Riley Institute Leadership

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Bryan Boroughs

Executive Director
Don Gordon

Donald Gordon

Founding Executive Director and Special Counsel, Riley Institute; Professor, Politics and International Affairs
Richard Riley

Richard W. Riley

Former U.S. Secretary of Education and former SC governor

Riley Institute Staff

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Sara Beanblossom

Director, White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship
Brooke Culclasure

Brooke Culclasure

Director, Research and Strategic Learning
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Megan Dodgens

Director, Center for Diversity Strategies
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Brittany Downey

Diversity Strategies Coordinator and Administrative Assistant
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Julie Dunson Meredith

Director, Center for Critical Issues
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David Fleming

Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Researcher, Riley Institute
Gallagher

Kendall Gallagher-King

Director, Student Programs
Nichole Grant

Nichole Grant

Business Manager
Kelly Gregory

Kelly Gregory

Director, Public Education Projects and Partnerships
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Juan Johnson

Facilitator, Diversity Leaders Initiative and Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative; Senior Fellow
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Amy Keely

Director, South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered
Shekinah Lightner

Shekinah Lightner

Research Associate
Sally Morris Cote

Sally Morris Cote

Associate Director, Research and Strategic Learning
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Courtenay Nantz

Senior Associate
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Deniz Sariaslan

Post-Bac Fellow
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Alexis Sprogis

Research Specialist
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Cathy Stevens

Senior Associate
Benny Walker

Benny Walker

Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
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Tracy Waters

Associate Director, Research and Strategic Learning
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Claudia Winkler

Director, Marketing, Communications and Strategic Alignment

Senior Associates and Faculty Coordinators

Simpkins

John Simpkins

Senior Associate
Rinck

Sandy Rinck

Senior Associate
Terry Peterson

Terry Peterson

Senior Associate
Nathan Cook

Nathan Cook

Frederick W. Symmes Professor of Economics
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Elizabeth Smith

Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs; Assistant Faculty Director, The Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection; Faculty Council At-Large Representative
Katherine Palmer Kaup

Katherine "Kate" Kaup 白荷婷

James B. Duke Professor of Asian Studies and Politics and International Affairs

Senior Distinguished Fellows

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Jim Guth

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Distinguished Fellow, Riley Institute; Distinguished Scholar for the Tocqueville Center
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Jacki Martin

Senior Distinguished Fellow