Samantha Earp

Samantha Earp is Vice President for Information Technology & Chief Information Officer at Smith College, where she serves as the institutional steward for information technology and as the leader of the college's central IT organization. At Smith since September 2016, she has developed and led a multi-year institutional IT transformation initiative that has modernized and improved virtually all the college's core IT systems, services, and accompanying management practices. A one-time language teacher, software developer, instructional technologist, and online learning director, Samantha focuses on the intersection of people, process, technology, and culture in organizational and team settings. Samantha co-chaired Smith College's COVID-19 management group and is a member of the Berea College board of trustees. 

 

Kristen Eshleman

Kristen Eshleman is Vice President of Library and Information Technology at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. She is guiding the college's digital transformation strategy and leads a merged division focused on technology, information, and data as drivers and instruments of excellence in teaching, learning, scholarship, and student success. Before joining Trinity College, she served as Director of Innovation Initiatives at Davidson College, where she led innovation strategy out of the President's Office. At Davidson, she guided projects designed to respond to external change pressures and facilitated bottom-up, community-driven initiatives with the potential to lower costs, generate new revenue, or meet other strategic goals. Kristen is a co-founder of HAIL (Harvesting Academic Innovation for Learners), and has served on committees for LACOL (Liberal Arts Collaborative for Digital Innovation), iLIADS (Institute for Liberal Arts Digital Scholarship), and EDUCAUSE.

 

Barron Koralesky

Barron is the chief information officer at Williams College in Massachusetts. Prior to that, Barron was the Director of Client Services and Academic Technology at Macalester College. Barron did his undergraduate work in physics at Carleton College and graduate work in astrophysics at the University of Minnesota and was a Frye fellow in 2005. He has served on the EDUCAUSE Board of Directors and the ELI Advisory Board, the nomination committee, the advisory committee for teaching and learning, and several programming committees. He was given the EDUCAUSE Rising Star Award in 2013.




Jessie Mandel

Jesse Mandel is the Director of Project and Change Management at Williams College.  There she manages the Workday implementation and is a core member of the project leadership team - from HCM and Finance through Student.  She and her staff bring together people from all areas of the college to reimagine the way the college operates, using modern technologies to improve processes.

 

Ellen Wall

Ellen Harter Wall is the Senior Director of IT Change Management at Smith College. She has helped lead change, outreach, and training through multiple Workday launches, including platform, Student, Help, Learning, and Journeys. In addition, Ellen's team works with other IT teams on communication, outreach, and change management for a broad portfolio of services. She has presented on change management and Workday implementations at NERCOMP, Workday Rising, and HEUG Alliance conferences.