Assistant Vice President, Student Transitions, Access & Retention

Dr. Ana C. Edmondson serves as one of the Assistant Vice Presidents for Student Affairs at Stockton University, where she leads the Student Transitions, Access, and Retention (STAR) Programs, and teaches part time. With more than a decade of experience advancing diversity, equity, and student success, she has developed and scaled student success initiatives across Rutgers University, Saint Peter’s University, and Stockton University that close achievement gaps and strengthen belonging among first-generation and underrepresented students.

A proud Camden, NJ native, Latina, and EOF and TRIO alumna, Dr. Edmondson’s work centers on empowering students to reach their full potential through holistic, research-informed support systems. She earned her Doctorate in Education, Culture, and Society from Rutgers University, where her dissertation, Why Do I Feel Homesick at a Diverse University?, explored the racial and cultural experiences of Latinx first-generation college students.

When she’s not leading transformative programs, Dr. Edmondson finds joy in cultural experiences that celebrate identity, community, and connection, values that continue to shape her professional mission.

Geriatric Psychotherapist and Adjunct Professor

Kelechi Ezeadi, LSW, MSW, MS, is a doctoral candidate in Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership at Stockton University. Kelechi is a social services professional with demonstrative transformational leadership experience. Kelechi served as a visionary leader in New Jersey’s child welfare system. His professional background also incorporates Criminal Justice, Social Work and Education. Kelechi has a strong commitment to service, ethical leadership frameworks, and lifelong learning.

Kelechi is a facilitator of evidence-based mental and behavioral health interventions, with 21 years of progressive experience in child protection and welfare. Kelechi is skilled in organizational leadership, andragogy, policy writing, curriculum, evaluation methods, as well as project and talent development. He has facilitated professional development initiatives that actuate adult learning via presentations, communication platforms, as well through innovative and traditional teaching/instructional methods. Kelechi has influenced organizational cultures through the intentional and methodical application of team leadership styles with internal and external stakeholders via sustainable and practical approaches. Kelechi is currently a Geriatric Psychotherapist at a private medical group of healthcare professionals and comprehensive care medical doctors, psychiatric, therapists, and psychologists. He is also Adjunct Professor at Seton Hall University.

Assistant Vice President for Student Advocacy, Belonging & Campus Standards/Dean of Students

Dr. Haley Baum is the first woman in her family to be born in America, her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother were all born in the same small town in Germany. She draws great strength from the experiences, perseverance, and power of those who came before her. 

Dr. Baum has been a member of the Stockton University community since 2011 and currently serves as Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students. She holds a BA in Fine Arts Rider University, a M.Ed. in  Educational Leadership with a concentration in Student Affairs from the University of Delaware and an  Ed.D. from Rowan University in Educational Leadership and Higher Education. Before Stockton, Dr. Baum worked in Student Affairs at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, and the University of Delaware.

If you were to ask her to describe her job in one sentence, she will tell you: it is her responsibility to create conditions that matter for all students to be successful, no matter what. Dr. Baum’s dedication to higher education and commitment to putting students first can be seen through her research, which focuses on exploring students’ moral development and communication about campus crime and safety, specifically the Clery Act. Dr. Baum works tirelessly to educate and inform about sexual assault and violence on campus and believes that it is everyone’s responsibility to keep our campus communities safe.

In her role as AVP/Dean of Students, Dr. Baum is charged with providing leadership to student conduct processes, case management operations, student support and advocacy, the women’s, gender and sexuality center, critical campus incident response and training, multicultural and interfaith student engagement, student development, fraternity and sorority life, access to basic needs resources such as food assistance and emergency loans, and overall campus and community development. Additionally, Dr. Baum is responsible for oversight of the student affairs operation at Stockton University Atlantic City. Furthermore, Dr. Baum serves as an adjunct faculty member in the School of Education. 

One of Dr. Baum’s favorite things to do is volunteer in the community and find ways to connect young people with various opportunities for learning and growth. Dr. Baum currently serves on the Board of Directors for the NJ American Council on Education Women’s Network and is always looking for ways to empower and encourage those around her. She also loves to spend quality time with her fourlegged support system, her goldendoodle, Maxwell. 

Dr. Baum is passionate about working with students and truly believes in the transformative power of education. Helping another person find their voice, or their passion in life, is what drives her work and motivates her daily. Her inspiration is born from the unwavering support and example of her 92-yearold grandmother, Ursula, who teaches her to be kind, proud and grateful, every day.

