A Chat in the Garden with Monique A.J. Smith

Reyna Gilbert-Lowry serves as serves as Senior Associate Athletics Director for Inclusive Excellence and Alumni Engagement and Senior Woman Administrator at Virginia Tech. She joined the Hokies in 2008 and her responsibilities include developing strategic diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives designed to increase awareness and promote inclusion for student-athletes, coaches and staff. Additionally, she is responsible for oversight of the Monogram Club (former student-athlete letterwinners) and Lombardi Student-Athlete Development Center.

In her role as Senior Woman Administrator, she works to support student-athletes and coaches across the Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC). Gilbert-Lowry also chairs the Virginia Tech Athletics Diversity and Inclusion Council and is a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference Committee for Racial and Social Justice.

Gilbert-Lowry earned her undergraduate degree in Psychology from Northern Illinois University, where she was also a four-year starter on the women’s gymnastics team. She also earned a master’s degree from Ball State University in Sport and Exercise Psychology. A native of Orlando, Fla., Gilbert-Lowry currently lives in Blacksburg with her husband, Spencer, and their daughters, Brooklyn and Harlow.

Join us on A Chat in the Garden with Monique A. J. Smith at 10:00 am EST. Come listen to our guest’s career path, her advice for others & current initiatives...A Chat in the Garden with Monique A.J. Smith, where Significance Blooms. Listen via 563-999-3513 or www.chatinthegarden.com. This is Season 9. Seasons 1-5 (and soon Season 6) can be found on 200plus.expert, previously broadcasted on Survival Broadcast Network. Seasons 7 & 8 are at www.chatinthegarden.com.