COEHD would like to welcome two new staff members to our team! Tami Richards will be the new Assistant to the Dean and Frances Sanchez will be COEHD’s Communications and Development Coordinator. Tami and Frances will be starting their new positions tomorrow, August 1^st.

A huge thank you to Dr. Heather Trepal and Dr. Emily Bonner for leading the hiring committees for both positions and to the committee members for their vigorous work in the search!

We’re happy to share a little background on Tami and Frances below:

Tami Richards earned her Master's in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma in 2020. She has over 20 years of customer service skills which include administrative assistant and supervisor roles. Before moving to San Antonio, she lived in Hawaii working as a branch director for the Armed Services YMCA, serving military families.

Frances is a native of El Paso, TX, holds a Bachelor’s in Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin. She began her career in local media covering El Paso news along the border before moving to Washington DC. There, she worked for CNN DC, covering everything from the Obama re-election, immigration, Hurricane Sandy, the Sandy Hook and Aurora, CO theater shootings and more. In 2015, she transitioned to working for a local nonprofit doing humanitarian work in Palestine and the West Bank before moving to Texas. She recently did communication work for the Cibolo Center for Conservation in Boerne. She lives in Boerne with her husband, two dogs and one cat. 

Norma Jean Morales

Administrative Associate I

The University of Texas at San Antonio

College of Education and Human Development | Office of the Dean

One UTSA Circle, MB 3.304

San Antonio, Texas 78249

O: 210.458.4370

F: 210.458.4487

norma.morales@utsa.edu