New Leadership ​

J. Robert "Bob" McKee
Senior Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration–Designate

Bob McKee joined Rutgers University in Camden as senior vice chancellor for finance and administration–designate on January 9, 2023. He is now shadowing outgoing Senior Vice Chancellor for Finance and Administration Larry Gaines as part of his transition into the role on June 1, 2023, upon Senior Vice Chancellor Gaines’s retirement. In this capacity, McKee will be responsible for all aspects of budgetary planning, construction of new facilities, and upgrades to existing buildings. He will direct the operations of the budget office, financial services, facilities, human resources, information technology, and the Research Office. He will also work closely with Institutional Planning and Operations on facilities and the Rutgers University Police Department. McKee has more than 25 years of professional experience in accounting, business, finance, and business development in the private sector, government, and higher education. He most recently served as vice president of finance and administration at Antioch College, where he led a transition of business models that increased and diversified the college’s revenue. As an international hands-on leader in emergency response and crisis management, he was deployed on disaster-response teams at the World Trade Center on 9/11, the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster, Hurricane Katrina, and the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He is soon to complete a doctorate in leadership, management, and policy from New Jersey City University. He holds an M.B.A. specializing in higher education from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor’s degree in management from Antioch College.

Johanna Bond
Dean, Rutgers Law School

Johanna Bond was appointed as the inaugural dean of Rutgers Law School’s Camden and Newark campuses, effective July 3, 2023. Bond’s appointment ushers in a new era for Rutgers Law School, which transitioned from a co-dean leadership to a single-leader structure. She will now work with the entire Rutgers Law School community to elevate the school’s national prominence. A New Jersey native, Bond joins Rutgers after serving as the Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law and previously associate dean for academic affairs in the School of Law at Washington and Lee University.  She also served as an affiliate faculty member in the Africana Studies and the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies programs at Washington and Lee. As a tenured professor, Bond’s scholarship focuses on women’s rights in sub-Saharan Africa, women’s rights within the United Nations, and the application of critical race feminism in the context of human rights. Her most recent book, Global Intersectionality and Contemporary Human Rights, is the culmination of more than two decades of scholarship related to intersectionality in global human rights.  She is a recipient of the Lewis Prize for Excellence in Legal Scholarship and the Ethan Allen Faculty Award for Scholarship, and was twice named a Fulbright Scholar. She received an L.L.M. from Georgetown University Law Center, a juris doctor from University of Minnesota Law School, a master of arts degree in public policy from the Humphrey School of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota, and a bachelor of arts degree in political science from Colorado College.

Charles A. Wright III
Vice President for Development and Vice Chancellor for Advancement

Charles A. “Chuck” Wright III was named vice president for development and vice chancellor for advancement. Wright will join the Rutgers University Foundation on May 15, 2023, where he will lead the advancement team in Camden and serve on the Executive Leadership Team.
 
With decades of experience in higher education advancement and nonprofit development, Wright is a proven leader with solid relationships in Philadelphia and South Jersey. Most recently, he served as chief development officer for Philabundance, where he drove the Philadelphia-based hunger relief organization to exceed its annual fundraising goal with months to spare in the fiscal year. 

Throughout his career, Wright has served in leadership roles in higher education fundraising, including at The College of New Jersey, Peirce College, Villanova University, and Widener University. He has been recognized for his contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion and was honored by the CASE District II Board with the creation of the Charles A. Wright Opportunity and Inclusion Award. Wright holds a bachelor of arts degree in general arts from Villanova University.

Daniel Lee
Director, Rutgers–Camden Wellness Center

Daniel Lee was promoted to director of the Rutgers–Camden Wellness Center, where he worked for more than ten years as a part-time psychologist and the lead professional running the center’s Learning Disability Testing and Evaluation program, in conjunction with the university’s offices of Disability Services and Dean of Students. Lee joins Rutgers–Camden full time with more than 25 years experience in supervision, counseling, consulting, wellness, and administration. He has been a sought-after consultant for school districts, nonprofit organizations, and corporations, and brings a breadth of knowledge of Rutgers-Camden students and their lived experiences to his new role. Lee holds a doctorate in clinical psychology from Immaculata University, a post-doctoral certification in school psychology, and a pending master’s degree in clinical psychopharmacology from Fairleigh Dickinson University. He also holds bachelor of science and master of education degrees from Temple University. He served as president of the New Jersey Psychological Association from 2020-2022.

Nyssa Taylor
New Jersey Innocence Project

Nyssa Taylor joins Rutgers Law School as the managing staff attorney of the New Jersey Innocence Project (NJIP), which represents incarcerated New Jersey residents who have been wrongly convicted of crimes and seek exoneration. She formerly served as the criminal justice strategic litigation and policy counsel for the American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania, where she developed class-action lawsuits to defend civil liberties and take on systemic injustice. She also wrote reports highlighting issues of statewide importance and provided public testimony before local and state legislative bodies. 

Taylor also formerly served as the Title IX manager for Rowan University from 2016 through 2017, and for more than a decade as an assistant public defender at the Defender Association of Philadelphia. In 2013, the Defender Association awarded Taylor the Clarence Earl Gideon Award for Outstanding Service, and the Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers awarded her the Bernard L. Siegel Memorial Award for Service. In addition, Taylor taught trial skills as a trial team coach and adjunct professor at Temple University James E. Beasley School of Law, where she earned her juris doctorate in 2005. She earned her bachelor’s degree from Swarthmore College in 2000.