Staff / OSUgiving.com

Meg Ackerson

Associate Vice President of Strategic Engagement

Achieves Excellence by: Working closely with Central Development, Constituency Development, Principal Gifts, and Information Strategy to plan, implement and execute strategic and operational services in support of university wide fundraising priorities.

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Jimmy Aldridge

Associate Vice President of Advancement Technology & Procurement

Achieves Excellence by: Providing leadership to support the Foundation’s software & information technology systems & working to develop business solutions, gather business requirements & provide application configuration.

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James Ambrose

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift donors for the Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource and Ferguson College of Agriculture.

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Justin Anderson

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University and coordinating these initiatives with other OSU Foundation fundraising activities. He also supports the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for OSU by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization.

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Jacob Astley

Assistant Vice President of Prospect Development

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting with oversight of the Prospect Research function, & proactively leveraging data from the Foundation’s CRM database to provide information to end users to support fundraising efforts.

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Blaire Atkinson

President

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction and oversight of the affairs of the OSU Foundation and serving as the senior advisor for the OSU administration on matters relating to the development, implementation and integration of OSU’s private fundraising programs and activities.

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Robyn Baker

Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary

Achieves Excellence by: Serving as a member of the management team in support of Oklahoma State University and acting as the in-house legal adviser; drafting, revising and reviewing corporate and contract documents; and providing legal advice and support on all matters affecting OSU Foundation operations.

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Andrew Bambrough

Associate Director of Donor Communications

Achieves Excellence by: Managing donor relations projects related to donor communication initiatives, and ensuring donor communication is timely and consistent.

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Dawn Barnard

Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Achieves Excellence by: Focusing on driving a comprehensive strategic financial plan that promotes both the short-term growth and financial stability, as well as the long-term financial viability of the Foundation. She also strategizes and anticipates emerging business needs and works with the Foundation Board of Trustees and internal and external stakeholders to identify business solutions that support strategic objectives.

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Erin Barry

Senior Director of Human Resources

Achieves Excellence by: Providing support to Foundation staff on personnel matters such as employee benefit administration, maintaining employee database, managing all insurance billings and maintaining employee files.

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Rachel Benbrook

Senior Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents of the Regional Team.

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Burck Berry

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Jill Blake

Senior Director of Development/Unit Lead, OSU Center for Health Sciences/Academics

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the OSU-CHS Academic Medicine Unit with a focus on the College of Osteopathic Medicine in Tulsa, the College of Osteopathic Medicine at the Cherokee Nation in Tahlequah, as well as graduate programs at CHS.

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Bobbie Sue Bower

Staff Accountant

Achieves Excellence by: Administering various duties for the accounting department in regards to financial management, disbursement support and promoting the university's land-grant mission.

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LaDonna Boyd

Senior Coordinator of Administration and Legal

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Vice President of Administration & Treasurer, the Investment department and the Compliance department with a variety of administrative and clerical duties.

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Kristy Briggs

Associate Director of Scholarship Administration

Achieves Excellence by: Administrating and utilizing General University scholarship funds and developing and implementing processes related to scholarship agreements and documentation.

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Lilee Brinlee

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for the department, including supporting development officers in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Becky Brown

Prospect Engagement Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Building systems that provide the development community with data and insights about potential donors to optimize the Foundation's overall engagement strategies.

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Misty Brown

Desktop Support Specialist

Achieves Excellence by: Providing support for technical issues and maintaining hardware, equipment, and technology.

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Sarah Brown

Assistant Director of Donated Assets and Risk Management

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents with donated assets for Oklahoma State University.

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Charles Cameron

Assistant Vice President of Information Services

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic planning, management and completion of all major data related projects as assigned by the Data Management Project team.

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Shelly Cameron

Campaign Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Helping both internal and external teams navigate toward the Foundation’s campaign through the coordination of all OSUF campaign goals and objectives.

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Riley Carlow

Direct Marketing Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Annual Giving team by creating engaging solicitation content, providing administrative support and managing PhilanthroPete.

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Charlie Carroll

Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents of corporations and foundations.

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Sheri Carter

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the College of Education and Human Sciences.

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Tina Castleberry

Gift Systems Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Reconciling bank deposits, coding and entering gift and pledge transactions into the Foundation's CRM database, and assisting in online giving processes.

