Leadership
Association and Training Operations
Megan Birster
Executive Director, Training Operations, TNG
Michelle Issadore, M.Ed.
Executive Vice President, Association and Training Operations, TNG
Michelle Larkin
Training Operations Specialist, TNG
Shea Palmer
Membership and Program Specialist, NABITA
Makenzie Schiemann, M.S.
Executive Director, NABITA; Vice President, Case Management Initiatives, TNG
Jen Taylor, M.S.
Assistant Executive Director, NABITA
Annie Woods
Senior Program Coordinator, Training Operations, TNG
Business Development
Chris Connolly
Associate Vice President, Client Relations, TNG
Kate Halligan
Vice President, Client Relations, TNG
Jamie Kelly
Director, Client Relations, TNG
Ryan McDavis
Senior Associate Vice President, Client Relations, TNG
Cathleen Parsons-Nikolić
Executive Vice President, Marketing and Business Development, TNG
Advisory Board
Joseph Allen, Ed.D.
Director of Community College Pathways, National University
Esther Asbell
Associate Superintendent, SAU 16
David J. Denino, LPC, NCC
Director Emeritus, Counseling Services, Adjunct Professor, Clinical Mental Health Program, Southern Connecticut State University; NABITA Past-President
Susanne Fenske, Ph.D.
Vice President for Student Affairs, Clarion University
Erin Halligan-Avery, Ph.D.
Director, Health and Promotion Wellness Education at Rochester Institute of Technology
Lina Ladyzhenskaya
Case Management Coordinator, Crisis Prevention Team, Santa Monica College
Peter Langman, Ph.D.
Curator of schoolshooters.info
W. Scott Lewis, J.D.
NABITA Past-President; Partner, TNG
Amy Murphy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Curriculum and Instruction, Angelo State University; 2019 NABITA President
Lisa Pescara-Kovach, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Education in Targeted Violence and Suicide, Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, University of Toledo
Karen Phinazee, M.A.
Senior Dean of Student Development/Deputy Title IX Coordinator, Wake Tech Community College
Aaron “Chip” Reese, Ed.D.
Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs & Dean of Students, Columbus State University; NABITA Past-President
Adrian Rodriguez
Associate Vice President for Student Life of Diversity and Multicultural Student Affairs, Kansas State University
Christine Schramm, M.A.
Associate Vice President & Dean of Students, University of Dayton
Saundra K. Schuster, M.S., J.D.
Partner, TNG
Brett A. Sokolow, J.D.
Chair of the Board of Directors, TNG; President, Association of Title IX Administrators
Daniel C. Swinton, J.D., Ed.D.
Partner, TNG and Vice President, ATIXA
Tenielle Tensley, J.D.
General Counsel, Kern High School District
Laura Ulmer, Ph.D.
Director of Student Conduct & Academic Integrity, Old Dominion University
Carolyn Reinach Wolf, J.D.
NABITA Past-President; Executive Partner, Abrams, Fensterman, Fensterman, Eisman, Formato, Ferrera Wolf & Carone, LLP; NABITA Past-President