Jennifer Marsh earned a BSN from Spring Hill College in Mobile, AL. Her nursing experience includes medical-surgical, pediatric, and psychiatric nursing. She earned a MSN in Nursing Education from the University of South Alabama. She has worked as an academic and hospital educator. She is a Past President for the Upsilon Sigma Chapter for Sigma and Spring Hill College Nursing Honor Society. She currently serves Sigma by being on the Nurse Leader Review Committee and a member of the Upsilon Sigma Chapter and Zeta Gamma Chapter. She is also a member of Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society. She is a founding member and co-chair of the social media committee for the National RN-Baccalaureate Faculty Forum.

Tamara Martinez-Anderson has spent her 20-year career in higher education as an admissions professional. Early in her career, as an assistant dean at Gonzaga University School of Law she was involved in developing processes that moved the review of law school applications from a metrics-heavy emphasis to one that valued a holistic review of a candidate’s experiences, personal attributes, and professional competencies.

In her current role as the Director of Admissions at the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine (UNR Med), Martinez-Anderson oversees pipeline development initiatives aimed at creating a more diverse and prepared applicant pool. She directs a highly holistic review process built on a rubric that evaluates each candidate on ten essential competencies based upon the institutional mission and values at UNR Med. In addition, she is responsible for the delivery of over 330 Multi-Mini Interviews each year and unconscious bias training for over 200 MMI interviewers and all members of the admission staff and committee.

Martinez-Anderson has served as a consultant with the AACN and has been part of the team delivering Holistic Admissions Review Workshops.

Dr. Leaver comes to AACN with a distinct and diversified background including excellence in nursing education, administration, research and practice, and advanced practice, aimed to lead improvement in healthcare outcomes for individual, family, and community. She has demonstrated success as a nurse scientist with Manet Recognition, diversity in nursing research design, grant funding, and both on-ground and onsite implementation of innovative technology in nursing education. She also has remarkable success impacting the intersection of integrative healthcare, cultural competency, and technology applied to optimize potential of nursing education, practice, research, and administration.

Alexa Tehansky has a Master’s of Science degree in Information Technology and Program Management from the University of Maryland, University College. Alexa started working for AACN in October 2008 under grant program New Careers in Nursing (NCIN). NCIN was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) with a focus on promoting diversity in accelerated nursing programs by developing pipeline initiatives, mentoring, professional development and leadership opportunities. Alexa’s work administering the grant and facilitating operations for the scholars helped many future nurses by providing several years of funding via scholarships to more than 3,500 students at 130 nursing schools.

In January 2017, Alexa transitioned to a new role at AACN to work on a wide range of faculty initiatives to increase engagement through the development of leadership programs, producing Webinars, launching AACN Connect - a collaboration community/discussion forum, maintaining education modules, assisting with several awards, and coordinating the redevelopment and launch of the AACN Leads portfolio of programs