Vice President for Executive Search at Greenwood Asher & Associates

Andriel Dees serves as Vice President for Executive Search at Greenwood Asher & Associates.

In her previous role, Andriel served as the Vice Chancellor for Equity and inclusion Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, in which she was primary advisor to the Chancellor on issues of equity and inclusion and provided guidance and oversight for the system’s Equity 2030 imperative as well as the Office of Equity and Inclusion. 

Andriel has recently served as the Chair for the Equity Action Collaborative for the National Association of Higher Education Systems (NASH). In this role, Andriel was a thought leader and convener for the NASH Equity Action Agenda anchored in creating a culture of institutional and system responsibility in addressing systemic inequities.

Andriel has also served at Capella University as Corporate Director of Diversity and Inclusion, the University of Wisconsin-River Falls as Chief Diversity Officer and Special Assistant to the Chancellor for Affirmative Action/EEO compliance and Associate Dean for Multicultural Affairs at William Mitchell College of Law. 

With a highly collaborative and thoughtful style, she has led efforts in strategic diversity leadership within higher education. Her strong personal and intellectual commitment to social justice and to advancing excellence through diversity has shown her to be a transformational leader in higher education. 

Andriel earned her Juris Doctorate from William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia.  She is active in her community as an Advisory Board member for the Page Education Foundation and Board member for the Nellie Stone Johnson Scholarship Foundation.