Staff & Council

Commissioner

Shannon W. Gilkey, Ed.D.

Commissioner, RI Office of the Postsecondary Commissioner

Senior Staff

Zachary J. Saul

Chief Financial Officer

Jess Key

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

Greg Ebner, Ph.D.

Assistant Commissioner, Academics & Student Affairs

Molly Kapstein Cote, Esq.

Chief Policy Officer

Anne Marie Coleman

Assistant Commissioner, Human Resources & Labor Relations

Ron Cavallaro, J.D.

General Counsel

Beth Bailey

Chief Communications Officer

Council Members

Jeffery A. Williams, D.Min, MPA

Gianna M. Rose

Marcy Reyes

Lawrence Purtill

Michael Mello

Thomas Izzo

Mike Grey

Chair, RI Board of Education

Rachelle R. Green, Esq.

Dennis Duffy, Esq.

David Caprio, Esq.

Chairman

Staff

Taylor Young

Data Analyst

Jackie Xiong

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

Jaime Wager

Program Specialist

Doug Tingle

Operations Coordinator

Timothy Thibodeau

Senior Simulation Specialist

Lockie Startz

Executive Assistant

Andrea Spargo

Research Specialist

Alan Sousa

Simulation Specialist

Akash Shanmugam

Data Engineer

Padma Saravanan

Data Analyst

Rebecca Ryan

Director of Compliance and Student Protection

Charon Rose

Director of Workforce Strategy & Operations

Rockwell Richards

Sr. Data Analyst

Omar Reyes

Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

Bonnie Rayta

Director, Rhode Island Nursing Education Center

Tom Pearce

Director, Westerly Education Center

Jill Olson-Crowley

Director, Woonsocket Education Center

Cheryl Muñoz

Grants and Contracts Specialist

Nakisha Meres-Gabriel

Operations & Data Coordinator

John Knight

Network Systems Administrator

John Holmes

Facilities Coordinator

Faith Hanson

Manager of Facilities & Administration

Megan Hamlin-Black

Director of Financial Strategy and Planning

Christine Grele

Director of P20 Readiness & Transition

Ellis Garcia

Information Technologist

Rachel Doyle

Director, Business Services/Finance and Administration

Darmelis Cruz

Assistant Director of Adult Programs & Student Success

Sarah Cote

Data Analyst

David Cote

Business Operations Coordinator

Victor Lora Corona

Senior Information Technologist

Giovanna Colantuono

Educational Support Coordinator

Michele Carroll

Operations Coordinator

Julia Cabrera

Educational Support Coordinator

Location

Woonsocket

Woonsocket Education Center

Westerly

Westerly Education Center

Nursing

RI Nursing Education Center

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