CBL Collaborative

The Collaborative trains faculty and instructors on the best and most innovative practices in Community-Based Learning, as well as provides them with key resources and connections across the university to foster professional and institutional growth. Participants design their own CBL courses and in the process examine their pedagogies, assumptions, and expectations relating to community engagement. Faculty involved in the Collaborative receive a stipend for their participation.

2025-2026 Members

2025-2026 Collaborative Members

• Nydia Ayala, Cognitive and Behavioral Science Department
• Suzanne Delle, Theater, Dance, and Film Studies Department
• Nneka Dennie, History Department
• Romina Green, History Department
• Jessica LaPrice, Biology Department
• Alexander Ramirez, English Department
• Alexander Sutton, Sociology and Anthropology Department
• Kursat Yilmaz, Mathematics Department

2024-2025 Members

• Brandon Conley, Philosophy Department
• Donald Gaylord, Sociology and Anthropology Department
• Sarah Margalus, Education Studies
• Catarina Passidomo, Environmental Studies
• Samantha Rosenthal, History Department
• Beth Staples, English Department, Shenandoah Literary Magazine
• JT Torres, Houston H. Harte Center for Teaching and Learning

2023-2024 Members

• Michelle Cowan, Business Administration Department 
• Karena Gill, Department of Earth and Environmental Geoscience
• Emily Landry, Business Administration Department
• Toni Locy, Department of Journalism & Mass Communications
• Jayson Margalus, Connolly Center for Entrepreneurship
• Amira Walker, University Library
• Katia Yoza, Romance Languages Department

2022-2023 Members

• Michael Berlin, English Department, Writing Center
• Madhumita Chakraborty, Department of Earth and Environmental Geoscience
• Holly Shablack, Department of Cognitive and Behavioral Science
• Angela Sun, Philosophy Department
• Steven Woodruff, Department of Physics and Engineering