Speakers

Susanna is Director of the Annenburg Institute for School reform at Brown University. She is professor of Education and International and Public Relations.

Susanna's research focuses broadly on education policy and its role in improving educational opportunities for students. Her work has addressed issues of educator career choices and professional development, of school finance and governance, and of early childhood systems. Before moving to Brown, Susanna was the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford University. She was the founding director of the Center for Education Policy at Stanford and co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education. Susanna led the research for both Getting Down to Facts projects for California schools. She has been a member of the National Board for Education Sciences, a senior fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and a faculty research fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

Kimberly Conway Dumpson, Esq., CFRE, has been selected to serve as Vice President for Advancement at Rhode Island College. Her 20-year career includes more than 15 years of experience in non-profit and higher education fundraising.

A former practicing attorney, Ms. Dumpson currently serves as the Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore in Princess Anne. Over her 13-year career at the university, she has held progressively responsible roles, including Vice President for Institutional Advancement, Director of Alumni Affairs and Planned Giving, Adjunct Professor, and Interim Director of Alumni Affairs and Planned Giving.

In the non-profit sector, she served as Managing Director and then Executive Director of the Life Crisis Center in Salisbury, Maryland. Additionally, Ms. Dumpson practiced law in Maryland as an attorney with Wescott, Luke and Rowe, LLC, in Salisbury; Gregory K. Wells and Associates, P.A., in Upper Marlboro; and Wharton, Levin, Ehrmantraut, Klein and Nash, P.A., in Bethesda.

Ms. Dumpson earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and sociology at Towson State University and her J.D. degree at Ohio Northern University College of Law. She became at Certified Fund Raising Executive (CFRE) in 2008 and was re-certified in 2011 and 2015.

Kimberly is a proud member of the Providence Rotary Club and serves on the Membership Committee

Doug as been the City Forester with New York City since June 2005. Previously he was an Urban Forester with the New York City Parks Department. He received his BA in Arts History from Oberlin College and a Masters in Science in Forestry at Penn State University