Career Champions
Career Champions is a professional development program to spread awareness and integration of career development into the Merrimack community. The program exists to assist students in determining and reaching their career goals.
There are a number of career-related services and events available to the Merrimack student population through the O’Brien Center for Career Development. However, many students prefer to initiate career readiness conversations with faculty and staff whom they already know. According to the 2018 Strada-Gallup Alumni Survey “Mentoring College Students to Success”:
- Graduates are more likely to have received career advice from faculty or staff members than from the career services office.
- While 1/3 of graduates say they received career advice from faculty or staff often or very often, 22% say the same about the career services office.
Faculty and staff who complete the Career Champions training receive a digital badge that identifies them as someone who is equipped to assist students with their career decision-making. The Career Champions program provides opportunities for faculty, staff and student leaders to better understand career development, resources, services and support available to Merrimack students, and the process of searching for an internship or job.
Faculty/Staff – Want to join the Career Champion Network?
Current Career Champions
*Bolded names have received a digital badge as a result of completing the Career Champions course.
Girard School of Business
- Patricia W. Clarke
- Fan Chen
- Michaela Gearin
- Mark Lippman
- Jonathan Lyon
- Daniel (Buks) Moolman
- Alison Sawyer
Provost’s Office, CTIDE, Graduate & Professional Studies and more
- Liana Caffrey
- Cara Cahill
- Catherine Chandler
- Mark Gould
- Jonathan Lyon
- Sarah Perry
- Justin Schimmel
- Janet Syed
- Callie Wallace
School of Arts & Sciences
- Andrew Cote
- Joseph Chiarelli
- Kirstie Dobbs
- Daniel Herda
- Ally Lewis
- Dorie Mansen
- Kristy McDowell
- Ellen McWhorter
- Azam Noori
- James Petty
- Christopher Previte
- Brian Provencher
- Dana Rowland
- Lauren Rocha
- Kathleen Sills
- Stephen Theberge
- Nancy Wynn
School of Engineering and Computational Sciences
- Vicki Bianchini
- Rickey Caldwell
- Cyndy Carlson
- Jeffrey Hovis
- Jared Peterson
- H. David Sheets
- Melissa St. Hilaire
- Jolly Upadhyaya
School of Nursing & Health Sciences
- Scott Braid
- Sarah Comora
- Jackie Gillette
- Allison Higgins
- Scott McEnelly
- Alvin Morton
- Elizabeth Natale
- Kathy Young
School of Education & Social Policy
- Kathleen Burns
- Laura Hsu
- Jonathan Kessler
- Kate Orbon
- Christine Shaw
- Elaine Ward
- Brent Wright
Admission
- Jasmine McIsaac
- Marisa Najarian
- Maggie O’Connor Avery
- Tricia Pineda
- Rachael Tampone
Development & Alumni Relations
- Kelly Feeney
- Abigail Hurley
- Angela McGriff
Central Communications
- Ollie Piazza
- Ellen Boyle
Athletics
- Rachel Berube
- Tomasso Bucci
- Rachel Donovan
Academic Success Center
- Kerry Barrett
- Justin Bowen
- James Clark
- Nathalie Daniel
- Jennifer Evans
- Jonathan Grossman
- Kait Hollinger
- Jodi Jarvis
- Elizabeth Linn
- Christine McLaughlin
- Kristina Micalizzi
- Melissa Theberge
- Kimberly Valente
- Andrea Wamboldt
- Laura Weiland
- Grace Young
- Brian Zager
Career & Experiential Learning
- Daruenie Andujar
- Noelle Bisesti – graduate fellow
- Jessica Bungerz
- Audrey Byerley
- Cristina Fernandez
- Meredith Fitzsimmons
- Hailey Frosolone
- Lauri Gibbons
- Michael Hadley
- Olivia Iosue
- Sarah Mackler
- Elise Monteiro
- Sarah Palladino
- Joseph Ruggiero
- Stephanie Sartori
- Colleen Shea
- Amy Shirley
- Christina Soto
- Christina Tarpy
- Laura Thibodeau
- Jill Troy
- Shannon Zelek
Student Affairs
- Eryca Carrier
- Brandon Clinton
- Elizabeth DeLong
- Kathryn Doherty – graduate fellow
- Jazmin D’Urbano
- Gregory Jain
- Mark Metevier
- Ian Mulhern
- Sarah Simmons
- Stephanie Varela
Other Support Offices
- Rileigh Armstrong
- Lyena Chavez
- Jenna Colozza
- Katherine LaFlamme
- Christine Morrell
- Edi Roshi
