Meet Our Facilitators!

Mallory is a co-founder and co-executive director of Kallion Leadership. She is also a senior professor of practice in Classical Studies at Tulane University, where she has taught for over 10 years, and holds the Greenberg Family Professorship of Social Entrepreneurship at the Phyllis M. Taylor Center for Social Innovation and Design Thinking. Her areas of specialization include ancient Greek and Roman literature and history. She has experience facilitating leadership development in undergraduate seminars on leadership in classical antiquity and large lecture classes on classical mythology. She has facilitated past workshops in the Kallion International Camp for Democratic Leadership and led a Kallion Circle on becoming a leader for the Young Leadership Council (New Orleans) and another on leadership and friendship. For the past five years she has organized and directed the Kallion Study-to-Practice Faculty Development Workshops for humanities educators.

Mallory holds a B.A. in Classical Languages and Linguistics from Georgetown University, a Ph.D. in Classics from Princeton University, and a Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Management and Strategic Philanthropy from Tulane
University.

Defining Works: Plutarch’s Virtues of Women and Life of Antony, Tacitus’ Agricola, bell hooks’ All About Love: New Visions

Ashleigh is an archivist, educator, and curator. Her areas of specialization include art and visual culture as well as the history of women and girls in the United States. She has facilitated leadership development through the humanities in professional development settings as well as in a Kallion Circle on “leadership and coalition building” and leadership in the women’s suffrage movement in Kallion’s International Camp for Democratic Leadership.

Ashleigh holds a BA in Art and Visual Culture from Bates College and an MS in Library and Information Science, Archives Management from Simmons University.

Defining Works: The “I Dream a World” series: a set of photographs honoring the contributions of Black women in the 20th century

Eli is a poet, an executive leadership development coach and facilitator, a former non-profit CEO, and the current head of learning and development, and The Dream Manager for Zachry Corporation. He specializes in the ancient
Greek oral epic tradition (Homer), Greek tragedy, the Arthurian legends, and Shakspeare. For several years he has facilitated corporate leadership development programs using works of the humanities from other artists as
well as his own collection of poetry.

Eli holds a B.A. Classics from the University of Texas–San Antonio and an Executive MBA in Organizational Transformation from the University of Texas–San Antonio.

Defining Works: The Iliad, Cupid & Psyche in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, the Medieval German romance Parzival, and Shakespeare’s

Andrew is a former senior CIA intelligence officer with broad analytic and leadership experience. He is an interdisciplinary thinker and writer with advanced degrees in international relations and ancient languages and cultures.
His areas of specialization include Bronze age civilizations, the Classical and Byzantine Greek languages and culture, and Late Antiquity. He has facilitated workshops on leadership development at Kallion’s International
Camp for Democratic Leadership and at Kallion’s facilitator training at the Center for Hellenic Studies.

Andrew holds an M.A. in Medieval and Byzantine Studies from the Catholic University of America, an M.A. from School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, and a B.A. (magna cum laude) in Comparative
Religion from Harvard University.

Defining Works: The Oresteia by Aeschylus, The Anabasis by Arrian; The Incoherence of the Philosophers by Al-Ghazali

Jen is a professor of Communication with a focus on African American rhetoric and multi-racial democracy. She is the Director of Diversity, Inclusion and Leadership Development in the School of Law at the University of Oregon.
Her areas of specialization include African American public figures and visual artists of the 20th century as well as late 20th century to present popular films and television. She has facilitated workshops in Kallion’s
International Camp for Democratic Leadership and she has featured leadership development through the humanities in her classroom teaching and in 60-min to 90-min workshops for JD and MBA students. She has also organized
conversations and events for the Kallion Leading Teachers Community of Practice.

Jen holds an MA in African American Studies from the University of Indiana–Bloomington, an MA in Art History from the University of Indiana–Bloomington, and a Ph.D. in Rhetoric and Public Culture from the University of Indiana–Bloomington.

Defining Works: The political speeches of Shirley Chisholm, the activist writings of Ida B. Wells, Sonya Clark’s works on flags (specifically the US and Confederacy flags), Bayard Rustin in film and letters, the speeches of Jimmy Carter

Philippa is a Visiting Fellow, SNF Agora Institute at Johns Hopkins University and a Visiting Artist, University of Michigan Museum of Art. She specializes in creative nonfiction and social sculpture, defined as a relational
aesthetic art practice that creates space for meaningful dialogue across political, social, and cultural differences. She has led a past Kallion Circle on leadership and flourishing and has worked in humanities and
art education in professional development and classroom settings.

Philippa holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the University of Richmond.

Defining Works: “Leaves of Grass” by Walt Whitman, Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise, “The Lightning Field” by Walter De Maria

Rhonda is a professor of English at Coker University and the James Wayne Lemke Chair in College Service and Leadership. She is the Co-Editor for the SAGE business case studies series on leadership in the Humanities and Arts.

Her specializations include Early Modern and medieval literature, science fiction and fantasy artifacts, and pop culture artifacts. She has participated in and facilitated several Kallion programming initiatives, including
the Study-to-Practice faculty development workshop, the International Camp for Democratic Leadership, and Kallion Circles.

Rhonda holds a B.A. in English from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, an M.A. in English from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. in English (Medieval Literature) from Binghamton University.

Defining Works: Doctor Who, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, Measure by Measure by William Shakespeare, and Martha Wells’ Murderbot Series