Current Roster
Officers

Chris Alen Sula
President

Audrey L. Schultz
Financial Officer

Monica Maceli
Information Officer

Uzma Rizvi
Outreach Officer
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.
Departmental Senators
Department | Senators | Alternates |
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Art & Design Education | Theodora Skipitares (Full-Time Faculty) | Kelly Oh (Part-Time Faculty) |
Associate Degree Programs | Deborah Caponera (Part-Time Faculty) | Stewart (Charles) Parker (Part-Time Faculty) |
Construction/Facilities Management | Audrey Schultz (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) | Richard Green (Full-Time Faculty) |
Digital Arts | Genevieve Leonard (Part-Time Faculty) | Everett Kane (Full-Time Faculty) |
Fashion Design | Gabby (Gabriela) Galvan (Part-Time Faculty) | |
Film & Video | Jim Finn (Full-Time Faculty) | |
Fine Arts | Joseph Fyfe (Part-Time Faculty) Jenny Lee (Part-Time Faculty) | Ross Knight (Part-Time Faculty) |
Foundation Art & Design | Sean Sullivan (Part-Time Faculty) | |
Graduate Architecture & Urban Design | Dylan Baker-Rice (Part-Time Faculty) | Maria Sieira (Part-Time Faculty) |
Graduate Center for Planning | Courtney Knapp (Full-Time Faculty) | John Shapiro (Full-Time Faculty) |
Graduate Communications/Package Design | Alex Liebergesell (Full-Time Faculty) | |
History of Art & Design | Mary Edwards (Part-Time Faculty) | Worth Bracken (Part-Time Faculty) |
Humanities & Media Studies | Karin Shankar (Full-Time Faculty) | Shayla Lawz (Part-Time Faculty) |
Industrial Design | Ignacio Urbina Polo (Full-Time Faculty) | Amanda Huynh (Full-Time Faculty) |
Interior Design | Olivia Knott (Part-Time Faculty) Alex Schweder (Part-Time Faculty) | Seth Embry (Part-Time Faculty) |
Library | Maggie Portis (Full-Time Faculty) | Missy Brown (Full-Time Faculty) |
Mathematics & Science | Charles Rubenstein (Full-Time Faculty) | |
Photography | Sara Greenberger Rafferty (Full-Time Faculty) | Stephen Hilger (Full-Time Faculty) |
School of Information | Monica Maceli (Full-Time Faculty) | Debbie Rabina (Full-Time Faculty) |
Social Science & Cultural Studies | Sameetah Agha (Full-Time Faculty) Kumru Toktamis (Full-Time Faculty) | |
Undergraduate Architecture | Robert Brackett III (Part-Time Faculty) Federica Vannucchi (Part-Time Faculty) | |
Undergraduate Communications Design | Sebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty) Anthony Williams (Part-Time Faculty) | |
Writing | Pareesa Pourian (Part-Time Faculty) |
At-Large Senators
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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 | Sarah Kanu, Chair of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion |
Committee chairs who are not voting members of the Senate | Damon Chaky, ICC Chair Caleb Crawford, RRA Chair Dean Sidaway, DTA Chair |
Staff Council | Chris Ruggieri, Assistant Director of Residential Life, Residential Life & Housing; President, Pratt Staff Council |
Committees
For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages:
- Executive Committee
- Steering Committee
- Academic Policy Committee (APC)
- Institute Curriculum Committee (ICC)
- Distinguished Teacher Award (DTA) Committee
- Faculty Development Fund (FDF) Committee
- Research Recognition Award (RRA) Committee
- Board Positions (Faculty Trustees & Committees)
- Institute Committees