Current Roster
Officers

Uzma Z. Rizvi
President

Maria Sieira
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.
Departmental Senators
Department | Senators | Alternates |
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Art & Design Education | Katherine Huala (Full-Time Faculty) | Tara Kopp |
Associate Degree Programs | Deborah Caponera (Full-Time Faculty) | Einat Lahat-Blum (Part-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 | Vicki Weiner (Part-Time Faculty) |
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) | Alysia Slocum Laferriere (Part-Time Faculty) |
At-Large Senators
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Senate President |
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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 | 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:
- 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