford College and a Masters of Education Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Olufemi Ogundele
Olufemi (Femi) Ogundele is the Assistant Vice Chancellor of Enrollment and the Dean of Undergraduate Admission at the University of California, Berkeley. He provides vision and leadership for undergraduate admissions outreach initiatives targeting undocumented, first-generation, and LGBTQ+ students. Throughout his career, Femi has been successful in developing strategies and initiatives to recruit and yield underrepresented populations at Stanford University, Cornell University & University of California, Berkeley. He brings a breadth of experience in recruitment, diversity and equity training, and building equity pipelines, through his work across the higher education spectrum.
Ashley Pallie
Ashley M. Pallie is the Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Caltech in Pasadena, California. She graduated from Scripps College (CA) and earned her Master’s in Business Administration from the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University (CA). With 15-years of experience in college admissions, Ashley’s expertise lies in diversity, equity, and inclusion with a particular passion for helping institutions achieve their diversity recruitment goals. Prior to Caltech, Ashley was the Director of Recruitment at Pomona College for almost 7 years and Associate Director at Scripps College for 6 years.
Yvonne Romero De Silva
Yvonne Romero De Silva is the Vice President for enrollment at Rice University. Yvonne holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from MIT, a master’s degree in education from Harvard, an MBA from Stanford University, and an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. She is well known for her innovation in the field of higher education enrollment management. In her nearly 25 years of experience in college admissions and recruitment, she has impacted higher education initiatives through leadership roles with various organizations and institutions, and through numerous presentations and engagements for the National Association for College Admission Counseling.
Joy St. John
Joy St. John is the Director of Admissions for Harvard College. Prior to Harvard, Joy served as Dean of Admission and Financial Aid at Wellesley College for seven years. Early in her career, she held admission roles at Amherst College, Tufts University and Occidental College and worked briefly as a College Counselor and Director of Scholarships at The Bishop’s School in La Jolla, CA. She has spent twenty-five years dedicated to issues of access and diversity in college admission and higher education. She is a member of the Boston board of directors of Thrive Scholars, a nonprofit scholarship organization dedicated to helping high-achieving, low-income, underrepresented students get into and graduate from top colleges equipped to achieve their full career potential, as well as a member of the College Board’s Access and Diversity Collaborative. Joy holds an A.B. from Stanford University and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law.