2023-24 Wake Forest Fellows announced

Eleven 2023 grads will be returning to their alma mater as Wake Forest Fellows. They will work throughout the campus community, including in the offices of the Provost, Campus Life and the Dean of the College.

Since 2008, the Wake Forest Fellows program has provided exceptional Wake Forest College graduates with the opportunity to work in higher education administration for a year. Each fellow is serving as a full-time Wake Forest staff member, starting July 1. In addition to working with top administrators, the fellows will participate in leadership activities and interact with faculty, staff and students to learn about the inner workings of higher education.

The Wake Forest Fellows for 2023-24 are:

Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist
Estefania Narvaez (Charlotte, NC)
Health & exercise science major with minors in biology and chemistry

Campus Life
Gretchen Castelloe (Oakboro, NC)
Environmental Science major with minors in Anthropology and Dance

Dean of the College
Dianna LaTerra (Waxhaw, NC)
Sociology and Psychology major with a minor in Music

Information Systems
Madi Shaver (Charlotte, NC)
Psychology major with a minor in neuroscience

Leadership and Character
Roscoe Bell (Jacksonville, FL)
Psychology major with a minor in music

Office of Personal & Career Development
Nina Simone Banks (Freeport, NY)
Anthropology major with minor in biology

Provost’s Office
Grace Powell (Marietta, GA)
Philosophy major with a minor in interdisciplinary humanities

School of Business
Jayden Brown (Winston-Salem, NC)
Sociology major with a concentration in business and society and minors in entrepreneurship and interdisciplinary humanities

START Gallery
Maya Whitaker (Winston-Salem, NC)
Sociology major with minors in art history and studio art

Wake Downtown
Xochitl Ortiz-Sanchez (Hendersonville, NC)
Psychology major with minors in religious studies and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies

ZSR Library
Madison Koontz (Greenville, SC)
Double major in business and enterprise management (marketing concentration) and classical studies