New Tempe Advisors!

Barrett Advising is excited to announce two new staff members will be joining our team as Academic Success Advisors at the Tempe campus. 

Mackenzie (Tashi) Flaig is coming from Colombia where she wrapped up a position as a Fulbright Senior English Teaching Assistant, mentoring first year ETAs and working with local students in the country. Tashi also has previous experience working at Baylor University as an Administrative Associate in several units supporting faculty, staff, and students. She has a lot of student service experience, including registration, transfer credit evaluation, hiring student workers, website and social media updates, and tuition and stipend authorization. She is a graduate of Baylor with a Bachelor’s degree in Language and Linguistics and a Minor in Arabic (she is trilingual!). 

Parker McNair is coming from Oregon after working with College Possible as an AmeriCorps College Access Coach, helping younger students find a path to college with support, resources, and group advising sessions focused on college readiness topics. Parker has worked with school counselors and teachers to align support strategies, advised students on academic planning, and organized seminars on graduate admissions and professional development. He is a graduate of the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon with a degree in Psychology and an Honors Thesis on the effects of feedback and goal setting on attention and performance. 

Both will be starting in our office on July 29, and will be training leading up to the start of classes on August 22. Be on the lookout for meetings with them in early August, as well as the chance to meet them at the upcoming Happy Hour and Back to Barrett Luncheon.