The Recent Graduate Council is two-year volunteer commitment on an advisory board, open to anyone who has graduated from VCU in the past 10 years. Applications for council openings are accepted each spring. Members represent some of the best and brightest alumni of the past decade, and they help develop and implement engagement strategies to help their peers connect with one another, and the university, in new and exciting ways.

Applications are now open for the 2023 co-hort. Applications are due April 30, and selections will be announced by May 31. 

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Council members

2022 class

Person left	Blank space	Person right
Amari Cummings (B.F.A.’20/A)		Jamarr Daniels (B.S.’12/B)
Nathan Dowdy (B.A.’19/H&S)		Melissa Grant (B.S.’13/E)
Ellen Hwang (B.S.’16/B)		Tommy Nguyen (B.S.’19/B)
Jazmine Povlick (M.S.’19/H&S)

2021 class

Person left	Blank space	Person right
Breonne Brooks (B.S.’15/H&S)		Jessica Diaz (B.A.’18/H&S; B.A.’18/H&S; M.T.’18/E)
Madeline Doane (B.A.’20/H&S; B.A.’20/WS)		Christina Edwards (B.A.’12/A; Cert.’12/DVC)
John Gregory, Ph.D. (Ph.D.’17/GPA)		Sarah Izabel (B.S.’20/H&S)
Christopher Jones (B.S.’15/B)		Kalyann Kauv, Pharm.D. (B.S.’13/H&S; Pharm.D.’17/P)
Sarah Kilmon (B.S.’17/MC)		Jonathan Kinsey (M.P.A.’12/GPA)
Travis Lewis (B.S.’11/B)		Aja Moore (B.A.’19/H&S)
Kandis Moran-Jimenez (B.S.’21/H&S)		Alton Reid (B.S.’13/H&S)
Shawn Soares (B.S.’19/B)		Krystle Seawright (B.S.’10/B)
Tina Turner (B.S.’16/B)		Zoe Walton (B.I.S.’18/H&S; M.T.’18/E)
Dominique Wormley (B.S.’15/B)

 

Previous council members

Person left	Blank space	Person right
Lamees Abourahma (M.B.A.’15/B)		Marilynn Abraham (Cert.’15/HP)
Ricardo Adams (B.A.’14/H&S)		Daniel Brisker (B.S.’09/H&S)
Lauren Brocious (B.S.’20/MC)		Lester Brown (B.S.’09/H&S)
Ebony Campbell (M.S.’14/B)		Robert Chisley (B.S.’14/H&S)
Andrew Coulomb (B.A.’11/H&S)		Shakeema Daniels (B.A.’11/H&S)
Javon Davis (B.S.’14/GPA; B.A.’14/GPA; Cert.’15/GPA; M.P.A.’16/GPA)		Wesley Dawson (B.A.’14/H&S)
Heather Dickerson (B.S.’16/N)		Tanya Diggs-Fountain (B.I.S.’18/UC)
Helga Gonda (B.S.’14/B)		Summer Griffin (B.A.’16/GPA)
Jewlyus Grigsby (B.S.’17/H&S)		Renee Harris (B.S.’13/GPA; M.S.’19/GPA)
Miea Hicks (B.A.’17/H&S; B.S.’17/B)		Katherine Higgins (B.S.’14/H&S)
Deja Howard (B.S.W.’17/SW)		Britney Jefferson (B.S.’13/H&S)
Brian Jeffries (B.S.’18/B)		Jediah Jones (M.S.’11/H&S)
Stephanie Joyner (B.S.’13/H&S)		Jonathan Mathes (B.S.’13/B; M.B.A.’19/B)
Tiera Mcguire (B.S.’12/B)		Christopher McIntosh (M.A.’14/GPA)
Chase Peak (B.M.’11/A)		Timothy Pierce, Pharm.D. (B.I.S.’11/H&S; Pharm.D.’15/P)
Ben Plache (B.A.’11/H&S; M.A.’13/H&S)		Hayley Pottle (B.S.’17/MC)
Saher Randhawa (B.S.’14/H&S)		Yann Reichelt (B.S.’14/B)
Rachel Rodney (B.S.’11/B)		Alexander Sausen (B.A.’19/A)
Emily Schindler (B.A.’10/A)		Melissa Stamp (B.S.’18/MC; Cert.’18/DVC)
Trevon Straughter (B.S.’16/H&S)		Maribel Street-McMutt (M.S.’15/GPA; Cert.’15/GPA)
Emily Todd (B.F.A.’14/A)		Christina Tulloch (B.S.’16/H&S)
Aaron Varella (B.S.’19/B)		Vikhyath Veeramachaneni (B.A.’14/H&S)
Rachel Walstead, Ph.D. (B.S.’14/LS)		Ashley Williams (B.S.’16/H&S)
Debrielle Williams (B.S.’13/H&S)		Jennifer Winnagle (B.S.’06/B; M.S.’08/E)
Sara Yaseen (B.A.’17/H&S)