Alumni Spotlights
New alumni spotlights are added regularly. Click through the carousel using the arrows to view each alumna/alumnus. If you believe you or someone you know deserves to be in the spotlight, click here to submit a Class Note.
Stuart Howard ’23
“Currently, I am a Team Services Venue Officer for FIFA. I am based at UNCG while SE Palmeiras competes in the Club World Cup and uses UNCG’s soccer facility for training purposes. After my role ends with FIFA, I will go back to the YMCA of Greensboro and continue my duties as a Sports Director. I am very interested in sports and hope to break into a role with a professional sports organization someday as a sports analyst.”
Margaret B. Arbuckle ’74 M.eD., ’84 Ph.D.
In July, alumna Margaret Arbuckle will be recognized as the 2025 Lifetime Community Service Award recipient by the International Civil Rights Center & Museum. Her work in advocacy and education spans more than five decades. The award is given to community leaders who have advanced civil rights through their service.
She will be honored at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum’s Annual Fundraising Gala on Saturday, July 19, at the Joseph S. Koury Convention Center.
R. Bradley johnson ’09 PhD
Brad Johnson ’09 PhD has been a proud Spartan since 1997 when he came to UNCG to work in Housing & Residence Life. During this time, he earned his PhD in Curriculum & Instruction (Higher Ed administration) from UNCG and then transitioned to full-time faculty in 2013. His dissertation focused on workplace climate, degree of outness, and job satisfaction of gay and lesbian professional staff in higher education.
He currently serves as Clinical Professor of Higher Education at UNCG and has helped to establish and organize several initiatives at UNCG related to the LGBTQ+ community, including coordinating the LEARN Collective which includes the LEARN Network, the UNCG faculty & staff Queer Caucus, and the Gender Diversity Working Group. As he always tells his students, Dr. Brad reminds everyone to “always remember your why.”
Claudette (Hines) Christopher ’01
In honor of Women’s History Month, alumna Claudette (Hines) Christopher ’01 has been recognized as an outstanding female educator by her employer, UF Health Jacksonville. Of Claudette, her colleagues and interns say she is an educator who “leads with patience and strength,” that she “finds the learning opportunity in any situation,” and that she “exemplifies what an educator should be.”
Claudette says, “UNCG fully prepared me to take on any community or school public health position. I didn’t know at the time it would eventually lead me from community/school education to patient education and now professional/workforce development. I love helping people become the best at whatever they need to accomplish. UNCG taught me to not put myself in a box unless I wanted to be in one. UNCG prepared me so much so that it’s only now that I feel that I needed to pursue a Master’s degree. I’m currently studying Health Administration. I worked in the Student Wellness and Immunizations Center. I was a Resident Assistant for many years and a leader in Circle K! My UNCG advisor and other mentors were awesome. So many great memories. I’ve got nothing but the best to say about UNCG.”
Congratulations, Claudette!
Michele Fenton ’98 MLIS
“I am a catalog librarian at the Indiana State Library and a graduate of the Master of Library and Information Science program at UNCG. I am also a past secretary for the Black Caucus of the American Library Association (BCALA) and the blogger for Little Known Black Librarian Facts. I like writing and I have authored articles and chapters about libraries and librarianship; and once served as a co-editor for International Leads, the newsletter of the International Relations Round Table of the American Library Association. Recently, I co-edited the Handbook of Black Librarianship, Third Edition with Andrew Sekou Jackson and Dr. Marva DeLoach. It was really wonderful working as part of a team to continue the work of Dr. E. J. Josey (1924-2009), a co-founder of BCALA and the editor (with Ann Allen Shockley and Dr. Marva DeLoach) of the first and second editions of the Handbook of Black Librarianship. Lastly, I am a history nerd and a member of the Library History Round Table of the American Library Association and the Association for the Study of African American Life and History.”