Community-Engaged Pathways and Partnerships (P2) Grant Teams

Cohort 6 (2023-2025)

Racial Reconciliation and the Design Studio

Asha Kutty, Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture Department, UNCG
Regis Copper, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, UNCG
Deborah Barnes, Research Scholar and Founding Member, International Civil Rights Center and Museum and Guilford County Remembrance Project
Lucinda Havenhand, Professor and Department Head, Interior Architecture Department, UNCG
Travis Hicks, Professor, Department Head, and Director, Interior Architecture Department, Center for Community Engaged Design, UNCG

Jennida Chase, Assistant Professor, Media Studies Department, UNCG
Hassan Pitts, Lecturer, Media Studies Department, UNCG
Muktha Jost, Program Director of Integrated Professional Studies and Applied Arts & Sciences, Integrated Professional Studies, and Applied Arts & Sciences, UNCG
Amy Adamson, Professor and Associate Dean of Biology Department, College of Arts and Sciences, UNCG
Jenny Braswell, Dance Teacher, John Motley Morehead Expressive Arts Magnet Elementary School
Maria-Elena Surprenant, Fine Arts Grants Curator, Guilford County Schools
Alev Flannagan, Department Chair, Department of Cartoon and Animation, Baskent University in Ankara, Turkey
Caitlyn Schrader, Director of Community Engagement, Center for Visual and Performing Arts
Lindsay Traumuller, Principal, John Motley Morehead Expressive Arts Magnet Elementary School

Cohort 5 (2022-2024)

A Community Comes Together: Supporting Integration of Newly Arrived Congolese Refugees through Empowerment and Facilitating Young Children’s Readiness for School

Rachel Boit, Assistant Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, UNCG
Claudine Mbangu, Resident Cultural Broker, Greensboro
Linda Hestenes, Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, UNCG
Dorothy Muhoro, RN3 BSN PCCN Congregational Nurse, Cone Health & New Arrivals Institute
Helene Mwadi, Resident Cultural Broker, Greensboro
Lynn Thompson, Community Engagement Director, New Arrivals Institute
Joi Bulls, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, Health and Human Sciences, AP Associate Professor, Human Development and Family Studies, UNCG
Savannah Bayer, Doctoral Student, UNCG
Joy Birabwa, Doctoral Student, UNCG

Reproductive Harm Reduction Toolkit

Heather Adams, Assistant Professor English, UNCG
Tamika M. Davis, Instructional Technology Consultant, School of Health and Human Sciences, UNCG
Regina McCoy, MPH, Professor of Public Health Education, UNCG
Tracy Nichols, PhD, Professor of Public Health Education, UNCG
Abby Coulter
- Executive Assistant, Special Projects Coordinator, North Carolina Survivors Union
- Methadone Liaison, Urban Survivors Union
- Board Secretary, Womens Harm Reduction International Network
Louise Vincent, MPH
- Executive Director, North Carolina Survivors Union
- Leadership Team Member, Urban Survivors Union
Dinah Adames (Otriz)
- Independent Consultant
- Harm Reduction Expert
- Expert on Mothers Who Use Drugs
- NCSU Board Member
- USU Leadership Team Member
Tina Reynolds, MSW
- Consultant, North Carolina Survivors Union
Caty Simon
- USU Leadership Team Member
- Editor, Narcofeminism Storyshare Project at North Carolina Survivors Union,
- Leadership Team Member at and Sex Worker Liaison for Urban Survivors Union, the national drug users union,
- Co-founder, Whose Corner Is It Anyway, Massachusetts organization by and for low-income sex workers who use drugs and/or experience housing insecurity.
Ria Tsinas
- Director of Development, Academy of Perinatal Harm Reduction

Cohort 4 (2021-2023)

Crafting a Community-Engaged Approach: Creating Pathways for African Americans in Public History

Torren Gatson, Assistant Professor, Department of History, UNCG
Anne Parsons, Director of Public History, Associate Professor, Department of History, UNCG
Omar Ali, Dean, International Lloyd Honors College, Professor, African American and African Diaspora Studies and History, UNCG
Angela Thorpe, Director, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission
Charles Johnson, Director of Public History, Assistant Professor, Department of History, NCCU
Adrienne Nirde, Associate Director, North Carolina African American Heritage Commission

Community Placemaking Action Lab

Marcia Hale, Assistant Professor, Department of Peace and Conflict Studies, UNCG
Lalenja Harrington, Director of Academic Program Development and Evaluation, UNCG
Jennifer Feather, Associate Professor, Department of English, UNCG
Glenda Knight, Town Manager, Town of Princeville
Phun H, Education & Advocacy Coordinator, FaithAction International House
Linda Joyner, Town Commissioner
Esther Leerkes, Associate Dean for Research, School of Health and Human Sciences, UNCG
Alicia “LeeCee” Jones, Social Justice Advocate & Community Liaison
Kelsi Dew, Historical Outreach Coordinator, Town of Princeville

