Brennan Barnard, Director of College Counseling Khan Lab School & Director of College Counseling for the College Guidance Network
Brennan Barnard, M.Ed is the Director of College Counseling and Outreach at Khan Lab School, CA and the Director of College Counseling for the College Guidance Network. He also serves as the College Admissions Program Advisor with the Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

A native of suburban Philadelphia and practicing Quaker, he is a graduate of Westtown Friends School. Brennan earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from The University of Vermont. This father of two lives in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, where he is a volunteer firefighter.

Rick Clark is the AVP of Enrollment Management and Executive Director of Undergraduate Admission at Georgia Tech. In this role, he directs the Institute’s recruitment and enrollment efforts, manages the review and selection of all undergraduate applications, and leads the admission team. Under his leadership, the Institute has dramatically increased brand awareness, improved overall academic class profile, and exceeded strategic goals.   

Rick has served on regional and national councils and boards. He is currently a member of NACAC’s Committee on Leadership in College Admission, and Past Chair of both the national Government Relations Committee and Georgia Tech’s Staff Council. Rick travels annually to U.S. embassies through the Department of State to discuss the admission process and landscape of higher education.  He is part of Leadership Georgia, an organization that seeks to cultivate and connect leaders across the state. 

Over the last eight years he has written a regular blog on the college admission process. He is the co-author of the book and workbookThe Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together, and co-hosts a podcast under the same name. 

A native of Atlanta, he earned a B.A. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a M.Ed. from Georgia State University. Prior to coming to Tech, Rick served at Georgia State, The McCallie School and Wake Forest University.

Dominique Harrison is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in high education administration and strategic enrollment management. Currently serving as the Director of Undergraduate Admissions at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University providing leadership in all initiatives to meet the universities enrollment goals. In this role Dominique is responsible for managing a comprehensive and data-driven recruitment process aimed at attracting and retaining highly qualified first year and transfer students. He is responsible for building and executing recruitment strategies, events, communications to best serve students and families through the admission process.

Prior to returning the NC A&T, Dominique served as the Director of Recruitment and Admissions at Norfolk State University, Senior Associate Director for Diversity Initiatives at Appalachian State University, and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at North Carolina A&T.

Dominique has a strong background of communications and recruitment with a passion for working with underrepresented populations throughout the college selection process. He received his bachelor’s in Communication Studies with a minor in African American Studies from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and his masters in Adult Education with a Higher Education concentration from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University. 

Widely regarded as an ethical leader with a deep passion and expertise in college access and enrollment, Adrienne Amador Oddi serves in the role of Vice President for Strategic Enrollment and Communications at Queens University of Charlotte. She is known for creating practices that actively include different voices and views while building communities on college campuses. Prior to joining the Queens and Charlotte community, Adrienne held enrollment leadership positions at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut; Berry College in Rome, Georgia; University of Rochester in Rochester, New York; and Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio. 

Her previous experience also includes co-chairing an Inclusive Practices Committee for the New England Association for College Admission Counseling (NEACAC) and serving as a presenter and keynote speaker for several regional and national associations including the Southern Association for College Admission Counseling (SACAC), the College Board Forum and the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) among others.

Adrienne earned her bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Kenyon College and her master's degree in Educational Measurement and Statistics from The Ohio State University. 

Kathy Phillips has spent her entire college admissions career at Duke University. She joined Duke Undergraduate Admissions in 1989 as the office’s first Public Relations Specialist at a time when higher education marketing was just beginning to emerge. In 1996 Kathy became an Associate Director, and in 2015 she was named Associate Dean. As Associate Dean, Kathy is responsible for staff management and professional development; she also oversees strategic recruitment initiatives. In her admissions career Kathy has overseen Duke’s application evaluation process, travel and recruitment strategies, and student yield initiatives. She has also served as regional officer for seventeen different states, most notably Delaware and New Jersey, where she has presented at countless school and New Jersey Association of College Admissions Counselors events. Prior to Duke, Kathy worked for a business-to-business advertising agency and taught seventh-grade English in her home state of Pennsylvania.

Kathy received her B.S. in Education from Shippensburg University. After many years of balancing her professional life with motherhood, Kathy received her Master of Arts from Duke in May 2017, earning honors for her thesis that placed Duke’s former Trinity Park School (1898-1922) in the context of other boarding schools, secondary education in Durham and North Carolina, and Trinity College itself. She continues to be interested in the history of secondary education in the U.S. Kathy and her husband Brian are the parents of two daughters: Caroline, a 2015 graduate of the University of Miami, and Lauren, a 2019 graduate of the University of Delaware.