Current Roster

Officers

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Heather Lewis

Co-President
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Zach Slanger

Co-President
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Melissa Brown

Finance Officer
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Sebastian Kaupert

Information Officer
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Gina Gregorio

Outreach Officer
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Matthew Garklavs

Parliamentarian
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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

DepartmentSenatorsAlternates
Art & Design EducationKelly Oh (Full-Time Faculty)Anna White (Part-Time Faculty)
Associate Degree ProgramsDeborah Caponera (Full-Time Faculty)Jared Osborn (Part-Time Faculty)
Continuing & Professional StudiesRhonda Schaller (Staff Who Teach)
Shahar Yannay (Part-Time Faculty)
Creative Arts TherapyGlenn Smulyan (Staff Who Teach)Cara Gallo-Jermyn (Part-Time Faculty)
Creative Enterprise Leadership
Digital ArtsYulia Ruditskaya (Part-Time Faculty)Sophia Sobers (Part-Time Faculty)
Fashion DesignGina Gregorio (Part-Time Faculty)Daniel De Las Heras Romano (Part-Time Faculty)
Film & VideoIdrissou Mora-Kpai (Full-Time Faculty)
Fine ArtsJill Brandwein (Part-Time Faculty)
Lipika Bhargava (Part-Time Faculty)
Mel Skluzacek (Part-Time Faculty)
Foundation Art & DesignTodd Ayoung (Part-Time Faculty)
Natalie Moore (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Architecture & Urban DesignClelia Pozzi (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Center for PlanningJuan Camilo Osorio (Full-time Faculty)Rebecca Krucoff (Part-Time Faculty)
Graduate Communications/Package DesignJean Brennan (Part-Time Faculty)Diego Kolsky (Part-Time Faculty)
History of Art & DesignPeter De Staebler (Full-time Faculty)Karolina Koczynska (Full-Time Faculty)
Humanities & Media StudiesTess Brown-Lavoie (Part-Time Faculty)
Sara Jane Stoner (Part-Time Faculty)
Mónica-Ramón Ríos (Part-Time Faculty)
Industrial DesignEsther Beke (Part-Time Faculty)
Interior DesignSarah LIppman (Part-Time Faculty)
LibraryMissy Brown (Full-Time Faculty)
Mathematics & SciencePhilip Ording (Full-Time Faculty)
PhotographyStephanie Powell (Part-Time Faculty)Ali Newhard (Part-Time Faculty)
School of InformationChristopher Collette (Part-Time Faculty)
Social Science & Cultural StudiesCaitlin Cahill (Full-Time Faculty)Whitney Laemmli (Full-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate ArchitectureEric Moed (Part-Time Faculty)
Lex Braes (Part-Time Faculty)
Rychiee Espinosa (Part-Time Faculty)
Undergraduate Communications DesignSebastian Kaupert (Part-Time Faculty)Yuxin Pei (Part-Time Faculty)
WritingLaura Elrick (Full-Time Faculty)Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts (Full-Time Faculty)

At-Large Senators

SenatorsAlternates
Chairs CategoryCourtney Knapp (Graduate Center for Planning and the Environment)
Amy Ballmer (Library)
Jane South (Fine Arts)
Sarah Lichtman (HAD)
Full-Time Faculty Rachel Levitsky (Writing)
Alex Austin (Library)
Swati Piparsania (Industrial Design)
Kumry Toktamis (Social Sciences and Cultural Studies)
Part-Time FacultyAmit Kalra (Grad Communications Design)
Andrea Merkx (Foundation)
Molly Roberts (Foundation, Industrial Design)
Martha Molfetas (GCPE, SES Program)
Angela Conant (Fine Arts)
Staff Who TeachCarolyn Shafer (Grad Center for Planning, School of Architecture)
Senate Co-PresidentsHeather Lewis (School of Art)
Zach Slanger (Social Science and Cultural Studies)

Non-Voting Members

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

ParliamentarianMatthew Garklavs
Office of the PresidentNicole Haas
Office of the ProvostRuss Abell
Committee chairs who are not voting members of the SenateMartin Dege, IAC Chair
Liz Knauer, DTA Chair
Karolina Koczynska, ASA Chair
Irene Lopatovska, FDF Chair
Jeffrey Hogrefe, Indigenous Knowledge Chair
Mark Rosin, Senate Research Liaison
Staff CouncilSam Harvey
SGASophia Mendez

Committees

For updated committee rosters, please see the following pages: