Email: uammara@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Policy and Legislation

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

To get involved with the UMB community.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: iamoros@som.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Board of Regents

Reason for Becoming a Senator:  

As a member of the UMB Staff Senate, I want to use my skills and knowledge to encourage positive communication and collaborations to benefit the UMB campus and the communities we serve. My goals also include being an advocate for UMB staff members, so their needs are heard and considered when changes are introduced or required. I would also like to promote professional growth, which is important to encourage and can lead to an increase in accomplishments by employees and overall job satisfaction.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: amanda.barnes@law.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Community Outreach

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I want to serve on the Staff Senate to learn more about the different departments and schools on campus and to become more engaged with my peers. Staff Senate will allow me to develop relationships with others and become a contributor to campus initiatives and university goals

Term Ends: 2025

Email: mbesser@rx.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Communications

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I wanted to be a Staff Senator to learn more about UMB and how the different schools work together for the greater good of the university and its faculty, staff, and students. Team Work Makes The Dream Work!

Term Ends: 2024

Email: gbrightbill@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I am very passionate about diversity education and hope to continue the positive growth the University has made in implementing inclusive practices into the institutional culture. This includes creating safe spaces for staff to discuss issues concerning discrimination and disenfranchisement. I also hope to use my skills related to event planning, marketing, and staff development to help the Staff Senate with programming initiatives that align with the overall goals of the group.

Term Ends: 2025

Email:  anita.bryant@ssw.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Communications

Term Ends: 2025

Email: rcisneros@rx.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: University Life

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

Build relationships across campus and represent the School of Pharmacy at the university level.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: jcodd@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Communications

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I wanted to serve as a staff senator to give a voice to staff and to help advance our mission and values.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: taylor.deboer@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee, Community Outreach

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

To support the health, equity, safety, and work life balance of UMB’s staff. 

Term Ends: 2024

Email: adeitz@som.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Board of Regents

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

Regardless of what our core roles are at UMB, I do not believe that any of us are here purely to benefit ourselves. This belief leads me to presume that some, if not many, of us may struggle to articulate what we need from our employers in order to not simply feel, but know, that we are valued for both what we do and who we are. My goals as a Staff Senator are to connect with other UMB staff, listen to and hear their needs, understand what barriers they encounter, and co-create initiatives that could sustainably help our community for years to come.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: a.graham@law.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee, Community Outreach

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

As a member of the UMB Staff Senate, I look forward to collaborating with my fellow Senators to draw on the strengths and skills we have honed over the course of our varied careers to further improve the tight-knit community that is the UMB family. I hope to encourage respectful, earnest, and open dialogue across our campuses and to facilitate a more open and inclusive system. I also look forward to drawing on the institutional knowledge of the Senate to encourage professional growth on both the individual and campus-wide levels.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: danielle.harris@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Community Outreach

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

To become more connected to the broader UMB community. I also want to provide representation from staff and our neighboring community located across Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

Term Ends: 2024

Email:  vhilllawson@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Council for University System Staff

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

To make a positive impact in the work lives of our UMB Community -in serving as a professional resource and voice in promoting healthy work environments and a workplace where employees feel safe when seeking guidance.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: thockensmith@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I hope to learn more about the campus, its workings, and the outreach performed by the campus. I also hope to build relationships with the Staff Senators and senior leadership across campus. Once I am able to see and learn, I hope to use this information and these relationships to affect change on behalf of my staff and all UMB staff and faculty.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: thowarth@rx.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Policy and Legislation

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I wanted to learn more about how UMB works and how the many schools work together to support its staff. I wanted to collaborate with others and learn about the work that they do.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: ylanghorne@som.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: None

Term Ends: 2024

Email: emain@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee, Communications

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

Despite the fact that the Office of Sustainability is located within Facilities and Operations under Administration and Finance, the nature of our work encourages us to build partnerships and collaborations across campus. I knew that joining the Staff Senate would be a great way to meet folks from all across campus and continue developing partnerships to maximize efficiencies and break down silos in order to further the great work happening across UMB.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: smartinezgreiwe@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Board of Regents

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

Over the last few years, I have become acutely aware of the role that UMB plays in my life, and I would like to help shape the future of this institution. While I am able to support departments through my work at CCT I relish the opportunity to help all UMB employees and those we serve.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: nkenge@som.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Board of Regents

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I decided to run for Staff Senate to be a voice for the campus community representing their needs and concerns. Participation in the Staff Senate is also an opportunity to get to know fellow employees across campus through Staff Senate committees and service projects.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: mary.phelan@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Communications

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I joined the Staff Senate to help give a voice to all UMB staff members and to shed light on their numerous and expansive contributions to the UMB community.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: fromero@som.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Policy and Legislation

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

As a mission-driven individual, I ran for Staff Senate to have the chance to provide my feedback, input, and perspective in matters related to JEDI on campus. I also want to do my part to help improve the UMB community and make UMB a place where everyone staff member feels appreciated and feels they belong.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: nia.speaks@ssw.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Executive Committee, Council for University System Staff, Policy and Legislation

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I wanted to be a Staff Senator to connect people to resource, and to be an advocate for UMB staff. Being an advocate for staff, community outreach, and collaboration across the campus are all important to me.

Term Ends: 2024

Email: tspindle@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: University Life

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I want to be a voice that influences change, inspires innovation, and makes a difference for our staff and the local community. As a servant leader who truly admires the core values of our institution, I feel it’s critical to collaborate and connect with various stakeholders to gain a deeper understanding of how our university is run and what we could do together to make it even better!

Term Ends: 2025

Email: rstolle@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: University Life

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

To collaborate with other UMB schools and to advocate for a more flexible and equitable telework policy. 

Term Ends: 2025

Email: kelly.ward@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: University Life

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

Throughout my personal and professional life, I have served as a bridge, connecting family, friends and colleagues to resources, tools, ideas and to each other. The Staff Senate is a perfect place for me to continue that mission; allowing me to get to know more about the UMB community and the culture and to help identify organizational needs across campus.  

Term Ends: 2025

Email: fwilliams@umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Policy and Legislation

Reason for Becoming a Senator:

My duty as a staff senator is to advocate and bring important information from around the campus to the staff at the School of Nursing. I enjoy the opportunity to interact with staff members from the different programs and central offices within UMB.

Term Ends: 2025

Email: lei.zhang@ihv.umaryland.edu

Senate Committees: Council for University System Staff

Reason for Becoming a Senator: 

I want to let more UMB staff know about the duties of the Staff Senate and pay attention to the work the Staff Senate is doing.

Term Ends: 2025