Carlin Rosengarten is a technical writer and researcher with more than a decade of experience synthesizing academic literature and data into media for broad audiences. A passionate advocate for equitable growth, sustainable development, and environmental justice, he has developed content for many nonprofit and intergovernmental organizations, including the UN Environment Programme and UN Secretary General’s office, as well as for analytics startups, academic researchers, and scientists. Carlin continually seeks new ways of communicating science that promotes economic, human, and environmental health.
Born in Charleston, South Carolina, Carlin earned his bachelor’s degree in biology and studio art at Dartmouth College and his master’s in environmental management from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environment Studies (now Yale School of the Environment), where he completed two teaching fellowships under Nobel economist Dr. William Nordhaus. Employing a collaborative, multidisciplinary approach to his work, Carlin crafts narratives that bridge the gap between academic specialists and the general public with the aim to inform policy and advance knowledge.
Tya serves as the program coordinator for the Luther Hodges Scholars program. She has eight years of event management and program coordination experience. Her work involves planning and coordinating the program’s signature events, growing the program’s online presence, including managing its social media platforms, and assisting with program evaluation and assessment.
Prior to joining the Scholars Program, Tya worked with the Center for Creative Leadership as a program coordinator for leadership development programs and for the Protocol Office for the Oklahoma Secretary of State and the Oklahoma Commission on the Status of Women. She hopes to continue creating dynamic experiences for the Luther Hodges Scholars while pursing certification as a Certified Meeting Planner.
Allison Schlobohm equips individuals and groups with the communication tools and knowledge they need to construct authentic messages and inclusive cultures.
Dr. Schlobohm teaches communication and diversity and inclusion courses at UNC Kenan-Flagler, leads a critical conversation workshop series with the Robertson Scholars Program, and consults with corporations, local businesses and non-profit organizations.
Dr. Schlobohm received her PhD in communication from UNC-Chapel Hill, where she earned her master’s degree. She graduated summa cum laude with a BA in communication studies from Truman State University.
Keith provides advising and coaching to support our Luther Hodges Scholars’ personal and professional development. Additionally, he helps connect them to campus and community resources and assists them in securing cross-sector internships and research experiences.
Before joining the institute, Keith was the senior academic adviser for North Carolina State University’s College of Education. He previously worked for N.C. State’s Poole College of Management as an academic adviser and served as community director for residential education at the University of North Carolina at Asheville.
Keith is a doctoral student in the higher education opportunity, equity, and justice program at N.C. State. He earned a master’s degree in college student affairs from the University of South Florida and a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of Tampa.
Sekou Bermiss’ research is in the area of strategic management and organizational theory.
Specifically, he investigates how institutional factors shape the perception of firms by critical stakeholders. His research also explores the antecedents and consequences of human capital mobility and how different forms of employee movement impact a firm’s ability to compete with rivals.
Dr. Bermiss teaches courses in people analytics, managing human capital, leading for impact and organizational theory and design
He is a Fellow at the Filene Institute where he leads the research efforts of the “War for Talent” Center of Excellence.
His award-winning research has been published in the Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal and Research in Organizational Behavior. His research has been highlighted by Harvard Business Review, The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio.
He was honored as a Poets & Quants 2018 Top Undergraduate Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served on the faculty before joining UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Before entering academia, Dr. Bermiss worked for Deloitte Consulting in New York City.
He received his PhD and MS management and organizations from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, and his BS in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
Marie Mitchell studies behavioral ethics in the workplace, inclusion and exclusion dynamics at work, and destructive and conflictive work behavior and relationships.
Her work has identified and explained the consequences of varied forms of destructive work behaviors, such as abusive supervision, exclusion, workplace cheating and coworker undermining. The goal of her research is to explain how factors and relational dynamics within organizations promote dysfunctional, exclusionary and unethical behavior as well as how organizations and leaders can enhance functional, inclusive, and ethical behavior in organizations.
Dr. Mitchell teaches ethical leadership at UNC Kenan-Flagler. She has taught courses in ethics, leadership, negotiation, organizational behavior and human resources to undergraduate, MBA and doctoral students.
An award-winning teacher and researcher, Dr. Mitchell came to UNC Kenan-Flagler from the Terry College of Business at the University of Georgia, where she was the I. W. Cousins Professors of Business Ethics.
Her extensive body of research has been published in top journals, including research has appeared in journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, and Personnel Psychology, among others.
Dr. Mitchell serves on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Occupational Health Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes and Personnel Psychology. She is a former associate editor of Personnel Psychology.
