Director:

Micki Pannozzo Meyer
mmeyer@rollins.edu
407-691-1754

Micki Pannozzo Meyer serves as the The Lord Family Director of Community Engagement at Rollins College. She collaborates with faculty across disciplines and passions in providing students the opportunity to serve and create change in the community through service-learning and engagement. Micki also works extensively with students in helping them to identify their passion in creating positive change in our local and global communities.

Micki received a BS in human communication and media management from the State University of New York College at Fredonia and master of arts in college student personnel from Bowling Green State University. She served as the assistant director for the LEAD scholars program at the University of Central Florida for four years before joining the Rollins College family in fall 2005.

Micki is a learner, observer, and active community member. She enjoys spending time with her wonderful and supportive husband David, working on her new house, engaging in the community, staying active with friends, watching NFL and college football, reading, and participating in arts and photography.

Assistant Director:

Meredith Hein
mhein@rollins.edu
407-691-1021

Meredith Hein serves as the assistant director for the Office of Community Engagement at Rollins College. She completed her master's degree in education leadership: student personnel administration at UCF in May of 2007. A native Floridian, she is originally from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Meredith feels that working in higher education allows her to continually learn from those around her, as well as to teach. Meredith loves to learn and laugh, and as a member of the Rollins community, she gets the opportunity to do that on a daily basis.

Motivating, teaching, and giving back to others is what inspires Meredith to be only a small part of such an amazingly engaged community. She plays an active role in overseeing the JUMP initiative and SPARC program. For Meredith, it is more than watching the students grow after 4 years of college, it is as Lao Tzu once said, “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

Additionally, in her free time, Meredith loves spending time with friends and family. She also really enjoys dining out, watching movies, playing with her dog Jack, rooting on the Yankees and catching up on sleep!

Community & Office Coordinator:

Suzy Plott
splott@rollins.edu
407-691-1250

Suzy Plott has the honor of working in the Office of Community Engagement as the community and office coordinator. Suzy is originally from North Carolina and came to Florida for college getting her bachelor of science in Latin American and Caribbean Studies with a minor in Communications from Rollins College.  Suzy has a special place in her heart for Fern Creek Elementary School, where she volunteered her entire time as a college student and then worked for them right out of college. Suzy’s interest include playing with her puppy Chloe, watching movies, going to the beach and going home to North Carolina to visit family and friends.

As a member of the Community Engagement staff, Suzy has the amazing opportunity to assist students in finding their areas of passion in service to the greater Central Florida community. She also gets to work daily with faculty to put what the students are learning in the classroom into action to serve the needs of the community. Contact Suzy regarding the JUMP bus, reimbursements, community partner meetings and general questions about Community Engagement at Rollins.

Americorps VISTA:

Tocarra Mallard
tmallard@rollins.edu
407-691-1266

Tocarra Mallard is our new AmeriCorps VISTA for 2010-2011 school year! A recent graduate of Rollins with a degree in art history--Tocarra was very involved on campus holding executive board positions with the A&S Student Government Association, the Black Student Union, and Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc. As a VISTA she will focus on programs that confront hunger and homelessness including; Habitat for Humanity, and the Fern Creek Mentor program. A reformed military brat, Tocarra was born in Nuremberg, Germany and cites Fairbanks, Alaska as her hometown.

Graduate Assistant:

Sarah Elbadri
selbadri@rollins.edu
407-691-1200

Sarah is the Graduate Assistant for the Office of Community Engagement. She graduated from the University of Florida with an undergraduate degree in Integrative Biology. As a Gator she worked as a resident assistant, an intern for the Office of Sustainability, and an ambassador for Multicultural & Diversity Affairs. She is a graduate student in the Masters of Planning in Civic Urbanism program at Rollins. While working for the Office of Community Engagement, Sarah will be advising JUMP, planning Immersions, working on assessment of OCE objectives, and developing new programs that focus on civic engagement.

To learn more about our student assistants, click here!