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Donovan Program Team

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Donovan Program Team

This group of individuals supports, advocates, and outreaches to people in recovery or substance-free within the Brown Community.

  • Tim Shiner

    Timothy Shiner

    Senior Associate Dean of Advising
    timothy_shiner@brown.edu
    Areas of Expertise Personal and Health Concerns, Courseload Reductions , Degree Completion Planning, Credit Recovery, RUE and Veteran Student Academic Planning

    As Senior Associate Dean for Advising, Timothy Shiner oversees the class-year and health/personal advising team. Tim works closely with team members to ensure best practices in individualized student support, as well as collaboration and connection between the class-year and health/personal advising team and other areas of the division and the campus more broadly. He provides academic advising and support for undergraduates, serves on the campus Care Team and provides consultation on supporting students to campus partners, faculty and families.

    Prior to transitioning to his current role in the College, Tim served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of Student Support Services in the Division of Campus Life where he worked to support students experiencing a range of health and personal challenges. He led review and overhaul of processes related to medical leaves of absence and the administrator-on-call system, and collaborated closely with Campus Life and College partners on structural improvements to student support systems, particularly around issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. He originally joined Brown as the Director of the Stephen Robert ‘62 Campus Center & Student Activities Office in 2012. Prior to his work at Brown, Tim served as Director of Student Activities at Wesleyan University, and as Program Coordinator at the University of Vermont Women’s Center, focusing on sexual violence prevention and response, as well as intersectional identity programming.

    Tim holds a B.S. in psychology from Colorado State University and an M.Ed. in higher education and student affairs from the University of Vermont.

  • Jason Roderick, LICSW

    Jason Roderick, LICSW

    Facilitator of the Early Recovery Group (EROB)

    Jason Roderick is a licensed clinical therapist in Providence, Rhode Island. He has been in private practice since 2012. Along with his practice, Jason serves as the Wellness Coordinator at Providence Country Day School and has been the facilitator of the Brown University EROB Program for the past seven years, supporting Brown students in recovery and those who are interested in recovery. He has also been deeply involved in the Rhode Island recovery community for the past twenty-eight years.

  • Taryn Wyron ‘09, LICSW

    Taryn Wyron ‘09, LICSW

    Facilitator of the Skills for Harm Reduction Group (SHR)

    Taryn Wyron (Brown ’09) is a licensed clinical social worker with a background in trauma therapy. She has offered behavioral therapy focused on harm reduction and chronic illness support as researcher at Brown SPH. Currently, she works with Brown undergraduate and graduate students in groups on campus and in private practice. Taryn has facilitated Skills for Harm Reduction since 2021 and Chronic Community, a group to support students with chronic illness, since 2022. Her groups draw on body-based mindfulness skills and center whole-person healing.

  • Siena

    Siena Napoleon, Ph.D. '28

    Recovery and Substance-Free Program Assistant
    siena_napoleon@brown.edu

    Siena is a fourth year PhD student at Brown in Public Health (Social and Behavioral Health Sciences). Her research focuses on implementation of evidence-based strategies for overdose prevention specifically for adolescents and young adults. Prior to coming to Brown, Siena worked as project director under Dr. Phil Chan at the Miriam Hospital and Rhode Island STD Clinic, managing a portfolio of clinical research efforts centered around harm reduction. At the Donovan Program, Siena supports Dean Garcia in fostering a community for students who are in recovery or identify as substance free. She graduated with a BA from Wellesley College (Cognitive/Linguistic Sciences, Psychology) and an MPH from Boston University (Health Policy and Management). When not working on her dissertation, she loves spending time outdoors with her family--camping, hiking, and scouting!