Riley Institute Staff
Richard W. Riley
Former U.S. Secretary of Education and former SC governor
Donald Gordon
Executive Director, Riley Institute; Professor, Politics and International Affairs
Jacki Martin
Deputy Director, Riley Institute
Sara Beanblossom
Director, White-Riley-Peterson Policy Fellowship
Brooke Culclasure
Research Director
Megan Dodgens
Director, Diversity Leadership Strategies
Julie Dunson Meredith
Director, Center for Critical Issues
David Fleming
Associate Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Senior Researcher, Riley Institute
Kendall Gallagher
Events Coordinator
Nichole Grant
Business Manager
Kelly Gregory
Director, Public Education Partnerships and Projects
Juan Johnson
Facilitator, Diversity Leaders Initiative; Senior Fellow
Amy Keely
Director, South Carolina Afterschool Leaders Empowered
Shekinah Lightner
Research Associate
Sally Morris Cote
Director, Nonprofit Strategic Learning
Courtenay Nantz
Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
Alexis Sprogis
Research Specialist
Cathy Stevens
Senior Associate
Benny Walker
Senior Associate, Diversity Leaders Initiative
Claudia Winkler
Director, Marketing and Communications
Senior Associates and Faculty Coordinators
John Simpkins
Senior Associate
Sandy Rinck
Senior Associate
Terry Peterson
Senior Associate
Cleveland Fraser
Professor, Politics and International Affairs; Coordinator, APEC
Nathan Cook
John D. Hollingsworth, Jr., Professor of Economics
Elizabeth Smith
Professor, Department of Politics and International Affairs; Assistant Faculty Director, The Cothran Center for Vocational Reflection
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