Vice Provost for Education Beth Winkelstein announces the appointment of Meredith Wooten as Director of the Graduate Student Center, beginning August 31.

Dr. Wooten earned a PhD in political science at Penn in 2013 and served as a Fellow of the Graduate Student Center for her entire time as a Penn student, working in several different areas, including diversity and family programs, and most notably developing the Center’s highly successful Dissertation Boot Camp. 

She has worked for the past four years at the Pennoni Honors College of Drexel University, most recently as Founding Director of the Center for Scholar Development. In this role, she has partnered across the Drexel community to offer skills-based workshops, programs and resources designed to help students make more intentional choices about their educational and professional paths. She also helped found and co-chair the steering committee for First Forward, Drexel’s new initiative to support first-generation college students, and has taught American politics at Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Penn.

In addition to her PhD from Penn, she earned a BA with honors in political science (2002) from Bryn Mawr College.