Career Champions

Career Champions is a professional development program to spread awareness and integration of career development into the college community. The program is for those who actively assist students in determining and reaching their career goals focused on life-long success and outcomes.

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

Members of the Merrimack community who complete this series of training with at least a 70% on the course quizzes 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. 

Want to join the Career Champion Network?

Fill out the Interest Form to join!

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
  • Daniel (Buks) Moolman
  • Alison Sawyer
  • Colleen Shea
  • Christina Tarpy
  • Kimberly Valente

Provost’s Office, CTIDE and more

  • Mark Gould
  • Jonathan Lyon
  • Justin Schimmel
  • Janet Syed
  • Ellen McWhorter

School of Arts & Sciences

  • Andrew Cote
  • Joseph Chiarelli
  • Kirstie Dobbs
  • Hailey Frosolone
  • Lauri Gibbons
  • Ally Lewis
  • Dorie Mansen
  • Kristy McDowell
  • Azam Noori
  • James Petty
  • Christopher Previte
  • Brian Provencher
  • Stephanie Sartori
  • Kathleen Sills
  • Stephen Theberge
  • Jill Troy
  • Nancy Wynn

School of Engineering and Computational Sciences

  • Vicki Bianchini
  • Rickey Caldwell
  • Cyndy Carlson
  • Jeffrey Hovis
  • Olivia Lombardo
  • Jared Peterson
  • H. David Sheets
  • Melissa St. Hilaire
  • Laura Thibodeau
  • Jolly Upadhyaya

School of Nursing & Health Sciences

  • Sarah Comora
  • Cristina Fernandez
  • Jackie Gillette
  • Allison Higgins
  • Scott McEnelly
  • Alvin Morton
  • Elizabeth Natale
  • Deana Pomfret
  • Kathy Young

School of Education & Social Policy

  • Daruenie Andujar
  • Kathleen Burns
  • Meredith Fitzsimmons
  • Laura Hsu
  • Jonathan Kessler
  • Sarah Mackler
  • Kate Orbon
  • Sarah Palladino
  • Christine Shaw
  • Elaine Ward
  • Brent Wright

Admission

  • Liana Caffrey
  • Kerimal Suriel Guerrero
  • Marisa Najarian
  • Maggie O’Connor Avery
  • Sarah Perry
  • Tricia Pineda
  • Rachael Tampone

Development & Alumni Relations

  • Kelly Feeney
  • Angela McGriff

Central Communications

  • Ollie Piazza

Athletics

  • Rachel Berube
  • Tomasso Bucci

Academic Success Center

  • Kerry Barrett
  • Justin Bowen
  • James Clark
  • Christopher Cody
  • Nathalie Daniel
  • Jennifer Evans
  • Jonathan Grossman
  • Kait Hollinger
  • Jodi Jarvis
  • Elizabeth Linn
  • Christine McLaughlin
  • Jasmine McIsaac
  • Kristina Micalizzi
  • Melissa Theberge
  • Andrea Wamboldt
  • Laura Weiland
  • Grace Young
  • Brian Zager

Career & Experiential Learning

  • Ellen Boyle
  • Jessica Bungerz
  • Audrey Byerley
  • Michael Hadley
  • Chris Milliken
  • Amy Shirley
  • Christina Soto
  • Shannon Zelek

Student Affairs

  • Elizabeth DeLong
  • Erin Lynch
  • Mark Metevier

Other Support Offices

  • Rileigh Armstrong
  • Catherine Chandler
  • Lyena Chavez
  • Brandon Clinton
  • Jenny Colozza
  • Jazmin D’Urbano
  • Wilmary Flores
  • Gregory Jain
  • Katherine LaFlamme
  • Christine Morrell
  • Ian Mulhern
  • Edi Roshi
  • Sarah Simmons