Karen Dunmore-Gates

Karen Dates Dunmore

Senior Director, Community Engagement & Workforce Development

Michael Franklin

Michael C. Franklin, MDiv

Workforce Engagement Manager

Rhonda Boozer-Yearly

Rhonda Boozer-Yearly

Community Engagement Manager

Workforce Development Team

We work collectively to build and cultivate employment pipelines for qualified healthcare workers by leveraging strategic partnerships, offering training and apprenticeship programs, providing resources, removing barriers, and supporting retention for community and team members.

Tracey Cunningham 
Career Coach
tracey.cunningham@umm.edu

Tyla Johnson
Community Resource Liaison
tyla.johnson@umm.edu

Tyrone Knight
Career Coach
tyrone.knight@umm.edu

Vanessa Rollins
Workforce Development Specialist
vanessa.rollins@umm.edu

Kierra Sanders
Workforce Development Specialist
kierra.sanders@umm.edu


Community Engagement Team

We seek to identify and understand the community’s health concerns, and particular needs and preferences, by building trust, support, and honest dialogue with the community. Whether it’s developing tools to connect families to community resources, or engaging with our partner schools to address the health, social and academic outcomes of the students, we seek to develop relationships that enable stakeholders to work together to promote well-being and achieve positive health impacts and outcomes for the community. 

Dana Neal
Community Engagement Coordinator
dana.neal@umm.edu

Tamara Wilson
Community Engagement Project Manager
tamara.wilson@umm.edu