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Our Research Changes Lives | University of Maryland

Our Research Changes Lives | University of Maryland

At UMD, brilliant scholars and scientists come together to spark new ideas, pursue important discoveries, drive innovation and tackle humanity’s grand…

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Cherie Givens JD, PhD, CIPP

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Chief Privacy Officer I Attorney I Governance

Claudia Richoux

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Manufacturing Technology Entrepreneur | Engineer

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Jeffrey Franco currently serves as the Founder and CEO of Camino Consulting Group the Transformation Leadership Institute where he works with local and national nonprofit CEOs to support and advise on strategic planning, board training and development, executive coaching, interim leadership, fundraising, and diversity, equity, inclusion and justice (DEIJ) facilitation and training. Jeffrey is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland where he currently teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in nonprofit management and leadership. He serves on the boards of Potomac Conservancy, Outward Bound, and the Center for Inspired Teaching. Jeffrey has focused on supporting and leading non-profits through organizational transitions by serving as the interim Executive Director for City Year in Miami; One Common Unity in Washington, DC; and Youth Speaks in San Francisco; and as the Chief Program Officer at Jewish Volunteer Services. In these interim roles, Jeffrey was responsible for managing the staff, operations, programs, and fundraising, and leading the organization through major change management processes, organizational turn around, leadership transition, and new Executive Director onboarding and coaching. Jeffrey continues to serve as an executive coach for many of the new leaders of these organizations. Prior to founding Camino Consulting Group, Jeffrey served over 12 years as both the Executive Director of City Year’s site in Washington, DC and as Vice President and senior leader of the $200 million national organization. Under his leadership, City Year Washington, DC tripled the size of its staff, quadrupled the number of students served, increased its budget from a $2.3 million to $8.6 million operation, and established City Year’s first multimillion contract with the DC Public School System. During this time, Jeffrey secured multiple 7 figure individual gifts and established national corporate investments for multiple City Year sites across the country. Jeffrey’s professional accomplishments include being named the 2013 American University Kogod School of Business Alumni of the Year, alumnus of the Aspen Institute Socrates Program, and graduate of Leadership Greater Washington. He graduated with a B.A. from Fairfield University, a Masters degree in International Affairs and an M.B.A. from American University. Jeffrey is fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, has completed 5 marathons and an Ironman triathlon, walked the 500-mile Camino de Santiago in Spain, and completed the 150 Mile Annapurna Circuit in Nepal.

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Deputy Assistant Director at National Science Foundation (NSF)

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Manager, Enterprise Growth @ Uber

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Communications Officer, International Monetary Fund | Communications Chair, IMF GLOBE | At-Large Board Member, ACES: The Society for Editing

Lingzi Huang, CFE

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Compliance Manager at Covestro

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GTM @ Fireblocks

Danielle Rappaport, PhD

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I am a forest ecologist, remote sensing scientist, and entrepreneur working to help safeguard our 3.8-billion-year inheritance of life on Earth. The common thread through my 15-year career is a drive to translate science into action, a love for “walking the edges” between disciplines, and a passion for supporting economies that grow with nature. I am currently an Assistant Research Professor with NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) at the University of Maryland. My research centers on leveraging satellite lidar, together with other modes of sensing, to evaluate the socio-ecological risks, opportunities, and trade-offs between competing land use priorities. I am particularly interested in advancing scientific and technological approaches for monitoring biodiversity and optimizing forest regeneration. I have worked across multiple continents to push the vanguard of ecosystem remote sensing by integrating space-borne, air-borne, and ground-based data to bridge the scale-gaps in understanding ecological change and informing actions.

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Senior Software Engineer at Google

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