Staff & Council

Commissioner

Shannon W. Gilkey, Ed.D.

Commissioner, RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner

Senior Staff

Anne Marie Coleman

Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources & Labor Relations

Beth Bailey

Chief Communications Officer

Greg Ebner, Ph.D.

Assistant Commissioner, Academics & Student Affairs

Jess Key

Assistant Commissioner of Workforce & Executive Director of the Rhode Island Higher Education & Industry Centers

Molly Kapstein Cote, Esq.

Chief Policy Officer

Ron Cavallaro, J.D.

General Counsel

Zachary J. Saul

Chief Financial Officer

Council Members

David Caprio, Esq.

Chairman

Dennis Duffy, Esq.

Gianna M. Rose

Jeffery A. Williams, D.Min, MPA

Lawrence Purtill

Marcy Reyes

Michael Mello

Mike Grey

Chair, RI Board of Education

Rachelle R. Green, Esq.

Thomas Izzo

Staff

Akash Shanmugam

Data Engineer

Alan Sousa

Simulation Specialist

Andrea Spargo

Research Specialist

Bonnie Rayta

Director, Rhode Island Nursing Education Center

Charon Rose

Director of Workforce Strategy & Operations

Cheryl Muñoz

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Christine Grele

Director of P20 Readiness & Transition

Darmelis Cruz

Assistant Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

David Cote

Business Operations Coordinator

Doug Tingle

Operations Coordinator

Ellis Garcia

Information Technologist

Faith Hanson

Manager of Facilities & Administration

Giovanna Colantuono

Educational Support Coordinator

Jackie Xiong

Assistant to the Commissioner, Special Liaison to the Council on Postsecondary Education

Jaime Wager

Program Specialist

Jill Olson-Crowley

Director, Woonsocket Education Center

John Holmes

Facilities Coordinator

John Knight

Network Systems Administrator

Julia Cabrera

Educational Support Coordinator

Lockie Startz

Executive Assistant

Megan Hamlin-Black

Director of Financial Strategy and Planning

Michele Carroll

Operations Coordinator

Nakisha Meres-Gabriel

Operations & Data Coordinator

Omar Reyes

Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

Padma Saravanan

Data Analyst

Rachel Doyle

Director, Business Services/Finance and Administration

Rebecca Ryan

Director of Compliance and Student Protection

Rockwell Richards

Sr. Data Analyst

Sarah Cote

Data Analyst

Taylor Young

Data Analyst

Timothy Thibodeau

Senior Simulation Specialist

Tom Pearce

Director, Westerly Education Center

Victor Lora Corona

Senior Information Technologist

Location

Woonsocket

Woonsocket Education Center

Westerly

Westerly Education Center

Nursing

RI Nursing Education Center