Faculty & Staff
Department Chair
Abiola Farinde
Title: Department Chair
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Abiola.Farinde@umb.edu
Graduate Program Manager
Amy Collinsworth
Title: Graduate Program Manager & Assistant to Department Chair
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Amy.Collinsworth@umb.edu
Staff
Adela Gonzalez
Title: Administrative Assistant II
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Adela.Gonzalez@umb.edu
Graduate Program Director: Educational Leadership for Social Justice Program
Graduate Program Director: Higher Education (PhD/EdD) Program
Graduate Program Director: Urban Education Leadership and Policy Studies (PhD/EdD) Program
Patricia Krueger-Henney
Title: Graduate Program Director/Associate Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Patricia.Krueger@umb.edu
Faculty
Bodunrin Banwo
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Bodunrin.Banwo@umb.edu
Joseph Berger
Title: Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Department: Provost's Office & Vice Chancellor Academic Affairs
Email: Joseph.Berger@umb.edu
Katalin Szelenyi
Title: Associate Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Katalin.Szelenyi@umb.edu
Lorna Rivera
Title: Director, Gaston Institute
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Lorna.Rivera@umb.edu
Meagan Richard
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Meagan.Richard@umb.edu
Melissa Colon
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Melissa.Colon@umb.edu
Monnica Chan
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Leadership in Education
Email: Monnica.Chan@umb.edu
Tara Parker
Title: Dean, College of Education and Human Development
Department: College of Education & Human Development
Email: Tara.Parker@umb.edu
Faculty Emeritus
Dr. Zelda (Zee) Gamson, professor emerita, joined the University of Massachusetts Boston in 1988, and served as the founding Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education, co-founder of the Higher Education doctoral program, and as a faculty member before retiring in 1999. Prior to coming to the University of Massachusetts Boston, Dr. Gamson spent more than twenty years at the University of Michigan, where she held appointments at the Institute for Social Research, the Center for the Study of Higher Education, and the Residential College.
From 2005-2022, John Saltmarsh was Professor of Higher Education in the Department of Leadership in Education in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. From 2005-2016 he served as the Director of the New England Resource Center for Higher Education (NERCHE). From 1998-2005 he was the director of the national program on Integrating Service with Academic Study at Campus Compact. John also held an appointment as a Distinguished Engaged Scholar at the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University, was also a Visiting Scholar with College Unbound in Providence, Rhode Island, and from 2022-2024 he served as a Fellow with the Carnegie Foundation.
John’s publications are publicly available online.
Dr. Wenfan Yan is Professor Emeritus of Educational Leadership at the University of Massachusetts Boston (UMB), where he joined the faculty in 2008 as a tenured full professor. He earned his Ph.D. from the State University of New York at Buffalo.
Over the course of his distinguished career, Dr. Yan taught graduate courses in research methods, instrument design, program evaluation, and dissertation seminars. A dedicated mentor, he chaired 21 doctoral dissertations and served as a reader for more than 20 others. His research integrates quantitative and qualitative methodologies to examine state, national, and international policy issues related to equity, access, and assessment in P-16 education, with a recent focus on Chinese education reform. His work on cross-cultural leadership strategies for social justice secured more than $1.2 million in grant funding.