Moravian Academy Welcomes Cristina Usino, Kelvin Sealey, Ed.D., to Senior Leadership Team

By Adrianne Finley Odell

Cristina Usino began as the Director of Community, Inclusion, and Belonging in May 2023. On July 1, 2023, Kelvin Sealey, Ed.D., will begin as Director of Strategic Partnerships and External Programs.

During the comprehensive search process, Cristina Usino impressed faculty, staff, and parents with her positive energy and thoughtfulness. She is an experienced diversity, equity, and inclusion specialist as well as an educational strategist with a proven track record of empowering students to think critically about the identities they hold and to examine how their identities interact with socio-historical frameworks of privilege, power, and oppression to create what we often call “the student life experience.” I am thrilled to have Cristina join our community. She joins us from Wesleyan University, where she was the Associate Dean of Admission and Director of Diversity & Partnerships.

Kelvin Sealey, Ed.D., began his career in business, but ten years ago he transitioned to academics, where he began as Dean of Students and Dean of Multicultural Affairs at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn, NY. During his tenure, Kelvin took a one-year hiatus and served as Senior Advisor on Climate Change & Education Grenada, West Indies’ Mission to the United Nations. Kelvin then transitioned to independent schools, where he was appointed Director of International Programs at St. Paul’s, a grade 9-12 boarding school in Concord, NH, and then served as chair of the Humanities Department at Miami Country Day School in Miami, FL. In 2019, Kelvin was appointed Head of School of the Dragon Academy for Gifted and Exceptional Learners in Toronto, and today serves as the Founding Head of School at CaST, also in Toronto.

I am thrilled and honored to join the vibrant Moravian community and inspired by the deep commitment to architect learning that is rooted in community, inclusion and belonging. In all of my work thus far, I have been guided and rooted in bell hooks’ belief that learning is a place where paradise can be created. I am elated to partner with faculty, staff, students, and families to continue on the path of inclusive excellence.

— Cristina Usino

I couldn’t be more thrilled with the prospect of working to deepen Moravian Academy’s academic footprint across the Lehigh Valley in service of more great teaching and learning opportunities for our students. To my mind, and as a result of conversations I had with parents and teachers while visiting, Moravian’s parent, alumni, and student communities are rich with possibilities for expanding Moravian’s engagement within the Valley and the wider world, and I am honored to be invited to join you in strengthening our learning programs for the benefit of current and future students. — Kelvin Sealey,

Ed.D.,

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Campus

Monday, October 16, 2023

Lehigh Country Club