Center for Leadership & Community Engagement
Meet Our Staff
Meredith Hein, M.A.
Director
T. 407.691.1021
Meredith Hein (she/her) serves as the Director for the Center of Leadership and Community Engagement at Rollins College. She completed her master's degree in education leadership: student personnel administration at the University of Central Florida in May of 2007. Meredith feels that working in higher education allows her to continually learn from those around her, as well as to teach. Meredith loves to learn and laugh, and as a member of the Rollins community, she gets the opportunity to do that on a daily basis.
Motivating, teaching, and giving back to others is what inspires Meredith to be only a small part of such an amazingly engaged community. Within the Center at Rollins College, her work has focused in the areas of integrated teaching, campus-wide involvement initiatives, student-led programming, community engagement partnerships, educational leadership, service-learning, and social justice work. Her philosophy is centered on student learning through engagement opportunities linking their curricular and co-curricular experiences. Her personal mission is to foster learning grounded in authenticity and integrity while also inspiring change and empowering our campus community in creative and diverse ways.
Additionally, in her free time, Meredith loves spending time with friends and family. She also really enjoys being a foodie, watching movies and TV, playing with puppies, rooting on the Yankees and catching up on sleep!
Victoria Teske
Associate Director
T. 407.691.1244
Victoria (she/her) serves as our Associate Director for the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement at Rollins College. She received her B.A. in Recreational Therapy at Florida International University and then went on to complete her Masters in Higher Education Administration at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA). At UTSA, she held a two-year graduate assistantship within their Leadership and Volunteer Services office where she focused on organizing volunteer events and leadership conferences.
Victoria's role includes overseeing the Bonner Leaders Program, the Democracy Project, as well as the group of students who are involved with JUMP (Join Us in Making Progress).
Sam Justice
Assistant Director
T. 407.691.1232
Sam (he/him) serves as the Assistant Director in the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement at Rollins College. He recieved his B.A. in History from Rhodes College in Memphis, TN. Upon graduation, Sam completed a year of AmeriCorps service with City Year Orlando and now serves as the chair of the City Year Orlando Alumni Board.
Within the Center at Rollins College, Sam oversees many of the leadership development and community engagement opportunities on campus including the Immersion Program, the Emerging Leadership Institute, the 5 Minute Difference Program, Saturdays of Service, and the Student Support Foundation.
Sugeilee Martinez Mercedes
Coordinator
T. 407.691.1250
Sugeilee (she/her) serves as the Coordinator in the Center for Leadership & Community Engagement at Rollins College. She received her B.A. in Biology from Rollins in 2022. Upon graduation, Sugeilee served as the Leadership Development Graduate Assistat within the Center.
Sugeilee's roles include serving as the entry-point for community partners and nonprofit agencies, supervising the S.O.A.Ps (Student Office Assistant Personnel), managing the JUMP Buses, and co-advising the Student Support Foundation.