Five Women Who Have Been Appointed to Administrative Posts in Higher Education

Ana Rua was appointed chair of the York College Foundation at York College of the City University of New York. Rua has been serving as the leader of New York Government Affairs City & State Strategy at Crown Castle, the nation’s largest provider of shared wireless infrastructure. Prior to joining Crown Castle, Rua worked as part of the team that spearheaded the New NY Broadband Program – a $500 million initiative to connect the most rural and remote regions of the state with high-speed internet access.

A native of Colombia, Rua is a graduate of SUNY-Geneseo, where she majored in political science and international relations.

Kenya Faulkner is the new chief compliance officer at Emory University in Atlanta. She was the chief ethics and compliance officer at Pennsylvania State University. She is the former chief integrity officer for the Treasury Department of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Faulkner received a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice from Niagara University in New York and a juris doctorate from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Carren Moham is the new vice president of academics at Hesston College in Hesston, Kansas. Dr. Moham had served as the college’s academic dean, and most recently as the interim vice president of academics.

Dr. Moham earned a bachelor’s degree from Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. She holds a master of music degree from the University of Oklahoma and a doctor of musical arts from Ohio State University.

Kimberly Holmes-Iverson will serve as director of public relations in the Office of University Communications at Howard University in Washington, D.C. She previously served as a morning anchor at the CBS affiliate on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. She also was an adjunct instructor at Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore.

Holmes-Iverson received a bachelor’s degree in public policy from Duke University. She holds a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism.

Lucretia Taylor has joined the Office of Institutional Equity and Compliance at Wichita State University in Kansas as its new Title IX coordinator. Prior to joining WSU, Taylor worked as an investigator in the Office of Institutional Equity at Kansas State University.

Taylor is a native of Wichita and earned a bachelor’s degree in the administration of justice from Wichita State. She also earned a law degree from Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.

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