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Dawna Clarke joined Darden as executive director of Admissions in October 2017. Clarke previously served as director of admissions at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College for 11 years. Prior to Tuck, from 1990 to 2005, Clarke served in various leadership roles at the Darden School, including five years as admissions director and as director of alumni relations. Immediately prior to rejoining Darden in 2017, Clarke worked at mbaMission, the MBA consultancy founded by Darden graduate Jeremy Shinewald (MBA ‘03), where she served as chief MBA strategist and senior consultant. As executive director of admissions, Clarke oversees the recruitment strategy for admission to the full-time MBA and the Executive MBA, which offers an intensive global format, the Global Executive MBA, and sections in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the Washington, D.C., area.
Whitney Kestner is the Director of Admissions at Darden. She joined Darden’s Admissions team in the fall of 2007. Over the past 12 years, Whitney has been actively involved helping prospective students discover what makes Darden truly unique among the world’s top business programs. She has a genuine passion for Darden’s transformative educational experience and enjoys meeting people from all over the world and sharing more about Darden’s vibrant and engaging community. She has also been instrumental in helping the school achieve a number of important enrollment goals, including recruiting the first Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) class in the fall of 2011 and, more recently, the Executive MBA program’s first class section in the Washington, D.C. area. Whitney was also involved in Darden’s partnership with the McIntire School of Commerce to recruit students for UVA’s Masters in Business Analytics. Whitney earned a Bachelor of Science in biology from Washington & Lee University and an MBA from the Goizueta Business School. She has two amazing children, two active dogs, and an incredibly talented husband.