Ex Officio Council Members

Shelly Bacon began her CU Boulder career in 2000 as a professional academic advisor, after six years working at the University of Georgia and a short stint teaching English as a second language. Before moving to the Office of Undergraduate Education, she was most recently the Assistant Dean for Academic Advising and Student Success in the College of Arts & Sciences, where she oversaw advising and student support services in...

Austin Jamar “JB” Banks is the dean of students and associate vice chancellor for student affairs. Prior to joining CU Boulder, Banks served as associate vice chancellor and dean of students for student affairs at Winston-Salem State University. In this role, Banks was a senior leader on issues involving student health, wellness and safety. He was also responsible for the development and maintenance of all threat and crisis management plans...

Emily CoBabe-Amman is the director of strategic projects at CU Boulder, where she leads CU Boulder’s Grand Challenge: Our Space, Our Future and co-leads the university’s visioning effort, Academic Futures, an effort to transform the teaching and research enterprises of the campus. She serves as chief research strategist for the university, working with departments, colleges, centers and institutes to develop new research directions that align with national interests. Prior to...

Loren Hough is an Associate Professor of Physics and member of the BioFrontiers Institute. He first came to CU Boulder as a graduate student in physics and received his Ph.D. in 2007. He then did a postdoctoral fellowship at Rockefeller University and returned to CU as a faculty member in 2012. He has been an active participant in DEAI efforts on campus, including being a faculty advisor to CU Café,...

Doreen Jokerst is the Chief of Police at the University of Colorado Boulder Police Department. She currently leads a department of approximately ninety employees where she has implemented innovative and community-based policing strategies. She strives to build positive relations with the University and Boulder community and has brought forth new policing programs, resulting in effective policing efforts. Jokerst believes building and maintaining positive relationships with both internal and external stakeholders...

Michele S. Moses is professor of educational foundations and policy, and vice provost and associate vice chancellor for faculty affairs. Moses is a philosopher specializing in education policy studies, with particular expertise in policy disagreements that involve race, ethnicity, gender and sexuality, moral and political values, and equity in higher education. Her scholarship focuses on ethics, democracy, and education’s role in promoting the public good. She has published three books:...