81 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine EDUCATION FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE COACH Montgomery County Community College Blue Bell, PA ROBERT E. SCOTT DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF LAW University of Virginia Charlottesville, VA COLLEEN NICOLE KASTER After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University in 2011, Colleen Nicole Kaster initially worked in the food industry. During this tenure, she discovered that a field office near her alma mater was looking to hire individuals for their loan counselor position in their financial assistance office. Subsequently, Ms. Kaster was accepted and served as a loan counselor for the Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency between 2014 to 2015. Thereafter, she excelled at Arcadia University as an enrollment management counselor and financial aid specialist between 2015 to 2019. Since 2019, she has thrived as a financial assistance coach at Montgomery County Community College. Maintaining affiliation with the North America Financial Aid Association and Pennsylvania Financial Aid Association, Ms. Kaster attributes her success to her drive to succeed. She notes that while she was attending college herself, she found the process of receiving financial aid to be challenging and unclear. Therefore, she endeavored to help students like herself understand the financial aid process. Looking toward the future, Ms. Kaster intends to pursue a master’s degree in higher education to advance further in her field. After earning a JD from the University of Chicago, Douglas Laycock began serving the university as an assistant professor in 1976. Promoted to full professor in 1980, he departed one year later to begin serving the University of Texas School of Law, where he eventually became the Alice McKean Young regents chair in law. He attained emeritus status in 2006. Thereafter, Mr. Laycock served the University of Michigan as a Yale Kamisar collegiate professor of law for four years and, since 2010, has excelled as the Robert E. Scott distinguished professor of law at the University of Virginia. Mr. Laycock is most notable for his myriad publications on religious liberty, having served as lead counsel in six religious liberty cases before the United States Supreme Court. His writings have been collected in five volumes totaling nearly 5,000 pages. For his success, he earned the Roger and Madeleine Traynor Faculty Achievement Award from the University of Virginia and the Bill of Rights and Religious Liberty Award from Utah Valley University. Earlier, he received Civil Libertarian of the Year Awards from the ACLU of Texas in 1995 and 2000. DOUGLAS LAYCOCK
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