Arielle Schram serves as the Donor & Alumni Relations & Event Coordinator for the Office of Advancement at Alaska Pacific University, where she helps strengthen donor and alumni engagement, community partnerships, and university events that support student success and institutional growth. She holds a Master of Strategic Communication and Leadership from Seton Hall, but hails from northern California where she spent time working in Yosemite National Park as a teen. As a former UC Berkeley professor of communication and business strategy and collegiate athlete in both volleyball and softball, Arielle brings a diverse background in consulting, executive coaching, nonprofit leadership, and advancement. She began her career in donor development and fundraising in Southern California, working with the Urban Land Institute, commercial real estate investment groups, multinational ministries, and the AIDS Walk of Orange County. Her experience includes managing major donor relations, overseeing nearly $1 million in liquid assets, founding and leading a nonprofit youth athletics program here locally in Anchorage, Alaska, and designing events ranging from intimate leadership luncheons to large-scale gatherings of more than 20,000 attendees.