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Nick Colburn

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Autumn Colley

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University, specifically the College of Arts and Sciences (CAS).

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Scott Cordell

Associate General Counsel

Achieves Excellence by: Overseeing management of the Foundation’s mineral and real estate interests; researching and reviewing legal issues affecting the Foundation; and drafting, revising and reviewing corporate and contract documents.

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Melissa Craig

Senior Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for the OSU Foundation’s regional development officers in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Shane Crawford

Senior Director of Regional Development

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with major gift prospects in the Oklahoma City and Western Oklahoma region to secure private support for Oklahoma State University.

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Demetri Cruse

Multimedia Designer

Achieves Excellence by: Conceptualizing, designing, editing and producing a variety of multimedia-focused projects, such as videos, motion graphics/animation, digital ads and social media graphics. His primary focus in this position is to create content that enhances the OSU donor digital engagement experience by inspiring and stewarding their philanthropy to OSU.

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Derrick Davies

Assistant Vice President of Gift Planning

Achieves Excellence by: Developing private support for Oklahoma State University through gifts made by will, trust, life insurance, and life income arrangements.

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Cathy Davis

Estate and Gift Planning Project Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Coordinating the booking and documentation processes for estate and planned gifts, managing marketing projects, and providing comprehensive and collaborative support for the program and individual officers in the unit.

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Melanie Davis

Senior Associate Vice President of Information Strategy

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic vision, direction, and leadership that aligns the Foundation’s priorities with the necessary information systems and technological capabilities to drive business effectiveness.

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Stetson DeHaas

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University and coordinating these initiatives with other OSU Foundation fundraising activities. She also supports the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for OSU by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization.

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Annie Dobson

Director of Donor Engagement

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic guidance on presidential stewardship through collaborating with the Principal Gifts team and Donor Relations.

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Bekah Dollar

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Creating and executing donor stewardship plans, ensuring fund utilization and engagement for Academic and Student Affairs constituents, and supporting Women for OSU.

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Hillary Driskill

Constituent Relations Associate/Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing support to CVM development officers while they work to build relationships with constituents and solicit major gifts. Additionally, she plays a key role coordinating the Grateful Client Giving Program and assisting with annual fund efforts for the college.

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Jana Duffy

Senior Director of Principal Gifts and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations to secure private support for students and faculty members at Oklahoma State University.

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Chrissy Eberle

Information Services Project Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic planning, management and completion of all major reporting related projects.

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Maggie English

Grant Development Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Being responsible for the identification, qualification, and solicitations of private funds on behalf of the Corporate and Foundation Relations (CFR) team in support of Oklahoma State University. This position also partners with internal and external stakeholders throughout the discovery, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship stages of CFR grants and assists in administering the pre-award and post-award processes.

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Cara Menasco Eubanks

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift donors for the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Ashley Ewbank

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents of Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource and Ferguson College of Agriculture.

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David Fair

Enterprise Solutions Engineer

Achieves Excellence by: Engineering and implementing solutions to meet the OSU Foundation’s Data needs, including writing complex queries, assisting with maintenance of relational databases, implementing data models and database designs, and assisting in resolution of data models and database designs.

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Rachel Faruque

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University, and will coordinate these initiatives with other OSU Foundation fundraising activities. She will also support the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization.

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Peggy Fenderson

Human Resources Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Answering and directing all incoming calls to the appropriate staff member, distributing mail, ordering supplies and conducting training for the Foundation.

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Jayme Ferrell

Associate Vice President for Constituent Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction and leadership to the fundraising efforts of constituent development officers and serving as a member of the Development Leadership Team (DLT) and Organizational Management Team (OMT).

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Donna Field

Senior Paralegal

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Legal staff with a variety of administrative, secretarial and clerical duties including preparing expense reimbursement forms, composing letters, memorandums and preparing documents as requested by attorneys, financial planners or other advisors.

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Will Fleming

Interim Associate Vice President of Finance

Achieves Excellence by: Being a key leader in finance and accounting for the OSU Foundation, playing a pivotal role in functions which include investments, budgets, financial reporting and annual financial audit.

