Staff

Our expert staff is caring, inspiring, and committed to your success and career goals. We give you the confidence, resources, and skills to obtain a rewarding job after graduation by connecting you to employers who want to hire TU students.

Career Center Operations

Lorie Logan-Bennett

Lorie Logan-Bennett, M.A.

Assistant Vice President Career Services
Liaison to Division of Strategic Partnerships & Applied Research and The StarTUp at the Armory
Phone: 410-704-2386
Email: 

Lorie has the privilege working with a talented and dedicated Career Center team focused on connecting students to their futures. This work includes oversight and strategy for external relations, career education, experiential learning and operations.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Input, Achiever, Individualization, Learner, Analytical
Hometown: Columbus, OH
Pets: our fun terrier-mix mutt, Chapo (@365_days_of_Chapo on Instagram for anyone who wants to take a look)
I enjoy: audiobooks and podcasts, trivia and word games, running, yoga, warm weather – and hanging out with my husband Chris and teenage sons, Quinn and Aiden.
The most interesting place I traveled: ice caves in Iceland and flying at the speed of sound on the Concord.

Keith Jones portrait
TU Alumnus, First-Generation College Student

Keith Jones, M.S.

Associate Director, Operations
Phone: 410-704-4838
Email: 

Keith and his team of marketing interns help promote career-related events and services to students through a combination of print, online, and social media. He also manages Handshake, maintains the Career Center website, and serves on numerous university marketing committees.

Pronouns: He/Him/His 
Strengths: Achiever, Maximizer, Learner, Responsibility, Consistency
Hometown: White Marsh, MD
First job after graduation: Junior Graphic Designer at Legg Mason
I enjoy: spending time with my wife, Sophie, and two young children, Lorelai and Reed.

Rachel Hoos

Rachel Hoos

Marketing & Events Coordinator
Liaison to Student Activities
Phone: 410-704-5459
Email:

Strengths: Woo, Communication, Individualization, Restorative, StrategicHometown: Bel Air, MDFun fact about me: I went to Taylor Swifts Reputation stadium tour twice in one weekPets: Two cats, Elphaba and Galinda.I enjoy: listening to music, reading, and baking.

Kenya Aguilar

Kenya Aguilar

Administrative Assistant II
Phone: 410-704-4842
Email:

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Harmony, Consistency, Relator, Discipline, Intellection 
Hometown: Washington, D.C.
Pets: An amazing goldendoodle named Buddha 
I enjoy: yoga, mindfulness, vegan food and social media.

Career Communities

Wil Preston

Wil Preston

Director of Career Communities
Liaison to Fraternity & Sorority Life
Phone: 410-704-3670
Email:

Wil supports and supervises the career education and external relations teams. In his free time, he volunteers as a Career Coach and a Career Development Facilitator with two Dress for Success locations.

Pronouns: He/Him/His
Strengths: Futuristic, Maximizer, Ideation, Belief, Focus
Pets: Skip, cutest mini schnauzer mix
I enjoy: travelling, the beach, learning, cooking, planning for future fun, gaining new skills, helping people turn dreams into reality, and doughnuts.
My favorite place: Portland, Maine

Career Education

Glenda Henkel portrait
TU Alumna, First-Generation College Student

Glenda Henkel, M.Ed., M.S.

Associate Director – Career Education
Liaison to College of Education and Honors College
Phone: 410-704-2932
Email:

Glenda and her team promote and support policies, best practices and student opportunities for experiential learning campus wide. As liaison to the College of Education, Glenda prepares teacher interns for the job search process and coordinates teacher recruitment. As liaison to the Honors College, she collaborates on programs that support undergraduate research and promote the grad school application process.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Achiever, Connectedness, Learner, Input, Includer
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
I enjoy: attending/watching sporting events, reading, music/choral singing
First job after graduation: middle school reading/language arts teacher
The most interesting place I traveled: Italy

Laura Knox

Laura Knox, J.D.

Assistant Director, Campus Student Employment
Phone: 410-704-4659
Email: 

Laura works with on-campus student employees, and their supervisors, to help develop and maximize student on-campus employment opportunities and success.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Harmony, Maximizer, Relator, Arranger, Communication
Hometown: Reston, VA
Pets: Shadow, the most awesome rescue cat in the universe
I enjoy: musical theater, vegetarian Indian & Ethiopian food, national and state parks, spending time with my husband and four teen/young adult children
My favorite place: Sequoia National Park

Marcy Lightfoot

Marcy Lightfoot

Assistant Director Media, Arts & Communication Career Education
Liaison to College of Business & Economics and Military & Veterans Center
Phone: 410-704-5425
Email: 

Marcy provides targeted resources for those pursuing careers in media, arts and communication related fields. She works with students one-on-one regarding career planning tools and exploration.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths:  Input, Connectedness, Woo, Includer, Communication
Hometown: York, PA
Favorite Quote: “We can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.” – Abraham Lincoln
Pets: a dog, three cats, a Guinea pig, and a frog
I enjoy: exercising and attending cultural events.

