Meet Our Team

Career Advising & Communities

Andrea Boulanger

Position title: Director of Career Advising & Communities

Email: andrea.boulanger@wisc.edu

Brenda Yang

Position title: Assistant Director of Career Communities/Career & Internship Specialist: Consulting, Finance & Business Roles / Science, Health & Environment

Email: bnyang@wisc.edu

Megan Aley

Position title: Associate Director of Career Advising & Communities/Career & Internship Specialist: Communications, Media & the Arts

Email: megan.aley@wisc.edu

Maureen Muldoon

Position title: Career & Internship Specialist: Science, Health & Environment

Email: maureen.muldoon@wisc.edu

Emmeline Prattke

Position title: Assistant Director of Career Communities/Career & Internship Specialist: Government, Policy, International Affairs, & Law

Email: emmeline.prattke@wisc.edu

Darby Winchel

Position title: Career & Internship Specialist: Communications, Media & the Arts

Email: darby.winchel@wisc.edu

Hao Yuan

Position title: Career & Internship Specialist: Technology, Data & Analytics

Email: hyuan39@wisc.edu

Internships & Employer Services

Kathleen Rause

Position title: Associate Director of Internship Programs & Career Advisor: Nonprofit & Education

Email: kathleen.rause@wisc.edu

Seng Thao

Position title: Employer Relations Coordinator & Inclusive Community Career Advisor

Email: seng.thao@wisc.edu

Strategic Engagements & Impact

Michael Kruse

Position title: Associate Director of College Partnerships

Email: mkruse@wisc.edu

Steven Catania

Position title: Associate Director of Career Education

Email: steven.catania@wisc.edu

Kate Patten

Position title: Associate Director of Programs & Impact

Email: kate.patten@wisc.edu

Crystal Egerer

Position title: Alumni Relations & Program Coordinator

Email: cahester@wisc.edu

Marketing & Communications

Nathan Barker

Position title: Director of Marketing & Communications

Email: npbarker@wisc.edu

Brandon Spoon

Position title: Senior Associate Director of Marketing & Communications

Email: brandon.spoon@wisc.edu

SuccessWorks Advisory Committee

Herman Baumann

Credentials: BA Journalism, 1975

Position title: Founder, Green Line Strategies

Keith Browning

Credentials: BA Economics, 1989

Position title: Managing Director, Logicsource, Inc.

Bob Cook

Position title: Director of Government Relations, Garver

Susan E. Davis

Credentials: BA American Institutions, 1973; MA School of Library & Information Studies, 1975; PhD School of Library & Information Studies, 2003

Position title: Associate Teaching Professor (ret.) Drexel University, College of Information Science and Technology

Liz Dennett

Credentials: BS Geology/Earth Science, University of Alaska Anchorage; MS Astrobiology, Geochemistry, Geomicrobiology, PhD Geomicrobiology & Astrobiology, UW-Madison

Position title: CEO, Endolith

Jesse Derris

Credentials: BA Political Science, Business, 2002

Position title: President, Orchestra

Ben Deutsch

Credentials: BA Journalism, 1985

Position title: Executive in Residence, University of Georgia

Steve Pogorzelski

Credentials: BA Journalism/Advertising, 1983

Mark Rewey

Credentials: Political Science, International Relations, 1992

Phillip Schemel

Credentials: BA Political Science, Economics, 1982

Position title: Current Managing Partner Schemco, LLC; Former Managing Director Societe Generale Bank - Derivative Financial Products Group

George Shinners

Credentials: BS Psychology, 61; MS Industrial Relations, 64

Rich Thomas

Credentials: BA Political Science

Alex Viana

Credentials: BA Mathematics, Astronomy - Physics, 2007

Position title: Principal Engineering Manager, Istari Digital

Patricia Wright

Credentials: BSE, Journalism, Public Address and Communications Theory, 1974

Position title: President, Donovan Wright Advisors

Career Opportunities

The SuccessWorks team proudly supports students of all backgrounds, identities and experience in leveraging their education to be the leaders who make positive change, now and in the future. Interested in joining the SuccessWorks team? Check here for available opportunities.

Our Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion

The College of Letters & Science endeavors to make academic excellence inclusive by sustaining a community of free inquiry in which people of diverse race, ethnicity, cultures, veteran status, marital status, socio-economic level, national origin, religious belief, physical ability, sexual orientation, age, class, political ideology and lifestyle participate in, contribute to and benefit equally from a liberal arts education based on the Wisconsin Idea — one in which we all contribute to advancing society.

Learn more about our commitment to diversity & inclusion.