Meet Our Team

Nadirah Pippen

Director - Liaison to Alumni (2+ years after graduation)

Chris Lewandowski

Associate Director for Career Development - Liaison to Interdisciplinary Studies

Janeé Folston

Associate Director for Employer Development

Senior Leadership Team Member
Professional Affiliations: NACE, SoACE, NCACE, AAMFT
StrengthsFinder: Strategic | Relator | Belief | Responsibility | Restorative
folstonj@uncw.edu 

Emily Hawarny

Assistant Director for Marketing & Technology

        Professional Affiliations: NACE, SoACE, NCACE
        StrengthsFinder: Woo | Communication | Individualism | Input | Positivity
        hawarnye@uncw.edu

Leslie Wright

Assistant Director - Liaison to the College of Science and Engineering

Charles Ozuna

Career Development Counselor - Liaison to College of Humanities, Social Sciences, and the Arts

Professional Affiliations: NCACE
StrengthsFinder: Communication | Woo | Empathy | Activator | Positivity 
ozunac@uncw.edu

Ricky Patterson

Career Development Counselor - Liaison to the College of Health & Human Services

Jacqueline Pitone

Career Development Counselor - Liaison to Watson College of Education and Undeclared Students

StrengthsFinder: Futuristic | Positivity | Input | Communication | Achiever
pitonej@uncw.edu

McKenzie LeFlore

Employer Development Program Manager

Professional Affiliations: NCACE
StrengthsFinder: Woo | Maximizer | Positivity | Empathy | Individualization 
leflorem@uncw.edu

Ashley Navarra

Office/Budget Manager

Supervises the Administrative Associate and front office student employees, overseeing day-to-day operations. Maintains financial spreadsheets and records, analyzes financial data, and provides monthly budget reports. Processes purchase orders through uShop, maintains software subscriptions and memberships, reconciles p-card transactions in WORKS, processes travel and reimbursements through Chrome River. Serves as the Assistant/Coordinator role in PeopleAdmin, schedules interviews, processes travel for candidates, enters Electronic Personnel Action Forms, and provides onboarding for new employees. Serves as office Leave Keeper and manages computer inventory and fixed assets.

Professional Achievements:
UNCW Cameron School of Business, Project Management Certificate, 2023
UNCW Staff Senate, Communications Committee Chair, 2010-12
UNCW Staff Senate, Senator of the Year, 2012
UNCW Staff Senate, Most Likely to Go the Extra Mile, 2012
UNCW Finance Training Certificate Program, Level 1, 2010

StrengthsFinder: Responsibility | Achiever | Relator | Learner | Developer

navarraa@uncw.edu

Sarah Stoker

Administrative Associate

Serves as the receptionist for the Career Center, manages pending accounts and job postings in Handshake, provides Handshake support to students, alumni, UNCW departments, and employers (helping with navigation, troubleshooting, accountant set up, event registration, and posting positions), monitors the Career Center email (careercenter@uncw.edu), schedules appointments for UNCW students and alumni, processes daily deposits.

StrengthsFinder: Connectedness | Learner | Developer | Empathy | Consistency

careercenter@uncw.edu