Unparalleled Experience in Education

The Lumen team brings your institution deep expertise in the adoption and effective use of open educational resources (OER), design of highly effective online and technology-enhanced instruction, learning data analysis with a focus on improving outcomes, and community collaboration.

Meet our team

Kim Thanos

Founder & CEO

Dr. David WIley

Founder & Chief Academic Officer

Jeanette Koskinas

Chief Product Officer

Joni Felt

VP, Sales Strategy & Rev Ops

Paul Golisch

VP, Customer Experience

Brigeth Rivera

VP, Marketing

Julie Kuljurgis

VP, Sales

Daysha Jackson-Sanchez

VP, Equity Solutions

Giselle Miller

VP, Learning

James Smith

VP, Development

Alyson Indrunas

Executive Director of Teaching & Learning, Continuous Improvement

Natalie Chakrian

Executive Director, Sales

Amy Horner

Director of Learning Solutions

Brianna Lyons

Senior Director of Teaching & Learning

Averie Connell

Regional Sales Director

Chris Podehl

Regional Sales Director

Erin Farrey

Senior Regional Sales Director

Colleen Jones

Senior Regional Sales Director

Matt Weaver

Regional Sales Director

Janet Lara

Regional Sales Director

Katrice Taylor

Regional Sales Director

Kelly Wainwright

Senior Director of Learning Solutions

Maxim Asher Young

Director of Learning Solutions

Tori A. Matthews

Senior Executive Director of Partnerships

Laura Murray

Director of Learning Solutions

Sarah Ergen

Senior Product Manager

Wendy King

Course Product Manager

Wen Yen

Course Product Manager

Lauren De'Reche

Course Product Manager

Christina C

Course Product Manager

Jesse W. Watson, Jr.

Equity Centered Design Implementation Manager

Yane Wondwossen

Finance Manager

Kiersten Sparks

Assistant Course Product Manager

Lacee Pyles

Course Product Manager

Christina McGuire

Senior Customer Support Specialist

Sonya Chance

Senior Customer Support Specialist

Danielle Chitty

Lead Customer Support Specialist

Aaron Simon

Technical Project Manager

Kimberly Chessler

QA Engineer

Elana Silverman

QA Engineer

Isaac Stefanek

Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Tracey Berg-Fulton

Front-End Engineer

Pat Clarke

Director of Engineering

Annalyn Sarmiento

Front-End Engineer

Ashley Gillenwater

Front-End Engineer

Gabriel Schrock

Front-End Engineer

Sharlee Bryan

Back-End Engineer

Matthew Hotchkiss

Back-End Engineer

Naomi Davidson

Sr. UX Designer

Heather Taylor

UI/UX Designer

Emily Dominguez

Software Engineer

Kelsi Flatland

Software Engineer

Leanne Thng

Software Engineer

Jenna Wright

Software Engineer

Nicole Aldurien

Software Engineer

Fred Dietrich

Managing Engineer

Jeff DeWan

DevOps Engineer

Rita Taylor

Equity Solutions Coordinator

Amanda Telgen

Recruiting & Operations, Lumen Circles

Alecia VanBuren

Director of Learning Solutions

Lisa Levinson

Lumen Circles Facilitation Leader

Alyce Gresham-Bacon

Business Development Representative

Kiana Pincock

Director of Learning Solutions

Jessica Szewczyk

Product Marketing Manager

Angelica Halbert

Product Marketing Manager