Design Team

Abbie supports teaching, learning, and research in the Batten College of Engineering and four departments in the College of Sciences—chemistry, computer science, math, and physics. She has been a librarian for over 15 years and held previous positions at Rensselaer, the University of Michigan, the University of Mary Washington, and Miami of Ohio. She also worked for several years as a non-profit marketing manager.

Kim has a passion for helping others achieve higher education goals and has been doing this for 30 years. With a strong background in program management, student development, and student and academic affairs administration, Kim has worked on numerous projects and initiatives aimed at creating successful pathways for student success.

Kim's career at Old Dominion University spans both academic and student affairs. Her experience in Admissions coupled with her administrative work in the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering make her uniquely placed to understand both areas of higher education. She works actively to bridge the silos and bring people together and remove barriers to education and communication.

Kim continues to seek to expand her knowledge on at-risk student populations through her research on at-risk student populations. She serves as the Co-editor-in-Chief for the Higher Education Politics and Economics journal and is an adjunct professor in the Educational Foundations and Leadership program at Old Dominion University.

Research interests: at-risk students, underrepresented student populations, student veterans, nontraditional students, student loans, STEM preparedness

Kristal Kinloch-Taylor is a dedicated educator, advocate, writer, and life-long learner. She graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from The City University of Queens College in Queens, New York and holds graduate degrees from Regent University. Kristal is in her second semester at Mississippi State University pursuing a PhD in Instructional Systems and Workforce Development.

Currently, she works at Old Dominion University as the Director of the Military Connection Center. She assists student veterans, active duty service members, and military-affiliated students make the successful transition to ODU.

As a committed educator, Kristal believes every learner can succeed. Since 2006, she has worked in higher education in the following capacities: Advising Support Coordinator, Academic Advisor, Assistant Director of Student Support, Director of Enrollment Management & Military Affairs, and Adjunct Instructor.

Meredith just moved to the Hampton Roads area from the Pacific Northwest.

She is currently the Lecturer of Costume Design and Costume Shop manager at Old Dominion University. Prior to teaching at ODU she was at Central Washington University. She teaches courses in Costume Technology, Stage Costuming, Costume Design, Costume Crafts, Fashion History, Intro to Theatre (Theatre Experience), Intro to Production Design and Mask Making. She also mentors students and designs shows.

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Her research is focused on integrating Fat-Positive pedagogy and Fat Studies into her Costume Design Practice. She is presenting her work and research on fatmisia in Theater and how to combat in our Costume Design at the 2021 United States Institute of Technical Theater's National Conference.

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She has designed for Village Theater Kidstage, Weston Playhouse, Longwood Players, Arts After Hours, Boston Baby Dolls, Northeastern University, Berklee College of Music, Emerson College, Stoneham Theater, Zeitgiest Stage Co., and CompanyOne. She also was the Adjunct Costume Design Teacher at Boston Arts Academy, where she taught 9-12th graders the skills and joy that goes into good design.

She is a Wardrobe Mistress, Milliner, Photographer, Artist, and Balloon Sculptor.

She holds an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University ('11) in Costume Design and a BA in Theater from Smith College ('05).

Dr. Meca is an Assistant Professor at Old Dominion University in the Applied Psychological Science Program. His research focuses on identity development across various domains (i.e., ethnic/racial, academic, military, and parental identity) and on the links between identity and psychosocial functioning (e.g., well-being, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, etc.) and health risk behaviors (e.g., alcohol use, risk-sex taking behavior, etc.). Although he currently has active projects focused on various identity domains, the majority of his research has focused on cultural identity development and acculturation among ethnic/racial minority adolescence and emerging adulthood, particularly within Hispanic/Latinx populations.

Ron Moses is the Director of Student-Athlete Services for Old Dominion University. Moses comes to ODU from the University of Missouri, where he was the Director of Academics for football and women’s golf. Under his leadership, the football team experienced consecutive semesters of record academic achievement.

Since 2016, Jose E. Ramos, Jr. has worked in the Office of Intercultural Relations as the Associate Director. He began working as an Academic Advisor/Instructor in the Center for Major Exploration (CME) office at Old Dominion University in 2005 and became the Associate Director in 2011. Before working for ODU, Jose worked as a Crisis Intervention Clinician at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital. He is a founding member of the Hispanic and Latino Employee Association (HLEA) at ODU and a member of Old Dominion University's Advising Network (ODAN). Ramos earned a Bachelor of Science in Psychology (B.A) from the University of Puerto Rico, a Masters of Education in Counseling (Ms., Ed.) from Old Dominion University, and an Education Specialist degree in Higher Education (Ed. S.). He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Leadership in Academic Advising at Kansas State University.

As a member of the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA) for the past 13 years, Ramos has been involved in many different capacities, which range from attending several regional and national conferences to participating in state drive-ins, volunteering for the collection of evaluations at the end of conference presentations, reviewing online presentation proposals and presenting at the National and Region 2 conferences. His presentations include the 2014 national conference in Utah and a pre-conference workshop at the 2014 Region 2 conference in Pennsylvania. He also participated in the 2008 and 2013 summer institute in Portsmouth, VA, and Jacksonville, FL. In 2011 he was appointed to a two-year term to the Diversity Commission with a one-year volunteer extension to join a subcommittee. Ramos was selected for the selective Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) 2041-2016 from the National Academic Advising Association (NACADA). He also joined the committee on Sustainable Leadership, and he was a member of the steering committee for the 2015 Region 2 conference in Richmond, VA.

Reneldo Randall, MBA is a dynamic and savvy authority on successful leadership in advancing human and intellectual capital; a big-picture visionary who understands how daily operations shape results and goals. As a motivated achiever, he is recognized domestically and abroad for combining excellence, integrity, and innovation with best practices and “common sense” to achieve immediate and long-term goals. As a higher education administrator, professor, consultant, manager and social entrepreneur, he is an effective manager of people with unsurpassed interpersonal skills. Reneldo is gifted in uniquely assimilating information and skillfully delivering it with greater value!