Faculty
Meet Your Chair:
Josh Harraman
Josh Harraman serves as the Director, Constituent Experiences- Strategy for The Ohio State University. He recently returned to the University in January 2023. In this role, he is responsible for central engagement and individual annual giving efforts that include digital engagement, annual giving, lifelong learning, alumni travel, alumni career services, and episodic volunteerism. He is also responsible for developing partnerships with college and units in the annual giving and early engagement acquisition space.
Prior to returning to Ohio to start a family, Harraman served as the Vice President for Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and Advancement Communications at the Rutgers University Foundation. For over 5 years, he had responsibility for University-wide alumni engagement and annual giving activities and the Foundation’s communication professionals. In addition to his experiences at Rutgers and Ohio State, Harraman previously worked at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and focused on student leadership and involvement. He received his bachelor’s degree in history from The Ohio State University, master’s degree in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University and completed his doctoral degree in educational philosophy at The Ohio State University in 2019.
Harraman has presented at multiple CASE conferences including CASE Districts V and VI, CASE Young Alumni and Student Engagement Conference, CASE ASAP conferences, and served on the faculty and as co-chair of the CASE Summer Institute in Alumni Relations. He has also volunteered for nearly two decades with CASE District V and has served as Conference Chair and District Chair-Elect in addition to other roles. In 2020, Harraman was recognized by his peers for service to CASE District V by receiving the Mike Ziemianski Distinguished Service Award.
Faculty:
Reggie Bustinza
Reggie Bustinza is the Executive Director of Operations and Alumni Relations with the Northern Illinois University Foundation. He has been at NIU for seven years and in alumni relations for 17 years. Currently, he manages all areas of alumni engagement and operations including data services and systems, IT, communications, alumni relations, donor relations, and alumni travel.
Starting his career at his alma mater, Bradley University, Reggie originally worked with affinity groups and chapters before diving deep into the world of data management and engagement metrics. He loves working with alumni and donors, and while he carries a small major gift portfolio, he is passionate about building networks and organizational management.
Reggie loves playing guitar and singing, playing basketball, and his 22 year old parrot, Bosco.
Alex Eshelbrenner
Alex Eshelbrenner ’04 serves as the Senior Director of Alumni Engagement at St. Mark’s School of Texas and has been a member of the school’s faculty since 2014. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Business and Sports Management from the University of Kansas and previously served as the Ahlberg & Ribman Family Director of Alumni Relations for nine years. Eshelbrenner works to elevate the St. Mark’s Alumni Association through the school’s Reunion Program, Alumni Leadership Speaker Series, Regional Clubs, College Ambassador Program, Terrill Society, St. Mark’s Fund, other fundraising priorities, and strategic volunteer management. Eshelbrenner serves as a sixth-grade adviser, an admission liaison and partners with the St. Mark’s Student Alumni Association, the Business Consortium and the Entrepreneurship Club.
Erika Jordan
As the Associate Senior Vice President, Alumni Relations at the University of Southern California, Erika Jordan serves as the chief alumni engagement officer for the campus and plays a key role in providing leadership and strategic guidance to ensure uninterrupted engagement for the nearly 500,000 alumni in the Trojan Family.
Prior to this role, Erika served as the Vice President, Alumni Engagement at Boston University where she led the Alumni Engagement, Annual Giving, and the Development Events & Communications teams. Additionally, she spent six years serving as Assistant Vice Chancellor, Alumni & Constituent Engagement at UC Irvine. Throughout her career she has been instrumental in exponentially growing alumni engagement and annual fundraising, elevating communications and events, establishing UCI’s dual alumni engagement campaign goal and leading special projects.
Erika has spent her career in politics, special events, alumni relations, frontline fundraising, and served as the Director, Alumni Relations and Annual Giving for the USC Marshall School of Business. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Howard University and executive masters in leadership from USC.
Danielle T. Reddy
Danielle T. Reddy is a seasoned advancement and alumni engagement leader with more than two decades of experience designing and executing strategic programs that deepen alumni relationships, build volunteer pipelines, and drive philanthropic impact. Danielle is currently serving as Assistant Vice President, Leadership Volunteer Engagement at Boston University, and has held multiple senior roles at BU, including Interim Vice President of Alumni Relations, Communications, and Engagement. Danielle leads efforts to centralize and align leadership-level volunteer groups across the university, develop governance models and operating frameworks, and equip volunteers to be effective champions for BU’s mission. During her time at Boston University, she has overseen boards and leadership councils, relaunched regional networks, launched affinity programs, and stewarded large-scale events such as a record-breaking Giving Day and a nationwide Presidential Welcome Series—while creating KPIs and metrics that led to a 25% increase in alumni engagement.
Danielle’s earlier career includes leadership roles at MIT, Emerson College, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Ursuline Academy, and the National Down Syndrome Society, where she managed community and class giving, major gift portfolios, and volunteer-driven campaigns. She has a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School and a B.S. in Communication, Management, and Public Policy from Emerson College, and she brings strong program strategy, staff development, and cross-unit partnership skills to her work. A committed volunteer herself, Danielle contributes to several nonprofit and professional organizations including her local library. Her blend of practical fundraising experience, governance expertise, and change leadership enables institutions to scale alumni engagement and accelerate philanthropic success.
Sarah Schutt
Sarah Schutt is the Chief Alumni Engagement Officer for the Wisconsin Foundation and Alumni Association (WFAA) and Executive Director of the Wisconsin Alumni Association (WAA) – a role she has held since 2017.
As the Chief Alumni Engagement Officer, Sarah leads a team of 40 alumni relations professionals who welcome, inform and connect a global community of 480,000 UW-Madison alumni, and work collaboratively across advancement to inspire support for the university. The scope of the alumni relations team includes: enrichment and donor stewardship programs, signature events and celebrations, alumni chapters and networks, travel, membership, international advancement, advocacy, as well as a visitor center and Alumni Park. Sarah is active in the Council of Alumni Association Executives (CAAE) and serves on their board as Membership Chair.
Most of Sarah’s 32-year career in higher education has been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining WAA in 2001, she worked with outreach programming in the UW School of Education’s Center on Education and Work. Sarah started her career in student affairs and spent nearly ten years working in residential life at several institutions, including UW-Madison. Sarah holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Iowa and a Master of Science degree from University in Minnesota - Mankato. She and her husband, Don, live in McFarland, Wisconsin and have two adult sons.