Léna Crain, Ph.D. (Gehring Academy Assistant Chair) serves as Dean of Students at Baldwin Wallace University. Dr. Crain is a frequent trainer and speaker on alternative resolution, conflict resolution skill building, cultural dimensions of conflict, and planning and assessment. She has served on the ASCA Board of Directors and with the Donald D. Gehring Academy as a Faculty Fellow, Faculty, and Track Coordinator. In her broader career in higher education, Dr. Crain has been recognized as an ACPA Diamond Honoree and Annuit Coeptis Scholar. Dr. Crain earned her Ph.D. from the University of Maryland.
Dr. Stephanie M. Wright (Assistant Chair) is native of Bridgeton, New Jersey and member of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. Her commitment to service, leadership, and excellence, has groomed her to be an innovator in the areas of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs and Student Development. Wright is committed to the overall betterment of fraternity and sorority life, with a particular interest in advocacy for Culturally Based Fraternal Organizations (CBFOs). Her work aims to address systemic issues within institutional policies, address organizational misconduct, restore community standards, and set students and student organizations on a path to success.
Stephanie is a dynamic speaker and presenter, addressing topics of student leadership, service, and hazing at various colleges and universities. With an extensive repertoire of knowledge, Stephanie can be found presenting and facilitating conversations at several conferences with both students and professionals to challenge their ideologies in Student Affairs. Stephanie founded the Cultural Greek Leadership Conference (CGLC), a Northeast based conference for CBFOs in 2013. Stephanie wanted to create a developmental space where CBFOs felt as though they belonged and could engage in dialogue specific to their organizations.
She founded SMW Services, LLC in 2017 to provide consultation and developmental programming to organizations and institutions.
Stephanie is a 2003 graduate of Ramapo College of New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts in Communications: Public Relations and matriculated on to complete a Master of Arts in Administration and Supervision from Montclair State University in 2007 and a Master of Arts in Journalism and Communication: Public Relations from Kent State University in 2014. She completed her doctorate in Organizational Leadership from Stockton University in 2022.