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Christabel Cruz

Director, NEW Leadership®

Christabel Cruz is the director of NEW Leadership® at the Center for American Women and Politics. Christabel is a current Ph.D. candidate in the department of political science at Rutgers University-New


Debbie Walsh

Director, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

Debbie Walsh is director of the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers University. CAWP is nationally recognized as the


Pooja Prabhakaran

Manager of Public Programs, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

As Manager of Public Programs, Pooja Prabhakaran is responsible for coordinating our public events and programming. This includes leading the planning process, drafting materials, communicating with program speakers and participants, publicizing


Jillian Cuzzolino

Julia A. Fishelson Intern, Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP)

Jillian Cuzzolino (she/her) is a rising fourth-year student at Rutgers University-New Brunswick. She studies Political Science and Quantitative Economics in the School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program. Jillian previously


Chloé Risto, M.Ed

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Character and Citizenship., UMSL

Chloé is a first-year doctoral student in Educational Psychology and a Graduate Research Assistant for the Center for Character and Citizenship. With a Master’s degree in Higher Education Student Affairs


Eboni Sterling, M.Ed.

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Character and Citizenship, UMSL

Eboni is a Graduate Research Assistant for the Center of Character and Citizenship and a doctoral student. Previously, she served as a Multicultural Student Services Academic Coach and Peer Mentor


Tamala Stallings, M.S., M.B.A

Graduate Research Assistant, Center for Character and Citizenship, UMSL

Tamala Stallings is a Graduate Research Assistant and the Coordinator for the Sue Shear Leadership Academy for the Center of Character and Citizenship at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Mrs.


Satabdi Samtani, Ph.D.

Research Scientist, Center for Character and Citizenship, UMSL

Satabdi Samtani is a research scientist for the CViL project at the Center for Character and Citizenship. She completed her doctorate in Human Development and Family Studies from Texas Tech


Deborah Sanders O’Reilly, M.A., M.B.A.

Center Coordinator/Project Support, Center for Character and Citizenship, UMSL

Debbie O’Reilly is the Coordinator for the Center for Character and Citizenship. Debbie has worked over twenty years in higher education in both the College of Management and Business and


Melinda C. Bier, Ph.D.

Co-Director, Center for Character and Citizenship, UMSL

Mindy is currently the Co-Director for the Center for Character and Citizenship (CCC) and Senior Research Fellow in the Division of Educational Psychology, Evaluation and Research, College of Education, University