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Marline Souffrant is dedicated to guiding Douglass-Honors College students as they pursue various academic and career opportunities through event programming and one-on-one advisement. As the program coordinator, Marline serves the Douglass-Honors College Community and students participating in the Douglass Faculty Fellows cohort for DRC-HC students. Before taking on this role, Marline devoted herself to serving the local community by working at a non-profit organization that promoted positive lifestyle choices. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies from Rutgers University in 2023. Additionally, she is a Douglass alumna.

Justin Campanella is the Residence Life Coordinator for 5 Seminary and Brett Hall. Justin is responsible for the day-to-day operations, activities and services for students living in 5 Seminary and Brett Hall, and the supervision of Resident Assistants. He also serves as the primary advisor to 5 Seminary and Brett Hall's Residence Hall Association. Justin graduated from New York University with a Master of Arts in Higher Education and Student Affairs and from SUNY University at Buffalo with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology.

Mason Ameri, PhD, is a Professor of Professional Practice at Rutgers Business School – Newark and New Brunswick. He specializes in disability employment, helping businesses tap into the talent of employees with disabilities. Backed by $16.3 million in grant funding, Dr. Ameri’s research has been published in top academic journals and cited in major media, including The New York Times’ list of “Best Live Conversations on Times Journalism.” He has delivered talks at Deutsche Bank, Accenture, Salesforce, the World Bank Group, TEDx, and the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, among others, advancing the dialogue on disability access. At Rutgers Business School, he teaches Management Skills and Negotiations and has received multiple teaching excellence honors, including the Dean’s Meritorious Awards, the Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, the Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching Innovations, and recognition as one of Poets&Quants’ Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors.

Jeff Friedman was appointed to Rutgers University in 2003 and is now Professor of Dance Studies at Mason Gross School of the Arts. He was a working contemporary dance artist based in San Francisco from 1979 to 1997, touring world-wide from Alaska's Kodiak Island to Australia's World Fair, and throughout the former Soviet Union during the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. From 1988-2013, as a community organizer he developed LEGACY, an oral history archive that documents life-histories of artists with HIV-AIDS. He then completed his PhD in Dance History and Theory at University of California-Riverside, focusing on what he calls the embodied interview; Jeff also performs his oral history archive in a work titled Muscle Memory. Jeff also holds an undergraduate degree in architecture, started at Cornell University and then finished at the University of Oregon.

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Humberto R. Jimenez is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Ernest Mario School of Pharmacy, Rutgers Health, with a clinical practice at St. Joseph’s University Medical Center in Paterson, NJ, where he provides care for individuals living with HIV. Through a collaborative practice agreement, he works within an interdisciplinary team to advance the health, well-being, and dignity of those he serves. Dr. Jimenez is passionate about creating a learning space where students feel empowered to think critically and care for patients with both compassion and cultural humility. He is also a co-founder and board member of Waves of Health, a non-profit organization that delivers medical care, health education, and medications at no cost to communities experiencing structural barriers to health access abroad.

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David Tulloch is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and the Associate Director of the Center for Remote Sensing and Spatial Analysis. His passion for honors education is evidenced in years of teaching, both the SEBS mission course and honors seminars, as well as organizing activities from trips to game nights. His academic interests include open space, healthy communities, urban design, mapping and GIS.