Kudos to Kailey Rubinas: Kailey has been an amazing leader to our students and her team. Over the past month, she has stepped up as a supplemental and taken on a leadership role, helping organize both her colleagues and classmates. With her supervisor out for medical reasons, she stepped in and helped the coaching team get connected with students and faculty at the beginning of the semester. Kailey has collaborated with multiple departments on campus to make sure coaching and events were being taken care of. She is our rockstar and we’re so grateful for all that she does for our students and team!

Kudos to Lori Hodek: Lori has been the Queen of Organization & Leadership for the newly launched Embrace the Dream Initiative. Lori stepped in and orchestrated a cross-campus, college-wide event that is ongoing and happening despite us being in the middle of the pandemic. Despite uncertainties, she continued to push our team forward and lead with enthusiasm. She scheduled meetings, created spreadsheets, lists, follow-up items, and more for multiple groups and sub-groups. We always knew where to find minutes and knew what was expected of us. Great project management! This is the first year of many of these to come, and I’m so grateful that we had Lori as our leader! Thank you!

Kudos to Ryan Bernstein, Ali Thornton, Lisa Boike, and Paul Martin: These fine folks are working extra hard to devise a way to pull our EES Moodle students into Moodle behind the scenes. With our new system, Lumens, we are still working on the integration to Moodle process. Thank you, Ryan, Ali, Lisa, and Paul!


Experts suggest maintaining an “attitude of gratitude” increases positivity for yourself and for others. Please encourage your colleagues by submitting a KUDOS. Let them know you appreciate their hard work and are thinking of them!