Strategic Planning Champions
Key to the success of our efforts will be our volunteer Strategic Planning Champions, a dynamic group of 23 members from across our community. Each of our Champions bring passion, expertise, and a deep commitment to preparing Macalester students to go out into the world and make needed change happen.

The role of the Strategic Planning Champion is to engage all of the college’s constituents–including students, faculty, staff, alumni, and parents–in thinking about the future of the college. The Champions serve as liaisons between their constituents and the college’s senior leadership. They are responsible for reading and learning, gathering input and feedback, organizing findings, identifying themes emerging from the process, meeting with Macalester’s senior leaders, and communicating updates back to their constituents.
Read the detailed role description.
List of Champions and the Constituencies They Represent

- Anna Sène ’24
- Students

- Barbara Phillips ’71
- Alumni

- Bobbie Pennington ’24
- Students

- Carter Rutherford ’23
- Students

- Charnelle Etti ’15
- Alumni

- Daymond Dean ’91
- Alumni

- Dennis Cao
- Faculty

- Duchess Harris
- Faculty

- Erin Miller ’05
- Alumni

- Ernesto Capello
- Faculty

- Gabriella Gillespie ’17
- Staff

- Gia Montgomery ’24
- Students

- Jennifer Jacobsen
- Staff

- Margaret Smith
- Staff

- Meredith Harper Bonham P’23
- Parents

- Niloy Ray ’99
- Alumni

- Rebecca Gentry ’23
- Students

- Rohan Preston P’25
- Parents

- Rola Cao ’25
- Students

- Sami Banat ’24
- Students

- Sonia Mehta
- Faculty

- Suveer Daswani ’18
- Alumni

- Tamatha Perlman
- Staff