Meet Our Team

Ben Blair

Co-founder, Education Director

PhD in Philosophy and Education from Columbia University. Taught foundations of education at college and graduate levels. 10+ years directing online curriculum. Leads course and degree development.

Josh Stanley

Co-founder, Design and Technological Director

Master’s degrees in Mass Communications and Digital Media Design from The University of Denver; ABD in Instructional Design at Columbia University. 15+ years in instructional design.

Erin Kelly Stanley

Director of Operations

BA in Music Education from University of Utah. 10+ years experience in Director of Operations and Event Director positions for various companies.

MS Metabolic Biology and Nutritional Science from UC Berkeley. 5+ years in curriculum development, teaching, and student support. Director of student support with Newlane University since November, 2018.

Avi Mintz

Associate Director of Curriculum

PhD in Philosophy and Education from Columbia University

Antonio Novoselnik

Lead Developer

6+ years as a full stack web developer. Deep expertise in Node. js, AngularJS, MongoDB, Express, hapi. Lead developer for the New platform since 2016.

Martha Talman

Librarian

Martha has worked in small businesses, state and federal government, tribal government, large multinational corporations, and higher education. As an academic librarian, her focus is on making quality resources available to students and teaching students the skills needed to access and use information efficiently and ethically.