President of Atlantic Cape Community College

Dr. Barbara Gaba was appointed the ninth president of Atlantic Cape Community College in January 2017, becoming the first female and first African American president in the college’s 60-year history. With extensive experience in higher education, she is deeply committed to the mission of the community college to provide affordable educational pathways for student success.

Prior to joining Atlantic Cape, Dr. Gaba served as Provost and Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs at Union County College (NJ). She also served as Dean of Academic and Student Support Services at Camden County College (NJ) and Associate Director, Office of Board Affairs and Government Relations at the New Jersey Department of Higher Education.

Since assuming office, her accomplishments include improved campus technology infrastructure and facilities upgrades, such as the Innovation Center at the Mays Landing Campus rebranding and enhanced marketing initiatives; revitalized community engagement projects; increased high school partnerships including articulations, dual enrollment and Early College programs; and partnerships with various entities to advance economic development in the region.

During her 35-year career she has served as a teacher, researcher and administrator and has been devoted to working with underserved, underrepresented students.

Dr. Gaba serves on several boards and committees including, the Stockton University Community Advisory Board; Stockton University Ed.D in Organizational Leadership Program Advisory Board; Atlantic County Economic Alliance (ACEA); National Aerospace Research and Technology Park (NARTP); Junior Achievement New Jersey (JANJ); Greater Atlantic City Chamber Board of Directors; Atlantic County Workforce Development Board (WDB); Cumberland, Salem, Cape May Workforce Development Board (WDB) and the NJ Community Colleges Consortium for Workforce & Economic Development.

She also serves as Chair of the New Jersey Council of County Colleges (NJCCC) Operations and Collaboration Committee, and is a member of the NJ Presidents’ Council (NJPC). At the national level she serves on the Board of Directors of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC); and the Higher Education Research & Development Institute (HERDI) Advisory Board.

Dr. Gaba is the recipient of several awards including the 2025 Shelia Y. Oliver Civic Assn. Education Award; 2024 Honoree of Atlantic City Community Fund for the Non-Profit Resource Center, Atlantic City Campus; the 2024 Women’s History Month “Woman of Distinction” Award from the Winslow Township Middle School; 2023 Woman of Achievement Award from the Public Relations Council of Greater Atlantic City; and the John G. Fitzpatrick Community Leader of the Year Award from the Greater Atlantic City Chamber of Commerce. She has been named to the “2022 and 2023 Influencers: Women in Business” list by ROI-NJ.com and the list of “African American Women Leaders in NJ” by the South Jersey Journal. She is also an inductee of the Rutgers African American Alumni Alliance Hall of Fame (2021).

She is a frequent speaker at statewide and national conferences on various higher education issues and she also continues to give back by serving as a mentor to individuals aspiring to leadership positions in higher education.

Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership and Program Chair of the Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership Program at Stockton University

Dr. Sequetta Sweet enjoyed a 25-year career in Information Technology (IT) but changed careers when she began her management consulting firm where she taught and implemented leadership development and change management programs in small and large businesses. 

Sequetta received her Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York and was recruited by Polaroid in Boston right out of college. She has worked for several Fortune 100 and 500 companies in both Boston MA and Rochester NY. After starting her consulting firm, she decided to return to school, receiving a Master of Science in Human Resource Development and Organizational Learning and a Doctor of Education in Executive Leadership from St. John Fisher University in Rochester, New York.  

After 17 years of consulting and serving as an adjunct and 3/4 faculty at various colleges and universities, Dr. Sweet accepted an amazing tenure track position as assistant professor of Organizational Leadership at Stockton University, teaching one of the things she is most passionate about, Leadership. She recently received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor. In July 2023, Dr. Sweet was bestowed one of her greatest honors, Program Chair of the Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership program at Stockton University.

Dr. Sweet is a disrupter by nature and teaches on topics of leadership, influence, and change at both the doctoral and undergraduate levels, helping respective students understand leadership theory and practice in organizations and, most importantly, helping them develop their leadership identity, who they are as a leader. She also supervises doctoral dissertations students. She is most interested in how students learn and how to engage students in learning, individual and personal change, and transformational change to improve performance and productivity in organizations and focuses her research in those areas.

In the last six years, Dr. Sweet is responsible for much of the transformations that the Ed.D. in Organizational Leadership program at Stockton University has undergone and continues to experience. She is a visionary with a view of a program that actively partners with all its stakeholders to produce the highest levels of leadership development and change in its students, preparing them to meet the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous challenges that life brings and be agile, ready for the changing landscape and nature of our world.