AAGC Nominating Committee

Jennifer Lundgren Lewis-David ’94

Lewis-David graduated from Goucher with honors, double-majoring in European studies and history, as well as being inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. While at Goucher, she enjoyed singing with the Reverends’ Rebels, the Goucher Chorus, and the Goucher Chamber Singers and also being part of the community service and environmental clubs. She and her best friends lived in Gallagher House in Froelicher Hall all four years—of course, it was physically located a little differently 1990-1994! Lewis-David obtained a juris doctor law degree with honors from the University of Maryland School of Law in 1997. While in law school, she had the opportunity to serve as associate editor on The Business Lawyer, a legal journal jointly published by the American Bar Association and the University of Maryland School of Law. Thereafter, she joined the corporate world as in-house counsel. Over the last 20 years she has held roles in regulatory affairs, compliance, and the legal department of UnitedHealth Group Incorporated, a Fortune #6 company. As a deputy general counsel with UnitedHealthcare, she currently serves as general counsel for the $3 billion individual insurance businesses.

Lewis-David has been on the board of directors of the Maryland March of Dimes since 2014 and just completed several years as chair of the board. She has been singing for 25 years with the contemporary music group at the Church of the Immaculate Conception in Towson, MD. She and her husband, Rajesh David, a pharmacist with Ascension’s St. Agnes Hospital, will be celebrating their ninth wedding anniversary shortly and are the proud aunt and uncle of six amazing nieces and nephews, all under the age of eight years.

Lewis-David recently established a scholarship at Goucher, the Gretchen Lundgren Lewis ’68 and Jennifer Lundgren Lewis-David ’94 Scholarship Fund, to honor her family’s mother-daughter legacy at the college.

Molly Abend ’07

A 2007 graduate with a degree in Psychology and minor in Education, for the last 10 years Molly Abend’s work for the State of Maryland has supported the implementation of public policies that improve the education to workforce pipeline. Abend currently serves as the Data Management Coordinator for the Maryland Longitudinal Data System Center. In addition to her degree from Goucher, Abend earned a Masters in Public Administration from the University of Baltimore. Prior to joining state government, Abend created data analysis and performance measurement tools and conducted performance management for several Baltimore City government offices including: the Department of Social Services, Fire Department, and Department of General Services as a CitiStat Analyst in the Mayor’s Office. She also managed the Student Learning Objectives process for 5,000 teacher-level staff at Baltimore City Public Schools, conducted studies funded by the U.S. Department of Education, and taught at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. Abend resides in Towson with her wife (a fellow Goucher graduate), daughter, two large cats, and an excessive supply of Orioles collectibles.

Karen Cohen Bloom ’91

Bloom was an Applied Mathematics major and dancer at Goucher. After graduation, she attended the University of Cincinnati to earn a teacher certification and began teaching both middle school and high school math. She worked in both public and private schools, as well as urban and rural settings over the course of her 17 years of teaching. She is currently a middle school math teacher at Piedmont Middle School in Piedmont, CA, where she also serves as one of the coordinators of the school's No Place for Hate initiative, is one of the advisors to the students' Safe Space Club, is a family group leader for the school's Safe School Ambassadors and is a member of the Gender Leadership Team. Bloom is a member of the executive board of Piedmont.

Marie Brown '03

Marie Brown '03 Marie is an alumna of Goucher College’s class of 2003, having graduated summa cum laude. She majored in American Studies with a minor in Women’s Studies and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa.

Professionally Marie is an experienced higher education administrator with over 20 years in the field. Her first exposure to the industry was a part-time summer gig working in Goucher’s SAS Office, which she enjoyed so much that she began to explore pathways to a career in college administration. Currently, she serves as the Assistant Dean of Administration and Strategic Initiatives at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, collaborating closely with the Dean of Nursing on faculty affairs and special projects that advance the strategic goals of both the Dean and the school. She has held administrative roles at the George Washington University School of Nursing, the University of Maryland School of Nursing, and the Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing. In addition to her Bachelor of Arts degree from Goucher, Marie earned a Master of Science in Higher Education Management from the University of Pennsylvania.

A native Marylander, Marie currently lives in the White Marsh area of Baltimore County. She has one daughter, Juliette, who is a student at Howard University, and a beloved Yorkie named Mocha, who requires lots of time and attention.

Marissa Charlemagne '16

Laura Taylor '94

Laura Taylor graduated from Goucher in 1994 with Bachelors’ degrees in Economics and Russian. After graduation, she settled in Chicago, Illinois where for several years she worked as an investigator at the Chicago Board of Trade’s Office of Investigations and Audits. She went on to earn a Master’s degree and PhD in Economics and joined the faculty at Willamette University in 2005. In addition to her academic appointment, she currently serves as the Associate Provost for Academic Finance at Willamette. In this position, she advises the Provost, the Deans of the Colleges at Willamette, and the leadership of other academic and administrative units on campus, in strategic budgeting and resource planning. Laura maintains an active forensic economics consulting practice and also serves as a pro bono economic consultant for the Trial Defense Services of the various branches of the U.S. military. Laura and her family reside in Portland, Oregon. She is Treasurer of the Board of Trustees of the French American International School in Portland, where her daughter is now a 4^th grader.