Faculty
Rob Henry
Rob Henry has acquired extensive managerial and development experience during his 35-year professional career. He is Vice President of People, Culture, and Talent for the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE). In this role, Henry provides an overall global strategy for achieving CASE’s vision and mission related to human resources, staffing, DEIB, and talent management. In addition to his portfolio, he oversees the CASE Europe operations in London. Henry previously served as the Vice President for Education (professional development/conferences, research, DEIB, and talent) and CASE's Executive Director of Emerging Constituents (chief diversity officer).
Prior to CASE, he worked in advancement at Yale University, the University of Connecticut Foundation, and Michigan State University. He was part of the diversity and inclusion staff group at Yale University and has offered training and development to global markets such as Africa, Europe, Australia, and South America. Henry is currently a Center for Association Leaders’s diversity committee member.
He was awarded the CASE Crystal Apple for teaching excellence in 2006. He holds a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Murray State University and a master's degree in communication and public address from Eastern Michigan University, where he serves as a member of the EMU Foundation Board of Trustees.
Jessica Elmore
Jessica Elmore, Ed.D. (She/Her) joined CASE in 2021 and serves as the senior director of Cross-Cultural Learnings at CASE within the CASE OIC: Opportunities and Inclusion Centerᵀᴹ. Dr. Elmore is a scholar-practitioner who is an expert in the interconnection of educational advancement and diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging.
Jessica develops the DEIB curriculum for CASE@Campus bespoke trainings; serves as a speaker for CASE Academy, CASE Summit, CASE Summer Institutes, along with facilitates interactive capacity building experiences for educational advancement organizations, globally. Jessica developed CASE’s first online DEIB course titled: The Journey Starts with You: DEIB in Advancement.
Dr. Elmore has over 10 years of experience creating award winning external programming; cultivating and managing relationships with domestic multicultural and international alumni and students and developing diverse lived experience engagement strategies for alumni and donors. Jessica was a member of CASE District VI cabinet and served as a longtime volunteer including serving as lead faculty for the Diversity and Student Philanthropy Symposium.
Jessica has her doctorate in educational leadership, a master’s degree in business administration from Kansas State University and she received her mass communication degree from Grambling State University.