The College of Wooster welcomed four new members to its Board of Trustees and five new members to its Alumni Board for the 2026-2027 fiscal year.
Diane Gorgas ’86, Matthew Kaiser ’94, and Matt Long ’05 join the Board of Trustees as standard trustees, and Ali Sloan ’09 joins as an alumni trustee and member of the Alumni Board. Wooster’s Board of Trustees brings together alumni, elected leaders from a wide range of backgrounds and professions, and the College's president to provide diverse perspectives and guide the institution's long-term success.
Gorgas is a professor of emergency medicine at The Ohio State University’s Wexner Medical Center. She serves as the executive director of the Office of Global Health/Center for Global Health Studies and vice chair of academic affairs for the Department of Emergency Medicine. After receiving her bachelor’s degree in chemistry at Wooster, she graduated from Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and then completed a residency in emergency medicine at the University of Cincinnati. She has served as an item writer, case developer, and case administrator for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and on the Emergency Medicine Review Committee for the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. In 2018, she was elected to serve on the board of directors for the American Board of Emergency Medicine and served in multiple leadership roles within the board. She has also served with Wooster as a Phone-a-STEM volunteer and as a mentor for the Class of 2020.
A third-generation Wooster graduate, Kaiser graduated with a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, before going on to receive his master’s degree in philosophy from Tulane University and his law degree from Georgetown University. Kaiser’s legal practice focuses on representing individual and small business clients in commercial litigation, government investigations, and white-collar cases. Kaiser served for three years as the chair of the District of Columbia Board on Professional Responsibility, a nine-member board that adjudicates cases of attorney misconduct and disability. He has also served as an adjunct professor of law at Georgetown University Law Center, where he taught professional responsibility, and consults regularly on legal ethics and professional responsibility and has lectured on the topic both locally, nationally, and internationally. He has served as a Fighting Scots Career Connections advisor and is an active member of Legal Alumni of Wooster.
Long is a sixth-generation resident of the city of Wooster and is deeply involved in the local and College communities. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in political science, Long attended the University of Dayton School of Law, and now serves as the chair of the real estate department of local law firm, Critchfield, Critchfield, & Johnson. His legal practice focuses on commercial real estate development and leasing, family business succession planning, private family trust company formation and governance, and corporate law. Long previously served on Wooster Alumni Board and as a presidential fellow, and he is a recipient of the College’s Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
Sloan is an experienced geoscientist with a passion for collaborating with multi-disciplinary teams to drive value across the oil and gas industry. After graduating from Wooster, Sloan received her master’s degree in geological sciences from the University of Colorado and her master’s in business administration from St. Edwards University. The founder of a geologic consulting firm, Four J Resources, Sloan specializes in unconventional drilling operations, field development, seismic interpretation, and 3D earth modeling. She is heavily involved in the geoscience community as the president-elect of the Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists and as the technical chair elect of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. Sloan is the recipient of Wooster’s 2014 Young Alumni Award and a 2021 inductee into the W Association Hall of Fame, and she previously served as a member of the Alumni Board from 2022 to 2025.
The new members of the Alumni Board include Andrew Baird ’84, Marcus Fowler ’01, Rachel Kirley ’03, Caitlin Ziegert McCombs ’17, and Wayne Randolph ’69. The full Alumni Board, listed here, is an advisory organization made up of a diverse group of alumni that leads the Alumni Association, plans programs for students and alumni, and supports the College’s advancement and development missions.
Baird is the former president and CEO of the global hub of the Education For Employment Network (EFE-Global). Baird’s work focuses on advancing private sector-led strategies to create inclusive employment and livelihoods around the world. He co-founded the Global Center for Youth Employment, a membership-based organization devoted to developing collective solutions to the challenges of youth employment. He has held leadership positions in a range of organizations in the field and home offices of RTI International, Making Cents International, Chemonics International, and the Peace Corps. Graduating from Wooster with a degree in political science, he received his master’s degree in international relations from Johns Hopkins University. While at Wooster, he was a multi-sport athlete, participating in football, soccer, track, and cross country. He has also served as a member of his Class Reunion Committee, event speaker on campus, and member of the W Association.
Fowler has worked in higher education in the fields of advancement and alumni engagement for more than twenty years and currently serves as the senior director of development with The Ohio State University Office of Advancement. Working jointly with The Ohio State University Libraries and Central Advancement, Fowler collaborates with academic and unit leaders to plan, evaluate, and implement fundraising activities that meet current and future institutional needs, supporting the university’s strategic plan by creating and implementing a fundraising plan and priorities and discovering new prospects. A political science graduate from Wooster, Fowler was also involved with the swimming and diving team and as a member of Beta Kappa Phi fraternity. He remains actively involved with the Wooster community, regularly attending alumni events.
Kirley graduated from Wooster with a degree in theatre and dance and continues to make a career in the arts. She serves as the deputy director of development and individual giving for the San Francisco Symphony, overseeing a team responsible for raising $15 million in unrestricted operating support, endowment, and special project initiatives. She also serves on the development leadership team, providing strategy and guidance for institution-wide projects. Previously, she served as the development director for the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she oversaw all annual, capital, and endowment fundraising efforts for the institution. She received her master’s degree in arts administration from the University of Akron, and has served as a campus speaker, college fair representative, and hosted a Framing Our Future alumni event in 2024.
A sociology major, admissions tour guide, student government senator-at-large, and member of Pi Kappa sorority during her time at Wooster, McCombs now serves as the director of development, principal gifts at the University of Texas at Austin College of Education. In this position, she leverages skills in relationship management, fundraising strategy, and project management and is committed and driven to create community and facilitate thoughtful innovation. She received her Master of Education in higher education leadership from the University of Texas at Austin in 2022 and remains involved in various staff committees there. McCombs has served Wooster as a notecard writer for Admissions and a reunion advocate and has hosted several I.S. Monday events.
Randolph is a retired veterinarian and owner of Countryside Veterinary Hospital in Flemington, New Jersey. After graduating from Wooster in 1969 with a degree in biology, Randolph completed his veterinariae medicinae doctoris at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine. He has served on various veterinary medicine boards, including the New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association, the Metropolitan New Jersey Veterinary Medical Association, and the American Board of Veterinary Practitioners, receiving the AMVA Award in 2018 for contributions to the field of veterinary medicine. Randolph remains an involved alumnus, including participating in the Ask a Scot program. Notably, in 2024, Randolph gifted a bronze sculpture to the College titled The Piper, sculpted by artist James Sardonis, which now sits by the Burden Family Patio in view of the Lowry Center and the Scot Center.