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Ashley Lauren Joseph, EdD, director of women’s leadership and community engagement, has been at Mount Saint Mary’s for just under a year and has already made progress assessing programs to meet the students’ current and future needs.

She’s looking to expand some programs while keeping their historical pieces, such as the with the Community Student Ambassador program. The Ambassadors traditionally are assigned to a high school to serve as a mentor and help students apply to college. Joseph envisions a broader role in which the students are ambassadors of their entire Mount experience, enriching audiences about college life from their first year to Commencement.

Joseph is also looking at the overall student experience at the Mount and exploring ways to expand their engagement. For example, she’s looking at broadening student roles in various programs, increasing their mentoring and leadership opportunities, and encouraging more conference participation and community engagement. 

A triple degree holder from the University of La Verne, Joseph has a bachelor’s in psychology, a master’s in educational counseling and a doctorate in organizational leadership, with additional certifications in higher education assessment and cocurricular design. She’s also an adjunct faculty member at La Verne, teaching a law policy class.

There were so many wonderful reasons to join the Mount, said Joseph, but she was especially excited to have her first opportunity to work with a Black female supervisor in Linda McMurdock, PhD, vice president for student affairs. “Linda is really knowledgeable about student affairs, counseling and assessment, and I will learn so much from her.”

Joseph appreciates working at a University where she can “openly talk about my relationship to God and what that means to me,” she says. “Serving students, making sure we meet them where they are and loving them no matter what, that’s truly the work of God. It’s awesome to be able to do that every day.”

Note: To see Ashley Joseph’s Ted^x Talk from November 2022, “Unstoppable: Social change and collegiate leadership,” click .