Tuesday, June 22, 2021
1:00 - 2:30 p.m. ET

Join industry experts and fellow U-M staff members for this virtual ARC meeting to learn best practices for managing your volunteers and ways you can use the new Alumni Volunteer platform to easily share your volunteer opportunities with alumni.


Keynote speaker Tina Gourley, Director of Volunteer Onboarding and Training at Cornell University, will share proven practices in facilitating lifelong alumni engagement from her experiences managing volunteers through a comparable digital solution—CUVolunteer—and running the annual Cornell Alumni Leadership Conference (CALC).

Following the keynote, a panel of U-M staff will share alumni engagement wins and learnings utilizing the Alumni Volunteer platform during 2020-21.The cross-campus initiative connects alumni with volunteer opportunities hosted by University of Michigan affiliated groups that honor our alumni’s interdisciplinary expertise and general passion for volunteerism.

Panelists include:
Kerin Borland, Director, University Career Center
Cristina Frendo, Director of Alumni Engagement, UM-Dearborn
AJ Haduch, Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement, UM-Dearborn
Hannah Rickers, Alumni Engagement and Mentorship Program Manager, LSA Opportunity Hub
Kelly O’Mara, Program Manager, Maize & Blue Cupboard
Zoe Erb, ’19, Summer Works & Strategic Projects Coordinator, Poverty Solutions
Angela Oonk, ’94, Director of Development, Clements Library
Katherine Obrizak, ’16, Alumni Relations Representative/Alumni Travel, Alumni Association

Moderated by Tina Chen, ‘08, Alumni Volunteer Program Manager, Alumni Association of the University of Michigan.