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Meet the Housing and Residential Experience Staff

Senior Leadership

Sophia Chaknis
Associate dean, housing and residential Experience

Alison Matarese
Director, housing assignments and operations

Lauren Moon
Director, Residential Experience

Kevin Seiler
Director, Housing Facilities And Security Systems

Ashley D. Thompson
Chief Business Officer, Housing and Residential Experience

Director of Administration, Housing and residentiAL experience 

Assignments and operations

Ashley Ladyman
Associate Director, housing Assignments 

Hannah hanson
Coordinator, housing assignments

shauna winters
Coordinator, housing assignments

central team

Randy Tarkington
Senior Advisor, Student affairs

faith aiken
administrative assistant

Vacant
administrative Coordinator

Facilities

Philip Ferrara
Assistant Director, housing facilities

Toi Batson
housing facilities coordinator

Alfred Biqiku
housing facilities supervisor
E. Bronson Ingram College, Moore College, Nicholas S. Zeppos College, and Warren College 

Brian Craig
housing facilities supervisor
commons (excluding North & west) and THE village at vanderbilt south tower/townhomes

Zachary Ernst
housing facilities supervisor

John Hayes
housing facilities supervisor
Highland Quad (Chaffin, Lewis, Mayfield, & Morgan) and Blakemore House

Sam Larsen
housing facilities supervisor
alumni lawn (Cole, Tolman, mcgill), bRANSCOMB qUAD (lUPTON, sCALES, sTAPLETON, & vAUGHN), mctyeire, nORTH, and WEST

Dennis Shillingburg 
housing facilities supervisor
oliver c. carmichael college, rothschild college, and the west end neighborhood

 

finance

Ashley Lamkai
Senior administrative officer, housing and residential experience

Connor abram
Associate administrative officer, housing and residential experience

residential experience

breanna mcknight
Associate Director, residential experience

Nicole BlackMon
Assistant Director, Care Management

chiara brown
Assistant Director, Selection and Training

drew bryant
Assistant Director, Community Development and Assessment

jorge wellmann
Assistant Director, Operations

Linda Hamer
receptionist for e. bronson ingram college

vacant
Area Coordinator
E. bronson Ingram college, mcgill, and oliver c. carmichael college

Mitchell furtner
Area Coordinator
ingram commons (murray and sutherland) and village at vanderbilt south tower/townhomes

Vacant
Area Coordinator
blakemore, Nicholas S. Zeppos college, and Rothschild College

Megan Mesco
Area CoordiNATOR
Ingram Commons (East, Hank Ingram, Memorial, and WEst)

Chanc’e moody
Area Coordinator
Ingram Commons (Crawford, gillette, North, and Stambaugh)

Arielle Robertson
Area CoorDINATOR
Cole, Moore College, Tolman, and warren college 

Kerrie Turney
Area Coordinator
Branscomb Quad (Lupton, Scales, Stapleton, and Vaughn) and mctyeire

Byron Uzzell
Area coordinator
Highland Quad (Chaffin, Lewis, Mayfield, and Morgan)

residential experience graduate staff

Joe Accam
Graduate Area coordinator
blakemore, nicholas s. zeppos college, and rothschild college

canaan bracey
Graduate Area coordinator
Ingram Commons (east, hank ingram, memorial, and west)

kaitlyn eddy
Graduate Area coordinator
cole, moore college, tolman, and warren college 

rachel gifford
Graduate Area coordinator
ingram commons (crawford, gillette, north, and stambaugh)

samantha mccann
Graduate Area coordinator
ingram Commons (murray and sutherland) and village at vanderbilt south tower/townhomes

Meera Patel
Graduate Area coordinator
E. bronson ingram college, mcgill, and oliver c. Carmichael college

jonathan swann 
graduate Area coordinator
highland quad (Chaffin, lewis, Mayfield, and Morgan)

Grace woodside
Graduate Area coordinator
branscomb quad (lupton, scales, stapleton, and vaughn) and McTyeire

Dhesel Khando
Mayfield graduate student worker
Mayfield Living Learning community

Security systems

Ben Francisco
Assistant Director, security sysTEMS

Thomas Bradd
security sysTEMS specialist

RICHMOND MASTERS
security sysTEMS specialist

TODD WERNER
security sysTEMS specialist