Dr. Vernon Allwood
Dr. Nathan Avani
William Brescia
Dr. Marcia Canton
Dr. Linda Coy
Jesse Dansbe
Meet the IMA Board of Directors
IMA Executive Board of Directors
Brenda L. H. Marina, Ph.D., is a retired higher education leadership educator. She has been a board member for since 2013 and a general member since 2004. Dr. Marina is a peer reviewer for the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education and has served as a moderator for the Research and Mentoring strand for the European Mentoring and Coaching Council E-Conference. Her scholarship explores women in leadership, mentoring for leadership, multicultural competence in higher education, and global education issues from a womanist perspective. She is the author and co-author of several publications related to her scholarship. Her published books include Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Justice, and Fairness for Women of Color in U.S. Higher Education and Mentoring Away the Glass Ceiling in Academe: A Cultured Critique. She is the former Publications chair for IMA as well as chair of the Governance Committee.
Catherine A. Gorman, M.A., is the Associate Director of Student Engagement at Florida SouthWestern State College. In her position, she promotes mentoring practices by overseeing the Peer Mentor Program and its incorporation in a first-year seminar course. She has been creating and directing mentoring programs for the past 6 years. Through her oversight, peer mentor programs were initiated in 3 living-learning communities, 3 academic programs, the student-athlete learning center, and a library support program at Florida Gulf Coast University. Catherine continues researching and learning about mentoring best practices and is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of South Florida. She is IMA President-Elect, and an IMA Certified Mentoring Consultant.
Dr. Linda Searby is an associate clinical professor of Educational Leadership at the University of Florida, where she teaches courses in Leadership and Administration, Curriculum and Supervision, Action Research, School Change, and Mentoring. She has also taught at Auburn University and the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She is the Co-Editor of the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education, and reviewer for several journals in educational leadership. Dr. Searby has published over 20 peer-reviewed articles on the development of a mentoring mindset in the protege and is a mentoring coach and trainer. She is the Co-Editor of Best Practices in Mentoring for Teacher and Leader Development and Co-Editor of the Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Mentoring. Dr. Searby is a graduate of Lincoln Christian University (B.A.), Eastern Illinois University (M.S.), and Illinois State University (Ph.D.). Along with her husband, Dr. Mark Searby, she is the co-owner of Peacewood Consulting, a leadership development and mentoring resources consulting business. Dr. Searby was instrumental in facilitating the move of IMA's home to the University of Florida in 2018.
IMA Board of Directors
Kathleen Sciarappa, Ph.D.
Mentor Training Facilitator; National Certified Mentor; 151 Tremont St., Boston, MA 02111; Ratified August 2019
Nancy Phenis-Bourke, Ed.D.
Past President
National Association of Elementary School Principals Mentor Coach; Active member on public and private nonprofit boards; IMA Mentor Training Coordinator and Facilitator
6471 S Fox Chase,
Pendleton, IN 46064
Julie Fredenburg
Chair, Accreditation Committee
Julie Fredenburg
Champaign, IL
Ratified 2016-2020, 2020-2024
Roger Benton Fillingim, Ph.D.
Clinical Psychologist & Distinguished Professor, University of Florida (UF) College of Dentistry and Director of the UF Pain Research & Intervention Center of Excellence.; Director, The Mentor Academy in the Clinical and Translational Science Institute.
Ratified November 2020
Clinical and Translational Science Institute
2004 Mowry Road, Gainesville, FL 32610
Donna Augustine-Shaw, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Dept. of Educational Leadership Kansas State University & Associate Director, Kansas Educational Leadership Institute (KELI)
Ratified March 2018
2535 Dundee Ln.
Salina, KS 67401
Marsha Carr, D.M.
Owner of Edu-Tell, LLC
Ratified March 2017
598 E Park Avenue Way
Ivins, UTAH 84738
David Clutterbuck, Ph.D.
