Staff members of the Grants Development Department assist the college community in obtaining grants for programs that further the institution’s goals. Please feel free to contact us with any questions you may have regarding the grants development process.

Executive Director:
Mary Harris
mharris3@austincc.edu
512.223.7705

Mary Harris joined the Grants Development Office in March 2008. Mary initially joined Austin Community College in 2002 as the Executive Director for Adult Education.

Mary currently is pursuing her doctoral degree in Educational Administration from the University of Texas at Austin. She holds an MBA from Brenau University in Georgia and a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV Broadcasting from the University of Dayton in Ohio.

Grant Writers:

Esmeralda Garcia
egarcia4@austincc.edu
512.223.7012

Ms. Garcia joined Austin Community College in November 2006. Most recently, she served as an Assistant Director of Development/Grant Writer for over seven years with the University of Texas at Brownsville and Texas Southmost College.

Currently she is pursing her doctoral degree in Educational Administration from University of Texas at Austin-Community College Leadership Program, focusing on community college fundraising and financing issues.

She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from the Lyndon Bains Johnson School of Public Affairs and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science from Texas A & M University in College Station.

Susan Patterson
spatter2@austincc.edu
512.223.7098

Ms. Patterson joined Austin Community College in September 2007. Susan has previously worked as a proposal coordinator in San Antonio, Texas and as a grant coordinator for a non-profit counseling center in New Braunfels, Texas.

She is pursuing a doctoral degree in English (Rhetoric and Composition) at Texas A & M University in College Station.She holds a Masters Degree in English from Texas State University and an undergraduate degree in English from the College of Charleston in South Carolina.

At Texas A & M, she taught technical writing and rhetoric and composition and served as an
assistant editor for Kosmos, Journal of Czechoslovakian and Central European Literature. Susan also served as a critical non-fiction reviewer for Callaloo, the Journal of the African Diaspora and as research assistant for the World Shakespeare Bibliography Online.

Grant Development Administrative Support:

Joyce Anderson
Sr. Administrative Assistant
janders2@austincc.edu
512.223.7072