Staff Directory

Laura Barnard recently served as the Executive Vice President and Provost at Lakeland Community College. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Mount Holyoke College, and is a licensed attorney having earned a Juris Doctorate degree from The Ohio State University College of Law. She serves on the Board of Trustees of the Child and Family Advocates of Cuyahoga County. She has served as a trustee of the Lake County Bar Association, is a past chair of the Ohio Association of Community College’s Chief Academic Officers’ Group, and served as a member of the Board of Trustees of Suburban Temple Kol-Ami. She has lived in the Mercer area with her husband, Tom, for more than 30 years and has two adult daughters

Mario Bynum is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in higher education and instructional technology. He currently serves as the Executive Director of Online Learning & Academic Technology at Cuyahoga Community College. Dr. Bynum holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Instructional Systems & Workforce Development from Mississippi State University, a Master of Education in Educational Technology from the University of Arkansas, and a Bachelor of Science in Computer Information Systems from Grambling State University. In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family and friends. He resides in the Mercer area

Emily Cole-Kelly is a dedicated and passionate non-profit development and fundraising professional with over 20 years of experience. She is currently working with Birthing Beautiful Communities, a non-profit organization dedicated to providing holistic prenatal, birthing and postpartum services to expectant Black women. She has held leadership roles at numerous non-profit institutions including The Paris Review and The Battery Conservancy in New York City and Geography of Hope and The Museum of Science & Industry in Chicago. She returned to Shaker with her family in the summer of 2022. The first thing they did was get library cards. Emily loves to run and lives in the Onaway neighborhood. She and her two boys can regularly be spotted at the library checking out a laundry basket full of books.

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Bruce Rogen, MD MPH FACP, is the Chief Medical Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Employee Health Plan and Chair of the Cleveland Clinic Quality Alliance. He grew up in Shaker Heights around the corner from the Bertram Woods Branch. He graduated from Brown University and received his MD and MPH degrees from Tulane University Medical School. After 20 years in Los Angeles in both clinical and administrative practice, he returned to Shaker Heights to raise his family in 2009. As Chief Medical Officer for the Cleveland Clinic Employee Health Plan and Chair of the Quality Alliance, he helps the Cleveland Clinic maintain high-quality care for its employees and dependents and assists community physicians with both practice support and quality enhancement. Dr. Rogen lives in the Mercer area with his family.

Rajani Tendulkar is the Administrative Director of Translational Research at the Cleveland Clinic. She received her Masters of Healthcare Administration from The Ohio State University and has spent the past 20 years working in hospital systems in NE Ohio. She has been active in the Shaker Heights community, through the schools and assisting with other community initiatives. She currently lives in the Malvern area with her husband and two daughters

Milton Alan Turner has taught French and Spanish at Saint Ignatius High School since 1987. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in French and Linguistics from Georgetown University and two master’s degrees from Cleveland State University in Educational Technology and in Global Interactions. He currently serves on the Board of ACTFL as its Past President, on the AATF Commission on Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, is a member of La Maison Française de Cleveland’s Board of Directors and is an NAACP Silver Life member. He was awarded a 2000 MBNA Excellence in Education Grant, named a 2011 Microsoft US Innovative Educator, chosen the 2014 Ohio World Language Teacher of the Year, listed in the 2017 Who’s Who in Black Cleveland, and won the Saint Ignatius High School Trailblazer Award in 2020. He lives in the Mercer area.

Dylan Yépez is an attorney for the Cleveland Clinic. He grew up in Shaker Heights, attending the Shaker public schools from kindergarten through high school. After graduating from Ohio State (B.A.) and Georgetown Law (J.D.), he began his career at the Cleveland office of Squire Patton Boggs and returned to Shaker, where he lives in the Lomond neighborhood with his husband, Ricardo. In his spare time, he performs pro bono legal work and enjoys reading, baking, and jogging around Shaker.