Justine Hollingshead
Secretary
Board Group Affiliation: At-Large - North Carolina State University
Justine Hollingshead has over thirty five years of success working as an administrator in higher education on various college campuses across the country, in addition to the business sector as well. She offers particular expertise in emergency preparedness and crisis response, event planning, training, leadership, and administration. Justine earned her Bachelor’s degree from Slippery Rock University in Communication, her Master’s degree in Counseling and Student Personnel Administration from the University of Maryland, College Park and has completed a ten-week comprehensive business training program with the Council for Entrepreneurial Development in North Carolina.
In her current role at NC State University, she serves as an Assistant Vice Chancellor in the Division of Academic and Student Affairs leading a newly created unit in the Office of Student Life and Advocacy. Justine has been a part of an implementation team at NC State to operationalize collective efforts in addressing planning, logistics, and response to crisis situations. She was deployed to UNC Wilmington for a month to assist with their campus recovery efforts following Hurricane Florence and recently assisted with response at UNC-Asheville following Hurricane Helene. During the university’s COVID pandemic response, she served as a key leader on the response team.
Justine is an AUVSI TOP Level III certified Small Unmanned Aircraft System (drone) pilot with the Federal Aviation Administration and the state of North Carolina. She has been flying various drones for over six years. Ms. Hollingshead is also a certified Emergency Medical Technician in the state of North Carolina and has done medical service work in Haiti, was deployed to Mississippi after Hurricane Katrina, and to eastern NC after Hurricane Floyd. Justine was a volunteer with a local EMS agency for 25 years and served as a field supervisor for the Rex Hospital Emergency Response Team. Ms. Hollingshead is also a member of local and national non-profit boards.