Faculty

Tiffenia Archie, PhD
 

Tiff Archie, Ph.D. NELI DEI Trainer

Dr. Tiffenia D. Archie presently serves as the Assistant Vice President of the Office of Institutional Diversity, Equity, Advocacy and Leadership (IDEAL) at Temple University (Philadelphia, PA) where her goal is to help advance diversity and inclusion in all facets of the campus community.  She first began working at Temple in 2007 as the inaugural Director of Faculty Recruitment and Retention, working closely with the Provost and Deans on faculty recruitment goals, before moving to the assistant vice presidency.

Dr. Archie has worked in higher education for nearly 25 years, previously serving as the Assistant Academic Dean at Albright College where she also served as an Affirmative Action representative on hiring committees. She also teaches courses in sociology, including Introduction to Sociology; Race and Racism; Race, Class, and Gender; Social Problems and Statistics. She helped design Temple University’s Graduate Certificate in Diversity Leadership, a collaboration between IDEAL and the College of Education and was in the first co-hort of certificate earners.

Dr. Archie earned her doctorate in Sociology at Temple University (Class of 2003) and also completed facilitator training with the National Coalition Building Institute (NCBI). She attended the Management Development Program (MDP) at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Education.

Dr. Archie was the 2010 Recipient of the Outstanding Leader in Education Award presented by the Association of Black Women in Higher Education and is currently a member of the Albright College Board of Trustees.

Fernando Chang-Muy, JD
 

Fernando Chang-Muy, J.D. NELI Trainer

Fernando Chang-Muy is the Thomas O'Boyle Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law where he teaches Refugee Law. He also teaches Non profit Management at Penn’s Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice and in the Executive Development Program. 

In addition to teaching, he combines his experience in academia and operations, as principal and founder of Solutions International, providing independent management consulting, facilitation and training to philanthropic institutions, non profit organizations and government entities. His areas of expertise include strategic planning, board governance, staff internal communications and performance, and resource development.

He has served as Legal Officer with both the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) and the UN World Health Organization (WHO), AIDS Program. Before joining the UN, he was a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia serving as Director of the Southeast Asian Refugee Project, providing free legal aid to low-income people in Philadelphia. He is also past founding director of the Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture, a project of Lutheran Children and Family Services, established to serve newcomers fleeing human rights violations.

He serves on the Boards of local public interest organizations, government, and foundations, including the Board of the Merchants Fund, the Wachovia Regional Foundation, and The Philadelphia Awards.In the summer of 2008, Philadelphia Mayor Nutter appointed him as a Commissioner to the Philadelphia Commission on Human Relations. He is former Board member of the Delaware Valley Grantmakers, and Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Coalition. He is author of numerous articles on diverse topics dealing with immigration, public health and management, and is co-editor of the text Social Work and Immigration (NY: Springer Publication) published in October 2008.

Margie DuBrow, PhD
 

Margie DuBrow, NELI Director

Margie joined the Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute (NELI) as Director in 2009. She brings extensive experience in leadership education, program development, and program evaluation to her role. As Director, Margie is the lead designer of the curriculum of the Executive Leadership Certificate program. She created the Ascending Leadership Certificate program in 2011 and developed NELI’s fee-for-service consulting practice in 2012.

Prior to her position at Bryn Mawr College, for 11 years, Margie was the principal consultant in Creative Management Strategies, Inc., a firm which specializes in community planning and building the capacity of nonprofit organizations. She has a strong track record of effectively working with executives in public systems and nonprofit agencies and with community leaders to build coalitions focused on community change. Margie earned her doctoral degree in organizational development from Temple University in Philadelphia.

Danie Greenwell, PhD
 

Danie Greenwell, NELI Faculty

Danie is a full-time CFO consultant with 100 Degrees Consulting. She enjoys working on finances for nonprofits so that they can focus on what they do well: serving the greater good. With a background in nonprofit and socially responsible business, she believes that purpose-driven organizations can learn to use financial planning and strong financial systems to increase their effectiveness. She has worked for and consulted with nonprofits in multiple sectors and enjoys seeing the work grow and adapt over time. Danie has a PhD in Communication, Culture, and Media from Drexel University and a BA from University of Pennsylvania. She stays active in the local food scene in Philadelphia by shopping at farmers’ markets, cooking local food, and supporting a nonprofit she helped found that plants orchards around the city.

 

Laura Hinds, MSW, LCSW

 

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Laura Hinds is the founder and Principal Partner of Hindsight Consulting Group, which provides training and small group interventions for non-profits of diverse foci. Laura has taught courses and asynchronous learning modules for  the University of Pennsylvania School’s of Social Policy and Practice since 2007. An alum of Penn's SP2, Laura began her career as a direct practitioner with children, adolescents, and families at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, developing skills in HIV/AIDS specific care needs, high acuity hospital based social work practice, as well as psychotherapy. Laura is also the Chairperson Emeritus of the State Board of Social Workers, Marriage and Family Therapists and Professional Counselors for whom she now serves as an Expert Witness.

Reggie Jones, LCSW, MSS, MLSP

 

Reggie Jones, NELI Trauma Facilitator

Reggie Jones (she/her/hers) is a college administrator, psychotherapist, and educator. She is currently the Associate Dean of Health & Wellness at Bryn Mawr College (BMC). 

Through her private practice, Reggie provides psychotherapy, clinical supervision, consultation and offers workshops/trainings on trauma-informed practices, anti-racist literacy, and strategies to create queer affirming and healing-centered organizations. 

Reggie is also a part-time lecturer at University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice. A feminist, anti-oppressive social work lens is embedded in her teaching. Empowering future social workers to interrogate what is believed to be known and cultivate curiosity to reclaim subjugated knowledge and alternative narratives/histories is foundational to her pedagogy. 

Sarah Slates, MSS, MSSW, LSW
 

Sarah Slates, PhD candidate at GSSWSR

Sarah Slates, MA, MSSW, LSW received her degrees in social work, gender studies, and a graduate certificate in Latin American and Latinx Studies from the University of Louisville.

Sarah’s practice experiences range from direct service and crisis intervention to project management and policy analysis. She is currently employed full-time at the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research (GSSWSR) in student support services as a career counselor and writing coach.

Her teaching experience includes introductory social work courses for undergraduates and research methods, ethics, and academic and professional development courses for master’s level social work students.

Sarah’s dissertation research focuses on undergraduate college students’ experiences of validation and sense of belonging on campus and, in turn, how these experiences shape mental health and academic performance. Her recently published work focuses on macro social work education and microaggressions in the social work classroom.