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Kelsey Frank

Business Intelligence Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Providing business intelligence support through prospect data analytics to drive business decisions and further OSU’s fundraising efforts with a focus on SSRS and ascend CRM reporting environments.

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Mindy Frech

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift donors for OSU-Center for Health Sciences/Academic Medicine.

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Bryanna Freer

Junior Graphic Designer

Achieves Excellence by: Generating creative print and digital marketing materials for fundraising and stewardship projects.

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Sara Furr

Senior Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations to secure private support for students and faculty members at Oklahoma State University.

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Kristen Gajewski

Donor Experiences Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative, and comprehensive support to the Donor Experiences team to increase the level of service the department provides to OSU's donors and our internal partners.

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Amber Gifford

Principal Gifts Operations Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting in the strategic planning, execution and oversight of activities for Oklahoma State University’s most loyal and generous donors.

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Eliana Giribaldi

Gift Processing Specialist 1

Achieves Excellence by: Processing the varying types of gifts and payments received, managing recurring gift processes, assisting with gift deposits, and auditing processed gift data daily.

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Judy Goeringer

Assistant Vice President of Records and Information Management

Achieves Excellence by: Providing direction and oversight to the Records Management department and providing information to all development staff, collegiate units and branches for major gift development in support of the university’s fundraising effort.

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Matt Grantham

Associate Athletic Director

Achieves Excellence by: Executing elements of Athletic Village facility campaigns and Leave A Legacy Scholarship Endowment fundraising, working closely with the Senior Associate A.D. of Development, Coaches and OSU Foundation personnel and capitalizing on Athletic interests with assigned donors and prospects for Suite and Club level sells and other major gifts.

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Jeff Grizzle

Director of Prospect Engagement

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for fundraising staff through the ascend CRM database and various Prospect Management processes.

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Drew Grunewald

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents, as well as by providing administrative assistance.

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Teresa Gustafson

Senior Director of Development and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction, planning, execution, and oversight to the fundraising efforts for the OSU Agriculture academic unit, and soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University.

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Pam Guthrie

Senior Associate Vice President of Human Resources

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic Human Resources leadership for the organization; specifically in the areas of talent and change management, organizational and performance management, training and development, and compensation.

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Anisa Haidary

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations to secure private support for students and faculty members at Oklahoma State University.

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Heath Hamlett

Digital Experience Officer

Achieves Excellence by: Using a combination of digital channels to build relationships and solicit funds for OSU by providing constituents with concierge engagement experiences. As a DXO, he will focus exclusively on building relationships with donors and prospects, closing and stewarding leadership-level annual to mid-sized gifts, and identifying new major gift leads. His primary goal in this position will be to build a pipeline of major and planned gift donors.

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Rebecca Hampton

Human Resources Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Answering and directing all incoming calls to the appropriate staff member, distributing mail, ordering supplies and conducting training for the Foundation.

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Samantha Hardy

Associate Director of Communications

Achieves Excellence by: Developing and editing strategic fundraising communications to assist the organization in meeting its fundraising goals, including social media communications, gift proposals, letters of inquiry, concept papers and case statements.

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Lexi Hargrove

Accounting Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Tracking and monitoring payment of vouchers, entering data, and preparing reports and documentation for the accounting team.

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Kaylee Hartman-Simpson

Director of Application Administration & Development

Achieves Excellence by: Working alongside other database and data systems administrators and developers to support the maintenance, utilization, and enhancements of the OSU Foundation’s Salesforce environments including CRM Production and Sandbox organizations, Salesforce Experience Cloud, and Salesforce MarketingCloud.

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Rigsby Hartman-Simpson

Pet Therapy Extraordinaire

Achieves Excellence by: Enhancing the wellbeing of the Cowboy family in collaboration with campus resources and generous supporters.

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Chris Hatfield

Senior Business Intelligence Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Providing business intelligence support through prospect data analytics to drive business decisions and further OSU’s fundraising efforts with a focus on SSRS and ascend CRM reporting environments.

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Justin Hazzard

Assistant Vice President of Corporate Engagement

Achieves Excellence by: Focusing on driving corporate engagement to elevate The Innovation Foundation and maximizing the impact of OSU’s excellence in Energy, Aerospace & Advanced Mobility, and One Health by translating innovative applied research into products and services, facilitating strong partnerships with aligned industry and regional partners, and investing in the development of emerging companies - all for the benefit of society.

