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NEWS FROM JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING JHSON Welcomes New Chief of Staff,

Associate Dean for DEI

This winter, the Johns Hopkins School
of Nursing added key leaders in Chief
experience in higher education in the
of Staff Mark Procopio and Associate
development and implementation of
research, teaching, mentoring, and
Dean Jermaine Monk, who will head Monk “brings over a decade of
the school’s efforts on diversity, equity, advisement of first-generation and
and inclusion. Black, Indigenous, and People of Color
students,” says Szanton. As both an
Procopio fills the position held by Chris assistant professor and administrator
Atkins Godack, who retired on February at Lehman College, City University
3. He previously served as senior of New York—a federally designated
associate for strategic initiatives in Hispanic Serving Institution—Monk
Johns Hopkins University’s Office of the served as co-chair of the president’s
Senior Vice President of Finance and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Administration; as interim executive Taskforce and as chair of the provost’s
director of the Creative Alliance; Taskforce for Social and Emotional
founder and principal of Procopio Counseling for Faculty Development.
Consulting; and executive director of “Jermaine is a passionate, visionary, and
6 FreeState Justice, a Maryland-based accomplished teacher, scholar, and
LGBTQ advocacy organization. In academic administrator.”
Chief of Staff Mark Procopio
addition, he has held leadership
positions with KIPP Baltimore Schools He holds a master’s and PhD in
and Teach for America and taught in urban systems (a joint program
Baltimore city schools. He is between the Schools of Nursing and
an active member of Leadership for Public Affairs at Rutgers University
Educational Equity. and the New Jersey Institute of
Technology), a master’s in business
He earned bachelor’s degrees in management from the University
international finance and international of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, a
economics from Catholic University, is master’s in theological studies from
a Maryland State public policy conflict LaSalle University, a master’s in social
resolution fellow, and made Baltimore work from Temple University, and
JOHNS HOPKINS NURSING SPRING 2023 Associate Dean Jermaine Monk “Mark is a highly accomplished “Diversity, equity, and inclusion are core
a bachelor’s in urban planning and
Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” list of
young professionals to watch.
public policy from Rutgers.
administrator and problem solver
values of our community and we look
forward to Jermaine taking us to the
who is deeply committed to building a
more equitable and just Baltimore and
next level as a model of excellence and
impact,” says Szanton. ◼
world,” says Dean Sarah Szanton, PhD,
RN, FAAN.