Our Team

Susan Bruce, Director

434-924-5276
sbruce@virginia.edu

Susan Bruce, M.Ed., is director of the University of Virginia's Gordie Center for Substance Abuse Prevention. She has nearly 20 years of experience in collegiate health promotion and has developed nationally recognized substance abuse and sexual assault education and prevention programs. She has expertise in the social norms approach and directs the NCAA-funded APPLE conferences, the leading national training symposiums dedicated to substance abuse prevention and health promotion for student-athletes and athletics department administrators. She is also a member of the STEP UP! bystander intervention Advisory Board.

Holly Foster, Alcohol, Tobacco & Other Drug Education Coordinator

434-924-5276
hfoster@virginia.edu

Holly Foster, M.Ed. spent three years at the University of Virginia’s Gordie Center as a graduate assistant and doctoral intern prior to beginning her position as ATOD Education Coordinator. She is working on her dissertation, which is focused on substance abuse prevention in higher education with methods such as social norms marketing and curriculum infusion. Her primary responsibilities include creating, implementing and assessing new alcohol, tobacco and other drug education programs as well as conducting program assessment related to alcohol and drug abuse prevention. In addition, she will work to disseminate programming models and materials to the U.Va. community and nationally.

Debra Reed, Administrative Program Coordinator

434-924-5276
dsr3g@virginia.edu

Debra Reed serves as both an Administrative Assistant and Program Coordinator for the Gordie Center. Debra has served the University of Virginia for twenty-eight years; twenty-two of which have been dedicated to the Center. For twenty years, Debra has been co-coordinator of the NCAA-funded APPLE conferences. Her daily responsibilities include fiscal management of state and grant funded accounts, coordination of student community service hours and maintaining day to day operations in the office.

The Gordie Foundation has distributed hundreds of thousands of pieces of educational materials to students across the country.