“ACE and the Secretariat play such important roles in the higher education ecosystem. I’m thrilled to be able to support ACE in any way I can to help advance higher education,” Alston Dosunmu said. 

Ona Alston Dosunmu joined NACUA as its President & CEO in September of 2021. Prior to joining NACUA, she served as the inaugural CEO and Executive Director of the California Lawyers Association (CLA). Before her time at CLA, she spent over 16 years in various roles at The Brookings Institution in Washington, DC, a nonprofit public policy organization.  

Alston Dosunmu established Brookings’s first Office of General Counsel and while at Brookings she served as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, and Chair of the Inclusion & Diversity Committee. Additionally, she served a stint as Interim Chief Operating Officer. As an early career attorney prior to Brookings, she practiced law with several well-known global law firms.   

Alston Dosunmu holds a B.A., cum laude, in Journalism, and an M.A. in Sociology, both from Howard University; She holds her J.D., cum laude, from Georgetown University Law Center. 

ABOUT THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY ATTORNEYS (NACUA) 

NACUA's purpose is to enhance legal assistance to colleges and universities by educating attorneys and administrators about campus legal issues. It has an equally important role to play in the continuing legal education of university counsel. In addition, NACUA produces legal resources, offers continuing legal education programming, maintains a listserv (NACUANET) and a variety of member-only web-based resources pages, and operates a clearinghouse through which attorneys on campuses are able to share resources, knowledge and work products on current legal concerns and interests. NACUA’s mission is to advance the effective practice of higher education attorneys for the benefit of the colleges and universities they serve. For more information, please visit nacua.org or follow NACUA 

ABOUT THE AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION (ACE) 

ACE is a membership organization that mobilizes the higher education community to shape effective public policy and foster innovative, high-quality practice. As the major coordinating body for the nation’s colleges and universities, our strength lies in our diverse membership of more than 1,700 colleges and universities, related associations, and other organizations in America and abroad. ACE is the only major higher education association to represent all types of U.S. accredited, degree-granting institutions: two-year and four-year, public and private. For more information, please visit www.acenet.edu or follow ACE on Twitter @ACEducation.