Trisha joined the Center for Faculty Excellence in February 2009. She is an Administrative Support Specialist, responsible for the day-to-day operations of CFE in addition to serving as the HR Liaison and Finance Liaison to the UBC. Her UNC career started at the School of Public Health Office of External Affairs in 2001. She moved away from campus to the Center for School Leadership Development on Friday Center Drive, where she acted as the Information and Communications Specialist for the NC Mathematics and Science Education Network. She earned her MBA at Loyola University in New Orleans after receiving a bachelor’s degree from the University of Southwest Louisiana (now the University of Louisiana at Lafayette).