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Angie Heddleston

Director of Accounting

Achieves Excellence by: Processing payroll and assisting in daily accounting procedures, such as reviewing all monthly journal entries and reconciliation, assisting with the preparation of reports and reviewing all new project establishments.

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Daniel Heflin

Associate Athletic Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting in strategies and tactical execution involving the identification, cultivation, solicitation and stewardship of athletic donors and prospects.

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Christy Henley

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for the OSU Foundation’s Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource and Ferguson College of Agriculture development officers in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Sophie Henry

Human Resources Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Creating a welcoming environment for all Foundation guests and donors and directing incoming communications. She works alongside the Human Resources team to assist with new hire pre-employment processes and scheduling and coordinating onboarding meetings and trainings. Additionally, she provides administrative support to other day-to-day duties within the Human Resources team.

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Ashley Hesser

Senior Director of Regional Development

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations throughout the western United States to secure private support for students and faculty members at Oklahoma State University.

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Tyler Hewitt

Senior Director of Development/Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the Spears School of Business; and coordinating closely with the deans and other administrators in providing oversight of fundraising programs.

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Pam Higgins

Director of Annual Giving, Pipeline Readiness and Student Foundation

Achieves Excellence by: Executing the annual Faculty & Staff Campaign, maintain and expanding annual giving programming for parents and matching gifts, and assisting with annual giving services to fundraising units.

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BJ Hoffman

Director of Enterprise Solutions

Achieves Excellence by: Engineering, implementing and documenting new data flow processes within the OSU Foundation information system structure.

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Jennifer Holcomb

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing support for the CEAT development team as they secure private funds for OSU.

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Jay Howard

Facilities Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Overseeing the Foundation buildings and grounds, including scheduling repairs, renovating projects, negotiating with outside vendors and providing strategic oversight to Foundation facilities.

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Alea Hubbard

Fund Agreement Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Legal team with drafting and analyzing donor agreements and collaborating with compliance and development staff to achieve donor intent, develop departmental materials and trainings, and provide comprehensive support to the Legal department.

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Hunter Hughes

Senior Director of Development and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting relationships with major gift prospects for the Spears School of Business.

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Krista Hughes

Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations

Achieves Excellence by: Working with internal and external stakeholders to build and maintain relationships with corporations and foundations to align donors’ passions with the University’s funding priorities.

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Erica Hunt

Business Intelligence Developer

Achieves Excellence by: Being responsible for the performance, integrity and security of OSU Foundation’s databases including production databases, data warehouses, and test environments.

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Brandy Huston

Senior Director of Donated Asset and Risk Management

Achieves Excellence by: Administering charitable trusts, charitable gift annuities, donor advised fund and stock gifts and assisting in the administration and disposal of real property including land and mineral interests donated to the Foundation.

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Lyndsay Jackson

Systems Administrator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing desktop support for both for hardware and software for desktop products and peripherals.

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Jill Johnson

Interim Senior Director of Development and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Helping lead the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology team through providing strategic direction, planning, execution, and oversight to the fundraising efforts.

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Laura Ketchum

Senior Director of Development/Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the College of Arts and Sciences.

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Bryce Killingsworth

Assistant Vice President of Corporate and Foundation Relations

Achieves Excellence by: Planning and leading the CFR team and program toward strengthening existing relationships and establishing long-term partnerships with corporations and foundations that will result in funding for the immediate and long-term goals and priorities of the OSU System.

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Karissa Killingsworth

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents of the College of Arts and Sciences Team.

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Jennifer Kinnard

Assistant Vice President of Marketing & Communications

Achieves Excellence by: Providing creative, strategic and operational management of the Marketing & Communications department, which provides expertise and integrated marketing and communication services that align with the OSU Foundation’s mission of excellence.

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Kaid Kinzie

Development Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in securing private funds for the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology.

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Maddie Kuhn

Grants & Campus Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Being responsible for the identification, qualification, and solicitations of private funds on behalf of the Corporate & Foundation Relations team in support of Oklahoma State University.

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Jan Laub

Senior Director of Corporate Engagement

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting with the design and implementation of The Innovation Foundation's corporate engagement strategy and working to secure philanthropic support from corporate partners for the benefit of the IF@OSU.

