Marian currently serves as the Assistant Director of Wellbeing for the Office of Wellbeing at Wake Forest University. There, she provides strategic leadership for part of the department’s health promotion portfolio which includes peer education initiatives, sleep hygiene, body image, new student programs, and sexual health. Marian is the Instructor of Record for Wake Forest University’s CNS 253: Peer Education Academic Course. Marian brings 15 years of experience working in college student health promotion to our office. Prior to coming to Wake Forest, Marian served as the inaugural Bystander Intervention Specialist for The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin). In this role, she managed their campus wide multi-issue bystander intervention initiative called BeVocal. The mission of BeVocal is to enhance bystanders’ confidence and motivation to intervene in order to prevent and reduce harm. Prior to that role, she served for as the inaugural Suicide Prevention Coordinator for UT Austin where she worked with campus stakeholders and students to create the Be That One Suicide Prevention Program (Be That One), a program of the Longhorn Wellness Center. Be That One utilizes a public health approach to implement suicide prevention strategies by peer outreach, education, and support. During this time she also served as the instructor and adviser to the Mental Health Promotion Peer Education at UT Austin. Marian is the founder of the National College Student Suicide Prevention Listserv. Marian’s national leadership efforts include currently serving as the Co-Chair for the Reproductive Rights Task Force and Chair of the Health Promotion Section of the American College Health Association. Marian is the co-author of the newly released book, Topics in Peer Health Education for College Students, from Kendall Hunt Publishing Company. She is a 1st year student in the PhD Program for Community Health Education at the University of North Carolina Greensboro. 

Beth Devonshire, J.D. is currently the Associate General Counsel at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to her role, Beth served as a consultant for D.Stafford & Associates working with institutions on issues involving Title IX, Clery, threat assessment, and other compliance-related issues. Additionally, Beth served as the Associate Dean of Students at UMass Boston, the Director of Community Standards at Bridgewater State University, and the Director of Community Standards at Stonehill College. Prior to her work in higher education, Beth served as a law clerk for the Justices of the Superior Court in Massachusetts and in multiple roles at the Massachusetts State House.

Ms. Devonshire is a faculty member in New England College’s Doctorate of Education Program and the Higher Education Administration program at Bridgewater State University.  Additionally, Beth has served on Public Policy Division for NASPA, is also the former Massachusetts Public Policy Liaison for MA NASPA, and also served as the Director of the Legislative Committee for the Association for Student Conduct Administrators (ASCA) for two years.  

Ms. Devonshire is a member of the Massachusetts Bar.  She is a graduate of Stonehill College with a degree in English and Secondary Education and holds a J.D. from Suffolk University School of Law.  She is also a trained mediator.

Padma Entsuah currently serves as the Director, Well-Being and Health Promotion at Columbia University. Padma has been working in the field of health promotion in higher education for over ten years, supporting student well-being through education, programming, and culture change initiatives. In her current role, she provides strategic leadership to community well-being efforts focused on creating university policies, structures, and cultures that support student well-being. 

She received her bachelor’s degree in Community Health from the University of Maryland–College Park and her Master of Public Health degree from Emory University.

Dr. Joanne Brown is a 1981 graduate of SUNY Plattsburgh with a BS in Nursing. She received both her MSN (1998) and DNP (2012) from the University of Kentucky (UK). She is board certified as a Women’s Health and Family Nurse Practitioner. Her primary clinical focus is sexual/reproductive/LGBTQ+ health. Prior to joining UK’s University Health Service in 2006, she worked in a private OB/GYN practice in Lexington as a nurse practitioner and in a number of roles as a Registered Nurse. Although she recently retired from full-time clinical practice, she continues to work on a per diem basis for UK and other organizations. She is a clinical instructor and adjunctive faculty for the UK College of Nursing. 

Joanne has served in a variety of  roles for the American College Health Association (ACHA) and is currently the Co-Chair of the ACHA Reproductive Rights Task Force and member of the ACHA Promoting LGBTQIA+ Equity Task Force. She also is on the Advisory Board of All Access Eastern Kentucky, a collaboration between Appalshop and Power to Decide that works in Appalachian Kentucky to build support for policies, programs, and services that ensure all eastern Kentuckians have access to the full range of contraceptive methods.

Dr. Rabinovitz has been working as a Family Physician in the Atlanta area since 1999 in several academic and private practice settings including a position as the Medical Director of Georgia State University Student Health Clinic. Currently, Dr. Rabinovitz is the Executive Director of Emory University Student Health Services.

She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College (formerly known as Jefferson Medical College) in Philadelphia in 1994, followed by the completion of her residency training in Family Medicine at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Dr. Rabinovitz is board certified in Family Medicine. She currently is serving on the board of the Georgia Academy of Family Physicians as their president.

Her practice interests include Sexual and Reproductive Health, Adolescent Medicine, Mood Disorders, Gender Affirming Care, Preventative Medicine, Travel Medicine, and Sports Medicine. 

Dr. Eleanore Kim received her undergraduate degree in molecular biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and her medical degree from the University of Illinois. After completing residency training in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of California, San Francisco in 2002, she joined a private practice OBGYN group in Berkeley for before becoming part of the clinical staff at the University of California, Berkeley Tang Student Health Center in 2009.