CAAE Member Spotlight, January 2025
By Raphe Beck | January 21, 2025 | in Published Articles | 0 comments
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Based on a Q&A-style interview developed by the CAAE Communications Committee, we're pleased to present this month’s spotlight of CAAE member Matthew Brandon (William and Mary University), compilation courtesy of Raphe Beck (University of Oregon)
Name: Matthew Brandon
Institution: William & Mary
Q: Are you new to alumni relations, new to your institution, neither, or both?
A: Neither. 30-year veteran of the field, with brief departures (grad school, private sector job serving alumni associations, Monticello/Thomas Jefferson Foundation). Have worked at W&M Alumni Association/Society of the Alumni previously as associate director of alumni relations and director of alumni products & services.
Q: Best perk of the job so far:
A: Hosting alumni VIPs (Mike Tomlin, Glenn Close, Cord Jefferson so far)
Q: Biggest challenge so far:
A: Building a future-ready organization for an increasingly diverse audience that far exceeds age, race, and geographic location.
Q: If you needed to, could you sing your school’s fight song and/or alma mater?
A: Alma mater - yes
Q: What would it surprise people to know about you?
A: I am an introvert.
Q: Who would be your dream dinner guests?
A: First of all, it is going to be a party because who gets to do this gathering twice? Thomas Jefferson, Martin Luther King, Jr., Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Barack and Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Elder Watson Diggs (one of my fraternity's founders), my mother.
Q: When I’m not on the job, you’ll find me…:
A: Traveling, taking photos, mentoring students who are Posse Scholars at W&M.
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