The UGA Griffin+Spalding Archway Partnership is excited to announce the appointment of a new Archway Professional for Griffin+Spalding. Shaneesa Ashford was a communications specialist with the Department of Human Resources at Emory University for 15 years before going into consulting in 2022. She is a graduate of Florida A&M in journalism and earned her masters in nonprofit organizations from UGA. She also has a Juris Master from the Emory School of Law and is currently working on her Ed.D. in workforce education from the Mary Frances Early College of Education.
As the Archway Professional for Griffin+Spalding, Ashford is a locally-based faculty member who works every day with residents of Griffin+Spalding to learn about the important issues to the community and connect them to resources at the University of Georgia that can help address those issues. The Archway Partnership is one of eight UGA Public Service and Outreach units dedicated to serving the state. UGA’s innovative approach to community engagement and the Archway Partnership earned the 2022 C. Peter Magrath Community Engagement Scholarship Award from the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. To learn more about the Archway Partnership visit archwaypartnership.uga.edu