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Meet KimberleeMarlow
GCU’s new alumni director is about making connections
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&
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K
imberlee Marlow
traveled overseas as
an undergraduate, but
she doesn’t need to go to such
lengths to know Grand Canyon
University graduates. She has
been making notes on them —
in Phoenix and out on the road
— since being named as the
University’s director of alumni
relations in late 2013.
In January, she was in
Dallas one weekend for the
GCU-sponsored Roadshow
concert tour and in Chicago
the next week for an Antelope
men’s basketball game. Both
events drew strong alumni
participation.
She’s no stranger to GCU,
having joined the staff in 2007
as an event planner in the
marketing department. We
caught up to her recently for an
interview, and here is what she
had to say:
Tell us about yourself and how
you came to GCU.
I’m originally from Orange
County, Calif., and I graduated
from Pepperdine University in
2003 with a major in psychology.
I moved to Arizona for what I
thought was my dream job, at a
treatment center for women with
eating disorders. The clinical
environment wasn’t what I
thought it would be, and then
I worked in marketing with a
medical-device company. I had
various positions in marketing
at GCU before becoming alumni
director.
From your impressions so far,
what do GCU alumni want most?
I think alumni want to feel
connected, to be informed of the
growth, development and successes
of the University. They want to
feel a relationship with GCU even
after they have left school, and that
Kimberlee Marlow hit the ground running after being named director of GCU’s
alumni office, traveling locally and around the country to nurture existing
relationships with graduates and to make new connections.
photo
by
darryl webb
