Multicultural Affairs

Alta Mauro

Director

Phone: 336.758.5864

Alta Mauro joins the Wake Forest family as the new director of the Office of Multicultural Affairs. Alta is a native Hoosier, earning both a bachelor's degree in English Education and a master's degree in Higher Education/Student Affairs from Indiana University. Her student affairs experience include residence life and judicial affairs, student organization advisorship and fraternity/sorority engagement, pre-college transition programming, and multicultural affairs. Alta's professional interests include: intercultural communication, cultural competence, social justice education, infusing social justice themes across the curriculum, peer education, cultural audit work and strategic planning, access and retention, and campus engagement. In her personal time, Alta enjoys cooking, baking, knitting, shopping, reading, traveling and spending time with friends and family.

Jonathan M. Cox, M.Ed.

Assistant Director

E-mail:
Phone: 336.758.5864

Jonathan Cox is serving in his second year as Assistant Director for the Wake Forest University Office of Multicultural Affairs. He received his undergraduate degree in Health and Physical Education from Hampton University, a historically Black university in eastern Virginia, and his Master’s degree in College Student Affairs from the Pennsylvania State University. During his graduate studies, he had the opportunity to work in many different aspects of Student Affairs and college life at Penn State University, including the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, the Center for Student Engagement, and Fraternity and Sorority Life. He also had the opportunity to work for a summer at Cornell University as a Head Resident for their Summer College program. Jonathan’s professional interests include access and retention for underrepresented students, collegiate experiences of African American males, and issues of social justice. Jonathan is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., as well as an avid musician and artist.

Darlene D. Starnes

Administrative Assistant

E-mail:
Phone: 336.758.5864

Darlene D. Starnes has been the Administrative Assistant in the Wake Forest University Office of Multicultural Affairs for the past 3 years. She was born in Agana on the island of Guam and raised in Junction City, Kansas from the age of three until her graduation from Junction City High School. Darlene has a wide variety of administrative experience ranging from her time managing loan accounts at Wachovia to serving as the business manager at the Winston Lake branch of the YMCA. Her main interests include supporting her 4 children (a freshman in college, a sophomore in high school, and a set of twins in 6th grade) at their multiple football, basketball and dance functions as well as spending time with good friends.  Darlene would like all students and visitors to know that she has a heart for college-aged students and their parents (especially since she is one) and looks forward to watching and aiding in their growth and development during their time at Wake Forest.

Orita McCorkle

Graduate Assistant

Orita McCorkle is a recent graduate of Wake Forest University, class of 2007, earning her B.A. in Psychology. A native of Stanley, North Carolina, Orita is currently enrolled in the dual Divinity and Counseling Master’s degree program at Wake Forest. Her interests include singing, laughing, mentoring youth, learning, growing and just generally having a good time.

Orita McCorkle would like to say this to all of the students and visitors at Wake Forest University:

“Being a recent graduate from Wake Forest University and now enrolled as a ‘double deacon,’ I feel that I have a unique perspective from which the undergraduate students can benefit. I will be working with the other staff members of OMA to help program, mentor, and support the undergraduate students in the best way possible. I hope to be a great resource to you, the students, as you navigate Wake Forest and life after graduation.”