Staff Directory

Media Relations

• Roland Adams
  Director, (603) 646-3661, roland.adams@dartmouth.edu
  
  Roland Adams, Director of Media Relations in the Dartmouth Office of Public Affairs, has spent 25 years in higher education communications. A native of Texas, he served as Director of News and Information at the University of Texas at Dallas and later as Director of Public Relations at Vermont Law School before joining Dartmouth in 1990. Earlier he was a newspaper reporter and editor in the Austin and Dallas areas. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism form the University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in liberal studies from Dartmouth.
  
  
• Genevieve Haas
  Public Affairs Officer, (603) 646-1445, genevieve.haas@dartmouth.edu
  
  Genevieve Haas works in media relations and regularly contributes to Vox of Dartmouth and Dartmouth Life. She comes to Dartmouth from Northeastern University where she also worked in media relations. A graduate of Wellesley College, Genevieve has worked as a reporter for the legal periodical Lawyers Weekly USA and served an internship with The Atlantic Monthly before joining the field of higher education public affairs at Northeastern. A native of Atlanta, she currently lives in Concord, New Hampshire.
  
  
• Sue Knapp
  Public Affairs Officer, (603) 646-2117, susan.knapp@dartmouth.edu
  
  Sue Knapp began her work in the Office of Public Affairs in January 2001 after 11 years at the New England Aquarium in Boston. She is officially the office's science writer, working to publicize the faculty and students in the science departments. However, Sue has been known to contribute one or two humanities stories during her time at Dartmouth. A few of her non-science favorites include: covering the study of literary tastes as measured by Amazon.com, writing about filmmaker Sidney Lumet's visit with some film studies students, and promoting the energy of the Dartmouth College Marching Band.
  
  
• Latarsha R. Gatlin
  Public Affairs Officer, (603) 646-3274, latarsha.r.gatlin@dartmouth.edu
  
  Latarsha R. Gatlin, or Tasha, as she is informally known, has strong experience in both journalism and public relations. From 1997 to 2000 she worked as a reporter for the Bay City (Mich.) Times, covering first the county and then business news. In March 2000 she moved to Savannah, Ga. and worked as a small business reporter at the Savannah Morning News. In September 2001, she accepted a position as a Public Relations Specialist for the City of Norfolk (Va.) in the Department of Communications where she crafted news releases, developed message points and communication plans and worked local and regional media to secure news coverage. She also served as the lead staff writer for the department's many publications as well unofficial speechwriter for the City of Norfolk's executive staff. Tasha has a B.A. in Liberal Studies from Excelsior College but attended Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Mich., in its journalism program for much of her academic career.
  

Periodicals

• Laurel Stavis
  Director, (603) 646-3661, laurel.stavis@dartmouth.edu
  
  As Director of Periodicals and Communications Services, Laurel Stavis provides leadership for and oversight of Dartmouth's core news and features publications, including VOX of Dartmouth, Dartmouth Life, and "Speaking of Dartmouth." She came to Dartmouth in 1996 from Wellesley College, where she served as Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations. She is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music.
  
  
• Sarah (Benelli) Memmi
  Periodicals Manager
  (603) 646-3045, sarah.a.memmi@dartmouth.edu
  
  Sarah Memmi is managing editor of Vox of Dartmouth, the faculty and staff newspaper, and Dartmouth Life, the newsletter for undergraduate alumni and parents. An avid equestrian, she was a writer and account executive at the Equine Journal in Keene, N.H., before coming to Dartmouth in 2005. She is a Vermont native and graduate of the University of Vermont.
  
  
• Steven J. Smith
  Public Affairs Officer, (603) 646-0912
  steven.j.smith@dartmouth.edu
  
  Steve Smith joined the Public Affairs team in July 2006 coming to us from Chapel Hill-Chauncy Hall School (CH-CH) in Waltham, Massachusetts. At CH-CH, Steve was responsible for the overall communications program, promoting the school through a bi-monthly newsletter, a variety of capital campaign publications, viewbooks, and other marketing materials. Steve is a 1997 graduate of St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he obtained a B.A. in English and History. He is working on his M.A. in Integrated Marketing Communication at Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts.
  
  
• Kelly Seaman
  Writer/Editor, (603) 646-0217
  kelly.seaman@dartmouth.edu
  
  Kelly Seaman joined the Office of Public Affairs in January 2007, after relocating to Hanover from Charlottesville, Virginia, where she wrote for regional magazines on gardening, design, books and parenting. She writes news and features for the College, primarily for Dartmouth Life and Vox of Dartmouth. Kelly holds an A.B. from Davidson College and an M.A. from the University of Virginia, both in English. She loves the opportunity to tell a good story.