Sara Harrison

Sara Harrison

Assistant Director Health & Wellness Career Education
Liaison to Center for Student Diversity, Accessibility & Disability Services and Athletics
Phone: 410-704-5087
Email: 

Strengths:  Harmony, Maximizer, Developer, Consistency, Adaptability
Hometown: Lothian, MD
Favorite Quote: “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
Pets: One stubborn but loveable black and white paint horse named Dice.
I enjoy: brick-oven pizza, spending time with Dice, reading, car karaoke sessions and being outside.

Tanja Swain

Tanja Swain

Assistant Director STEM Career Education
Phone: 410-704-3224
Email:

Tanja works one-on-one with students regarding their career planning and development. She provides targeted resources to students in the STEM fields.

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Ideation, Arranger, Positivity, Includer, Harmony
Hometown: Graz, Austria
Pets: A rottweiler named Jordy and a 15-year-old, blind cat named Grayson
I enjoy: spending time with my family, hiking and gardening.

Amen Onuoha

Amen Onuoha

Assistant Director – Liberal Arts Career Education
Liaison to International Students & Scholars Office and Civic Engagement & Social Responsibility
Phone: 410-704-4069
Email:

Pronouns: She/Her/HersStrengths: Achiever, Relator, Strategic, Learner, ResponsibilityHometown: Baltimore, MDI enjoy: food, family, & faith.First job after graduation: Social Media Marketing
Reflection Question: What have you learned from the mishaps in your life?

Renee Harris

Renee Harris

Assistant Director, Career Exploration & Development
Liaison to Academic Advising, Retention & Completion Office, Counseling Center and Alumni Relations
Phone: 410-704-4840
Email:

External Relations

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Manette Zinkand

Associate Director – External Relations
Liaison to College of Business & Economics
Phone: 410-704-4839
Email: 

Top 5 Strengths: Positivity, Woo, Activator, Arranger, Includer

Sheila Tilghman

Sheila Tilghman, M.S.

Assistant Director of External Relations – STEM and Health & Wellness
Phone: 410-704-3667
Email: 

Pronouns: She/Her/Hers
Strengths: Developer, Intellection, Learner, Empathy, Relator
Hometown: Baltimore, MD
Pets: A lazy cat named Cupcake
Favorite Quote: “There is no passion to be found playing small in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” – Nelson Mandela
The most interesting place I traveled: Nassau, Bahamas

Sidney Pink

Sidney Pink

Assistant Director External Relations – Media, Arts & Communication and Liberal Arts
Phone: 410-704-6093
Email:

Sidney is an artist-administrator that manages employer and alumni relationships for the Towson University Media, Arts & Communication (MAC) Career Community. In collaboration with the MAC Career Coach, he cultivates a college-wide career community through site visit opportunities, network expansion, job/internship obtainment, newsletters, and mentoring.

Pronouns: He/Him/His
Strengths: Connectedness, Learner, Achiever, Discipline, Futuristic
Hometown: Hagerstown, MD
I enjoy: skiing, watching old sci-fi movies and working in my art studio.
Fun fact about me: I perform in a community-based water ballet group called Fluid Movement.
The most interesting place I lived: Japan for 4 years.

Student Employees

Career Peer Advisors

  • Gabriel Addai
  • Mason Ayotte
  • Ashley Hajimirsadeghi
  • Anoosha Mirza
  • Tofunmi Ilesanmi
  • Mackenzie Shaw

Events Interns

  • Fie Klementsen
  • Connor Smith

External Relation Student Assistant

  • Cameron Moore

Marketing & Events Intern

  • Averi Shackleford
  • Jazlyn Sligh

Marketing Interns

  • Samantha Bonney
  • Eliana Rakhamimov

Student Assistants

  • Gabriel Addai
  • Wynter Benton
  • Tylar Angel Constantine
  • Jada Davis
  • Hailey Feeney
  • Devaughn Manguiri
  • Vimbainashe Marufu
  • Jessica Montano
  • Nneka Onwudiwe
  • Rachel Owens
  • Aaliyah Philippe-Auguste
  • Gabriella Takang