ONE UNIVERSITY OF THE AMERICAS - Key Persons


D. Scott Brinkmann

Job Titles:
  • Development Director

Jeffrey G. Nutt

Jeffrey G. Nutt, J.D., Oxford Fulbright; State Champion; National Honoree B.A., Oral Roberts University (Summa Cum Laude); Concentration: Government and German CultureJ.D., American University Washington College of Law; Served High-Level Officials (SCOTUS, Senate, USAID)Distinctions: Oxford University Fulbright Scholarship; State Bar of Michigan Champion of Justice Award; Represented Educational and Technology Intellectual Property Clientele in 30 Nations; National Christian Higher Education Month Honoree; National ORU Alumnus of the Year (Distinguished Service to the Community); Goldman Sachs Scholarship for Summer Session in Law, Tel Aviv, Israel; Southfield School Salutatorian. Led the nation's only legal advocacy, education, and housing program of its kind to benefit thousands of people in more than 50 Detroit area schools and communities; filed the nation's first successful test case under a state drug dealer liability act; major media interviews; produced Metro Detroit Beat the Odds Scholarship Awards Program honoring more than 50 remarkable FOX 2 Superstar graduating students; selected with 60 executives, nonprofit leaders, and a future U.S. Energy Secretary for the Leadership Detroit XIX training program; serving as one of four (4) Judicial Interns in the office of the late U.S. Chief Justice Warren Burger; 5-time President, Somerset North Homeowners; oversaw more than 7 C-Level Executives simultaneously; produced podcast and forums; immediate past Fulbright Association Michigan/NW Ohio Chapter President. President, Jeffrey G. Nutt & Associates, PLLC; One University of the Americas Founding Dean.

Kelli Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Consultant

Lisa M. Harper

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Marilaine Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • International Assistant

Mark Nutt

Job Titles:
  • Research Specialist

Mayra Alicia Troya-Nutt

Job Titles:
  • Chairman Board of Trustees

Nisha Doshi - Treasurer

Job Titles:
  • Treasurer

Phillip Zivku

Job Titles:
  • CAO

Robert Kreipke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor

Sharon V. Frisco

Sharon V. Frisco, Ph.D. , One University of the Americas President; Fulbright to India; NASA Teacher in Space Consultant 15 Years; 2018 U.N. International Women's Day Speaker Distinctions: Fulbright to India selected in 2018 as Ms. Senior Michigan USA, Dr. Frisco earned her Ph.D. from Michigan State University in Curriculum Design before being selected as Michigan's nominee to the NASA Teacher in Space program. For many years after the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, NASA called upon Dr. Frisco to speak in classrooms in the United States and abroad to carry on the spirit and legacy of the late Space Shuttle Challenger Teacher in Space who lost her life. An experienced executive producer with an earlier television program and a more recent award at the Sundance Film Festival for who documentary filmed at Oxford University, Dr. Frisco serves on the Fulbright Association Michigan / Northwest Ohio Chapter board that facilitates networking and enrichment experiences with Fulbrights and friends in their local communities at the crossroads of Southern Canada and the American Midwest. She serves as the first Fulbright Advisory Commission chair of One University of the Americas. During her Fulbright to India, Dr. Frisco worked with the legendary Mother Theresa of Calcutta. Dr. Frisco was later mentored by one of America's most successful self-made millionaires of the 20th Century, a great friend of the State of Israel, the late Max M. Fisher for whom the Ohio State University School of Business is named.

Thomas J. Nutt I

Thomas J. Nutt I, M.B.A. 2nd Generation Ford Motor Company Whiz Kid; 6 Years Fortune 500 Company Chief Financial Officer Experience Winford Bailey World Harvest Mission Founding President; GraWin, Inc. President; Detroit Business Owner; U.S.-Africa Speaker Mark A. Nutt, M.F.A.State of Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction Education Specialist; Blue Rock Workshop Principal, Instructor