RAISE Podcast

Juan is the Assistant Vice President for Advancement Strategy and Campaign Director for The University of Texas at Austin. His experience includes previous campaign and advancement leadership positions with Texas Athletics, Wake Forest University, and Arizona State University Foundation. His experience includes campaign planning and goal setting, case statement development, analytics modeling. bus...

Dori Sonntag is the Associate Vice President for Organizational Effectiveness at Gonzaga University, overseeing strategic planning, system enhancement, and talent management for University Advancement. She has been with Gonzaga for 23 years, serving in a variety of roles within advancement. Dori has a Bachelor of Arts in psychology and Master of Arts in counseling psychology, both from Gonzaga Uni...

Mike took his first job in development to subsidize a running habit (he was an avid cross country runner in college and later ran for the Nike Farm Team at Stanford). But thanks to some amazing mentors at Stanford, Mike came to love the work and built himself a pretty awesome advancement career. He worked his way up from an Administrative Assistant on the Reunion Campaigns team at Stanford, eventu...

Todd is the Associate Vice Chancellor for Alumni Relations and the Executive Director of the Mizzou Alumni Association. As the chief alumni relations officer, Todd leads the alumni relations, annual giving, donor relations and advancement marketing and communication teams. Todd joined the Mizzou Alumni Association staff in 1995 and recently celebrated 25 years at Mizzou. During his tenure, he has...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast, Brent chats with Tim McMahon, Vice President for University Advancement at Marquette University. Tim and his stellar team decided they weren’t willing to wait to see how the pandemic played out to launch their capital campaign. So, they decided that the Time to Rise is now. So far, they’ve had 50,000 donors to the campaign already; there was a 62% increase in...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast, we have the privilege of learning from Peter Hayashida, Vice Chancellor of Advancement at the University of California Riverside and President of the UC Riverside Foundation. Peter grew up in a military family that moved from base to base, so he learned early on how to be adaptable, resilient, and to accept change as a natural part of life. But, as a result of...

About Amy Amy Noah has been appointed Vice President and Chief Advancement Officer for the University of Oklahoma Foundation, effective April 1, 2021. Prior to this assignment, Noah was the Vice President for Development at the Purdue Research Foundation serving as the Chief Fundraising Officer for Purdue University from 2013 to 2020. As Vice President of Development, Noah led a staff of over 245...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast Brent sits down with Kim Nyoni. Kim serves as associate vice president for development at the University of Nevada Las Vegas (UNLV). Kim has been with UNLV since 2017 and oversees a development team that secures philanthropic gifts in support of academic units across the campus. Kim also serves as a development liaison with the UNLV Department of Intercollegiat...

On this episode of the RAISE Podcast Brent sits down with Maria Watson. Maria joined Pomona College in 2020 as Vice President for Advancement. As an Executive Officer of the College and reporting directly to the President, Watson oversees Pomona’s development, principal and major gifts, gift planning, alumni and parent engagement, advancement services and advancement communications and events team...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast Brent sits down with Julie Morgan Hooper, CFRE. Julie is the Vice Chancellor for University Development and Alumni Relations (UDAR) at the University of California, Berkeley. As Vice Chancellor, Hooper provides campus-wide leadership on all philanthropic endeavors and manages advancement programs in UDAR involving a staff of 268 employees and an operating budge...

This week on the RAISE podcast, Brent sits down with Dale Wright. Dale serves as associate dean & chief advancement officer for The Grainger College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is responsible for the strategy and operations in fundraising and constituent engagement and is the campaign director for the college’s $550M goal in the "With Illinois" $2.25B c...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast, Brent talks to a long-time innovator, friend, and Advancement Services Great, Caroline Chang. After a varied career during which she “took the cookies as they were passed” (she’ll explain what that means), Caroline landed as the Vice President of Community and Product Engagement at UC Innovation. Caroline has worked extensively as an internal and external part...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast, Brent chats with Gregory Perrin, Associate Vice President of Development and Alumni Relations at St. Edward's University. He is also joined by a special guest, EverTrue’s own Jessica Frey, for a conversation about diversity, equity, and inclusion. Gregory is an accomplished fundraiser who is also an actor, artist, and a former ROTC member. He has fundraising e...

On this episode of the RAISE podcast, Brent gets the scoop from Matt White, Vice President of Advancement at Utah State University. The RAISE podcast spotlights the folks in advancement who are thinking about things from a completely different angle and acting on opportunities to innovate. Matt is definitely one of those people. Under his leadership at USU, the team decided not to operate within t...