Office Staff

Yolanda Avent, Director of Institutional Equity
and Diversity, joins us from Virginia Tech,
where she most recently served as research assistant in the office of academic assessment.
In addition to that experience, Yolanda
served as assistant coordinator of residence life, as
a graduate assistant under Project ESTEEM, and
served in a research fellowship with the National
Science Foundation while at Virginia Tech. Yolanda
has also served as the coordinator of student life
at J. Sargeant Reynolds Community College in
Virginia and as the coordinator of the Multicultural
Student Center at Georgia Southern University.
She has served graduate assistantships in minority
affairs and the School of Education at Armstrong
Atlantic State University. Yolanda is also currently completing her PhD in Educational Psychology.

Jamie Piperato is the Assistant Coordinator for the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity. She completed a bachelor’s degree at SUNY Cortland in Kinesiology. She is currently completing a master’s degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in Student Affairs. During her undergraduate career, Jamie, has had lots of experience in Residence Life and Housing, Student Life, as well as Multicultural Life and Diversity.