Advisory Board

Elevate Vets is guided by an Advisory Board of prominent higher education professionals with deep expertise in national and institutional policies and practices affecting student veterans.

Joshua Rider

Board Chair. Executive Director, Center for Adult and Veteran Services, Kent State University

Mike Carrell

VP, Strategy & University Engagement, National Veterans Leadership Foundation

Terence Nelson

VETS Program Coordinator/Counselor at Saddleback College

Terrell Odom

Director, Office for Military-Affiliated Communities, The University of Chicago

Jerry Smith

Director, Office of Veteran Services and Director, Texas A&M University System

Marshall Thomas

Director, Active Duty and Veterans Affairs at California State University

Janine Wert

Director, Military and Veterans Services, UMass Lowell

Michael Logan

Senior Director, University of Texas at San Antonio

Veterans Education Success is a nonprofit research, policy, and service organization that works on a bipartisan basis to advance higher education success for veterans, servicemembers, and military families, and to protect the integrity and promise of the GI Bill® and other federal postsecondary education programs.

ECMC Foundation is a Los Angeles-based, nationally focused foundation whose mission is to inspire and to facilitate improvements that affect educational outcomes—especially among underserved populations—through evidence-based innovation.

The Joyce Foundation is a private, nonpartisan philanthropy that invests in public policies and strategies to advance racial equity and economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes region, while exploring promising evidence-informed policy solutions nationally and at the federal level.

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