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Dave Laws

Senior Director of Technology Services & Security

Achieves Excellence by: Ensuring that the OSU Foundation has reliable infrastructure and excellent customer service available to facilitate the secure access, storage, and exchange of the information needed to support fundraising for Oklahoma State University.

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Bethany Leininger

Director of Human Resources

Achieves Excellence by: Developing and leading a proactive strategy to identify and attract talented professionals that advance the OSU Foundation’s mission and strategic goals.

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Chris Lewis

Senior Director of Creative Services

Achieves Excellence by: Providing direction to the graphic design team and generating creative work for the OSU Foundation through various media, while maintaining consistency of messaging and strategic branding efforts.

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Marie Lewis

Stewardship Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Serving as a Donor Relations liasion with the OSU President's Office and managing presidential gift acknowledgements.

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Sammy Lewis

Accounting Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Overseeing accounts payable and related monthly and quarterly reporting. This includes the implementation of Chrome River electronic payables, developing and updating policies and procedures and designing process improvements in these areas.

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Lindsay Love

Associate Director of Events

Achieves Excellence by: Providing rewarding donor experiences by overseeing special event details from the beginning planning stages through event execution.

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Blake MacNelly

Prospect Research Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic and actionable information to fundraisers in a variety of templates and formats that will enable them to make informed fundraising decisions.

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Courtney Wolfe MacNelly

Director of Executive Affairs

Achieves Excellence by: Working closely with both internal and external teams to help make decisions that align with the Foundation’s vision. She also assists the organization by providing project management and communication support for Foundation leadership, university leadership and Foundation staff, with a focus on proactive planning, communication, and strategy execution.

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Amanda Mason

Senior Director of Communications

Achieves Excellence by: Developing and editing strategic fundraising communications to assist the organization in meeting its fundraising goals, including gift proposals, letters of inquiry, concept papers and case statements.

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Jenna Matousek

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the team's development officers in securing private funds for OSU through providing proactive, collaborative, and comprehensive support.

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Adrian Matthys

Assistant Vice President of Annual Giving

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic execution and management of a comprehensive annual giving program, including general university, college and departmental annual fundraising efforts.

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Sean McCabe

Associate Director of Regional Development

Achieves Excellence by: Developing strategic partnerships with major gift prospects in the Eastern Oklahoma region to secure private support for Oklahoma State University.

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Jennifer McCray

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Creating and executing donor stewardship plans, ensuring fund utilization and engagement for constituents within the College of Education and Human Sciences.

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Jacob McDougal

Senior Director of Development for the OSU-Center for Health Sciences/Medical Center

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting the core business of securing and stewarding gifts for the OSU-Center for Health Sciences/Medical Center. He will also be a part of launching a grateful family-giving program at OSU Medicine and serving as the lead development officer for the National Center for Wellness and Recovery.

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Aaron McIntire

Director of Business Intelligence

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Kathryn McKean

Digital Experience Officer

Achieves Excellence by: Providing constituents with concierge digital engagement experiences via video, texting, phone, social media, and virtual visits in order to cultivate donor relationships, build a pipeline of major and planned gift donors, and solicit funds for OSU.

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Madi McMichael

Document Management Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Helping maintain the document management system by developing and overseeing the methods, strategies, and tools that are used to capture, store, manage, preserve, and deliver documents associated to organizational processes. She also assists with biographical data management in the alumni and development database and is the point person for interdepartmental relations.

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Jessica McMullen

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative, and comprehensive support for the Principal Gifts team and the Senior Director of Development of the McKnight Center for the Performing Arts.

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Kyndall Meyer

Development Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Provide support to CVM as they work to build relationships with constituents and solicit major gifts. Coordinate events, support annual fund efforts, develop communications in partnership with the marketing team and develop and execute engagement and stewardship initiatives for prospects and donors.

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Amy Miller

Senior Director of Development and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Working with university art leaders and leading the implementation of fundraising strategies to support art performances and exhibitions hosted by OSU.

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Emma Miller

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing effective and comprehensive support for CFR in their mission to secure funding for Oklahoma State University. She is also responsible for administrative tasks and office coordination.

