Unlearning Behaviors that Limit DEIB in Advancement training provides the building blocks for advancement professionals to build DEIB acumen and culture competency. It is designed to give attendees an understanding of DEIB and its importance from an advancement lens while learning tailored strategies for professional growth and organizational change.

Jessica Elmore
Senior Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) Training, CASE

Jessica Elmore, Ed. D (She/Her) is the senior director of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) training at CASE. Dr. Elmore is responsible for developing and tailoring DEIB training for the global organization and providing DEIB consulting services for member institutions and organizations. As a visionary educational advancement leader, Dr. Elmore is dedicated to developing authentic and cross-cultural opportunities and unites her scholarly research and practitioner advancement experience in building identity-centered solutions. Formerly, Dr. Elmore was an active CASE North American District VI cabinet member and co-chair of the Opportunities and Inclusion CASE committee. Dr. Elmore has a doctoral degree in educational leadership and a master's degree in business administration from Kansas State University; her undergraduate degree was accomplished at a historically Black university, Grambling State University.

Benjamin R. Fiore-Walker, Ph.D.
Senior Director for the Opportunity and Inclusion Center, CASE

Benjamin R. Fiore-Walker, Ph.D. (He/Him) is originally from Southampton, PA in suburban Philadelphia. Ben received a Ph.D. in neuroscience (psychobiology) from the University of Virginia, and has a bachelor's degree in Psychology from Allegheny College in Meadville, PA. His research area of focus was in the development of brain circuitry as they relate to epilepsy and autism. Ben comes to his position as the senior director for the Opportunity and Inclusion Center (OIC) after close to 25 years working in the diversity space. Before coming to CASE, Ben was the manager of the Office of Diversity Programs at the American Chemical Society (ACS) in Washington, DC, where he had a broad mandate to develop strategies to build out relationships and initiatives from across the society in order to help ACS live into its core value of diversity, equity, inclusion and respect. Before ACS, he served as a senior managing director for diversity and inclusion at Teach for America (TFA), where he was responsible for devising and quantifying diversity metrics for TFA for the development of initiatives to diversity staff and corps member populations. Prior to TFA, he spent 19 years at the Georgetown University School of Medicine where he was the Associate Dean for Diversity & Inclusion. This work has taken Ben into many elementary and middle schools in underserved areas of the D.C. metro region, where he uses neuroscience to get kids excited about STEM fields and higher education. Ben has written on and studied diversity climate in higher education and the workplace and is a firm believer that diversity & inclusion matters. Ben believes that even though heterogeneity is the key ingredient to success—with diverse teams being more productive and creative than non-diverse teams, it’s all for not if the members of those diverse teams don’t feel their differences are celebrated or valued. We need both, diversity and inclusion to reach our full potential.