Marisa Vernon White, Ph.D. is the Vice President of Enrollment Management and Student Services at Lorain County Community College (LCCC) in Ohio. She has spent the majority of her twenty-year career leading student success work within open access institutions, including three Ohio community colleges and a regional campus of Kent State University. Dr. Vernon White’s specialty areas include community college mission and administration, holistic student service redesign, transformational leadership in higher education and enrollment management, and she also serves as a coach to other community colleges through the Achieving the Dream network.