Emily Krzyzewski Center | Our Team

Drawing on extensive experience from across the education, business, public policy and nonprofit sectors, the Emily K leadership team has the expertise necessary to build high quality programs that achieve high impact results.

Marleah Rogers, Chief Executive Officer and President
Treat Harvey, Director of Development
Lauren Gardner, Chief Operating Officer
Adam Eigenrauch, Director of Education
Heather Hindin, Coordinator of Educational Program
Karman Kent, Program Support Manager
Michele Brown, Office Manager
Girija Mahajan, Educational Programming Specialist

Marleah Rogers, CEO and President
Marleah Rogers is the CEO & President of the Emily Krzyzewski Center, where she focuses on the multi-year phase-in and financing of our K to College Model, the leverage of strategic public and private sector partnerships to achieve a greater social return on investment, and the organization’s strategic growth plan. She credits the Center for Advanced Social Entrepreneurship at Fuqua’s School of Business for exposing her to leaders in the educational field who are successfully addressing educational inequities, in particular KIPP and TFA. Introductions to these and other best practices, as well as leading research by foundations from across the country, led to the emergence of a scalable, fully integrated non-profit business model that brings the best private and public resources together to support the academic, character and leadership development of high potential, low income students from early elementary through college.

Marleah brings to the Center more than 25 years of leadership experience in a variety of global businesses and consulting firms. Her background includes strategy development and implementation, portfolio management and restructuring, new market entry and business start-ups, development of capacity building strategic partnerships and results based business models, and complex merger integrations.

Marleah has a bachelor’s degree in business management (magna cum laude). She is a guest speaker at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business on a wide range of topics in the areas of social entrepreneurship and leadership. She also serves on the Board of Directors for The Hill Center, a leading educational expert and a globally replicated school. She also serves on the founding Board for KIPP NC, a best practice charter school that is achieving exceptional results throughout the country. She previously served on the Board of Directors for The Hill Center, a leading educational expert and a globally replicated school.

Treat Harvey, Director of Development

Treat Harvey joined the Emily Krzyzewski Center in July 2009 as Director of Development, overseeing fundraising efforts for the organization, including annual fund, major gifts, project funding, and endowments from individuals, corporations and foundations.

Prior to joining the Emily K Center, Treat worked at the International Youth Foundation, based in Baltimore, MD, as the organization’s first director of individual giving, focusing on building an annual fund and an endowment. Prior to joining IYF, Treat worked at Duke University, first in the Office of Corporate & Foundation Relations, developing and writing grant proposals, then in the Division of Student Affairs as Director of Development, raising major gifts from alumni and parents for the Division (in conjunction with Trinity College of Arts & Sciences). Before joining Duke, she was Director of Development for Durham Arts Council, Inc., focusing on individual and corporate giving to the annual United Arts Fund campaign.

Before moving from New York City to Durham, NC, she worked for Paris-based Sofitel Hotels in the New York sales office, representing 100+ international hotels on the U.S. market to corporate travel managers, travel agencies, and tour operators. Her fundraising career was launched in the development office at Smith College, where she worked on The Campaign for Smith.

Treat is a graduate of Smith College where she majored in French Language and Literature. She also received a certificate in Nonprofit Management from Continuing Studies at Duke
University.

Lauren Gardner, COO
Lauren Gardner began as an intern for the Emily Krzyzewski Center in the summer of 2005 where she was instrumental in strategy and program development prior to the Center’s opening. Since receiving her MBA in the summer of 2006, she has served full-time as the Chief Operating Officer where her roles include financial management, strategy and program development, IT management, and various other responsibilities.

Prior to working for the Emily K Center, Lauren served as a Peace Corps Volunteer focused on small business and community development in St. Lucia. Lauren graduated from Georgetown University with a bachelor’s degree in International Economics, and received an MBA from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business

Adam Eigenrauch, Director of Education
Adam Eigenrauch has served as the Director of Education at the Emily Krzyzewski Center since July 2006. In that role, he focuses on program implementation, partnerships, evaluation, capacity-building, and communications specific to Center’s mission.

Prior to joining the Emily Krzyzewski Center, Adam spent 10 years as an educator and administrator in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools. Following a four year teaching stint, he became the district’s Coordinator of Extended Learning. As such, he assumed primary responsibility for 12 academic-based after school programs serving a combined enrollment of 1,100 students annually.

Adam earned his bachelors degree in Speech Communication from Ithaca College, and was awarded his masters degree in Education from Penn State University.

Heather Hindin, Coordinator of Education Program
Heather Hindin is the Coordinator of Educational Programming at the Emily Krzyzewski Center, where she provides management and direct oversight of the implementation of K to College Model programs.

Prior to this, Heather had served as a Lead Tutor in the Center’s Pioneer Scholars program, and she spent more than seven years as a special education teacher in Virginia and North Carolina. In this role, Heather was the chairperson of the Special Education Department (VA), headed several successful fundraising efforts, and helped to pilot an alternative state assessment program for students with significant learning disabilities.

Heather graduated from Lynchburg College with a bachelor’s degree in Psychology/Special Education. In accordance with federal legislature, Heather earned Highly Qualified teacher status in Virginia in 2006 and in North Carolina in 2007.

Karman Kent, Program Support Manager
Karman Kent is the Program Support Manager at the Emily Krzyzewski Center, where her primary responsibilities consist of volunteer management, serving as language liaison for the Center’s growing Latino population, serving as a liaison for campus and community groups to bring in external programming,and a wide range of additional program support.

Prior to joining the Emily Krzyzewski Center, Karman served as the campus campaign manager for Teach for America implementing marketing and networking strategies to recruit future corps members. She also worked for Opportunity International, a microfinance organization serving more than 1,000,000 poor entrepreneurs internationally each year, to further their Women's Opportunity Fund. In addition she developed the Champions for Children program at Bethany Christian Services in Kalamazoo, MI and assisted in major fundraising and outreach endeavors.

Karman graduated from Kalamazoo College with degrees in Sociology and Anthropology. She has also spent time studying at La Universidad Autonoma Benito Juarez in Oaxaca, Mexico, developing fluency and insight into the Latino population.

Michele Brown, Office Manager
Michele Brown became the Office Manager at the Emily Krzyzewski Center in September of 2006.

Prior to this, Michele worked as the sole employee relations representative for the Hertz Corporation, Car Sales Division, where for eight years she performed HR duties for 43 locations throughout the US. Her work included training new employees in diversity and safety, conducting safety audits for OSHA compliance and corporate office, employment, hiring and payroll issues, to name a few. Michele also worked extensively in the New York City Public School system as a paraprofessional for 10 years, where she was a teaching assistant for grades K-2 and then Special Education assistant in grades three and four. Her joint background in education and human relations made the transition to current role at Emily K a good fit, as here she has the joys of working to benefit the children as well as assisting the staff and managing the office.

Michele attended York College (CUNY), where she pursed a degree in Early Childhood Education

Girija Mahajan, Educational Programming Specialist

Girija Mahajan is the Educational Programming Specialist at Emily Krzyzewski Center where she develops Scholars to College curriculum and delivers it weekly to the sophomore cohort and provides on-site support for the Pioneer Scholars program. Prior to joining The Emily K Center, Girija worked as an educational policy assistant at the Center for Teaching Quality in Hillsborough, NC. She relocated to North Carolina from New York City where she served as a 2006 NYC Teach For America Corp member. Girija completed her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Iowa.