Our Team
Andrea Starks-Corbin
Andrea is currently the Marketing Coordinator for RISE Partnerships, and she joins the team in assisting with operations, projects, and streamlining systems from a marketing lens. Before coming to RISE, Andrea grew her professional portfolio within marketing, communications, and production management roles.
Her fraternity/sorority life experience began as a member, then as a volunteer, and then working at the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors where the mission of delivering exceptional professional development resources drove her work.
Brittany Barnes DEEG
Brittany has served as the Assistant Director of Fraternity, Sorority, and Cooperative Life at Purdue University, Director for Training and Development and Vice President for Learning at RISE Partnerships. She currently serves as the Executive Director of Experiential Learning at Abilene Christian University.
Brittany is talented at maintaining healthy rapport with students and stakeholders while simultaneously working through highly complex problems. Relying on these and other abilities, she was responsible for spearheading the award-winning RESPECT initiative at Purdue. She now lives in Texas with her husband, daughter, and pets.
Chris Brooks
Chris is an experienced instructional designer and educator with a passion for creating inclusive, engaging learning experiences. With a background in eLearning development, student affairs, and Fraternity & Sorority Life, they bring a strategic, learner-centered approach to every project.
Chris is an experienced instructional designer and educator with a passion for creating inclusive, engaging learning experiences. With a background in eLearning development, student affairs, and Fraternity & Sorority Life, they bring a strategic, learner-centered approach to every project.
Outside of work, they enjoy exploring local coffee spots, diving into a good podcast, and finding new ways to connect learning with real-life change.
Chris Jefferson
Chris is the Director of Fraternity/Sorority Life at Penn State University and serves as a facilitator for IMPACT, UIFI, IFI, Launch, ASTP, Leadershape, workshops for many inter/national organizations, and more.
Chris facilitates RISE’s training programs for new member educators (THRIVE), volunteer advisors (GUIDE), and new officers (EQUIP). Chris also serve on RISE’s curriculum design team, developing new programs for clients, and on the consulting team as an analyst on assessment and strategy projects.
Dan Bureau, Ph. D.
Dan currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Student Wellbeing in the Office of Student Success at the University of Kentucky. He represents the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors as a representative to the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). He is the National President of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity (2023-2025) and serves on the Piazza Research Advisory Committee.
Dan currently serves as the Associate Vice President for Student Wellbeing in the Office of Student Success at the University of Kentucky. He represents the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors as a representative to the Council for the Advancement of Standards in Higher Education (CAS). He is the National President of Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity (2023-2025) and serves on the Piazza Research Advisory Committee.
DAN WRONA
Dan has worked with fraternal organizations from every perspective: a campus professional, a headquarters professional, an umbrella organization staff member, a chapter advisor, a volunteer leader, and a business leader.
He is a student of organizational leadership, systems theory, strategy, instructional design, and other complex issues, and regularly contributes to the fraternity/sorority industry through writing and presenting.
Dan manages the day-to-day operations of RISE and leads many of our instructional design and consulting projects. To schedule a meeting, click here.
EMILY FEUER, PH.D.
Emily works at the University at Albany, SUNY in the Office of Student Affairs Assessment and Planning. In this role, she helps departments set and realize their goals, better understand the student experience, and continuously work to increase efficiency and effectiveness.
Emily's passion for hazing prevention from a campus-based professional perspective led her to pursue a Ph.D. program in Educational Policy and Leadership. She recently graduated and her dissertation focused on the way students and administrators frame hazing behaviors. Emily serves on RISE’s consulting team.
Jenny DAMASK, ED.D.
Jenny currently works as the Assistant Director for High-Risk Drinking Prevention at the University of Wisconsin. In her role, she helps campus partners strategize and evaluate changes to systems, policies, and environments.
She has a brilliant grasp of the public health approach to preventing issues with alcohol, drugs, tobacco, hazing, and sexual assault. She developed several successful educational programs and promotional campaigns involving social norms clarification and bystander intervention.
Jenny contributes her expertise to RISE’s instructional design team and to consulting projects involving high-risk behavior.
JESSICA WILSON
Jessica Wilson has worked with fraternity and sorority communities at the University of Texas at Arlington, Capital University, and The Ohio State University prior to her new professional role delivering programming to attract university talent through the global internship program at Gartner, Inc.
She believes in the fraternal experience, and harnesses student development and experiential learning to impact the efforts towards members' career readiness. She supports the RISE mission of helping leaders to do their best work by utilizing technology to solve problems and streamline efficiency.
Jon Campbell
Jon currently serves as the Director of Fellows for New Memphis Institute, guiding mid-career leaders through a year-long experience focused on enhancing leadership capacity and promoting civic activation.
He is an excellent facilitator and coach. Jon brings his professional experience in leadership development programs on campus and for adult professionals to ensure that our work is practical and relevant beyond the collegiate environment.
Jon is part of the instructional design team and frequently serves as a trainer for each of our programs.
Julie Dold
RISE Partnerships is excited to announce the addition of Julie Dold as our new Business Coordinator. Julie joins RISE after an outstanding 17 year career at SUNY Potsdam, having held positions in Residence Life, Campus Life, and Admissions. As Business Coordinator, Julie will develop and maintain RISE's day-to-day operational systems as the company continues to grow.
Karlee Nuttelman
Karlee has worked with fraternities and sororities in various capacities at the University of Nebraska at Kearney, Indiana University, the University of Dayton, Sigma Kappa Sorority National Headquarters, and Delta Tau Delta International Headquarters. She is a member of and regularly volunteers for Gamma Phi Beta Sorority.
Focusing on prevention and eLearning efforts, she brings enhanced capacity to the RISE team and the new projects we deliver for our clients.
Paul Mintner
Paul has worked at the University of Iowa since 2012, currently serving as the Associate Director for Leadership & Service Programs in the Center for Student Involvement & Leadership. His work provides leadership development opportunities and civic engagement programming for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students through both curricular and co-curricular experiences.
He brings expertise in leadership development, competency models, instructional design, and organization development to the RISE team. Paul has done outstanding work developing campus-wide leadership development and service learning initiatives, and integrating them across multiple departments.
Paul is a part of RISE’s instructional design team, with specific focus on leadership competencies, program design, and educational strategy.
Stacy Kraus McDonald
Stacy has over 25 years of experience in fraternity/sorority work, previously serving both as a campus-based fraternity/sorority advisor and a headquarters staff member. She volunteers for Sigma Kappa Sorority, the National Panhellenic Conference, and her local Parent Teacher Organization. Stacy has previously held leadership roles with the Association of Fraternity/Sorority Advisors and the Northeast Greek Leadership Association.
Stacy lives outside of Philadelphia with her husband and two kids. However, if you know her even a little bit, you know she remains a Buffaloian at heart! (Go Bills!) In her free time, Stacy loves to sew, travel, read, and thrift shop. One of her favorite vacation spots was Iceland, where the wind almost blew her away. Her nerdy interest is in the long-term stability of smaller regional institutions during this era of declining enrollment.
Stacy serves on RISE’s consulting team as an analyst for program review, assessment, and strategy projects. She is passionate about listening to stakeholders' stories about the impact of fraternities and sororities and evaluating how these narratives are shared to create opportunities for transformative change within communities.