Current Roster

Officers

Uzma Z. Rizvi

President

Deb Caponera

Financial Officer

Nancy Smith

Information Officer

Jason Vigneri-Beane

Outreach Officer

Amy Ballmer

Parliamentarian

Senators

The Senate represents faculty, chairs and assistant chairs, and teaching staff at the Institute. Each constituent is represented by one departmental senator and one or more at-large senators for their category (full-time faculty, part-time faculty, chairs category, or staff who teach). Large departments have one additional departmental senator. In addition to voting senators, there are non-voting members of the Senate selected by the President, Provost’s Council, and student government.

Senators and alternates are elected every three years according to procedures described in Bylaws III.B.i and VI.A. Vacancies are filled according to procedures in Bylaw VI.B.i.

Senators are responsible for:

soliciting the opinions of their constituents on matters affecting education and governance;
informing their constituents of significant events, dates, and deadlines announced by the Senate, and of its actions;
attending Senate meetings at which they have a vote or, if unable to attend, request that their alternate(s) attend; and
serving routinely on Senate committees.

Printable roster

Departmental Senators

Department	Senators	Alternates
Art & Design Education	Katherine Huala (Full-Time Faculty)	Tara Kopp
Associate Degree Programs	Deborah Caponera (Full-Time Faculty)	Charles (Stewart) Parker (Full-Time Faculty)
Construction/Facilities Management	Kent Hikida (Full-Time Faculty)
Continuing & Professional Studies	Rhonda Schaller (Staff Who Teach)	Joelle Danant (Staff Who Teach)
Creative Arts Therapy	Ted Ehrhardt (Part-Time Faculty)
Design/Arts & Cultural Management	Chris Shrum (Full-Time Faculty)
Digital Arts	Michael Enright (Full-Time Faculty)	David Haines (Part-Time Faculty)
Fashion Design	Gabby (Gabriela) Galvan (Part-Time Faculty)
Film & Video	Jim Finn (Full-Time Faculty)
Fine Arts	Fay Ku (Part-Time Faculty)	Carlos Motta (Full-Time Faculty)
Foundation Art & Design	Todd Ayoung (Part-Time Faculty) Sean Sullivan (Part-Time Faculty)	Andrea Merkx (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design	Olivia Vien (Part-Time Faculty)	Stephanie Bayard (Full-Time Faculty)
Graduate Center for Planning	David Burney
Graduate Communications/Package Design	Joseph Burwell(Part-Time Faculty)	Anton Ginzburg (Part-Time Faculty)
History of Art & Design	William Bracken (Part-Time Faculty)	Mary Edwards (Part-Time Faculty)
Humanities & Media Studies	Saul Anton (Part-Time Faculty) Dominica Giglio (Part-Time Faculty)
Industrial Design	Matte Nyberg	Amanda Huynh (Full-Time Faculty)
Interior Design	Caleb Crawford (Part-Time Faculty) Alexandra Goldberg (Part-Time Faculty)	Brendan Moran (Part-Time Faculty)
Library	Missy Brown (Full-Time Faculty)	Cristina Fontánez Rodriguez
Mathematics & Science	Charles Rubenstein (Full-Time Faculty)	Dan Wright (Full-Time Faculty)
Photography	Sara Greenberger Rafferty (Full-Time Faculty)	Stephen Hilger (Full-Time Faculty)
School of Information	Nancy Smith (Full-Time Faculty)	Pamela Pavliscak (Part-Time Faculty)
Social Science & Cultural Studies	Kumru Toktamis (Full-Time Faculty)	Martin Dege (Full-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Architecture	Tulay Atak (Part-Time Faculty) Jason Vigneri-Beane (Full-Time Faculty)	Lori Gibbs (Part-Time Faculty) Marlon Davis (Part-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Communications Design	Sebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty)
Writing	Pareesa Pourian (Part-Time Faculty)

At-Large Senators

	Senators	Alternates
Full-Time Faculty	Erika Hinrichs (Undergraduate Architecture Design, School of Architecture) Debera Johnson (Industrial Design, School of Design) Juan Jofre Lora (Foundation Art & Design) Heather Lewis (School of Art) Erica Morawski (SLAS, History of Art & Design, School of Design)	Jonathan Scelsa (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture) Peter De Staebler (SLAS, History of Art and Design)
Part-Time Faculty	Scott Santoro (Undergraduate Communications Design, School of Design) Maria Sieira (Graduate Architecture & Urban Design, School of Architecture)
Chairs Category	David Foley (Interior Design) Yasi Ghanbari (Foundation) Evan Neely (History of Art & Design) Dina Weiss (Fine Arts) Farzam Yazdanseta (Undergraduate Architecture, School of Architecture)	Tania Branquinho David Kim
Staff Who Teach	Carolyn Shafer (Grad Center for Planning, School of Architecture)
Senate President	Uzma Z. Rizvi (Full-Time Faculty, Social Science & Cultural Studies)

Non-Voting Members

Bylaw II.B.ii provides for non-voting members who serve one-year terms.

Office of the President	Nicole Haas, Chief of Staff
Office of the Provost	Russ Abell, Director of Libraries
Student Government	Walker Meyn, Chair of Academics on SGA
Committee chairs who are not voting members of the Senate	Nicholas Dease, ICC Chair Irene Lopatovska, FDF Chair Saul Anton, RRA Chair Dean Sideaway, DTA Chair
Staff Council	Chris Ruggieri, President of Staff Council and Assistant Director of Residential Life
SGA	Leo Kim

Committees

For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages: