Universitywide development and communications staff

Mary Riddick joined the School of Social Work team after three years in working with VCU's annual giving team. Aside from assisting the dean with direct marketing efforts, Mary will be connecting with social work alumni, emeriti faculty, community partners, and friends to the school to engage them with future initiatives that will shape the next 100 years of service to the community. Riddick earned a B.A. from Virginia Tech, an M.P.A. from Old Dominion University, and is currently working on her doctor of educational leadership in VCU's School of Education.

Geoff LoCicero joined the VCU School of Social Work in July 2019. Previously, he was coordinator of digital marketing and communications for the School of Social Work at the University of Southern Mississippi, after serving as the university’s director of web services from 2009-17. He was the first director of web communications at the University of South Carolina from 2005-09.

Before that, LoCicero was a trainer and researcher at the Ifra Newsplex at the University of South Carolina, a public-private partnership that focused on the development of cross-media strategies and training for journalists in the U.S. and abroad.

He also worked as a copy editor and page designer at The State newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina and as a sports copy editor and designer at the Birmingham Post-Herald.