HigherEdSocial Community

Hi! My name is Kasandrea and I am a college advisor from Tampa Florida. I am passionate about technology, education, marketing and brand management, and love helping colleges leverage these to better reach their students.

I founded HigherEdSocial after noticing the lack of training and support  for social media professionals at colleges and universities. Some of the biggest educational brands in the world had online presences that were lacking, and worse yet the folks managing those profiles had no where to turn when things got difficult. So our clubhouse was born. In the past five years we are proud to have become the largest international organization and online home for social media professionals to receive advice, collaboration opportunities and training to level up their practice.

 Come join our community on Facebook, follow breaking news on Twitter, learn tips and tricks over on Instagram, connect in our LinkedIn group, dance with us over on TikTok, chill with us on Spotify, check out our webinars and demos on Youtube, and stop collaborate and listen on Slack. We are glad you’re here.

A J Lopez III is the Manager of Digital Marketing & Social Media for Midwestern State University (MSU Texas). He creates social marketing campaigns, produces eye-catching photos, and engaging content for the university social media. Previously, Lopez worked as the Communications and Marketing person for the Angelo State University Alumni Association. Lopez has a newspaper background from his early years as a reporter and photographer for the “The Portland News.”

Lopez is a published writer and award-winning photographer with more than 14 years of experience in the creative marketing field. In 2014, he married his beautiful wife Teresa with whom they have two young children named Jay and Manu and a black Labrador Retriever named Ace. Check out his portfolio here and his insta here.

Maria DeCabooter has led NAU’s social media and digital communications efforts since 2013. She loves creating communities that build relationships and is honored to tell the Lumberjack story every day. Under her leadership, NAU ranked first in social media engagement two years in a row by Rival IQ and Up&Up. She earned the Best Higher Ed Administrator Using Social Media award from the EDU Hall of Fame in 2017.

Most recently, the NAU Social Media team won the Best Use of Instagram Stories category in the 2019 PR Daily Digital Marketing and Social Media Awards. Maria received a B.A. from Rice University and a J.D. from the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law. She manages all of NAU’s social media portfolio www.nau.edu/social
You can check out her instagram here.