The Nationwide Girls’s Soccer League at the moment introduced the addition of three senior-level hires to the entrance workplace, together with Dr. Andria Johnson as Senior Director of Folks and Inclusion, Bobbi-Sue Doyle-Hazard as Vice President of Authorized and Jordan Dolbin as Head of Social and Influencer Advertising and marketing.
“These three extremely achieved people deliver with them extremely related expertise, having beforehand labored at groups, media corporations and different leagues,” mentioned NWSL Chief Folks and Tradition Officer Lauren Lopez. “Our league executives are integral in setting the tone and degree of excellence that we wish reverberating throughout the league, and I’m assured Andria, Bobbi-Sue and Jordan will assist us set new requirements and proceed our mission of making a league that successfully helps our fast development.”
As Senior Director of Folks and Inclusion, Johnson will oversee the event and implementation of range, fairness and inclusion packages within the entrance workplace and throughout the league. Working carefully with gamers and workers, Johnson will spearhead the appliance of greatest practices that replicate the views and experiences of the league’s numerous neighborhood and supply strategic steering and administrative oversight geared towards fostering an inclusive atmosphere for all.
“I couldn’t be extra thrilled to hitch this league and be able to outline the range, fairness, and inclusion technique,” mentioned Johnson. “The NWSL is residence to an exceptionally numerous group of gamers, coaches and workers and we are going to proceed to champion that range as a part of our collective mission to create an atmosphere the place all really feel supported and empowered to succeed. I sit up for working alongside my colleagues within the league workplace and on the membership degree to determine significant programming and initiatives that underscore the extremely vital position DEI performs each on and off the pitch.”
Because the league’s Vice President of Authorized, Doyle-Hazard will oversee all licensing and media rights agreements and sponsorship transactions, along with offering authorized experience concerning possession transactions, enlargement issues and different strategic initiatives. She may also assist the league and golf equipment on mental property issues, together with trademark and copyright prosecution, upkeep and enforcement.
“I’m excited to hitch the NWSL at such a pivotal second when girls’s sports activities have the highlight they’ve lengthy deserved,” mentioned Doyle-Hazard. “The NWSL is driving the business ahead and it’s an honor to play a component within the seismic modifications which might be occurring inside our league and past.”
In her position as Head of Social and Influencer Advertising and marketing, Dolbin will develop and information the league’s strategic use of social media to attach followers, gamers and influencers in a worldwide dialog that successfully tells the story of the NWSL and its athletes, strengthens engagement from new and present fanbases and bolsters model and enterprise development.
“I’m honored to be becoming a member of the NWSL household because the Head of Social and Influencer Advertising and marketing,” mentioned Dolbin. “The league is comprised of such a various and compelling group of athletes, and I’m excited to have the chance to inform their tales in recent and modern methods as we proceed to develop our fanbase and solidify the league as a trailblazer in at the moment’s fast-paced sports activities panorama.”
About Dr. Andria Johnson
Dr. Johnson joins the NWSL following practically two years at Purple Ventures, the place she served because the Director of Folks Operations for RV Journey. Beforehand, she was the Senior Human Assets Director on the Dallas Mavericks of the Nationwide Basketball Affiliation (NBA)’s Dallas Mavericks, and spent three years on the NBA league workplaces, the place she served as a expertise acquisition recruiter.
Dr. Johnson obtained her Bachelor of Enterprise Administration diploma from the College of Central Oklahoma earlier than finishing her Grasp of Enterprise Administration at Ashford College and her Physician of Enterprise Administration in Human Useful resource Administration at Capella College.
She can be lively with Girls in Sports activities and Occasions (WISE) the place she serves as a WISE DFW WISE Inside Chair, accelerating skilled improvement by connecting professional-level members to extra skilled members by means of private one-to-one mentoring and nationwide on-line assets.
About Bobbi-Sue Doyle-Hazard
Doyle-Hazard involves the NWSL from NBC Sports activities the place she was Counsel, Enterprise & Authorized Affairs, advising the enterprise on points associated to manufacturing and issues of first impression. She was additionally the principal enterprise affairs/ present lawyer for sports-related documentaries on NBC’s streaming service, Peacock. Previous to NBC, she served because the Assistant Common Counsel for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. She started her profession as Common Counsel and Director of Human Assets for the household of life sciences corporations below the New England Cryogenic Heart umbrella. She additionally frolicked as affiliate company counsel for Granite Telecommunications, a billion-dollar telecom firm simply outdoors Boston.
Doyle-Hazard graduated from the UMass Sport Administration and Authorized Research undergraduate packages and Penn State’s Dickinson College of Legislation. She is a powerful advocate for psychological well being wellness and breaking the stigma surrounding psychological sickness and is a founding board member of the Attorneys’ Despair Challenge, a non-profit targeted on peer-to-peer assist for authorized professionals.
About Jordan Dolbin
Dolbin beforehand spent practically eight years with the Nationwide Soccer League (NFL), all of which had been spent working within the league’s Social and Influencer Advertising and marketing division. She started her tenure as a social media content material coordinator, earlier than shifting over to social advertising and marketing, the place she ultimately got here to supervise all the NFL’s participant social advertising and marketing. She additionally frolicked working with the NBA’s Orlando Magic and Sporting Kansas Metropolis of the MLS.
Dolbin performed collegiate soccer at Cal State Fullerton and Baker College and obtained her Grasp’s diploma from the College of Minnesota’s Hubbard College of Journalism and Mass Communication.
