Jamie is on a mission to end sexual violence, educate others on active bystander intervention, and uplift the fraternity and sorority life experience. She cares deeply for the development and growth of not just college students but young professionals in the field of higher education.

She is a wife, sister, sorority woman, survivor of sexual violence, and student affairs professional in higher education. She enjoys coffee, yoga, REALLY long walks, and watching old episodes of Gossip Girl and Greek. Did we mention she is a sorority woman?!

Fraternity and sorority is woven through her blood, sweat and tears. Jamie has been working with college students for over 10 years in a variety of roles including working for an inter/national sorority, on college campuses, and through facilitating and speaking.

Jamie graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism, and a minor in Leadership from the University of Rhode Island. After graduating she spent some time working in sales and for a social media marketing company. Shortly after, she worked for her inter/national organization in a variety of roles as a consultant, membership manager, and house director. After that Jamie went to Northeastern University for her Master’s in College Student Development and Counseling and for the past five years she has been working at the University of New Hampshire overseeing the Fraternity and Sorority Life community.

Feel free to browse the topics below to learn about what she offers, and how she can help YOU make a lasting impact on others! All programs can be in person or virtual, keynotes or facilitated program.

This program aims to tell my personal and professional story about the ways in which sorority made me who I am ( with good and challenging chapters along the way), and the ways we all could do better. During my time as a student, I was sexually assaulted. I speak to the power of creating a culture of care and consent, that will help the sorority/ fraternity movement grow and transform. I saw how I and others acted in situations of violence and spaces where we all had the opportunity to act and be a change-maker. For years I have wrestled with the feeling of not being able to catch my breath; because I know there is a story to tell here. A story about strength in humans and the development of someone’s brain in traumatic situations. Looking back at my story, and the stories of many people when they decide to not act or act, many people regret not making the right decision. I hope to engage the audience in learning that fight or flight in those traumatic situations is very normal but what many do not talk about is how many of us FREEZE and that it is also a very normal response to trauma. If we can understand that, we can start the process of true intervention.

I want to empower audiences to react, advocate, and make decisions to pave the way for a better sorority or fraternity experience in the future- for them and their brothers and sisters. The goal of this program is for attendees to see that there are many small moments in someone’s experience in sorority/fraternity ( or any organization) to make a difference and change situations for the better and to give them some tools in their toolkit to bring home with them.

Keynote and facilitated workshop learning objectives:

1. Audiences will learn about sexual assault prevention through listening to a survivors story.
2. Audiences will take away active bystander intervention strategy UNFROZEN.
3. Audiences will engage in an interactive program that helps humans learn how to be kind and empathetic during the disclosure of sexual assault.

Ideal Audience: Sorority Life, Fraternity and Sorority Communities, Panhellenic Organizations, Women’s Groups, Residence Life, Sexual Assault and Bystander Intervention Trainings, New Student Programming

Audiences will engage in a conversation about hazing. The audience will work through hazing in all of its forms and create space for students to evaluate their programs and membership processes. Too often we hear, “I did not know that was hazing!” and they are genuinely telling the truth. The questions we ask during this program is how can we educate to create change over educating for compliance. All forms of hazing are completely and utterly not tolerated. That being said, this program aims to catch students in the pre-planning stages, the thought stages, and the before new member classes and lines enter their doors. It aims to give students space to adjust and be empathetic to their own experiences and the experiences of future members. The program also includes Jamie’s UNFROZEN bystander intervention strategy and ways to safely intervene. Through using the theory of mental health professionals and experiences of higher education, this program will unite audiences to be the change-makers within their organizations and communities on hazing.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Audiences will learn about hazing in all of its forms.
2. Audiences will participant in understanding bystander intervention through Jamie’s UNFROZEN bystander intervention strategy.
3. Audiences will engage in a conversation about being a changemaker on their campus and in their communities.

Ideal Audience: Sorority Life, Fraternity and Sorority Communities, Panhellenic Organizations, Women’s Groups, Residence Life, Hazing Presentations, New Student Programming

By utilizing traditional tactics and integrating non-traditional methods, groups will be able to practice telling their story. Groups that get to engage with this keynote or workshop will understand their brand, and truly get to the realization that who we recruit matters. That may sound really obvious but many times organizations focus on a lot more than the potential new member/associate member. Groups that understand who they are, where they want to be, and how they operate in the larger campus/college community ultimately recruit well. Groups that go through this keynote/training will understand that they will have better retention when potentials are recruited based on truth, brand, and honest experiences.

Jamie offers personalized recruitment, retention, and conversation skills workshops and facilitated engagements for all types of groups on a college campus. With many years of planning, and executing primary Panhellenic Recruitment and Interfraternity Recruitment on college campuses, Jamie is here to help your councils and chapters grow and do it by thinking outside the box.

Learning objectives:

1. Participants will learn about strategies to engage in a highly authentic and honest recruitment.
2. Participants will have an understanding that strength in recruitment is not really what they have always been told.
3. Participants will gain value in understanding the importance of their collective brand and real; honest organizational culture.

* This program can be customized to your organizations, councils, chapters, and/or recruitment counselor training

Ideal Audience: Fraternity and Sorority Life, Panhellenic Organizations, Panhellenic Communities, Interfraternity Communities, IFC Chapters, Multicultural Greek Organizations

Does your Panhellenic chapter, national organization, or council need a deep dive in anti-racism? Want to work together on how to dismantle white supremacy and racist ideaologies within process, policy, and procedure in panhellenic recruitment? Well, this program might be perfect. This program intends to build community, identify issues within the current recruitment process, and help the participants take steps to creating a truly anti-racist process. Think about the microaggressions and overt racist actions that happen within the process, and now think about how if we all work together this experience can truly be a place for POC and Black women to come together and truly feel included. If you have ever been told to wear nude heels, straighten your hair, or be taken back when you have read a policy that seemed to exclude WOC, then this program can help!

This program is based on the popular programming Jamie offered in June 2020 called Nude Heels. Are you looking to truly make change and take those steps together? This program could be the right fit for your chapter, organization, or community!

Learning objectives:

1. Participants are brought together to have a conversation and actively learn from each other.
2. Participants will be put in virtual spaces (virtual or in person) that help to create space to identify and share ways that racism, microaggressions, and white supremacy is integrated within sorority Panhellenic recruitment.
3. Participants leave feeling empowered to take the next steps to create change in their spheres of influence as it relates to helping themselves, their organizations, their chapters become Anti-racist.