Administrative Leadership
Jazzmine Clarke-Glover, D.B.A
Executive Vice President and Chief of Staff
Dr. Clarke-Glover administers the work of the President’s Office and coordinates Campus Life, Athletics, Facilities, IT, HR, the Campus Store and Chartwells. She serves as secretary to the Board of Trustees and coordinates the Executive Leadership Team Dr. Clarke-Glover joined Wagner in 2015 as director of human resources and the College’s Title IX coordinator. She previously served as assistant director of human resources at New York City Technical College and an HR professional for the City University of New York’s Graduate Center. She is a member and past president of the Board of College and University Professional Association of Human Resources (CUPA-HR). She is certified by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM-SCP). She also holds certifications in Business and Ethical Leadership and Leadership & Succession Planning. She holds a D.B.A. from Temple University’s Fox School of Business, an M.S. in industrial and labor relations from Baruch College, and a B.A./M.A. in sociology from Boston College.
James A. Chiavelli II, M.A.
Vice President for External Affairs and Chief Communications Officer
Jim Chiavelli coordinates admissions, advancement, marketing and communications and campus safety for the college. He previously held senior communications, marketing, and external relations positions at the University of California-Merced, Merrimack College, and Northeastern University. He also worked in the Theatre Psychological Operations Support Element of the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan. He is a former newspaper reporter, editor and publisher, and former adjunct professor in journalism at both Northeastern and Merrimack, where he also advised the student newspaper. He has freelanced for Afghan Scene, The Boston Globe and the Boston Herald. Jim holds an A.B. in government from Harvard College, an M.A. in journalism from Northeastern and an M.A. in Security Studies from the University of Massachusetts-Lowell, after completing coursework for a Ph.D.
Kaitlin Girton
Vice President for Institutional Advancement
As vice president for institutional advancement, Kaitlin is responsible for ensuring that our alumni, our donors, and many of our external supporters are engaged and we are communicating to them about our efforts and ways they can partner in our work. Kaitlin began her career at Wagner in 2012, and has held a variety of roles in the Office of Institutional Advancement at the college. Most recently, she has served as the chief alumni and development officer, overseeing the offices of Alumni Engagement, and Development. A proud Wagner alumna from the class of 2008, she holds a B.A. in English. Kaitlin resides in Staten Island with her husband and three young children.
Stuart Goldberg, M.B.A
Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Stuart Goldberg is vice president and CFO, overseeing all financial offices at the College. He was principal for higher education financial analysis and strategies at The Angeletti Group after a career that included positions at General Electric and Merrill Lynch. He earned his M.B.A. from New York University and his bachelor’s from Boston University.
 David J. Martin, Esq.
Senior Advisor
David J. Martin is a licensed attorney and a retired member of the Judge Advocate General Corps in the US. Coast Guard.
Leaving active duty in 2003, he joined Wagner as the first chief of staff to the president as well as secretary to the board of trustees. In 2014 he became director of estates and planning giving, using his legal training to work with high-level donors and alumni interested in naming (or have named) Wagner in their estate plans, as well as guiding estate matters through probate courts across the country. He has most recently been named the senior advisor to the college president and remains as a member of the college’s senior leadership team.
He is very involved in the Staten Island community, especially in veterans’ groups. He chairs the local congresswoman’s committee that selects candidates for the federal service academies.
He earned his B.S. in political science from James Madison University, a master’s certificate in emergency management from the American Military University, and a J.D. from Loyola University School of Law.
Academic Leadership
Katia González, Ed.D.
Associate Provost and Professor of Education
Dr. González is associate provost and professor of education. Dr. González’s role in the provost’s office is to lead various efforts related to policy and procedures impacting academic affairs, work closely with deans and division chairs/program directors to support faculty development and programmatic decision-making, and oversee several special programs, committees, and accreditation needs. Dr. González holds an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University and serves as an Accreditation Commissioner for the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP) co-chairing AAQEP’s standards renewal process. Her research interests include the role of intercultural communication and culturally responsive practices for effective higher education, schools, and community partnerships. Dr. González received Wagner’s Diversity and International Action Council award for diversity and inclusion efforts and, as a member of Wagner’s Education Department, a Civic Engagement Recognition Leadership and Service to the Community award.
Sarah Donovan, Ph.D.
Associate Provost and Professor of Philosophy
Sarah K. Donovan is the associate provost and a professor of philosophy at Wagner College. As a professor at a teaching institution that focuses on civic engagement, she has engaged in several community-based projects with students including a decade-long tutoring program for migrant children near campus. At her institution, she has also served as the interim dean of integrated learning, and the interim director of the center of leadership and community engagement. She is a board member of the American Association of Philosophy Teachers, the national organization devoted to excellence in philosophy teaching, and she is a trained facilitator for faculty and graduate student workshops on teaching and learning that the AAPT offers nationally. She has published about the ethics of community-based learning, and co-edited volumes about equity, diversity, and inclusion in the higher education classroom. She earned her Ph.D. in philosophy from Villanova University and her B.A. in philosophy and Spanish from Skidmore College
Nora Lowy, Ph.D
Executive Director, Physician Assistant Program
Nora Lowy is the executive director of the Wagner College PA Program and has been involved in the education of health care professionals for almost 30 years. She was the founding director of two PA programs, developed several clinical certificate programs, guided the growth of the Wagner program from the bachelor’s to the master’s degree, and spearheaded the early introduction of learning innovations, such as simulated learning, immersion learning, early clinical exposure, problem-based learning, and health related medical and social research. She has taught foundational medical science courses, clinical medicine science courses, as well as research courses, guiding students through the development and implementation of research projects that culminate in the dissemination of findings at research forums. Dr. Lowy earned her Ph.D. in health sciences from Seton Hall University, an M.P.A. from Long Island University, and a Bachelor in education from Yeshiva University. She is a certified physician assistant with the National Commission on Certification of PAs, (NCCPA), and is licensed to practice in the State of New York.
