Staff Photos & Profiles

 


    Charlene Brown-McKenzie, COL ’95, MSW,  
    LICSW
    DIRECTOR
    Meyers Institute for College Preparation
   
    With her wealth of programming and counseling
    background as a clinical social worker, Ms.  
McKenzie serves as the architect for building the relationships with students and their families through Georgetown pre-college program, the Meyers Institute for College Preparation. Through designing and implementing programs, hiring instructors, collaborating with community partners, and working with funders, she is responsible for sustaining MICP's mission: to prepare D.C. students for college and ensure that they are admitted, enrolled, and graduated.  Ms. McKenzie, who joined CMEA in 1999, is a native of Jamaica and came to Georgetown as an undergraduate from Connecticut.

    Vanessa Correa, M.S.
    ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
   
    Vanessa recently returned to the college
    environment, having spent time conducting research
    on the causes and potential solutions to crime.  Prior
    to her criminal research, she worked at Cornell University in Ithaca and Southeastern University in Washington, DC, advising and monitoring student progress.  Her primary responsibilities at Georgetown are advising and coordinating the Community Scholars Program, serving on various University committees and coordinating a new alumni mentoring program.  She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Cornell and her Master of Science degree from The American University.

Hanna Lee, M.A.
PROGRAM COORDINATOR

Ms. Lee joined the Center in 2007 to support CMEA's campus programming including the Student of Color Alliance (SOCA), Young Leaders in Education about Diversity (Y-LEAD), and Hoya Saxa Weekend.  Hailing most recently from Baltimore, MD, Ms. Lee has also spent time living in Florida, Missouri, Connecticut, and China.  Ms. Lee has experience with both working in higher education student affairs and teaching English at the secondary level.

    Charleta Mason
    OPERATIONS MANAGER
   
    Ms. Mason, a Virginian who joined the Center in
    2005, handles all the payroll and financial
    transactions for the multitude of CMEA initiatives;
    she also helps out with administrative and logistical support for programs and activities sponsored by the office as well as by student groups.

    Elizabeth Velez, M.A.
    DIRECTOR
    Community Scholars Program
   
    English Professor Velez, an Alabama native, has  
    been a mainstay of the Community Scholars 
    Program for more than two decades. As Director, she
sets the curriculum, recruits faculty, advises students and oversees the program, and also provides academic advising and support for other students through CMEA.

  Dennis A. Williams, M.F.A.
  ASSOCIATE DEAN OF STUDENTS
  DIRECTOR
   
  Professor Williams is responsible for all the operations
  of CMEA and also supervises the Academic Resource
  Center. Born and raised in Upstate New York, he has been at Georgetown since 1997.