Riley Institute Leadership
Bryan Boroughs
Executive Director
Donald Gordon
Founding Executive Director and Special Counsel, Riley Institute; Professor, Politics and International Affairs
Richard W. Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education and former SC governor
Riley Institute Staff
Sara Beanblossom
Director, White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship
Brooke Culclasure
Director, Research and Strategic Learning
Megan Dodgens
Director, Center for Diversity Strategies
Brittany Downey
Diversity Strategies Coordinator and Administrative Assistant
Julie Dunson Meredith
Director, Center for Critical Issues
David Fleming
Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Researcher, Riley Institute
Kendall Gallagher-King
Director, Student Programs
Nichole Grant
Business Manager
Kelly Gregory
Director, Public Education Projects and Partnerships
Juan Johnson
Facilitator, Diversity Leaders Initiative and Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative; Senior Fellow
Amy Keely
Director, South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered
Shekinah Lightner
Research Associate
Sally Morris Cote
Associate Director, Research and Strategic Learning
Courtenay Nantz
Senior Associate
Deniz Sariaslan
Post-Bac Fellow
Alexis Sprogis
Research Specialist
Cathy Stevens
Senior Associate
Benny Walker
Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
Tracy Waters
Associate Director, Research and Strategic Learning
Claudia Winkler
Director, Marketing, Communications and Strategic Alignment
Senior Associates and Faculty Coordinators
John Simpkins
Senior Associate
Sandy Rinck
Senior Associate
Terry Peterson
Senior Associate
Nathan Cook
Frederick W. Symmes Professor of Economics
Elizabeth Smith
Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs; Assistant Faculty Director, The Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection; Faculty Council At-Large Representative
Katherine "Kate" Kaup 白荷婷
James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs
Senior Distinguished Fellows
Jim Guth
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Distinguished Fellow, Riley Institute; Distinguished Scholar for the Tocqueville Center
Jacki Martin
Senior Distinguished Fellow