Patricia Tooker, D.N.P
Dean of the Evelyn L. Spiro School of Nursing
Patricia Tooker received a B.S.N., M.S.N., and post-master nurse practitioner’s certificate, all from Wagner College, Staten Island, N.Y. She received her doctorate in nursing practice at Wagner College with research focused on the Heroin Epidemic Among Teens and Young Adults on Staten Island, in December 2016. She holds RN licensure in New York and has current BCLS certification. Dr. Tooker's 20-plus years of practice prior to entering higher education consisted of many staff and leadership/management positions within acute care and ambulatory settings. Her teaching responsibilities in the Spiro School of Nursing have included undergraduate and graduate courses, with expertise in critical care, leadership and management, community health, and health care administration. Dr. Tooker has also taught for many years in Wagner’s undergraduate general education learning communities’ curriculum. She is the recipient of the Excellence in Service award 2005-2006, the Civic Engagement Faculty Recognition award 2008-2009, and the Excellence in Teaching award 2009-2010. She received tenure in 2005. In 2010, she was appointed to the position of dean for integrated learning which she held until January 2017. She was responsible for overseeing the undergraduate curriculum, better known as the Wagner Plan, and continues to represent Wagner as an active member and spokesperson within the national circuits in higher education.  Her recent publications include an academic chapter in review Brill Publishing :Community Based Partnerships in Nursing (2023) and academic articles in The Journal of Long-Term Care (2021) Metropolitan Universities (2017), Peer Review (2015), the NYU Faculty Resource Network Journal (2015), and Learning Communities Research and Practice (2014). Pat is a board member at Eger Lutheran Homes and Services, Inc. on Staten Island and was appointed to the Staten Island Health and Wellness Advisory Council, which is overseen by the Borough President of Staten Island.
Michael J. Driscoll, Ed.D.
Interim Dean, Nicolais School of Business
Dr. Michael Driscoll is the interim dean of the Nicolais School of Business. A former Wall Street trader, he held senior positions with E.F. Hutton, Smith Barney, Credit Suisse and Bear Stearns. Moving to academia in 2010, he has been clinical professor and executive-in-residence at Adelphi University and then dean of the Bolte School of Business at Mount St. Mary’s University. He holds an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.B.A. from Adelphi and a B.S. from SUNY Maritime.
Celeste Gagnon, Ph.D.
Division Chair of Social and Behavioral Sciences & Professor of Anthropology
Celeste Marie Gagnon serves as the inaugural chair of the Division of Social and Behavioral Sciences and at Wagner College, where she has been a professor of anthropology for 16 years. Before taking on the division leadership, she served for six years as department chair guiding her team through several structural re-organizations. In 2019, as a member of the Middle States Commission on Higher Education steering committee and working group co-chair, she collaborated to deliver successful self-study. In her roles as department chair and Faculty Personnel Committee chair, she has supported junior faculty through the tenure and promotion process in both advisory and evaluative capacities.
Gagnon has been actively engaged in innovative curricular development as a member of the Academic Policy and First Year Learning Committees, and as coordinator of the Intermediate Learning Community Program. Her interdisciplinary interests has led her to engage in creative pedagogy and curriculum development that is student-centered, experiential-focused, and which integrates a wide variety of communities across and beyond campus. Most recently, as co-lead, she has helped her team develop a new interdisciplinary, community engaged curriculum – Cultivating Justice.
Gagnon was the first woman to hold the Eugen Megerle endowed chair in Science at Wagner College, and currently serves as an associate editor of Economic Anthropology. She earned her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, her M.A. at Arizona State University and her B.A. at the University of Delaware. As a bioarchaeologist trained in biocultural anthropology and archaeology, her scholarship employs method and theory from social sciences, natural sciences and humanistic perspectives to investigate the embodied experiences of economic and sociopolitical change.
Felicia Ruff, Ph.D.
Division Chair of Performing and Visual Arts & Professor of Theater
Felicia J. Ruff received her Ph.D. in theatre history from the Graduate Center of CUNY, having focused on 19th century melodrama. In 2007 she received a NEH grant to attend “The Oscar Wilde Archive” at UCLA’s Clark Library and subsequent scholarship focused on Wilde Studies, including book chapters: "The Transgressive Prop; or, Oscar Wilde's E(a)rnest Signifier" and "Oscar Wilde, the Erotique-Grotesque, and Modernist Spectacle." Her book chapter “The Laugh Factory? Humor and Horror at Le Théâtre du Grand-Guignol” in Theatre Symposium: Comedy Tonight led to her interview by Eric Molinsky for his podcast Imaginary Worlds. She is currently at work on a book chapter for the forthcoming Arden Guides to Early Modern Drama on plays involving witchcraft. At the College of Staten Island, she opened the Center for the Arts, where she worked with many artists of international renown. At Wagner, she has served in multiple administrative roles, including as department chair and chair of the Academic Policy Committee. While at Wagner, Dr. Ruff has received numerous awards for excellence in teaching and service as well as the Martin Luther King Agent of Change Award.