ADVANCING EQUITY AND INNOVATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION

Team

Staff

cathy N. Davidson

FI Founder
Faculty Co-Chair

Shelly Eversley

Faculty Co-Chair

Roderick Hurley

Acting Director

Adashima Oyo

Executive Director

Jackie Cahill

Program Coordinator

Christina Katopodis

Mellon Senior Researcher

Celi Lebron

Budget Manager

Lauren Melendez

CUNY Peer Leaders Director

Graduate Fellows

William Arguelles

RA to Dr. Davidson

Tysean Bucknor

HASTAC Scholars Co-Director

Jasmeene Francois

RA to Dr. Eversley

Megan Henriquez

Communications Director

Chris McGuinness

Web Developer & Digital Strategy Consultant

2024–2025 Faculty Fellows

Advisory board and past members

2024-2025 Advisory Board

Futures Initiative Faculty Co-Chairs

  • Cathy N. Davidson
  • Shelly Eversley

CUNY Student Rep

  • William Arguelles

Baruch College, CUNY

  • Shelly Eversley

Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY

  • Judith Anderson

Bronx Community College, CUNY

  • Prithi Kanakamedala

College of Staten Island, CUNY

  • Matt Brim
  • Michael Mandiberg

CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY

  • Herman Bennett
  • Claire Bishop
  • Colette Daiute
  • Michelle Fine
  • Jonathan W. Gray
  • John Mollenkopf
  • Amber Jamilla Musser
  • Ajantha Subramanian

CUNY School of Public Health

  • P. Christopher Palmedo

Guttman Community College, CUNY

  • Andrea Morrell

Hostos community college, CUNY

  • Kristopher Burrell

John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY

  • Shreya Subramani

LaGuardia Community College, CUNY

  • Jason Hendrickson
  • Karen Miller

Lehman College, CUNY

  • Sarah Ohmer

Medgar Evers College, CUNY 

  • Mudiwa Pettus

New York City College of Technology, CUNY

  • Javiela Evangelista

Queens College, CUNY

  • Duncan Faherty
  • Keena Lipsitz

The City College of New York, CUNY

  • Claude Brathwaite
  • Katherine Chen

York College, CUNY

  • Michael Oralndo Sharpe
Past Administration
  • Katina Rogers, Futures Initiative Co-Director and HASTAC Director of Programs and Administration, 2014-21
Past Graduate and Postdoctoral Fellows
  • Parisa Setayesh, 2022-2024
  • Kelsey MilIan, 2022-2024
  • Beiyi Hu, 2023-2024
  • Coline Chevrin, 2020-2024
  • Silvia Rivera Alfaro, 2023
  • Hilary Wilson, 2022-2023
  • Shaun Lin, 2020-2023
  • Dasharah Green, 2022
  • Sham Habteselasse, 2021
  • Jessica Fletcher, 2022
  • Kashema Hutchinson, 2017-2022
  • Gustavo Jiménez, 2018-2021
  • Chinyere Okafor, 2021
  • Nik Valdez, 2021
  • Jessie Fredlund, 2020-2021
  • Tatiana Ades, 2020-2021
  • Cihan Tekay, 2019-2021
  • Adashima Oyo, 2018-2021
  • Christina Katopodis, 2017-2020
  • Michael Epstein, 2019-2020
  • Jessica Murray, 2016-2019
  • Sujung Kim, Ph.D., Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2017-23
  • Kitana Ananda, Ph.D., Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2016-2018
  • Thomas DeAngelis, Graduate Fellow, 2016
  • Michael Dorsch, Graduate Fellow, 2014-2016
  • Michael Lewis Epstein, Graduate Fellow, 2019-2020
  • Raven Gomez, HASTAC Scholars Coordinator, Fall 2018
  • Allison Guess, Graduate Fellow, 2015-2018
  • Christina Katopodis, Graduate Fellow, 2017-2020
  • Michelle Morales, Graduate Fellow, 2016-2018
  • Jessica Murray, Graduate Fellow, 2016-2019
  • Mike Rifino, Graduate Fellow, 2015-2018
  • Danica Savonick, Graduate Fellow, 2014-2017
  • Lisa Tagliaferri, Graduate Fellow, 2014-2016
  • Frances Tran, Ph.D., Postdoctoral Fellow and Interim Associate Director, 2017-2018
  • Siqi Tu, Graduate Fellow, 2018-2020
  • Kalle Westerling, Graduate Fellow, 2014-2018
Past Faculty Fellows
Past Teaching Fellows
  • Hilarie Ashton, English, Queens College
  • Ryan Donovan, Theater, Hunter College
  • Janey Flanagan, Urban Education/E-learning, Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Esther Michelle Gabay, English, Kingsborough Community College
  • Maria Greene, Urban Education/Chemistry, Borough of Manhattan Community College
  • Richard Lissemore, Speech, Language, Hearing Science, Lehman College
  • Evan Misshula, Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
  • Irene Morrison-Moncure, Classics, Hunter College
  • Rachel Oppenheimer, Urban Education/High-School Equivalency, La Guardia Community College
  • Natalie Oshukany, Music, City College
  • Danica Savonick, English, Queens College
  • Hallie Scott, Art History, Brooklyn College
Past Embedded Librarian Fellows
  • Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Past Visiting Scholars
  • Patrik Svensson, Professor of Humanities and Information Technology at Umeå University

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