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Everett Miller

Director of Development Operations

Achieves Excellence by: Providing support and project management to the Development Leadership Team and serving as a liaison for development to internal teams. He identifies opportunities for improvement and optimization within our development teams and provides communication support to development leadership, with a focus on proactive planning and strategy execution. He works closely with the VP of Development, Chief of Staff, and Campaign Manager to ensure operationalization of campaign infrastructure.

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Heather Millermon

Marketing Project Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Planning, executing and managing projects of print and visual media production for the OSU Foundation and coordinating with vendors to ensure timely and efficient delivery.

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Christy Mills

Accounts Payable Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Processing all disbursement voucher requests from OSU departments and preparing the information for our check runs including scholarship award payments. Christy will also provide support for internal and external audits and monthly reporting to OSU.

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Michael Molholt

Associate Director of User Experience Design

Achieves Excellence by: Generating creative materials for fundraising appeals, publications, websites and marketing pieces created by the OSU Foundation.

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Megan Moody

Executive Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Originating and implementing a wide range of projects supporting the OSU Foundation President, Board of Trustees and Board of Governors.

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Paden Mullenax

Senior Coordinator of Records & Information Management

Achieves Excellence by: Performing biographical updates in the ascend CRM database system and assisting in updates generated from the Foundation and OSU faculty and staff.

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Aaron Nelson

Donated Assets and Risk Management Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Focusing on risk management and the receipt and management of donated assets. He also maintains accurate records for OSUF’s commercial insurance coverage and performs various administrative tasks and processes for the department.

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Kaci Newton

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Growing the north Texas donor base by soliciting support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations, and coordinating initiatives with other OSUF fundraising activities in the area.

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Rebecca Nievar

Director of Annual Giving, Direct Marketing, Special Programs and Digital Giving

Achieves Excellence by: Helping direct the Annual Giving team in its various direct marketing efforts, special projects and digital giving efforts.

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Philip Norwood

Senior Financial Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Preparing monthly and quarterly financial reporting, annual financial audits, and internal audits and preparation of tax returns.

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Melissa Nugent

Finance Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Managing the daily accounting procedures for investments and cash, as well as recording and reporting all assets, revenues, and expenditures.

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Harlie Perry

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University. She also supports the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for OSU by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization, with emphasis on acquisition of new gifts for Academic Affairs.

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Logan Polaski

Gift Processing Specialist I

Achieves Excellence by: Processing numerous kinds of gifts, managing recurring giving, reconciling payments received through merchant services accounts against imported gift data, and performing basic gift adjustments. Additionally, he will process donor biographical updates, audit and edit processed gift information for accuracy, and interact with donors and internal and external partners to verify gift information.

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Kelsey Proctor

Director of Development and Unit Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Working to solicit private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for OSU. Kelsey manages the Development Associates, assists in launching the Parent Philanthropy Program and leading the fundraising efforts for the Division of Student Affairs.

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Sydney Pruitt

Senior Payroll Accountant

Achieves Excellence by: Processing payroll and assisting in daily organizational accounting procedures.

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Jeff Quayle

Facilities Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting with Foundation building and grounds' repairs and general facilities maintenance.

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Cristy Racy

Senior Director of Donor Engagement and Events

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction, oversight and execution of high-level donor recognition initiatives for the OSU Foundation and Oklahoma State University.

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Grant Ramirez

Senior Communications Specialist

Achieves Excellence by: Telling inspirational donor stories and creating materials to support the OSU Foundation's mission.

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Larry Reece

Senior Associate Athletic Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction and oversight of Athletic Village facility campaigns as well as $115M Leave A Legacy Scholarship Endowment program; coordinating all athletic fundraising efforts with Athletic Director, Coaches, Athletic Department fundraising team and additional OSU Foundation personnel; and by capitalizing on Athletic interest with donors and prospects for Suite and Club level sells and other major gifts.

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Mallie Reuter

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Soliciting private support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University and coordinating these initiatives with other OSU Foundation fundraising activities. She also supports the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for OSU by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization.

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Scott Roberts

Vice President of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic vision and oversight to ensure the Foundation maintains a best-in-class fundraising operation for the benefit of Oklahoma State University.

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Shelby Roberts

Assistant Director of Stewardship

Achieves Excellence by: Strengthening the overall stewardship strategies through managing the endowment reporting process, executing the university-wide utilization policy and providing general stewardship support and direction for internal and external partners.

