GREAT BAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE - Key Persons


AAS Green River

Job Titles:
  • Education

Alex Burt


Alexis Fishbone

Job Titles:
  • Navigate / EAB Project Manager

Amy Darrigo-Doyle


Ben VanCamp

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Advisory Board Vice Chair. Chief

Casey Snyder

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Advisory Board Chair. Partner, Managing Director, Wealth Manager

Catherine Brophy

Job Titles:
  • Education

Catherine Ciotti

Job Titles:
  • Co - Program Coordinator / Professor - Biological Science
Catherine Ciotti holds degrees in Animal and Nutritional Sciences and worked as an Application Scientist before coming to Great Bay. The author of a number of publications, Ciotti is currently the Pre-Nursing advisor and a member of the Emergency Preparedness Committee.

Christine Carberry

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Christopher Blackington - President

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the President
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • President

Dan D'Amato


Deborah Audino

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator / Professor - Biotechnology
Deb Audino holds degrees in Chemistry and Biochemistry/Molecular Biology and is the Coordinator of the Biotechnology program. She is also Affiliate Faculty in the University of New Hampshire's Department of Chemical Engineering. Audino has published several lab manuals and articles in peer-reviewed journals, and worked as both a Research and an Application Scientist, and a lab manager prior to coming to Great Bay.

Deborah Discher

Job Titles:
  • Veterinary Technology
Deb Discher holds degrees in Animal Science and Veterinary Medicine and serves as the Director/Chair of the Veterinary Technology Department at Great Bay where she has taught for 15 years. She continues to practice as a veterinarian, bringing over 20 years of veterinary experience to her teaching at Great Bay. She is a member of the Association of Veterinary Technician Educators, the American Veterinary Medical Association and the New Hampshire Veterinary Medical Association.

Diane S. Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Officer
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • Human Resources / Senior Human Resources Officer
  • Human Resources, 320 Corporate Drive, Portsmouth, NH 03801.

Dr. Cheryl Lesser - President

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • President

Dylan Follansbee

Job Titles:
  • Maintenance / Facilities Supervisor

Jenna Anand


Jenna Campbell

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Biological Science
Jenna Campbell holds degrees in Biology and Neuroscience and has completed postdoctoral training at the University of New Hampshire. Her research explores the neurobiology of learning, memory, and behavioral treatments to chronic pain and apraxia of speech, using fMRI. Campbell is currently Professor of Biological Science at Great Bay.

Jennifer Ganim Smith

Job Titles:
  • Education

Jennifer Gervais

Job Titles:
  • Business Office

Jim Carroll

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Technician Payables / Purchasing
  • Business Office

John Boggs

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • AVP Academic Affairs
  • Interim Associate Vice President of Academic and Student Affairs

Jordan Fansler

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Social Sciences Program Coordinator and Advisor for History Associate of Arts Degree
  • Social Science

Kara Flynn


Karen Burns

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the VP of Academic Affairs

Kevin Behnke

Job Titles:
  • Information Technologies
  • Program Coordinator / Professor
Kevin Behnke holds degrees in Business Administration and Business Education, and is a Cisco Certified Network Associate and Academy Instructor. Before arriving at Great Bay, Behnke worked in industry as a Technical Trainer/Specialist, a Support Engineer, and as a Courseware and Program Developer. He is currently the Coordinator of the Information Systems Technology Program at Great Bay.

Kristen Altamar


Leo Bourbeau

Job Titles:
  • IT Department / Technical Support Specialist

Leslie Barber

Job Titles:
  • Life and Physical Sciences / Professor ( 603 ) 427 - 7686
Leslie Barber holds degrees in Chemistry, Molecular Biology, and has done post-doctoral work in Genetics. A past Chair of the Life Sciences Department, Barber is currently a Mellon Faculty Fellow for the Community College System, and a member of the Leadership team for the New Hampshire Humanities Council. She has been the program leader for several system-wide grant programs including NH-INBRE, NH_EPSCoR, and ARMI. Barber was the founding chair of the Chancellor's Faculty Academic Advisory Council.

Lisa McCurley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • VP Academic Affairs

Lynda Bonneau

Job Titles:
  • Business Administration / Department Chair Business / Accounting, Associate Professor
Lynda Bonneau earned degrees in both Biochemistry and Accounting, and has worked as a Director of Financial Aid, and as a College Registrar before coming to Great Bay. She has received several teaching awards and is currently advisor to the Kappa Beta Delta International Honor Society. Bonneau also sits on the TRIP committee at Great Bay, and the BET advisory board at Portsmouth High School.

Maggie Duffy-Durkin

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor

Michael Gordon

Job Titles:
  • Program Coordinator / Professor Chemistry
Mike Gordon graduated Summa Cum Laude with a degree in Biochemistry and went on to earn a Doctorate in Molecular and Cellular Biology. Gordon is a published researcher and currently serves as Coordinator for both the Chemistry and Physical Sciences programs.

Michele Halligan-Foley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Career & Technical Education Director / Co - Wellness District Facilitator / VP of NH - CTA, Rochester School District

Nancy DeSotto

Job Titles:
  • Nursing

Nick Foster

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Senior Manufacturing Associate for Lonza Biologics, GBCC Graduate

Paul Giuliano

Job Titles:
  • Director, GBCC Rochester / Technical Programs

Raymond Biondi

Job Titles:
  • Accountant
  • Business Office

Rebecca Clerkin

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Library / Library Director
Becky Clerkin joined the college in 1994 as the Library Director. Her favorite part of the job is helping students learn to do research. When she's not at GBCC, she enjoys reading (as one would expect of a librarian!), shopping, chocolate sampling, fly fishing and traveling. Her favorite trip - to date - was to Tuscany. Stop by the Library to ask her about it.

Rebecca Dean

Job Titles:
  • Interim Regional VP of Student Success & Enrollment Management

Samantha Claussen

Job Titles:
  • Library

Sarah Follansbee

Job Titles:
  • Business Office

Sean Clancy

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board

Siri Dumont


Stephen Dockery

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Chief of Campus Safety

Steven Gorman

Job Titles:
  • Director of Admissions

Thomas Devaney

Job Titles:
  • Digital Media Technology / Professor, Fine Arts / Digital Media

Thomas G. Ferrini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Advisory Board
  • Assistant City Manager for Economic Development, Portsmouth, NH

Tom Andruskevich

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Great Bay Community College Senior Leadership Team
  • Business Office
  • Chief Business Affairs Officer

Tyler Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Student Services - Financial Aid / Financial