Cammie Jones-Friedrichs
Visiting Senior Scholar
Community Engagement
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Cammie Jones-Friedrichs is a consultant and higher education and nonprofit leader with 20 years of experience advancing social justice, civic engagement, and community-engaged scholarship. Cammie is the founder and CEO of J. Jones Consulting, which provides support to colleges, universities, and nonprofits in establishing and advancing civic and community engagement strategies, initiatives, organization development, and projects that result in mutually reciprocal involvement and a long-term impact on communities and organizations. She is a visiting senior scholar at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNC Greensboro), where she contributes to scholarship and strategic planning for the Institute for Community and Economic Engagement in the Division of Research and Engagement. As a senior fellow at the Bard Center for Civic Engagement, she provides strategic advice to university leadership on civic engagement and global partnerships.
Cammie has led nationwide and campus-based efforts to build the field of community engagement in higher education. In her role as the director of the Carnegie Foundation’s Community Engagement Elective Classification at the American Council on Education (ACE), she established strategic partnerships, transformed the application and reviewer training program to increase participation, conducted and supported research and evaluation, and facilitated professional development opportunities for over 450 campuses and 180 reviewers for the 2024 and 2026 cycles. As Associate Dean of Experiential Learning and Civic Engagement at Bard College, she led global and domestic engaged-learning initiatives, strengthened campus–community partnerships, and supported the institution’s successful 2020 Carnegie Community Engagement Classification. Cammie has also held leadership positions at Dutchess Community College, Marist College, and Partners for Campus Community-Engagement.
Cammie is dedicated to serving the field as a practitioner. She has organized numerous domestic and international conferences focused on civic engagement, youth leadership development, social justice, and women’s rights. She served as an adjunct professor with Bard College and the Open Society University Network. She was invited to serve on the Collaboratory’s Product Advisory Council, elected to the International Association for Research on Service-Learning and Community Engagement (IARSLCE) board of directors, where she served as chair of special programs, and served on the AAC&U’s Global Learning Conference planning committee and the Sister to Sister International, Inc. steering committee.
Her leadership has been recognized with multiple honors, including the Community Engagement Field Legacy Award from the Bonner Foundation (2025), the Chamber Foundation Inc.’s ATHENA Award (2021), the The American Association for Women in Community Colleges Forty Under 40 Award (2017), the Arc of Dutchess Peggy Martinko Community Trailblazer Award (2017), the N4A Professional Promise Award for Region I (2014), and the Dutchess County Regional Chamber of Commerce Forty Under 40 Award (2012). She also recently received the 2025 W. Lee Pierce Development Fund for Scholarship, Philanthropic, and Professional Activities at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Originally from Dallas, Texas, she is a first-generation college graduate who holds a B.S. in Kinesiology from the University of Texas at Austin and an M.A. in Higher Education Administration from Louisiana State University A&M. She is currently pursuing a doctorate in Higher Education Administration at the University of Southern Mississippi.