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Welcome to URMIA’s Newest Board Members

  

 

Meet those who have recently joined as directors to the organization’s governing body                                                                                                                                                                                                         

   

Headshots of Keesha Trim, Frank Cella, Amanda Franklin, Rachel Pluviose, Tristan Tafolla, Elliot Young

New Faces Join URMIA’s 2024-2025 Board of Directors

New members were sworn in as part of the organization’s 2024-2025 leadership team during the 2024 Annual Conference. The new board consists of 16 members who are charged with governing the organization. Here’s a look at who has recently joined the board.

Keesha Trim, Parliamentarian

As the organization’s new parliamentarian, Keesha Trim is responsible for updating and maintaining URMIA’s governing documents – articles of incorporation and bylaws – and serves as the chief ethics officer for the association.

Trim is the senior director, risk management and insurance for the University of Richmond and is responsible for leading the university’s enterprise and traditional risk management, insurance, workers’ compensation, and youth protection programs. She brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to this appointed position on the URMIA Executive Committee and Board of Directors.

Frank D. Cella, Director (Affiliate Member Representative)

With more than 28 years of experience at Marsh, Frank Cella is no stranger to the world of higher education. As currently the managing director at Marsh, Cella has developed a deep understanding of the risk management challenges faced by the education industry and is excited to bring that expertise to URMIA’s governing body. He prides himself on making well-informed decisions based on careful analysis and considering both long-term and short-term implications.

Cella begins a three-year term serving URMIA.

Amanda Franklin, Director

To say Amanda Franklin jumped right in with both feet when she became a member of URMIA, might be an understatement. Within a week of starting her job as director of risk management at Wheaton College, Franklin was at her first URMIA Annual Conference and followed it up by volunteering to be part of the next year’s committee responsible for planning engagement opportunities for newcomers to the annual gathering of higher ed risk management professionals. She says she has found a work that she has a passion for, a professional community that she enjoys, and many opportunities to serve others including now as a member of the URMIA Board of Directors.

Franklin has started a three-year term on the board.

Rachel Pluviose, Director

Mentor. Coach. Talent Developer. These are all terms Rachel Pluviose uses to describe her passions as part of her current role as senior director, risk management and insurance at Johns Hopkins University. She brings more than eight years of experience in higher education risk management to her day job and plans to use that background as an asset as she begins her three-year term on the URMIA Board of Directors. She enjoys explaining to others the importance of what risk managers do.

Tristan Tafolla, Director

Tristan Tafolla, senior director, finance operations and strategic risk management for Columbia University, is no stranger to URMIA. He is filling a one-year vacancy on the board of directors and brings a wealth of expertise, especially in the area of international risk. Tafolla doesn’t hesitate to share his expertise with URMIA as a speaker, international committee chair, and reviewer of the association’s recent bylaws changes among the many areas that he has assisted URMIA. He has a shared passion for the mission of the organization and higher education.

Elliot Young, Director

Finding creative ways to advance URMIA’s strategic plan was one of the drivers to Elliot Young seeking a position on URMIA’s governing body. Young has more than 10 years of experience in higher education risk management including in his current position of AVP, risk and compliance officer at Kansas State University. He takes pride in finding multiple solutions to even the most complex problems to deliver meaningful results, but spends an equal amount of time connecting and mentoring others and making new members feel welcome into the URMIA community.

Young is also starting a three-year term on the board.

Let’s Get Started!

URMIA is excited to have these URMIAns joining the board of directors and is looking forward to seeing what the 2024-2025 year brings for the association. It is because of volunteers like these that URMIA continues to grow and thrive as a community for those in higher ed risk management and insurance.





12/17/2024

By URMIA Staff, URMIA


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