Staff & Council

Commissioner

Shannon W. Gilkey, Ed.D.

Commissioner, RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner

Senior Staff

Beth Bailey

Chief Communications Officer

Ron Cavallaro, J.D.

General Counsel

Anne Marie Coleman

Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources & Labor Relations

Greg Ebner, Ph.D.

Assistant Commissioner, Academics & Student Affairs

Molly Kapstein Cote, Esq.

Chief Policy Officer

Jess Key

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

Zachary J. Saul

Chief Financial Officer

Council Members

David Caprio, Esq.

Chairman

Dennis Duffy, Esq.

Rachelle R. Green, Esq.

Mike Grey

Chair, RI Board of Education

Thomas Izzo

Michael Mello

Lawrence Purtill

Marcy Reyes

Gianna M. Rose

Jeffery A. Williams, D.Min, MPA

Staff

Julia Cabrera

Educational Support Coordinator

Michele Carroll

Operations Coordinator

Giovanna Colantuono

Educational Support Coordinator

Victor Lora Corona

Senior Information Technologist

Sarah Cote

Data Analyst

David Cote

Business Operations Coordinator

Darmelis Cruz

Assistant Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

Rachel Doyle

Director, Business Services/Finance and Administration

Ellis Garcia

Information Technologist

Christine Grele

Director of P20 Readiness & Transition

Megan Hamlin-Black

Director of Financial Strategy and Planning

Faith Hanson

Manager of Facilities & Administration

John Holmes

Facilities Coordinator

John Knight

Network Systems Administrator

Nakisha Meres-Gabriel

Operations & Data Coordinator

Cheryl Muñoz

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Jill Olson-Crowley

Director, Woonsocket Education Center

Tom Pearce

Director, Westerly Education Center

Bonnie Rayta

Director, Rhode Island Nursing Education Center

Omar Reyes

Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

Rockwell Richards

Sr. Data Analyst

Rebecca Ryan

Director of Compliance and Student Protection

Padma Saravanan

Data Analyst

Akash Shanmugam

Data Engineer

Alan Sousa

Simulation Specialist

Andrea Spargo

Research Specialist

Lockie Startz

Executive Assistant

Timothy Thibodeau

Manager of Simulation

Doug Tingle

Operations Coordinator

Jaime Wager

Program Specialist

Jackie Xiong

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

Taylor Young

Data Analyst

Location

Woonsocket

Woonsocket Education Center

Westerly

Westerly Education Center

Nursing

RI Nursing Education Center

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