Trisha Clay

Patricia Clay (Trisha) is a strategic Information Technology leader specializing in infrastructure and applications support management, project management, collaboration, business continuity, and information security. She leads information technology at Hudson County Community College, including user support, infrastructure, Help Desk, A/V, classroom technology, and enterprise applications. Before joining the HCCC team, Ms. Clay was the Director of Information Technology for DeSales University, a private, 4-year institution of higher education. There she managed all aspects of the Information Technology landscape, including networking, servers, computer hardware and software, information security, and enterprise-level applications. She assures a collaborative, student-centered, customer-focused technology tactics and strategy in a complex environment. Ms. Clay earned her Master’s of Business Administration with Project Management concentration from DeSales University. She actively participates in the EDUCAUSE HEISC Awareness and Training Working Group. She is a frequent presenter at local and regional conferences
 

Jason Jones
Jason B. Jones is Director of Research, Instruction, Technology at Trinity College (Hartford), working with instructional technologists, research librarians, learning spaces experts, and digital scholarship folks to support all manner of academic work. Previously, he was a professor of Victorian literature at Central Connecticut State University, where he was also president of the faculty union. His book, Lost Causes: Historical Consciousness in Victorian Literature, was published by Ohio State UP, and he co-founded ProfHacker, the blog about teaching, technology, and productivity which ran at the Chronicle of Higher Education for nine-ish years.

Patricia Juárez 
With 30 years of experience in the IT industry in both México and the U.S. Patricia has been the Business Systems Analyst for the IST Imagine team at UC Berkeley since 2007. As the lead BA, Patricia has been instrumental in bringing departments towards paperless business processes. As a leader in her community, Patricia is the founder of two Náhuatl Higher Ed Institutions, Calmecac Tlalocan and Calmecac Huey Papalotl, and has been invited as a visiting scholar on Native Traditions to institutions, such as, UC Berkeley, UC Santa Barbara, Woodland Community College, California College of the Arts, as well as other institutions in the U.S. and México City. Patricia participates with an essay in Voices of the Ancestors, an anthology of Chicanx/Latinx traditions. The anthology was published in 2019 by The University of Arizona Press.  

Amy Schack
Amy Schack currently serves as the Program Coordinator for the Northeast Regional Computer Program (NERCOMP).  In this role, she works directly with professional development organizers to plan and execute workshops and webinars.  She also handles data analysis/presentations in order to assist committees and the Board of Trustees in furthering the mission, vision and strategic plan of NERCOMP.  She also serves on the Professional Development Committee, Data Task Force, Leadership Ecosystem Committee, and Community Relations Committee.  

Prior to joining NERCOMP, Amy worked as the Director of Residential Life at several colleges and universities in New York.  In these roles, she worked with the Division of Student Affairs to create strategic plans, assess departmental quality and plan new programs, services and initiatives. She was also involved in training professional staff members and student leaders.

Amy holds a Master of Science in Education with a concentration in Counseling from Fordham University, including Mutlicultural Counseling and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and Secondary Education certification from Eastern Connecticut State University. She also attended the Social Justice Training Instutite and Anti-Defamation League training.

Karen Warren
As Deputy CIO at Wesleyan University, Karen has oversight for the user services, technical services, and academic technology teams. Combined, they provide the foundational support for all other IT operations in the University, develop strategic input regarding systems and infrastructure, and provide support for teaching and learning through the use of technology.

Karen sits on the board and is former chair of NERCOMP, the Northeast Regional Computing Program, a consortium of Universities throughout the Northeast. She is an experienced presenter, having spoken at the NERCOMP Annual Conference, ServiceNow Knowledge, EDUCAUSE Annual Conference, CEN Annual Conference, and other professional workshops. Karen is active in campus life and committed to crossing functional and departmental lines to bring solutions to the Wesleyan community. Karen is keenly interested in the role IT Service Management can play particularly in smaller institutions and is active in the professional development of women IT professionals.

Prior to coming to Wesleyan, Karen spent 15 years at the American School for the Deaf in West Hartford, CT where she was IT Director for 10 of those years. Karen focused much time on the importance of broadband access in K-12 education, forging a strong and lasting relationship with Connecticut Education Network (CEN) for whom she co-chairs the Education Advisory Council. Having spoken at numerous conferences regarding the benefits of broadband in K-12 education, Karen was invited to participate on a panel at the FCC on the importance of ERate to broadband in schools.

Nicole Westrick

Nicole M. Westrick is Associate Vice Provost, University College at Temple University, and is responsible for a portfolio of non-credit and continuing education programs, as well as the Continuing Education Systems technology team. Prior to her current role, Nicole served as Director for Continuing Education Systems. Prior to joining Temple University, Nicole was the Business Solutions Manager for Student and Administrative Solutions at Johns Hopkins University.
Nicole’s education includes a Master in Public Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a Skilled Facilitator Graduate Certificate from Johns Hopkins University. She is currently a doctoral candidate at Temple University in Media and Communication.