Five Colleges, Inc.
Shonda Pettiford is currently the Director of Operations at Five Colleges, Inc. Prior to this role, Shonda served as CEO at Gravity Switch and Director of Communications at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Shonda has a background in marketing, communications, website management, and supervision. Shonda also has experience serving on the board of the Women's Fund of Western Massachusetts, where Shonda contributed to resource development and served as Board President. Shonda holds a BA in English Language and Literature from Smith College and an MS in Sport Management from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Five Colleges, Inc.
Five Colleges, Incorporated is a nonprofit educational consortium established in 1965 to promote the broad educational and cultural objectives of its member institutions, which include four private, liberal arts colleges and the Amherst campus of the state university. The consortium is an outgrowth of a highly successful collaboration in the 1950s among Amherst College, Mount Holyoke College, Smith College, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst, which resulted in the founding of a fifth institution, Hampshire College, in 1970.