Prior to entering higher education, Dr. Mitchell worked in human resource management and consulting.
Through executive education, she has provided consultation, coaching and workshops to executives and employees from a diverse set of companies and industries on topics related to leadership and human resource management, including coaching, conflict management, emotional intelligence, employee development, ethics, negotiation, performance management and workplace inclusion.
She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Central Florida, an M.A. in human resource management from Rollins College and a B.A. in political science from George Mason University.
Elaine Buckberg, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University’s Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. Previously, she was Chief Economist of General Motors (GM) from 2018 to March 2023. At GM, Elaine was responsible for assessing the impact of worldwide economic developments on the corporation, and for providing advice on various competitive and economic policy issues. Elaine also headed long-term forecasting of auto segments and vehicles, including forecasting and analysis of EV adoption. She led and participated in major strategic projects at the intersection of policy and business. Elaine represented GM with senior U.S. and foreign government officials and was a frequent public speaker on GM’s behalf.
Before joining GM, Elaine was a Principal at The Brattle Group, a global economic consultancy, where she conducted research on infrastructure financing and provided expert testimony in high profile financial litigation matters. She also headed Brattle’s Washington, D.C. office.
From 2013-16, Elaine served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy Coordination in the Office of Economic Policy at the U.S. Treasury Department. In that role, she advised the Treasury Secretary and other top officials on a wide range of domestic policy issues including infrastructure, housing and housing finance reform, financial regulatory reform, virtual currency, and retirement security. While at Treasury, Elaine played a leading role in initiating and executing President Obama’s Build America Investment Initiative on infrastructure, including authoring two white papers on public-private partnerships and innovative infrastructure financing.
Prior to joining Treasury, Elaine was a Senior Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting, where she provided expert testimony and consulting in litigation and regulatory disputes on a wide range of topics including hedge funds, structured finance, valuation of complex derivatives, and foreign exchange. She was actively involved in firm management as a member of NERA’s Board of Directors and head of the Strategy Committee.
As a Vice President at Morgan Stanley, she was a currency strategist and then worked in Market Risk Management. Elaine began her career as an Economist at the International Monetary Fund.
She received her Ph.D. in Economics from MIT and her B.A. from Yale.
Samuel is responsible for building and scaling the institute’s data infrastructure for initiatives including the American Growth Project.
Before joining the Kenan Institute, he was the research data manager for the Education Policy Initiative here at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, managing all aspects of data processing for UNC research and evaluation projects analyzing North Carolina educational systems. He was also a research associate for Innovations for Poverty Action in Accra, Ghana, where he developed and implemented a mobile computer-assisted personal interviewing survey to capture children’s learning levels across 500 elementary schools.
Samuel has a master’s degree in economics from Western Illinois University and a bachelor’s in economics from the Université de Lomé in Lomé, Togo, plus a certificate in survey methodology from UNC.
Dr. Gray is a Professor in Psychology and Neuroscience at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he directs the Deepest Beliefs Lab and the Center for the Science of Moral Understanding. He is also an Adjunct Professor in Organizational Behavior at the Kenan-Flagler Business School at UNC, where he teaches about organizational ethics and team processes. Dr. Gray received his PhD from Harvard University.
Phaedra Boinodiris is a Fellow of the RSA and has focused on inclusion in technology since 1999. She holds 5 patents and has served on the leadership team of IBM’s Academy of Technology focusing on kicking off internal startups that range from IBM’s first Serious Games and Advanced Simulation program to IBM’s first K-12 program. Phaedra is currently the PEP exec for the State of WA and is pursuing her PhD in AI and Ethics due to a generous scholarship from the European Union in collaboration with NYU. She has founded or acted as an advisor for multiple digital inclusion programs. She co-founded WomenGamers.Com where she launched the first national scholarship program for women to pursue degrees in Game Design and development. She won the United Nations Woman of Influence in STEM and inclusivity Award in 2019, received the Social Innovator Award by IBM in 2018, received the 2014 Kenan Flagler Young Alumni Award, became a Fellow of the American Democracy Institute in 2011 and in 2007 was recognized by Women in Games International as being one of the Top 100 Women in the Games industry. Phaedra is the author of the book Serious Games for Business and is a regular public speaker and contributor to articles in Forbes, Fast Company, the National Academy of Engineering Journal, NPR and other publications. She is on the editorial board for the Journal of Future Robotic Life and on the board of Marbles Museum. She holds a BA and an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.