Jacob Moore, Associate Vice President of Tribal Relations

Office of Government & Community Engagement

 Jacob Moore’s primary role is to develop, enhance, and sustain collaborative partnerships between Arizona State University and tribal nations and Indigenous communities. Jacob also works to increase the recruitment, retention, and the graduation rates of American Indian students and to increase the number of American Indian faculty, staff, and academic programs.

James develops a wide variety of architectural and planning solutions for a variety of customers and is a published author, instructor, NASA award recipient and patent holder.

Topic: Smart Regions: - Smart outcomes to improve lives and transform society

  • Over 18 years’ experience working with diverse crowds of all sizes, ages, and backgrounds.
  • Worked over 15 years in a zoo creating, leading, and maintain programs with students and volunteers.
  • Experience in animal behavior and training with animals and people!
  • Experience in creating and managing educational and charitable projects, writing programs for young children and their families, coordinating full weekend programs and itinerary, and coordinating programs and events for wounded warriors and their families. 
  • Experience in leading and mentoring a

Charles Kazilek has been involved in universal learning through several long-running programs. His STEM website, Ask A Biologist (askabiologist.asu.edu), has been running since 1997 and has had over 65 million K-Gray learners visit and use the website.

Dr. Minu Ipe is Vice Chair and Managing Director for Leadership and Institutional Design at Arizona State University. In these roles, Minu serves as an advisor to the President, working on multiple efforts that advance the design and culture of ASU.  The core purpose of her current role is to develop an enterprise that is capable of continuous adaptation and is agile and sustainable as it designs itself well into the future.

Heather Haseley is the Co-Executive Director, Innovation Collaboratory and Lead Design Architect, Next Generation Learning.

Bobby Gray has been working in IT and higher education for almost two decades.  He started his professional career as an application developer and worked his way up to leading a team of a cross-functional development team (web site technicians, application developers, and data analysis) at the W. P.

Gemma Garcia is the Director of Online Curriculum and Digital Innovation in The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Gemma Garcia has worked at ASU for over 20 years supporting faculty with instructional technology implementation and instructional design. She has previously worked in the Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts, the University Technology Office, the School of Social Transformation and the School of Historical, Religious and Philosophical Studies.

Alesha Durfee is the Associate Director of Graduate Programs for the School of Social Transformation and an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies. Her research, teaching, and service focus on domestic and sexual violence, and she has received funding from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Justice, and the Center for Victim Research. For the last six years, she has coordinated and supervised the ASU Clothesline Project on the Tempe campus.

Sean Dudley began his career at ASU 14 years ago at the Biodesign Institute in the Center for Evolutionary Functional Genomics.  About 10 years ago he joined KED and founded the Research technology office (RTO), a technology services organization that provides top-priority support to research administration, faculty, and students. 

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