Staff
cathy N. Davidson
FI Founder
Faculty Co-Chair
Shelly Eversley
Faculty Co-Chair
Adashima Oyo
Executive Director
Lauren Melendez
CUNY Peer Leaders Director
Graduate Fellows
William Arguelles
RA to Dr. Davidson
Tysean Bucknor
Fellow-in-Residence
Coline Chevrin
HASTAC Scholars Co-Director
Jasmine Francois
RA to Dr. Eversley
Megan Henriquez
Communications Director
Beiyi Hu
Outreach Manager
Roderick Hurley
Assistant Director
Chris McGuinness
Digital Director
Kelsey MilIan
CUNY Peer Leaders Facilitator
Parisa Setayesh
HASTAC Scholars Co-Director
2023–2024 Faculty Fellows
2024–2025 Faculty Fellows
2022–2023 Faculty Fellows
- Saadia Toor, College of Staten Island and The Graduate Center
- Ángeles Donoso Macaya, BMCC and The Graduate Center
- Chaumtoli Huq, CUNY School of Law
- Sarah McDougall, John Jay College
- Ashley Dawson, The Graduate Center
- Anna Akasoy, Hunter College and The Graduate Center
2023-2024 Advisory Board
Futures Initiative Faculty Co-Chairs
- Cathy N. Davidson
- Shelly Eversley
CUNY Student Rep
- Roderick Hurley
Baruch College, CUNY
- Shelly Eversley
Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
- David Caicedo
- Rosario Torres-Guevara
Bronx Community College, CUNY
- Prithi Kanakamedala
Brooklyn College, CUNY
- Erika Niwa
College of Staten Island, CUNY
- Matt Brim
- Michael Mandiberg
- Ananya Mukherjea
CUNY Graduate Center, CUNY
- Herman Bennett
- Claire Bishop
- Colette Daiute
- Michelle Fine
- Ruth Wilson Gilmore
- Jonathan W. Gray
- Wendy Luttrell
- Ruth Milkman
- Amber Jamilla Musser
- Michael Orlando Sharpe
CUNY School of Law
- Eduardo R.C. Capulong
CUNY School of Public Health
- P. Christopher Palmedo
Guttman Community College
- Andrea Morrell
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
The City College of New York, CUNY
- Claude Brathwaite
- Katherine Chen
- Amita Gupta
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
- 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
- Gilda Barabino, City College
- Gillian Bayne, Lehman College
- Michelle Billies, The Graduate Center and Kingsborough Community College
- Claire Bishop, The Graduate Center
- Matt Brim, College of Staten Island
- Patricia Brooks, The Graduate Center
- Desiree Byrd, Queens College
- David Caicedo, Borough of Manhattan Community College
- David Chapin, The Graduate Center
- Amy Chazkel, Queens College
- Katherine Chen, City College
- Kandice Chuh, The Graduate Center
- Colette Daiute, The Graduate Center
- José De Valle, The Graduate Center
- Javiela Evangelista, New York City College of Technology
- Shelly Eversley, Baruch College
- Sujatha Fernandes, Queens College
- Michelle Fine, The Graduate Center
- David Forbes, Brooklyn College
- Ofelia García, The Graduate Center
- Racquel Gates, College of Staten Island
- Michael Gillespie, City College and the Graduate Center
- Jonathan Gray, The Graduate Center and John Jay College College
- Jill Grose-Fifer, John Jay College
- Amita Gupta, City College
- Mandë Holford, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
- Tarry Hum, Queens College and The Graduate Center
- Tomoaki Imamichi, LaGuardia Community College
- Prathibha (Prithi) Kanakameda, Bronx Community College
- Cary Karacas, The Graduate Center and College of Staten Island
- William P. Kelly, The Graduate Center
- Robin Kietlinski, LaGuardia Community College
- Ann Kirschner, The Graduate Center
- David Lindo Atichati, College of Staten Island
- Setha Low, The Graduate Center
- Wendy Luttrell, The Graduate Center
- Elizabeth Macaulay-Lewis, The Graduate Center
- Carmina Makar, City College
- Sara McDougall, John Jay College and The Graduate Center
- Julia Miele Rodas, Bronx Community College
- Ruth Milkman, The Graduate Center
- Karen Miller, LaGuardia Community College and The Graduate Center
- Jason Montgomery, New York City College of Technology
- Andrea Morrell, Guttman Community College
- Ananya Mukherja, College of Staten Island
- Soniya Munshi, Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Erika Niwa, Brooklyn College
- Paul Ramirez-Jonas, Hunter College
- Shirley Raps, Hunter College and the Graduate Center
- Diana Romero – Hunter College
- Martin Ruck, The Graduate Center
- Joy Sanchez-Taylor, LaGuardia Community College
- Anna Stetsenko, The Graduate Center
- Carla Shedd, The Graduate Center
- Joseph Straus, The Graduate Center
- Julie Suk, The Graduate Center
- Rosario Torres-Guevara, Borough of Manhattan Community College
- Eduardo Vianna, LaGuardia Community College and The Graduate Center
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