Janna Bernstein Rogers, '20 Ph.D. Cultural Studies, International Education & Multicultural Education is director of the College of Southern Nevada and an adjunct professor for UNLV's Lee Business School. She recently celebrated 11 years with NSHE. Janna married Steven Rogers on Aug. 17, 2025 (yes, like Captain America!).

Jillian McNiff Villemaire, '04 MS Sport and Leisure Studies, was promoted to full professor, awarded the 2025 North American Society for Sport Management Educator of the Year, and published Digital Innovations in Sport with Routledge.

John. J. Starkey, '10 BS Business Administration and '12 M.Ed. Leadership, is associate director of the Kerestesi Center for Insurance and Risk Management at UNLV. He was appointed to the Junior Achievement of Southern Nevada board of directors. A longtime champion of student success and civic engagement, Starkey brings a wealth of experience in higher education leadership, academic program development, and industry collaboration to support the nonprofit financial literacy organization’s mission of preparing young people for economic success.

Kristine Jan Cruz Espinoza, '24 Ph.D. Higher Education and '22 Graduate Certificate in Program Evaluation and Assessment, is an assistant professor in the Graduate School of Education at California Lutheran University. A peer-reviewed she co-authored with colleagues titled, "Oceania in the Desert: A QuantCrit Analysis of the (Under)Counting of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Students at an AANAPISI-HSI," was chosen as the 2025 Association for Institutional Research (AIR) Charles F. Elton Best Paper and was recognized on the AIR website and with recognition at the upcoming 2025 AIR Forum in May in Orlando, Florida.

Johnny Dominguez, '13 BA Political Science and '18 M.Ed Higher Education, was recently appointed executive director of Improve Your Tomorrow for the Nevada region, a national nonprofit focused on increasing college access, persistence, and completion for young men of color through mentorship, academic support, and college-to-career programming. He continues to focus his career on educational equity and empowering first-generation students. Dominguez is excited to return to statewide impact work through his role at Improve Your Tomorrow, serving the same Southern Nevada communities he grew up in. He was recently honored as a 2024 Las Vegas Raiders “Inspire Change Changemaker” and is a proud alumnus of Leadership Las Vegas (Class of '22) and Surge Academy Las Vegas. Outside of work, he enjoys exploring new places with his wife, Celinda (Pena) Dominguez, '11 BS Human Services and '13 MSW, and two young children; weight training; and rooting for the Dodgers.

Lisa Kelleher, '11 Ph.D. Higher Education, was recently recognized for the Carol C. Harter GIVE Award, garnering her the selection as "Honorable Mention." She was recognized at the Celebrating Our Successes Social held by the UNLV Women's Council. The GIVE award celebrates and encourages diversity initiatives across UNLV. This prestigious award recognizes outstanding efforts in programming, outreach, and other initiatives by faculty, staff, individual students, and student organizations.

Claire Lustumbo, '17 M.Ed. School Counseling, began her educational career in Clark County in 2013 as an elementary general education teacher. After her experiences in teaching general education and special education, she left the classroom to earn her M. Ed. in school counseling at UNLV. She has continued her work in the district ever since, with a variety of experiences and grade levels — counseling students and mentoring others. She is currently the school counselor at Andrew J. Mitchell Elementary School in Boulder City. Recently, she was chosen as Nevada’s School Counselor of the Year for 2025. While she’s not traveling to present to other counselors state- and nation-wide, she enjoys being a mom to her son and reading once he goes to bed!

Adrian H. Huerta, '07 BS in Human Services Counseling, earned tenure and promotion to associate professor of education at the University of Southern California.

Sarah (Adams) Deakins, '22 BS Elementary Education, was hired at the same Clark County elementary school where she did her student teaching while at UNLV. She's taught 4th grade, 2nd grade, and is now teaching 1st grade. She got married on Oct. 7, 2023.

Tiffany Tyler-Garner, '11, Ph.D. Educational Psychology, published her first book, The Journey Inward: Four Seasons of Reflection for Deep Healing and Transformation.