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Staff

 

Angela Oxford, Director

Angela Oxford began as the director of the Center for Community Engagement in July 2008. She is a native of Northwest Arkansas and a graduate from Arkansas State University with a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master’s of Divinity from Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. She began her career in the non-profit sector in 1999 by working for Hands on Atlanta, engaging the city’s corporate community in corporate service events for six years. After Angela relocated to NWA, she consulted for the Hands on Network/Points of Light Foundation and she served as the program director for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Northwest Arkansas. She continues her life of servant-leadership by participating in the Governor’s Advisory Council for the Division of Community Service and Nonprofit Support, the NWA MLK Planning Committee, and as a Girl Scout Leader.

Email: afoxford@uark.edu


 

Amanda Finch, Program Coordinator

Amanda Finch attended college in Lawton, Oklahoma at Cameron University where she received her bachelor’s degree in Communications in 2010. She moved to Fayetteville in the following July and is currently a second-year master’s student in the Higher Education Leadership program at the University of Arkansas. Before her current position as the Program Coordinator for the Center for Community Engagement she was a graduate assistant in the Office of Student Activities where her main responsibilities were advising student programming committees and booking campus talent. She likes being a new student affairs professional because she enjoys working with students and the programming that helps connect them to the campus and community.

Email: acfinch@uark.edu


 

Ivy Mullen, Graduate Assistant

Ivy Mullen moved from her hometown of Wichita, KS in July of 2011 to begin her student affairs career as the Graduate Assistant for the Center for Community Engagement. During the pursuit of her BA in Strategic Communication from Wichita State University, she fell in love with the higher education field through years of extensive involvement with the student activities department. After graduation she spent several weeks exploring the United States (and herself), eventually finding her way back to student affairs and then to Fayetteville to pursue a master’s degree in Higher Education.

Email: imullen@uark.edu