Lindsay Atkinson
Lindsay is on the admissions operations team at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where she supports Slate processes for the MBA, Sloan Fellows, Master of Business Analytics and Master of Finance programs. Previously, Lindsay worked for Brandeis University supporting three divisions within the Rabb School of Continuing Studies. She has been a part of Slaten Implementation process for two divisions while at Brandeis and is continually growing her Slate skills within MIT.

Kristy Behan
Kristy is Associate Director of Admissions Operations at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). She has a Bachelors degree in Developmental Psychology from Roger Williams University and a Masters degree in Higher Education Administration from Drexel University.  She has 14 years of experience working in college admissions – both in counseling/recruiting and managing behind-the-scenes operations - at schools ranging from liberal arts to business to specialty art and design. She is a Slate Captain and led the implementation along with a colleague beginning in March of 2016 and going live with the first module (Events) one month later in April. With the help of a super admissions team, she phased-out paper applications and built a robust and efficient Slate instance that is constantly improving. When she’s not Slating, she can be found spending time with her wife and 19 month-old twin daughters, Rory and Gannon. 

Jacob Daly
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Sherri Drisdelle
Sherri has presented on Slate both regionally and at the Slate Summit.  She is currently the Director of IT Portfolio Services at Brandeis University.  Sherri has implemented eight (8) Slate databases for Brandeis including working with undergrad admissions, graduate admissions, graduate professional studies, and several smaller departments on campus using Slate as a CRM or application management system.  Sherri has a bachelor's degree in computer science (B.CS), has completed her ITIL Foundations Certificate in IT Service Management, is also a certified project management professional (PMP) and has worked in IT for over 20 years.

Santiago Gomez
Santiago is a savvy and innovative admissions coordinator at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). Ever striving for optimal efficiency, Santiago leverages the processing might of Slate to develop new features and modernize business practices. His most successful projects include a multi-tiered prerequisite evaluation system and a secure visa certification process. Santiago presented his international student visa processing system at Slate Summit 2017 in Chicago. Prior to Santiago's role at the GSD, he was a coordinator for the Admissions Student Diversity Board at Boston University, his alma mater. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology.

Chris Holsten
Chris is currently a Senior Institutional Research Analyst at Brandeis University and has been working at Brandeis for over 12 years. Chris has extensive knowledge of undergraduate admissions and enrollment management trends, and architects Brandeis' enrollment management models. Along with implementing a University-wide data warehouse for undergraduate and graduate admissions data, Chris is currently working on new and innovative uses for Slate at Brandeis including faculty applications and using Slate to handle union appointments and contracts.

Saul Horowitz
Saul is a Project Manager/Business Analyst at the technology services department for the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he leads projects that enable Sloan to excel in its mission by transforming the research, academic and administrative information technology landscape. Previously, Saul worked for The MIT Sloan Fellows Program as a Program Coordinator for admissions, where he was part of the initial implementation of Slate.  He also worked as consultant in the Implementation of Slate for the Asian Business School in Malaysia and the System Design and Management Program at MIT.

Louis Hung
Louis is a senior business analyst working for the ITS department at Brandeis University.  He graduated with a Computer Science degree and later attained a MBA. 

Louis started his career as a student network technician at San Diego State University who supplemented his income with website database designs on the side.  Eventually he started on the analyst track with National University where he design business processes and created technical specs for programmers to build out applications that would supplement these processes.  Now with Brandeis University, he acts as Slate technical support and administers other applications used campus wide (including the emergency notification system and event planning and management system).

Jess Meers
Jess has worked in technology for over 14 years. As a Lead Applications Specialist at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), she assists departments reach their technology goals by providing IT project management and implementation services.  A highlight has been the epic Slate implementation rollout that completed in 2017!  Prior to joining the RISD team, she spent 10 years as the IT Applications Manager in health care managing ancillary systems and their integrations.  


Amy Sison
Amy is the Director of Graduate Studies at Merrimack College. Amy has been at Merrimack College for 6 years in a number of roles within the Office of Graduate & Professional Studies.  In her current role Amy oversees graduate admissions and operations for the growing graduate programs and enrollment.  Amy earned her B.S. in International Business and Logistics from Maine Maritime Academy and a M. Ed. in Higher Education and Student Affairs from Salem State University. While in graduate school she worked in student affairs at the University of New Hampshire.  Prior to working at Merrimack College Amy worked outside of higher education in online retail and wholesale operations.  Merrimack’s Office of Graduate & Professional Studies started implementing Slate in June of 2017 and went live in September of 2017.