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Andy Brantley

Andy Brantley has served as CUPA-HR’s president and CEO since July 2005. The association includes almost 2,000 member institutions and over 33,000 representatives. The association has made diversity and inclusion a cornerstone of its work and strengthened its position as the source of higher education workforce data and the voice of higher education human resources professionals on Capitol Hill. Before coming to CUPA-HR, Andy worked for 17 years in campus leadership roles including associate vice president and chief human resources officer at the University of Georgia. In December 2021, he completed his Doctorate in Higher Education Management at UGA. His dissertation focused on the reasons that chief academic officers choose to stay in or
leave their positions. Andy serves as co-chair of the Washington Higher Education Secretariat steering committee and the Secretariat’s representative to the American Council on Education board.

Michelle Cabral

Michelle Cabral is currently the Assistant Vice President for Human Resources at Trinity College, responsible for advancing Trinity’s Strategic Plan through HR programs and processes. Michelle is an HR leader with strong consulting experience and demonstrated success working in strategic HR models, and has held a variety of leadership and operational roles in several industries. Michelle graduated from Bloomsburg University with a BS in Education and from Drexel University with a Master’s in Human Behavior and Development.  She is a long-time resident of Connecticut.

Laura Garcia

Laura T. Garcia is the Vice President of Information Technology and Library Services at Greenfield Community College in Greenfield, Massachusetts, a role she has served in for the past four-plus years. At GCC she engages with a broad range of constituents to ensure the timely and accurate delivery of information technology and library services to support the College’s mission. 

Laura is a member of the College’s President’s Cabinet and the Massachusetts CIO Council. She has directed IT and library operations through the many challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Prior to her current role at GCC, Laura worked for over seven years as the Director of Campus Technology and Media Support at Mount Holyoke College where she directed one of two IT divisions at the College in a blended IT/library model. She held leadership roles on the College’s Executive Operational committee and was instrumental in bringing ITSM and ITIL principles to the College, establishing change management and service catalogs and adopting ITSM software for process and project management.

Prior to her role at Mount Holyoke, Laura served in a variety of IT positions with increasing responsibility over the course of 20 years at UMass Amherst as well as in several private businesses related to higher education and the medical field. 

In addition, Laura served for over five years on the Board of the Northeast Regional Computing Program (NERCOMP), a regional affiliate of EDUCAUSE, including 3 years as its Treasurer, and currently serves on its Finance Committee. 

Professionally and personally, Laura values active listening, collaborative planning, iterative testing, and creating systems that balance processes with humanity and compassion. She is committed to diversity, equity, inclusion, accessibility, privacy, and security. Most of all, she values the ability of education to enlighten, uplift, and empower all.

Michael Cato

Michael leads Bowdoin College's Information Technology strategy and operations through the Information and Technology department and has spent over 20 years in Higher Education IT. He is active in a number of professional organizations such as CAUDIT, EDUCAUSE, and NERCOMP, with an emphasis on leadership development, inclusive leadership, and the array of issues around diversity, equity, and inclusion. He is the 2022 Technology Executive of the Year – Education award winner from the IT Senior Management Forum (ITSMF), and the 2021 recipient of the EDUCAUSE DEI Leadership Award.
Michael holds a B.S. in Zoology from Andrews University and an M.B.A. from Wake Forest University. He loves to learn, read, eat, occasionally cook, and starts most days being humbled by CrossFit. Michael is raising an awesome son with his partner and wife Heather.