Lt. Col. Jamica N. Love serves as VMI’s chief diversity officer, guiding the strategic direction of the Institute’s diversity, equality, and inclusion initiatives.

She has held roles at Roxbury Community College, Pine Manor College, and Eastern Nazarene College, among other schools, where her responsibilities often focused on student life, campus morale, compliance, suicide prevention, and the implementation of multicultural and social justice programs. Most recently, she has served as a keynote speaker for national and regional conferences addressing diversity, equality, and inclusion in education.

Love has almost two decades of experience in student engagement, behavioral intervention, and accountability in higher education.

Love earned both her doctoral degree in higher education administration and her master’s degree in counseling psychology from Northeastern University. She earned a bachelor’s degree in general experimental psychology from Emmanuel College, also in Boston.