CLEVELAND - The Minority Opportunities Athletic Association (MOAA) is pleased to announce the 2020-21 recipients of its Founders' Professional Development Grant, given to one male and one female MOAA member, each in the amount of $1,000. The recipients of this year's grants are Raven (Rae) Campbell from Louisiana State University (LSU) and Michael Pineda-O'Donnell at James Madison University (JMU).

Campbell currently serves on the premium seating staff at LSU's Tiger Athletic Foundation. In her role she assists in the execution of service and operations for designated sports in hospitality and premium seating areas. Since 2018, she has been a part of the Fore! Kids Foundation that produces the PGA's Zurich Golf Classic as a Tournament & Ticket Operations Assistant, she also serves as a Junior Board Member. The foundation generates funds to support children services.

Additionally, she has also had the opportunity to work for Grambling State University, Loyola University of New Orleans, Tulane University, the New Orleans Pelicans & Saints, the Philadelphia 76ers, USA Football, the Kansas City Chiefs, and the New Orleans Baby Cakes. Campbell also served on the New Orleans Convention Company INC. staff, which produces the number one Historical Black College Football Game, The Bayou Classic.

Campbell received her bachelor's degree from Grambling State in kinesiology with a concentration in sports management and her MBA with a concentration in sales leadership from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Campbell is a member of Women Leaders in College Sports and MOAA.

Pineda-O'Donnell is in his first year as an athletics development officer for the Duke Club at James Madison. Prior to his arrival at JMU, Pineda-O'Donnell served as an intern for Villanova University athletics in compliance & student-athlete development.

Since arriving at JMU in August 2020, Pineda-O'Donnell has served on the Athletics Diversity & Inclusion Initiative as well as the University Task Force on Racial Equity. He was also selected to participate in the 2021 NCAA Emerging Leaders Seminar. A native of Pennington, NJ, Pineda-O'Donnell's birth mother was a Guatemalan immigrant. His mother was a delivery room nurse who adopted him at birth, hence the "Pineda-O'Donnell." As a student-athlete, he was given the opportunity to play in Latin America and met his entire birth family in Guatemala. He was later given the opportunity to play for the Guatemalan National Baseball Team.

A former baseball student-athlete, Pineda-O'Donnell graduated in three years from Southern New Hampshire University and received his MBA from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. He is an active member of the National Association of Athletic Development Directors (NAADD), MOAA, and the National Association of Academic and Student-Athlete Development Professionals (N4A).

About the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association: Administered by the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association promotes equitable employment opportunities for minorities in the athletics industry through the exchange of ideas, the creation of networking opportunities and the avocation of an increase in employment for minorities in athletics administration positions at all levels of the sports industry. The association also promotes cultivating a sports environment that supports the values necessary to accept aspiring professionals from all walks of life. For more information on the Minority Opportunities Athletic Association, please visit www.moaaweb.com.