Cohort 3 (2020-2022)

Social Work and Social Workers in the Public Library

Brigitte Blanton, Director, Greensboro Public Library
Melissa Floyd-Pickard, Professor, Chair, Social Work, UNCG
Alicia Kaplan, Co-Field Director, Joint Master of Social Work Program, UNCG
Noah Lenstra, Assistant Professor, Library Information Sciences, UNCG
Maruka Rivers, Lecturer, Co-Field Director, Joint Master of Social Work Program, NC A&T University
Lorrie Russell, Assistant Director, High Point Public Library
Mary Sizemore, Director, High Point Public Library
Michelle M. Vance, Assistant Professor, Joint Master of Social Work Program, NC A&T University
Jennifer Patterson, Deputy Director, Greensboro Public Library

Industries of the Blind and School of Art Public Art Project

Chris Cassidy, Director, School of Art, UNCG
Leah Sobsey, Associate Professor, Art-Photography, UNCG
Richard Oliver, Director of Community Outreach and Governmental Relations, Industries of the Blind
Maggie Murphy, Assistant Professor, First-Year Writing, Visual Art, and Humanities Librarian, UNCG
Pat Wasserboehr, Professor, Art-Sculpture, UNCG
Caitlyn Schrader, Director of GPS CVPA Community Engagement, UNCG
Derek Toomes, Assistant Professor, Interior Architecture, UNCG
(Year 1-2 member)Nicole Scalissi, Assistant Professor, Contemporary Art History, UNCG
(Year 1-2 member)Mariam Stephan, Associate Professor, Painting/Drawing, UNCG
(Year 1-2 member) Dane Winkler, Assistant Professor, Art-Sculpture, UNCG

Cohort 2 (2019-2021)

Restorative Practices Health and Physical Education Partnership

Pam Brown, AP Professor, Kinesiology, Director, Doctor of Education in Kinesiology Online, UNCG
Cheryl Donahue-Wright, Site Director, Dudley High School, Communities in Schools
Omari Dyson, AP Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, UNCG
Rinda Estes, Assistant Director & Programs Operations, Communities in Schools
Michael A. Hemphill, Assistant Professor, Kinesiology, UNCG
Yongsun Lee, Doctoral Student, Kinesiology, UNCG
Darlene Mitchell, Physical Education, Dudley High School
Meagan Patillo, Director of Clinical Services and Health Education, Triad Health Project
Sarah Ragab, Undergraduate Student, Kinesiology, UNCG
Amy Reese, Director of High Point Services, Triad Health Project
Jeremy Rinker, Assistant Professor, Peace and Conflict Studies, UNCG
Melvinia Robinson, Chair, Physical Education and Health, Dudley High School
Jimmi Williams, Executive Director, Communities in Schools

A Marketing and Tourism Partnership with the Triad Brewing Industry

Stuart Barnhart, President, Triad Brewers Alliance, Owner, Fiddlin’ Fish
Tim Bucknall, Associate Professor, Assistant Dean, Electronic Resources and
Information Technology in the University Libraries, UNCG
Erick Byrd, Associate Professor, Department of Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Hospitality, and Tourism, UNCG
Richard Cox, Digital Technology Consultant, University Libraries, UNCG
David Gwynn, Associate Professor, Digital Projects Coordinator, University Libraries, UNCG
Erin Lawrimore, Associate Professor, University Archivist, University Libraries, UNCG
Joel McClosky, President, Triad Brewers Alliance
John R. Szymankiewicz, Attorney, The Beer Law Center in Raleigh, Associate member, TBA

Cohort 1 (2018-2020)

Strengthening Community-Engaged Education and Research in Health Equity

Phyllis Carter, Executive Director, The Partnership Project
Crystal Dixon, Assistant Professor, Public Health Education, UNCG
Kari Thatcher, Chair, The Partnership Project
Jennifer Toller Erausquin, Assistant Professor, Public Health Education, UNCG
Kathleen Williams, Senior Associate Dean, School of Health and Human Sciences, UNCG
Christina Yongue, Assistant Professor, Public Health Education, UNCG

Eviction Resolution

Jeremy Bray, Professor of Economics and Head of Department, Economics, UNCG
Brett Byerly, Executive Director, Greensboro Housing Coalition
Kenneth Gruber, Evaluation Section Chair, Center for Youth and Family and Community Partnerships, UNCG
Somya Mohanti, Assistant Professor, Computer Science, UNCG
Bruce Rich, Graduate Researcher, Center for Housing and Community Studies, UNCG
Stephen Sills, Director, Center for Housing and Community Studies, Associate Professor, Sociology, UNCG