2025 - 2026
Executive Board
"If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be."
- Maya Angelou
Shatavia Harris
President
College of Humanities and Social Sciences
Interdisciplinary Studies
Shatavia is currently attending Valdosta State University as a Graduate student. She is passionate about creating equitable learning opportunities and empowering young students to reach their full potential. Through her involvement in this organization, she hopes to grow as a leader, collaborate with peers, and make a lasting impact on her campus community. In the future, she aspires to become an educator who inspires change both inside and outside the classroom.
Ashley Jones
Vice-President
Kennedy Patterson
Secretary
dr. Arrington stoll
VSU Faculty Advisor
College of the Arts
Communication
Dr. Stoll is a professor for Communication in the College of Arts, and a marketing communication strategist. She specializes in interpersonal, organizational, and intercultural communication and is also a highly motivated, creative individual with experience and passion for teaching. Dr. Stoll has immersed herself in marketing and interpersonal communication best practices and is an expert in the methodology, approach, and tactics, to use those resources to effectively communicate to the right audience at the right time on the right platform. She is not only committed to ongoing training and self-education to stay ahead of trends and incorporate new marketing and communication tools, but is equally committed in sharing her expertise with others.
Jamie ROTHWELL
NASWAP Advisor & Co-Founder
VSU Communication Professor
College of the Arts
Jamie holds two B.A.s in Psychology and IDS of Social Sciences (Law & Justice, English, & Public Relations/Communications) along with two Masters: M.Ed (Non-Profit Leadership) and ITAM-MS (Structures of Data Analytics), and she is completing her Doctorate in Education in Organizational Leadership with an emphasis on organizational development and communication. Jamie has taught Public Relations and Non-Profit Leadership for over 7 years and is the founder of SWAP. In graduate school, she was honored to travel to Dublin, Ireland for her research: Evaluation of Data Driven Physical Literacy Programs in Dublin, Ireland: Need and Sustainable Funding Assessment with the amazing Irish non-profit organization, Project Fun Direction. As a first-generation student, Jamie is passionate about creating positive change for underrepresented students. Her passion truly lies in mentoring college students in research that also represents their interests and fervor. CWU awarded her the Center for Excellence in Leadership award, the Women’s Achievement Award for Student Empowerment, the Career Influencer award, and then in May of 2020, Jamie was awarded CWU Mentor of the Year for her work mentoring research students. This was her fourth nomination as Mentor of the Year. Jamie truly is the happiest when she is mentoring students who are working toward their goals as she loves being able to witness, first hand, those “aha” moments that truly are the first steps in further developing their critical thinking and emotional intelligence skills, pushing them further into graduate programs and sustainable careers.