Caryn Schultz Korman has been an institutional advancement professional for more than 25 years in roles that have included alumni relations, data management, and volunteer board management, engagement and fundraising. In her current role, she leads the alumni and donor engagement teams comprised of Annual Giving, Inclusive Engagement, Special Events, Stewardship and Donor Relations and the UIC Alumni Association.  Previously she oversaw the alumni engagement efforts and established the first UIC Alumni Association as the inaugural Executive Director. During that time period, she developed the first UIC Alumni Board which is comprised of 70 alumni volunteers. Prior to returning to UIC in 2017, Schultz Korman held senior alumni relations roles at the University of Minnesota at its Alumni Association, Foundation and within the Medical School.

Josh Harraman serves as the Director, Constituent Experiences- Strategy for The Ohio State University. He recently returned to the University in January 2023. In this role, he is responsible for central engagement and individual annual giving efforts that include digital engagement, annual giving, lifelong learning, alumni travel, alumni career services, and episodic volunteerism. He is also responsible for developing partnerships with college and units in the annual giving and early engagement acquisition space. 

Prior to returning to Ohio to start a family, Harraman served as the Vice President for Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and Advancement Communications at the Rutgers University Foundation. For over 5 years, he had responsibility for University-wide alumni engagement and annual giving activities and the Foundation’s communication professionals. In addition to his experiences at Rutgers and Ohio State, Harraman previously worked at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and focused on student leadership and involvement. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from The Ohio State University, master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University and completed his doctoral degree in educational philosophy at The Ohio State University in 2019. 

Harraman has presented at multiple CASE conferences including CASE Districts V and VI, CASE Young Alumni and Student Engagement Conference, CASE ASAP conferences, and served on the faculty and as co-chair of the CASE Summer Institute in Alumni Relations. He has also volunteered for nearly two decades with CASE District V and has served as Conference Chair and District Chair-Elect in addition to other roles. In 2020, Harraman was recognized by his peers for service to CASE District V by receiving the Mike Ziemianski Distinguished Service Award.

As the Associate Senior Vice President, Alumni Relations at the University of Southern California, Erika Jordan serves as the chief alumni engagement officer for the campus and plays a key role in providing leadership and strategic guidance to ensure uninterrupted engagement for the nearly 500,000 alumni in the Trojan Family. 

Prior to this role, Erika served as the Vice President, Alumni Engagement at Boston University where she led the Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and the Development Events & Communications teams. Additionally, she spent six years serving as Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni & Constituent Engagement at UC Irvine. Throughout her career she has been instrumental in exponentially growing alumni engagement and annual fundraising, elevating communications and events, establishing UCI’s dual alumni engagement campaign goal and leading special projects.

Erika has spent her career in politics, special events, alumni relations, frontline fundraising, and served as the Director, Alumni Relations and Annual Giving for the USC Marshall School of Business. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and executive masters in leadership from USC.

Tricia Riveire Stumpf serves as Chief Executive Officer of the IU Alumni Association and Chief Alumni Officer of Indiana University. She was appointed CEO in April 2022, the 12th chief executive and first woman to hold this role. 

Tricia began her career at the IU Alumni Association in 2008 as Director of Alumni Chapters, working with alumni chapters and volunteer boards across the country. She later served as Chief of Staff, before being named Senior Executive Director. 

In her role, Tricia leads university-wide alumni engagement and annual giving. She and her teams are responsible for engaging the second-largest, living-alumni body in the U.S. through experiential, volunteer, communication, and philanthropic opportunities. 

Tricia represents IU with the Council of Alumni Association Executives (CAAE) and is active with the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE), where she participated in the Leadership Academy for Rising Advancement Stars and presented at the 2022 Alumni Engagement Strategies Conference. Under her leadership, the IU Alumni Association received a CASE Gold for volunteer engagement and most recently, in 2023, a CASE Gold Award for the Alumni Engagement Dashboard. 

Tricia received her master’s degree from Indiana University in higher education administration, and her bachelor’s degree from DePauw University. 

Jayme is the Director of Alumni Relations and Annual Giving at the College of Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) of the University of Georgia (UGA). In her role, she provides guidance to the Alumni Association Board of Directors, manages annual giving initiatives for the college, and works towards strengthening ties between the alumni, FACS, and UGA. 

Previously, Jayme worked as the Associate Director of Alumni Programs for UGA Development and Alumni Relations where she was responsible for outreach initiatives for UGA's three signature programs- 40 Under 40, Bulldog 100, and the UGA Alumni Awards. She has a bachelor's degree from Oregon State University and has also worked as a Special Events Coordinator at Virginia Tech.

Jenny Cooke Smith is the Senior Director of CASE Insights Solutions at the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, CASE and specialises in analysing advancement trends, interpreting comparison benchmarks, and helping people understand the "stories behind the data". Prior to joining CASE, Smith spent 15 years in a variety of positions within Blackbaud’s Target Analytics, most recently leading donorCentrics™ benchmarking cohorts, providing opportunities for institutions and organisations globally to review and discuss direct marketing and annual giving trends. She joined CASE in 2019 to help members find value through using data and is most proud that through projects like CASE’s Alumni Engagement Metrics, institutions can begin to answer questions such as ‘we know engagement leads to giving, but how do we show it?’. Smith is currently co-teaching a course on CASE’s Global Reporting Standards and researching the latest trends on alumni engagement globally, enjoying opportunities to present again in-person, and working individually with CASE member institutions to develop strategies using CASE data and benchmarks.

Wendy Crupper has spent the last 20 years working in alumni relations.  She has been at the University of Illinois Chicago since 2015.  In her current role she is responsible for overseeing strategic alumni engagement efforts for 15 schools and colleges, alumni affinity programs, and signature events.  Prior to joining UIC she was Adler University as the Director of Alumni Relations and Loyola University Chicago in various alumni relations and special event roles.

Benjamin R. Fiore-Walker, Ph.D. (He/Him) is originally from Southampton, PA in suburban Philadelphia. Ben received a Ph.D. in neuroscience (psychobiology) from the University of Virginia, and has a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. His research area of focus was in the development of brain circuitry as they relate to epilepsy and autism.

Ben comes to his position as the senior director for the Opportunity and Inclusion Center (OIC) after close to 25 years working in the diversity space. Before coming to CASE, Ben was the manager of the Office of Diversity Programs at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC, where he had a broad mandate to develop strategies to build out relationships and initiatives from across the society in order to help ACS live into its core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect.   Before ACS, he served as a senior managing director for diversity and inclusion at Teach for America (TFA), where he was responsible for devising and quantifying diversity metrics for TFA for the development of initiatives to diversity staff and corps member populations. Prior to TFA, he spent 19 years at the Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was the Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion. This work has taken Ben into many elementary and middle schools in underserved areas of the D.C. metro region, where he uses neuroscience to get kids excited about STEM fields and higher education.

Ben has written on and studied diversity climate in higher education and the workplace and is a firm believer that diversity & inclusion matters.  Ben believes that even though heterogeneity is the key ingredient to success—with diverse teams being more productive and creative than non-diverse teams, it’s all for not if the members of those diverse teams don’t feel their differences are celebrated or valued.  We need both, diversity and inclusion to reach our full potential.