Eight African Americans Selected for Administrative Roles in Higher Education

Jaynelle Hazard has been named director and chief curator of the Georgetown University Art Galleries. She previously served as executive director and chief curator of the Tephra Institute of Contemporary Art in Reston, Virginia, and director of exhibitions at Workforce Art Center in Lorton, Virginia. Hazard holds a bachelor’s degree in fashion design and merchandising from Virginia Commonwealth University and a master’s degree in art business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York. Matthew R. Goodman has been appointed director of bands at Allen University, a historically Black institution in Columbia, South Carolina. He previously served as head band director at Handley High School in Roanoke, Alabama, and as director of bands for Pleasant Grove High School in Alabama. Goodman is a two-time HBCU alumnus, earning his bachelor’s degree from Winston-Salem State University in North Carolina and his master’s degree in music education from Alabama A&M University. Raven James has been named associate director of athletics for external relations and athletic marketing, as well as senior woman administrator at Manhattan College in New York. Since 2022, she has served as the college’s director of basketball operations for the women’s basketball program. Before her current role, she served as a...