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Kyle Robertson

Enterprise Solutions Engineer

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting the online presence of the OSU Foundation by designing, coding, modifying, and maintaining the organization’s website.

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Ty Ropp

Associate Vice President of Central Development

Achieves Excellence by: Managing the overall strategic approach and efforts of the Central Development fundraising teams, which represent various Foundation departments as well as several colleges and campuses across the OSU system.

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Tracey Roybal

Director of Information Integration

Achieves Excellence by: Serving as a coordinator between the biographical records management manual processes and the data automation processes; providing solutions and recommendations for potential changes in both automation and manual data entry.

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Benton Rudd

Senior Graphic Designer

Achieves Excellence by: Generating creative materials for fundraising appeals, publications, websites and marketing pieces created by the OSU Foundation.

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Jessica Sanders

Gift Processing Specialist I

Achieves Excellence by: Processing numerous kinds of gifts, managing recurring giving, reconciling payments received through merchant services accounts against imported gift data, and performing basic gift adjustments. Additionally, she will process donor biographical updates, audit and edit processed gift information for accuracy, and interact with donors and internal and external partners to verify gift information.

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Faith Sarver

Senior Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for Development leadership staff in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Ryan Schlittler

Development Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Working with both prospective and existing donors to solicit major gifts to support initiatives within Academic and Student Affairs and focusing on central university priorities, such as non-restricted and renewable scholarship awards.

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Addison Schmitt

Digital Experience Officer

Achieves Excellence by: Using a combination of digital channels to build relationships and solicit funds for OSU by providing constituents with concierge engagement experiences. As a DXO, she focused exclusively on building relationships with donors and prospects, closing and stewarding leadership-level annual to mid-sized gifts, and identifying new major gift leads. Her primary goal in this position is to build a pipeline of major and planned gift donors.

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Brittany Seabridge

Assistant Director of Stewardship

Achieves Excellence by: Connects general university scholarship donors to their recipient and supports overall scholarship administration and stewardship efforts.

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Sonisa Sharma

Tableau Reporting Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Providing daily operational support to business users through KACE for OSUF and its OSU system partners by working with reporting applications such as Tableau, SSRS, Salesforce, and other analytical software tools.

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Justin Smith

Assistant Vice President of Regional Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction and oversight to the OSU Foundation regional development and OSU-OKC programs; and developing strategic partnerships with individuals, corporations and foundations to secure private support for students and faculty members at Oklahoma State University.

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Marleigh Smith

Prospect Development Specialist

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting the major gift fundraising efforts of the OSU Foundation and Oklahoma State University by providing relevant, timely, and actionable information to frontline fundraisers and assisting them with the ability to make critical business decisions.

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Megan Smith

Associate Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for development officers in stewarding and engaging constituents of Division of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resource and Ferguson College of Agriculture.

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Emily Soriano

Senior Coordinator of Development and Information Strategy

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support to Development and the Information Strategy team.

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Rebekah Spaulding

Director of Stewardship and Donor Communications

Achieves Excellence by: Leading the Stewardship and Donor Communications team to ensure innovative and inspiring communication methods are used to express thanks, report impact, and exceed donor expectations.

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LaRonna Stanbery

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative and comprehensive support for the OSU Foundation’s College of Engineering, Architecture and Technology Development Teams in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Kyle Stringer

Assistant Director of Annual Giving, Direct Marketing

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting the Annual Giving team through writing for direct marketing appeals, call center materials, digital engagement, other Annual giving initiatives and co-advising the OSUF Student Foundation.

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Catherine Strong

Associate Director of Records and Information Management

Achieves Excellence by: Overseeing and auditing the current biographical records, reviewing the processes of the manual data entry and the global imports, and providing solutions and recommendations for potential changes in both automated and manual data entry.

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Katelyn Struiksma

Development Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing proactive, collaborative, and comprehensive support for the department, including supporting development officers in securing private funds for Oklahoma State University.

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Shawn Taylor

Associate Athletic Director

Achieves Excellence by: Executing elements of Athletic Village facility campaigns and Leave A Legacy Scholarship Endowment fundraising, working closely with the Senior Associate A.D. of Development, Coaches and OSU Foundation personnel and capitalizing on Athletic interests with assigned donors and prospects for Suite and Club level sells and other major gifts.

