Meet the Team

Jeannette approaches advising as a collaborative partnership focused on helping students make informed and empowered decisions about their academic goals. She strives to create a supportive environment where students feel comfortable asking questions, exploring options, and navigating challenges with confidence. Her advising style balances clear guidance with empathy, recognizing that every student’s experience and path are different. She aims to help students feel heard, supported, and capable of making decisions that align with their values, goals, and long-term success.

Shelby is passionate about best practices in human development, quality education, and empowering students to achieve their goals. The focus of her college career was on human development and family studies, and she genuinely enjoys looking at life through a holistic and theoretical lens. Her goal as an advisor is to create a welcoming environment, actively listen, and use a strengths-based approach in each appointment. Regardless of where a student is on their journey, Shelby sees herself as their advocate as they explore, develop, and make informed decisions about their academics and ultimately their future.

Emily is an alumna of the University of Wyoming and Western Wyoming Community College. She joined the Navigate Hub for Exploring Students team in 2024 after working in the Office of Orientation & Student Success at SLCC. During her time there, Emily advised and advocated for first-generation and traditionally underrepresented students, as well as English Language Learners. Before pursuing a career in higher education, Emily taught in the Dual Language Immersion program in Canyons School District for 7 years. Her passion lies in helping students find a sense of belonging at the university and exploring all the choices and possibilities available to them in their college experience. Outside of work, you'll find Emily at the theatre, watching women's sports, or on a walk with her partner and their little old man dog, Freddie.

Madeline graduated from the U with Honors B.S. degrees in Psychology & Health, Society & Policy, & a B.S. in International Studies with Minors in Leadership Studies & Health. She graduated in 2018 with her Master’s Degree in International Relations from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Stephanie takes a collaborative, student-centered approach to advising, creating a supportive space where students feel comfortable exploring options and navigating challenges. She partners with students with empathy and clarity, helping them make confident, informed decisions that align with their unique goals and values. 

Amber approaches advising as a collaborative and student-centered partnership grounded in empathy, trust, and connection. She strives to create supportive spaces where students feel comfortable asking questions, exploring possibilities, and navigating challenges without judgment. Her advising style emphasizes approachable communication, encouragement, and helping students build confidence in navigating university systems and decisions. Amber believes meaningful support should feel genuinely human and aims to help students feel heard, empowered, and capable of defining success in ways that are authentic to them.

Emily’s advising approach is strengths-based, collaborative, and student-centered. She believes students are most successful when they are empowered to become the experts on their own lives. Using coaching-informed approaches, Emily supports students in identifying their strengths, values, strategies, and goals in order to build lives and pathways that feel meaningful and authentic to them. She aims to create a supportive space where students can receive clear information, explore options, build confidence, and move forward with greater clarity and self-trust.

When meeting with Academic Standards students, Amanda aims to create a comfortable, non-judgmental space that encourages students to provide context for their academic record. Amanda believes that a student's grades only tell part of the story — several factors can lead to academic difficulty. She also understands that university policies can be difficult to understand and helps each student comprehend and navigate the policies and resources that can benefit them.

Amanda has direct experience working with students with disabilities and neurodiversity, students navigating mental health challenges and extenuating circumstances, students who are the first in their family to attend college, students from diverse backgrounds, students on a nontraditional path, and students returning from Suspension or a long period of time away from school. Amanda strives to listen empathetically and provide students with validation and encouragement as they navigate their circumstances.

Amanda believes that students are much more than their grades — they bring experiences, identities, context, perspectives, backgrounds, challenges, and strengths to their educational experience at the University of Utah that make them unique and deserving of individualized support.

Hannah joined the team in June 2022. Originally from Oklahoma, she double majored in Spanish & Psychology as an undergrad at Hendrix College and went on to earn an M.Ed. from the University of Texas at Austin. Hannah is passionate about supporting students in building community in college. Outside of work, she is an avid podcast listener who is always on the hunt for the next great dog park to explore with her wife and their pup!