Audrey Ellis is the founder and principal consultant of T3 Advisory. With a Doctor of Management from the University of Maryland Global Campus, Dr. Ellis's research focuses on change management and initiative fatigue across higher education, with particular attention to access-oriented and resource-constrained institutions including community colleges, HBCUs, and other minority-serving institutions.

Since founding T3 Advisory, Dr. Ellis has partnered with higher education institutions to deliver strategic guidance, implementation support, and training. Her expertise spans change management, AI literacy, and student-centered process improvement. She co-founded Complete College America’s Council on AI, where she led discussions and develops resources at the intersection of AI and equity. In addition to her dissertation on initiative fatigue, she has authored numerous publications on AI and student success and frequently delivers keynotes and workshops on technology, equity, and education.

Dr. Ellis has partnered with dozens of higher education institutions in a research and consulting capacity, including community colleges, HBCUs, and four-year universities. Her work spans student journey mapping, AI strategy, enrollment optimization, and institutional transformation.

Dr. Ellis leads T3's partnerships with the Gates Foundation, Complete College America, the United Negro College Fund, Growing Inland Achievement, and other national intermediaries and systems. Through this work, she and her team have partnered with HBCUs, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, community colleges, and regional universities on student journey mapping, AI adoption strategy, and institutional transformation.

Dr. Ellis earned her B.A. in Sociology and Education from Tufts University and her M.S. Ed. from the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education.

Geneva Dampare is a strategic higher education leader with over 15 years of experience driving equitable learner success and organizational systems change through technology initiatives. She specializes in institutional transformation, digital credentials, and leveraging upskilling for learner mobility. Geneva is an expert at delivering impactful solutions and cultivating robust, multi-stakeholder partnerships across non-profits, philanthropies, and higher education institutions.

Prior to joining T3 Advisory, Geneva served as the Director of the Teaching and Learning Center at the United Negro College Fund (UNCF). In this capacity, she oversaw the strategic direction and implementation of over 20 programs that promoted innovation and growth across UNCF's network of 37 member Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). She has a proven track record of securing and managing significant grants, including $4M from philanthropic organizations to support technology integration and capacity building. Geneva's work focused heavily on leveraging technology for student success, including leading the course sharing and academic strategy for HBCUv.org, an innovative EdTech start-up platform. She also directed a multi-stakeholder Gates Foundation-funded initiative on AI-enabled digital courseware and facilitated a community of practice in the development of an AI Learning Design Assistant, promoting engagement for under-supported student populations.

Geneva has also held impactful roles at other prominent organizations in the education sector, including U.S. News & World Report, the University of Maryland Smith School of Business, American University, and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).

Geneva holds a Master of Science with distinction in Organizational Development (MSOD) from American University and a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and Africana Studies from Oberlin College. As an accomplished organizational development practitioner, she is committed to fostering inclusive cultures and continuous growth.

Marisol Garza, Ph.D., is a practitioner-scholar with more than twenty years of experience in higher education, blending research, strategy, and practice to build equitable systems that center student voice. A first-generation Latina whose educational journey began at a community college, Marisol is guided by a lifelong commitment to access, belonging, and transformation.

Her career began as a work-study student at Lone Star College and evolved through leadership roles in academic advising, student engagement, and institutional development. At the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE), she worked to establish the Center’s professional development division and led initiatives that helped colleges use data-informed storytelling to understand the student experience. She also contributed to Higher Endeavor, a Gates Foundation–funded project supporting guided pathways and institutional transformation.

As an Institutional Support Consultant with Trellis Company, Marisol provided technical assistance to minority-serving institutions across multiple states, leading enrollment assessments, communication mapping, and strategic planning to strengthen institutional capacity. At Houston Community College, she was the first Program Manager for Advising, leading a system-wide guided pathways implementation for 70,000+ students and designing professional development and training for more than 130 advisors each semester.

Marisol’s work sits at the intersection of leadership, research, and equity. She has published and presented nationally on Latinx student engagement, transfer equity, and organizational change. Her approach combines data analysis with relational practice to translate complex information into actionable strategies that foster sustainable improvement.

She holds an A.A. from Lone Star College–CyFair, a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Houston, an M.Ed. in Counseling and Guidance from Texas State University, and a Ph.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy from The University of Texas at Austin. Marisol also holds certifications in leadership psychology from Cornell University and in career and education advising from Indiana University.

