Hi everyone! My name is Katie Williams, and I am thrilled to join the Futures Initiative team as the incoming Communications Director.  As a PhD candidate in English at the CUNY Graduate Center, my research centers on Victorian literature, disability studies, and religion and spirituality. My dissertation explores how nineteenth-century literature resists and reimagines theological…

Hi everyone! My name is Violetta Soboleva, and I am joining the Futures Initiative this year as an Institutional Leadership Specialist. I’m originally from Russia, where I began my career as an elementary school teacher and English tutor. I later came to the United States as a Fulbright Fellow to pursue a master’s degree in…