Joel Carstens
Senior Project Manager, Blue Icon Advisors
Joel has 30 years of experience in education finance and student affairs, including financial aid, enrollment management, and student employment. As a Blue Icon project manager, Joel guides and manages client projects, including interim staffing, policies and procedures, and operational reviews.
Joel’s breadth of experience includes serving as an aid director at highly selective, state flagship and graduate only institutions. Most recently, Joel has been the aid director at the University of New Hampshire.
Joel’s aid profession service includes serving as president of the New Hampshire Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators, board and committee membership with the Eastern Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators and as a board member of the National Student Employment Association.
Joel received both a bachelor’s in business administration and a master’s in educational administration from his home state flagship institution, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Joel is a proud first-generation college student.