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Ms. Allred is the Assistant Dean for Student Affairs at the Huntsman School of Business at Utah State University. She is also the Karen Haight Huntsman Endowed Professor of Leadership, an honor she shares with her colleague Lianne Wappett. From 2022 to 2025 she served as the Inaugural Director of She’s Daring Mighty Things, an initiative focused on providing more opportunities, higher engagement, and better outcomes for our students. In 2025, the Huntsman Hive was created, with Ms. Allred named as Director. Dr. Brent B. Allred is the Director of Global Programs at Utah State University’s Jon M. Huntsman School of Business. He joined the faculty of the Huntsman School in 2022, after a 23-year career at William & Mary’s Raymond A. Mason School of Business. He earned his Ph.D. from The Pennsylvania State University and an MBA and B.S. in Accounting from Brigham Young University. Prior to returning to academics, he spent several years in the tech industry with Intel, Symantec, Novell and Central Point Software.