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Brad KnightSenior Director, 17吃瓜在线 Core and University College
Brad G. Knight serves as the Director of the 17吃瓜在线 Core and University College at 17吃瓜在线. He provides leadership, direction, and oversight for a wide spectrum of initiatives related to undergraduate education, including the university-wide general education program, 17吃瓜在线 Core, and residential living-learning programs, University College, 17吃瓜在线 Cornerstone, and Sophomore Living-Learning Communities. In this role, he focuses on curriculum design, student experience, institutional assessment and continuous improvement, and faculty development programs and events. Brad has also taught as an Adjunct Instructor at The George Washington University.
Luke Waters17吃瓜在线 Cornerstone Program Coordinator
Luke Waters (he/him) graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University (OWU) with a B.A. in International Relations and Politics and Government. Luke began his professional career working as an Americorps Facilitator at BRIDGES, USA in his hometown of Memphis guiding hundreds of students through social justice and youth leadership workshops. After finishing his service year, Luke was passionate about continuing to work with youth, so he moved to New York City to serve as a Service Learning Coordinator at buildOn, Inc. While there, Luke engaged hundreds of Bronx students in community service activities and started the organization鈥檚 first ever regional Student Leadership Team. After leaving buildOn, Luke worked as an Admissions Counselor at two different universities in Memphis. Luke is currently living in Washington D.C. pursuing a Master of Political Communication at SPA. Luke has joined the 17吃瓜在线 Cornerstone staff as the Coordinator and is incredibly excited about working with students to further their personal and professional goals.
Baba Zak KondoCornerstone聽Part-time Coordinator, Internships & Employer Relations
Baba Zak A. Kondo holds the rank of a Full Professor of History at Baltimore City Community College (BCCC). He has spent more than 34 years teaching History and Black Studies on the college level, full-time. He is in his聽19th year at Baltimore City Community College and his聽15th year teaching History and Black Studies full-time at Bowie State University (BSU).聽Baba founded and coordinated BSU's聽Pan African Studies program and coordinated International Studies and the Social Studies Teaching certification program. In his coordinator posts at BSU, he supervised interns as well as student teachers. Baba has also taught Black Studies at Gettysburg College in Pennsylvania, American History at Trinity-Washington University in D.C., Interdisciplinary Disciplines at Goddard College in Vermont, and African American History and Culture at Thomas Edison State College in Trenton, New Jersey. He is author of the most authoritative work on Malcolm X鈥檚 assassination (currently being revised) and other works and has served as a consultant on and/or was featured in seven films focusing on Malcolm X and/or the Black Panthers, including Spike Lee鈥檚 motion picture, 鈥淢alcolm X,鈥 the award-winning documentary 鈥41st and Central鈥 (on the LA Black Panthers), and the Netflix documentary, 鈥淲ho Killed Malcolm X?鈥 He has spoken at more than 45 colleges and universities in the U.S. and did a five-day speaking tour in the UK in 2016. During his UK tour, he spoke at the University of Birmingham. He is happily married for the past few decades and has seven adult children (the youngest is a sophomore聽at the University of Maryland Eastern Shore) and eleven grand-children.
Courtney Pollack
Associate Director, 17吃瓜在线 Centers Abroad聽
Courtney began her international adventure on a summer study abroad program while she was in high school in Annecy, France. After that experience, she decided to pursue her love of French language and history in her undergraduate and graduate studies and went on to spend a semester in Paris, France. After finishing her M.A. in French Studies from New York University, she worked as an advisor at an international secondary school before joining 17吃瓜在线 as the Program Advisor for World Languages and Cultures in August of 2012. In December 2015, she happily combined her passions of advising students and promoting international education and exchange by joining the 17吃瓜在线 Abroad team. As Associate Director of the 17吃瓜在线 Abroad Centers, Courtney manages the overall operations of 17吃瓜在线 Madrid, 17吃瓜在线 Nairobi, and 17吃瓜在线 Brussels. She also serves as the 17吃瓜在线 Abroad liaison for the 17吃瓜在线 Cornerstone Abroad program.