The NASFAA U Team is excited to welcome the following adjunct instructors for their upcoming online courses.

Megan Bahlke	Gena Boling, FAAC®	Kemmoree Duncombe, FAAC®
Matt Falduto. FAAC®	Sheena Guntrum	Dr. Danielle Hayden
Darcy Johnson, FAAC®	Jen Lada	Ashley Munro, FAAC®

Megan Bahlke

Megan Bahlke is currently working as a financial aid analyst at Mid Michigan College. With a total of nine years of experience in the field of financial aid, she has worked in all areas of grants, loans, Pell Grants, satisfactory academic progress, verification, and professional judgment. She has worked in various types of institutions, including private, public and community college. She holds a master's degree in organizational leadership from Northwood University and has been a part of NASFAA, MISFAA, and MASFAA for nine years. She regularly participates in webinars and credentials to keep updated with the latest federal regulations. Apart from work, she and her husband enjoy life with their three dogs and two cats, traveling to national parks, kayaking, and hiking. Family means the world to her and even though she doesn't have children of her own, she has two amazing nieces to spoil.

Gena Boling, FAAC^®

Gena Boling, FAAC^®, is the associate vice provost for enrollment at Cornell University and serves as the university's chief enrollment compliance officer. With more than 20 years of experience in higher education, Gena leads a team focused on compliance program management which serves as a partner to multiple institutional offices with assigned compliance responsibilities for Title IV of the HEA and GLBA. Before stepping into her current role, Gena served as a financial aid administrator in the Midwest, focusing on the areas of Title IV compliance and technology solutions. She regularly draws on her past life in student affairs to force everyone to do icebreakers and ensure student-friendly compliance initiatives. Gena holds 17 NASFAA Credentials and enjoys brainstorming innovative ideas for navigating the compliance landscape in higher education.

Kemmoree Duncombe, FAAC^®

Matt Falduto, FAAC^®

Matt Falduto is the Senior Director of Financial Aid at Kirkwood Community College, where he has worked for 20 years. He has a Master’s degree from Iowa State University in Higher Education and earned the FAAC^® designation in 2021. Matt has served many different roles in his state association, IASFAA, including President. He has taught ten of the sixteen NASFAA credentials in various authorized events over the years.  In 2019, he led a NASFAA credentialing program that resulted in 84 credentials earned by IASFAA members. He has served on NASFAA’s R2T4 Task Force, NASFAA’s Reclassification Working Group, MASFAA’s Advocacy and Legislative Issues Committee and has been an Instructor at MASFAA’s Summer Institute and Leadership Symposium. In his free time, he works as a freelance children’s theatre director.

Sheena Guntrum

Sheena Guntrum is an Assistant Director at Pennsylvania Western University - Clarion, where she has worked since 2011. She began her career as a primary cashier in the Student Accounts Office and then moved into financial aid. She has been processing the return of Title IV funds at her school since 2018. She has earned NASFAA credentials in cost of attendance, direct loans, and return of Title IV funds. Most recently, she earned the NASFAA U R2T4 Specialist Designation. Her hobbies include spending time with family, singing, reading, watching cooking shows, visiting Gettysburg, and learning more about the Civil War.

Dr. Danielle Hayden 

Dr. Danielle Hayden is the Senior Associate Dean and Director of Student Financial Aid at Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota. Prior to her move to Minnesota in 2022, she spent time at Purdue University – West Lafayette, Saint Mary’s College, and the University of Notre Dame. Danielle has been involved at the state level, serving on the Executive Board of both ISFAA and MAFAA and chairing/serving on various committees within each state. She has also chaired and served on multiple MASFAA committees. Danielle has also participated in the NASFAA Advocacy Pipeline and will join the NASFAA Leadership & Management Track Taskforce for the upcoming year. Some of Danielle’s hobbies include family activities with her husband and nearly two-year-old twin daughters, reading, and binge watching an unhealthy amount of TV series.

Darcy Johnson, FAAC^®

Darcy Johnson currently serves as the assistant director of financial aid compliance at Washburn University in Topeka, KS and as a Senior Consultant and Compliance Specialist with Blue Icon Advisors. She got her start in financial aid by happenstance in 2011. Since that time, she has dabbled in most financial aid processes, earned all 16 NASFAA credentials, and holds the Certified Financial Aid Administrator^® designation. 
In addition to her love of learning, Darcy also enjoys helping others and teaching; has presented numerous conference sessions at the state and regional level, as well as taught NASFAA U Authorized events and served as RMASFAA Summer Institute faculty. She loves the volunteer work she has done through KASFAA, RMASFAA, and NASFAA, especially being a member of the NASFAA FAFSA Simplification Implementation Working Group. Darcy was recently inducted into the KASFAA Hall of Fame. In her personal life, Darcy enjoys reading, being in nature, and laughing at her new, high energy, cat, Shenzi.

Jen Lada

Jen Lada is a coordinator of processing at the University of Colorado, where she is responsible for performing the R2T4 calculations along with managing the Pell Grant program. She also oversees a team responsible for managing the Direct Loan and Alternative Loan programs.  With over 18 years of experience in financial aid administration, she has spent time in both advising and processing roles, and enjoys the challenges administering financial aid presents. 

Prior to joining the University of Colorado, Jen worked as the assistant director of financial services for the online programs at Mount St. Mary’s University where she was responsible for all aspects of the financial aid needs from student contact to policy creation. Before that, she worked at a variety of both public, and for-profit institutions gaining a unique perspective on the industry by being exposed to a wide range of student populations and institutional policies.

Outside of work, Jen enjoys watching horror movies, traveling, and spending quality time with her husband Jeff and her rescue pup, Asher.

Ashley Munro, FAAC^®

Ashley Munro is the director of financial aid at University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF). She has worked in financial aid since 2005. Her main responsibilities include return of Title IV funds, Federal Work Study, state and athletic aid, professional judgment, and verification for the UAF's rural campuses. Training and presenting in financial aid is one of her favorite aspects of the job. She loves meeting new financial aid administrators and learning from each other. She has been a volunteer with WASFAA and NASFAA for many years. Ashley also just fulfilled her lifetime goal of going camping on the ice in Antarctica.