Meet our staff team
The Penn State Navigators staff team is passionate about helping Penn State students discover and grow in a relationship with Jesus. Whether you're a student who is exploring a relationship with Jesus for the first time, or someone who is looking to grow in your faith in college, our goal is to help you in that journey. Get to know more about our staff by reading their bios.
Brad & Robin Jones
Campus Director & Associate Director
Brad has been serving with The Navigators since 2007, including 6 years at the University of Alabama. Since 2013, Brad has served as the assistant director and staff trainer at Penn State, and in 2019 Brad became the campus director. Brad loves helping students and staff experience the power of God's grace bring greater freedom and joy in their relationship with God. Brad is a 2005 graduate of Penn State, and loves all things outdoors and spends far too much time following Penn State football.
Robin met the Navigators as a student at Penn State in 2003. She was thrilled to join Navigator staff in 2007 and spent her first two years at the University of Arizona. After those two years, Robin choose to go off of staff and worked in a hospital in Pittsburgh for four years. Those years were instrumental in teaching her what it looks like to walk with Jesus for a lifetime. In 2013 she rejoined Navigator staff, excited to help students see the power of Jesus' transformation in their lives. She then spent 6 years at University of California at Davis. As a lover of ice cream, the Penn State Creamery provided all the incentive she needed for her return to her alma mater in 2019!
Katie Weber
Staff in Training
Katie graduated from Millersville University of Pennsylvania in 2020. Throughout her four years of college she was involved with the Navigators at MU, it was during those years where she caught the vision for discipleship. After graduating she spent a year living in Tyler, Texas working in marketing. During that year she began to realize the heart she had for college students and the desire to learn how to minister to them well. She joined the PSU Navigators staff in the Fall of 2021.
Betsy Forney
Navigator Representative
Betsy graduated from Purdue University with a degree in HDFS. She worked in her field of study before being called by the Lord to join Navigators on the college campus. She sees Penn State as a strategic place and unique time in students lives with unbelievable potential for world size impact. Her passion is to see students thrive in their walk with Jesus and live life wide open for him as they embrace their calling. Betsy and her husband Morgan have 4 children, Levi, Rachel, Seth, and Hannah.
Sharon Jones
Mission Staff
I came to know the Lord as a freshmen at The University of Northern Iowa through a Navigator Women's Retreat. After college I went on staff with The Navigators that kept me at UNI for three years then took me to Colorado Springs, Colorado and finally to State College. Griffin (also a PSU Nav alum) and I got married in 2008 and have four great kids: Riley, Ellie, Thatcher and Brennan. Now as a wife and mom of four I still love to invest in women's lives and have them in our home, around our family and seeking God together.
We as a campus ministry and individual staff are fully supported by the generosity and partnership of others. If you would like to donate and partner with our staff in advancing the Gospel of Jesus and His kingdom into the nations through disciples, click on their photo. You may also give to the campus group of the Penn State Navigators by clicking the button below or going to our Donate page!