Riley Institute Staff
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Richard W. Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education and former SC governor
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Donald Gordon
Executive Director, Riley Institute; Professor, Politics and International Affairs
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Jacki Martin
Deputy Director, Riley Institute
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Sara Beanblossom
Director, White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship
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Brooke Culclasure
Research Director
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Megan Dodgens
Director, Diversity Leadership Strategies
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Julie Dunson Meredith
Director, Center for Critical Issues
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David Fleming
Associate Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Researcher, Riley Institute
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Kendall Gallagher-King
Events Coordinator
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Nichole Grant
Business Manager
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Kelly Gregory
Director, Public Education Partnerships and Projects
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Juan Johnson
Facilitator, Diversity Leaders Initiative; Senior Fellow
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Amy Keely
Director, South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered
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Shekinah Lightner
Research Associate
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Sally Morris Cote
Director, Nonprofit Strategic Learning
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Courtenay Nantz
Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
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Conor Riordan
Post-Baccalaureate Fellow for Scholars Programming
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Alexis Sprogis
Research Specialist
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Cathy Stevens
Senior Associate
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Benny Walker
Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
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Claudia Winkler
Director, Marketing and Communications
Senior Associates and Faculty Coordinators
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John Simpkins
Senior Associate
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Sandy Rinck
Senior Associate
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Terry Peterson
Senior Associate
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Cleveland Fraser
Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Coordinator, APEC
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Nathan Cook
John D. Hollingsworth, Jr., Professor of Economics
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Elizabeth Smith
Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs; Assistant Faculty Director, The Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection
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Katherine "Kate" Kaup 白荷婷
James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs
Senior Distinguished Fellows
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Jim Guth
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Distinguished Fellow, Riley Institute; Distinguished Scholar for the Tocqueville Center