Ivy Council

Case Study Leader

Michael Novielli

Michael Novielli is an Ivy Council alumnus, former Columbia University undergraduate, and graduate of Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Michael Novielli has founded a non-profit called Student Government Assist (SGA) that specializes in creating case studies designed to help student leaders. SGA empowers and trains student government leaders to effectively serve their student bodies, facilitates interaction between student government leaders and university administrators; and helps student affairs administrators to more effectively advise student government leaders.

Case Study Leader

Julie Vultaggio

Julie Vultaggio earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Human Development from Cornell University in 2002. During her time at Cornell, she interned in the College of Human Ecology's Office of Admissions and held several leadership positions with the Human Ecology Ambassadors, including the role of President her senior year. After graduating from Cornell, Julie accepted a one-year position in Student Academic Services at the Harvard Business School, and then returned to school full-time to complete her Master of Education in Higher Education Administration from Harvard's Graduate School of Education in 2004. While at Harvard, she worked in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at MIT, and also served on the graduate admissions committee to select Harvard's incoming class of Higher Education Administration masters students. She also held the Vice President of Academics position on the Graduate School of Education's Student Government Association. Upon graduating from Harvard, Julie worked as the Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Tufts University for two years before feeling the urge to return to school one last time; she is currently a student at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education, working towards a Ph.D. in Higher Education Management.

Workshop Leader

Nancy Redd

Nancy Redd is an Ivy Council alumnus, author of Body Drama and one of the authors of The Princeton Review's book, Girl's Guide to the SAT. Ms. Redd also spearheaded the "Dream Big Opportunity Fund." Two weeks after graduating from Harvard with an honors degree in Women’s Studies, Nancy Redd won the title of Miss Virginia, going on to make the Top 10 and winning the swimsuit competition at Miss America 2004.

Panelist

Judy Vredenburgh

Ms. Vredenburgh became president and chief executive officer of Big Brothers Big Sisters of America in 1999. Big Brothers Big Sisters helps children reach their potential through professionally supported one to one mentoring with measurable results. Under her leadership, Big Brothers Big Sisters has more than doubled the number of children served to 242,000 from 118,000 in 2000.

Judy places major emphasis on increasing measurable impacts from BBBS mentoring. She initiated the development and implementation of a service delivery model supported by a technology system that enables measurement of every aspect of the Big Brothers Big Sisters mentoring programs. Judy commissioned the first nationwide study of school-based mentoring which found an array of positive academic outcomes for children with Big Brothers or Sisters in the first year of mentoring. She responded to the study by setting goals for how to extend those positive outcomes.

The organization grew nationwide revenue from $183 million in 2000 to $274 million in 2006.

Judy came to the nation’s oldest and largest youth-mentoring organization with twenty-nine years of management experience in both for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Prior to joining Big Brothers Big Sisters, Ms. Vredenburgh served as senior vice president with the March of Dimes Birth Defects Foundation, where she was responsible for revenue development and marketing.

Beginning her professional career in the retail industry, Judy rose from buyer to executive management positions with several major corporations. She was President & CEO to Chess King, a division of Melville Corporation and prior to that Executive Vice President to Sizes Unlimited/Learner Woman. Judy serves on the Board of Overseers of the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences and a member of the boards of Independent Sector and Generations United. Judy is a Big Sister to Sherice Holliman.

She holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a master’s degree in business administration from the State University of New York at Buffalo. Judy is married to Donald Vredenburgh. They are the parents of Cynthia Vredenburgh and the in-laws of David Krichavsky.

Panelist

Judi Brownell

Judi Brownell is a professor and dean of students at Cornell University’s School of Hotel Administration. She teaches courses in organizational behavior and management communication. Brownell has authored several textbooks, published over 80 articles, and serves on several editorial boards. She is also past president of the International Listening Association and has received awards for her research in this field.

Panelist

Lori Piranian

Lori Piranian is an Ivy Council Alumnus and a 2006 Near Eastern Studies graduate of Princeton. Upon graduation, she embarked upon a fellowship at TeachersCount, a national non-profit organization based in New York City, through the Princeton Project '55 public service initiative. Ms. Piranian recently moved back to Princeton where she has taken a job at the Institute for Advanced Study, helping to coordinate a science and technology PhD program initiative in sub-saharan Africa.

Panelist

Ryan Burg

Ryan Burg serves as board president for the Responsible Endowments Coalition, a diverse network of students, alumni and faculty from across the country dedicated to advancing socially and environmentally responsible investment in college and university endowments. As an undergraduate, Ryan led a responsible investment campaign at the University of Pennsylvania. In May of 2003, the Penn Trustees followed a student-written proposal and commissioned the Social Responsibility Advisory Committee (SRAC). The SRAC has since inspired Penn's trustees to vote their first proxy resolutions in decades and to publicly divest from Sudan. Ryan continues to work with Penn's committee while pursuing a joint PhD in sociology and business ethics. He writes on corporate crime and social networks.