Daniel C. Gannon, LPD, is a higher education and workforce development leader who partners with institutions to strategize, design, and optimize portfolios that drive meaningful learning and institutional outcomes. He has deep experience designing academic strategies aligned to workforce demand, student experience, and institutional priorities. His work centers on the effective integration of academic outcomes, labor-market signals, and emerging technologies to advance institutional goals, enhance student experience, and strengthen learning systems.

Dr. Gannon has spent his career partnering with colleges, universities, and system leaders to deliver strategic guidance, implementation support, and facilitated sensemaking around academic strategy, workforce alignment, and responsible AI integration. Before joining T3 Advisory, He served as Senior Director of Academic Portfolio Management at Western Governors University, where he built and led the university’s centralized portfolio strategy function. In this role, he designed frameworks stewarding multimillion-dollar investments serving more than 200,000 learners annually. His work helped establish standardized governance practices and improve alignment between credentials, workforce demand, and economic mobility outcomes.

Earlier in his career, he held Associate and Senior Associate Dean roles at Southern New Hampshire University and Northeastern University, where he led academic innovation, advising strategy, FYE operations, and student success initiatives serving adult and working learners. Across roles, his work has consistently concentrated on access, equity, and the design of scalable systems that support institutional sustainability and diverse learner success. His approach blends strategic analysis, institutional research, and relational facilitation to translate complexity into actionable strategies that foster sustainable improvement.

He holds two B.A. degrees from Keene State College in Theatre and Dance and Political Science. He earned both his M.Ed. in Higher Education Administration and Doctorate in Law and Policy (LPD) from Northeastern University.

Marisa Yates, MA is a strategic research and data analytics leader who partners with institutions to translate complex information into insights that shape decision-making and drive measurable outcomes. She has more than 15 years of experience leveraging large datasets to uncover the drivers behind the numbers, leading large-scale research efforts across an institution, and producing high-quality data for assessment and continuous improvement. Her work centers on turning research into clear narratives and strategic frameworks that inform programs, influence policy, and elevate organizational voice.

Before joining T3 Advisory, Marisa served as a Senior Research Analyst at Western Governors University, where she designed and executed a university-wide skills validation process, combining quantitative and qualitative methods to align curriculum with workforce demand. In this role, she demonstrated a consistent ability to connect rigorous analysis to the practical questions facing institutional leaders.

Earlier in her career, Marisa held research and analytics roles across higher education and the private sector, including the University of West Georgia, Miami Dade College, and Royal Caribbean International. Across these roles, she built a track record of automating reporting, improving data accuracy, and delivering actionable recommendations that refined business and institutional strategy.

She holds a B.A. in Psychology from the University of Miami and an M.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she focused on methodology, clinical methods, and cognitive psychology.

Sean Harris is an operations executive with more than 15 years of experience building systems and developing people to allow organizations to scale. His work centers on translating vision into operational reality, taking ideas and ambitions and building the structures that make them tangible. Sean's approach is grounded in a conviction that operations are ultimately about people, not process. Systems exist to leverage the capabilities of the people using them.

Prior to joining T3 Advisory, Sean spent more than a decade leading operations for small, fast-moving teams across marketing, national field services, and multi-unit retail, with full P&L ownership and responsibility for company-wide strategy. His focus throughout has been implementing systems for lean teams to operate at a scale greater than their headcount. He has built reporting infrastructure to give real-time visibility into revenue and performance, supporting revenue growth of more than $2M annually. Sean rebuilt client onboarding to cut launch timelines in half, and architected AI-powered workflows integrated with large language models to automate billing, reporting, and internal communications. Directing operations across three national markets, he reduced labor costs upwards of 40% through labor utilization and administrative efficiencies, built QA/QC programs to ensure regulatory compliance, and redesigned pay structure that produced a 90% increase in employee retention.

Sean began his career in multi-unit retail, spending nearly a decade managing locations across Southern California while earning his B.S. in Business Economics from Azusa Pacific University. Some of his most rewarding work was serving as operations director for a community development organization, leading teams to Tanzania, Haiti, the Philippines, Vietnam, and Mexico.