Visiting Professor of Coaching & Mentoring, Henley Business School, Oxford Brookes, Sheffield Hallam, York St. John, UK; Distinguished Fellow, Th Conference Board; Co-Dean, Global Team Coaching Institute; Practice Lead, Coaching and Mentoring International
Ratified December 2013
Woodlands, Tollgate, Maidenhead,
Berks UK SL6 4 LJ
Andrea Engler, Ed.D.
Senior Executive Director of Student Transitions and Success, Indiana University/Purdue University at Indianapolis (IUPUI)
Ratified 2017-2021, 2021-2025
815 W. Michigan Street UC 2001D
Indianapolis, IN 46202
Robert Garvey, Ph.D.
Managing Partner, The Lio Partnership
Ratified November 2014
13 Blakeney Place
York YO10 3HZ
UK
Skype: robert.garvey7
Twitter: RobertGarvey6
LinkedIn
Carol Riley
Past Secretary-Treasurer 2014-2016; 2016-Retired Associate Executive Director-National Association of Elementary School Principals; 2020 IMA Conference Chair;
Ratified 2013-2017, 2018-2022
15221 Fog Mountain Circle
Haymarket, VA 20169
Laura Lunsford, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Psychology, Campbell University, Buies Creek, NC.
Ratified 2017-2021, 2021-2025
Taylor Hall 205, P.O. Box 369
Buis Creek, NC 27506
Miriam Marguerita Gomez Witmer, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations; Director, Color of Teaching Mentoring Program, Millersville University, Millersville, PA
2017-2021
Ratified November 2017
Stayer 405
Millersville University
Millersville, PA 17551 USA
Ben Kutsyuruba, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Educational Policy, Leadership, and School Law
Queens University, Ontario, Canada
Duncan Hall, A 324
Kingston, Ontario, Canada K7M 5R7
Audrey Murrell, PhD
Professor of Business Administration, Psychology, Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh
Ratified August 2021
International Ambassador Members
Anna Sofia Saldanha
International Ambassador Member; Professional Translator, Translation, Proofreading, Editing, Post-Editing, and Mentoring; English, Spanish, & Portuguese
Ratified December 2018
Jane Lewes
International Ambassador Member; Director, The Learning Consultancy, Wales, UK.
Ratified January 2020
Ajay Kelkar
International Ambassador Member;Co-Founder Hansa Cequity.PCC; Leadership Coach. Mumbai, India
Nigel Cumberland
Nigel is the co-Founder of The Silk Road Partnership and is a corporate mentor, executive coach and facilitator who has worked with leaders in the United Nations, The World Bank Group, Fortune 500 groups including Google, Dell and Standard Chartered Bank, as well as in the Public Sectors of countries such as the UAE.
Ratified November 2020
Meenalochani Kumar (Meena Kumar)
Learning & Leadership development, Organization Development, Business HR
Ratified November 2020
Lyle Hamm (Steamer)
Lyle “Steamer” Hamm is an associate professor of educational administration and leadership in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
Ratified August 2021
Kinga Káplár-Kodácsy, PhD
Kinga Káplár-Kodácsy PhD is assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Hungary, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Institute of Research on Adult Education and Knowledge Management.
Ratified August 2021
National Ambassador Members
Lisa Z. Fain, J. D.
CEO, Center for Mentoring Excellence; Founder, Vista Coaching
National Ambassador; Ratified June 2019
Center for Mentoring Excellence
3040 78th Avenue SE #1173
Mercer Island, WA 98040
Eric McCloud, Ed.D.
Dr. Eric McCloud is a diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) researcher, strategist, and facilitator.
National Ambassador; Ratified August 2021
Sherella Cupid, Ph.D
Postdoctoral Researcher at Louisiana State University
National Ambassador; Ratified August 2021
Emeritus Board Of Directors
Maurice T. Davis
Dr. Nora Dominguez
Truls Engstrom
Jan Hall
Dr. David James
Dr. Frances Kochan
Margo Murray
Dr. Charles Allen Sadberry, Sr.
Dr. Linda Stromei
Martha Warfield
Dr. Katherine Wilcox
Dr. Nancy Phenis-Bourke