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Cassidy Thompson

Human Resources Information Systems Administrator

Achieves Excellence by: Providing functional support and guidance in the utilization and application of all human resources, benefits, and talent management systems.

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Greg Thompson

Records and Information Management Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting and maintaining Records and Information Management operations by providing effective and efficient service to staff through updating, maintaining, and ensuring the accuracy of all donor information within the Foundation database. He also fulfills information requests from various departments as needed.

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Katelyn Thompson

Prospect Research Analyst

Achieves Excellence by: Providing constituents with concierge digital engagement experiences via video, texting, phone, social media, and virtual visits in order to cultivate donor relationships, build a pipeline of major and planned gift donors, and solicit funds for OSU.

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Abby Thrash

Constituent Relations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Spears School of Business development team in stewarding and engaging college specific donors and providing them with college access, information, and recognition.

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Rachel Tribble

Senior Director of Development/Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the College of Education and Human Sciences; and coordinating closely with the deans and other administrators in providing oversight of fundraising programs.

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Olivia Trolinger

Development Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Working with both prospective and existing donors to solicit major gifts to support initiatives within Academic and Student Affairs and focusing on central university priorities, such as non-restricted and renewable scholarship awards.

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Collin Walker

Director of Gift Planning

Achieves Excellence by: Developing private support for OSU through gifts made by will, trust, life insurance, and life income arrangements.

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Wren Wallace

Director of Regional Development

Achieves Excellence by: providing fundraising support for the central U.S. region.

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Jeana Waller

Athletic Program Manager

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic, actionable information to fundraisers in a variety of templates and formats to enable them to make informed fundraising decisions and engage with current and future donors

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Jennifer Wardlaw

Events Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Researching, designing, planning, coordinating and evaluating events to ensure smooth operation from the beginning planning stages through the actual event.

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Heidi Warren

Project Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting in the strategic planning, execution, and oversight of donor activities for the McKnight Center, Doel Reed Center, and OSU Museum of Art.

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Annie Wells

Senior Director of Development and Team Lead

Achieves Excellence by: Providing strategic direction, planning, execution, and oversight for the Academic and Student Affairs (ASA) development team through securing private support for priorities identified by the provost. Her primary focus is in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donor support from alumni, friends, corporations, and foundations for Oklahoma State University.

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Heidi Williams

Senior Associate Vice President of Principal Gifts

Achieves Excellence by: Proactively and strategically planning and managing external development activities and collaborating with development staff and school and unit colleagues on prioritizing prospective donor calls and relevant strategies. Additionally, she works with development colleagues to build the pipeline of principal and leadership gift level donors who should be engaged by university leadership.

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Joanna Williams

Engagement Center Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Leading and managing all aspects of the Cowboy Caller Engagement Center program, including program strategy and production, engagement software operation and troubleshooting, and oversight of all student employees. She also serves as a secondary staff advisor to the OSUF Student Foundation.

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Morgan Wilson

Assistant Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Supporting the core business of securing and stewarding private gifts for OSU Tulsa by expanding major and planned gift work throughout the organization.

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Ron Wiscombe

Systems Administrator

Achieves Excellence by: Managing the security, availability, and performance of the Foundation’s information systems and cloud services needed to support fundraising for Oklahoma State University.

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Donovan Woods

Director of Development

Achieves Excellence by: Identifying, cultivating and soliciting ongoing relationships with major gift prospects for the OSU-OKC campus; and coordinating closely with the President of OSU-OKC and other administrators in providing oversight of fundraising programs as well as providing development support for the Office of Institutional Diversity.

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Kim Wozniak

Senior Accounting Assistant

Achieves Excellence by: Assisting the Foundation’s Accounting and Gift Processing staff through a variety of administrative and clerical duties.

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Virginia Wyckoff

Senior Accounts Payable Coordinator

Achieves Excellence by: Performing accounting duties such as accounts payable functions, annual 1099’s, preparation of schedules and assisting with special projects.

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Kate Young

Gift Operations Associate

Achieves Excellence by: Reconciling bank deposits, coding and entering gift and pledge transactions into the Foundation's CRM database, and assisting in online giving processes.

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