Staff
Dr. Kristie Roberts-Lewis
Executive Director
Dr. Kristie Roberts-Lewis is an accomplished Higher Education administrator with an exceptional record of leading transformational change and increasing institutional effectiveness and student success in graduate education.
Dr. Sarah Roche
Dr. Roche is an educational sociologist whose work focuses on the K–12 educational ecosystem. This includes research on schools, but also on the supporting nonprofit and philanthropic infrastructure, the policy milieu, as well as family, neighborhood, and city-level factors that can impact school or student-level performance.
She most recently served as a Post-Doctoral Fellow in Community Building and Social Change at Emory University.
Dr. Monica Miller
Dr. Monica Miller is an Associate Professor of English and Coordinator of Graduate Writing Programs at Middle Georgia State University. She currently serves as the Carolyn Wynn Smalley Distinguished Chair of Georgia Studies and was the 2024 recipient of the Excellence in Scholarship faculty award.
Dr. Miller is the editor of The Tacky South, Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa, and The Routledge Companion to Literature of the U.S. South.