Staff and Faculty
Directory

Andrew Rich

Richard J. Henley and Susan L. Davis Dean, Colin Powell School

Dr. Irina Carlota (Lotti) Silber

Director of Strategic Initiatives & Department Chair, Anthropology and Interdisciplinary Programs

Abigail Feder-Kane

Director of Development
and External Relations

Herbert Seignoret

Director, Academic Advising Office

Ann Marie Yali

Associate Professor

Jon Horvitz

Professor

Brent M. Maximin

Doctoral Lecturer

Richard Paino

Lecturer

Sophia Barrett

Lecturer

Lesia M. Ruglass

Associate Professor

Brett Silverstein

Presidential Professor

Adriana Espinosa

Associate Professor

Deidre Anglin

Associate Professor

Adeyinka M. Akinsulure-Smith

Professor

Vivien C. Tartter

Edward A. Vessel

Eugene Surowitz Assistant Professor

Sarah O’Neill

Associate Professor

Margaret Rosario

Distinguished Professor

Teresa Lopez-Castro

Associate Professor

Timothy M. Ellmore

Kutay Agardici

Departmental Advisor

Abigail Estes

Administrative Coordinator

Aimen Khan

Nicole Moultrie

Hawai Kwok

Director of Academic Programs, Psychology

Robert Melara

Professor and Chair

Jean Krasno

Lecturer, Department of Political Science

Daniel DiSalvo

Professor and Chair

Nicholas Rush Smith

Associate Professor and Director of the Master’s Program in International Affairs

Bruce Cronin

Professor

Sherrie Baver

Profressor

Diana B. Greenwald

Raphaëlle Khan

Assistant Professor

A. Dirk Moses

Anne and Bernard Spitzer Professor of International Relations

Ana I. Guerrero

Administrative Specialist,
Department of Economics and Business

Kameshwari Shankar

Associate Professor

Mehdi Samimi

Assistant Professor

Glenford Patterson

Lecturer

Peter Chow

Professor

MC Binz-Scharf

Associate Professor

Punit Arora

Associate Professor

Yan Zhao

Associate Professor

Paul Clifford

Lecturer

Ouafaa Hmaddi

Assistant Professor

Hugh Fox

Lecturer and Deputy Chair for Faculty Student Advising

Liora Schulman

Doctoral Lecturer and Deputy Chair

Yochanan Shachmurove

Professor

Matthew G. Nagler

Professor

Marta Bengoa

Professor

Prabal K. De

Chair, Department of Economics and Business

Lindsay Zafir

Academic Director and Distinguished Lecturer

Shama Mital

HR Assistant

Matthew Reilly

Associate Professor

Sarah Muir

Associate Professor and Director, International and Global Studies

Gregory Duff Morton

Assistant Professor

Cristina Jiménez Moreta

Distinguished Lecturer

Natalie Meyers

CUNY Office Assistant

Shanelle Matthews

Distinguished Lecturer

Prash Naidu

Assistant Professor

Omnia Khalil

Doctoral Lecturer

Dave A. Chokshi

Sternberg Family Professor of Leadership

Stephanie E. Barnes

Administrative Specialist

Alize Arican

Assistant Professor

Asale Angel-Ajani

Associate Professor and Director, Women’s and Gender Studies

Kimberly Gamble Payne

Adjunct Lecturer

Jacques Fomerand

Adjunct Lecturer

Emily Coppel

Adjunct Lecturer
Master in International Affairs (MIA)

Eduardo Albrecht

Adjunct Associate Professor

Jen Light

Director

Lesly Calle

Program Manager of Alumni Relations

Christine Garmendiz

Fellowships and Student Success Program Associate

Abir Ahmed

Career Coach

Arifa Begum

Career Coach

Ivy Allotey

Maya Gutierrez

Director, Public Service Career Hub

Ashif Hassan

Corporate Partnerships Manager

Cynthia Gutierrez

Manager of Mentoring and Alumni Relations

Debbie Cheng

Director, Fellowship Programs and Office of Student Success

Waldemar Morety

Sarah Marrara

Research Associate

Vivian Guerrero Aquino

Research Associate

Edward De Jesús

Research Associate

Abraham Liddell

Research Associate Data Scientist

Patricia Bautista Tiburcio

Research Assistant

Sidie Sisay

Research Associate

Jhostin Garzón Larche

Junior Archives/Library Assistant

Jessy Perez

Archivist

Jhensen Ortiz

Librarian

Sarah Aponte

Chief Librarian

Pedro Ortega

Senior Research Associate

Dayanara Rodriguez

Graphic Designer/Research Assistant

Ian Kaufman

Program Coordinator, Threatened Scholars Fellowship

Greysi Peralta

Accounts & Grant Coordinator

Pierre Losson

Associate Director

Grace French

Communications Coordinator

Farida Chickerie Ramkaran

Program Assistant

Selena Rodriguez

Operations Manager

Layana Abu Touq

Senior Program Manager

Michael Miller

Managing Director

Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

Executive Director

Yamila Mercado

Alumni Engagement Coordinator

Aravdeep Kaur

Operations and Finance Coordinator

Jorwell Perez

Communications Strategist

Riki Robinson

Mid-Career Program Associate

Ashley Rivera

Program Coordinator

Rafael Monroy Rojas

Jesse Guy-Herman

Development Director

Bianca Guerrero

Early Career Programs Manager

Noelia Morales

Executive Assistant

Jake Levin

Social Justice Careers and Leadership Development Associate

Nathalie Delpeche

Operations & Finance Manager

Sasha Graham

Director of Social Justice Mentoring and Careers

Ricardo Andres Anez Carrasquel

Pre-Career Program Associate

Tiffany Traille

Director of Fellowships

Chris Torres

Co-Executive Director

Jennifer Disla

Co-Executive Director

Marissa Piffizer

Bouchra Benchrifa

Stephen Smith

Kathleen Isaac-Campbell

Elizabeth Freidin-Baumann

Lissa Weinstein

Paul Wachtel

Distinguished Professor

Diana Puñales Morejon

Daisy Justo

Director of Finance and Human Resources

Ramon Martinez

Finance Associate

Jennifer Lavayen

Academic advisor

Golazin Safaeimojarad

Academic advisor

Veronica Ambrose

Academic advisor

Elliot Jurist

Professor

Jessica Powell

Academic advisor

Valerie Poulolo

Academic advisor

Megan Finsaas

Assistant Professor

Eric Fertuck

Associate Professor

Leo Cancelmo

M Sasha Rudenstine

Associate Professor & Associate Director of The Psychological Center

María Moran

Senior Academic advisor

Jaime Olmos 

Academic Advisor

Aldonsa Tejada

Academic Advisor

Carlito Berlus

Associate Director

Daniel Hila

Program Manager of Social Mobility Lab and Public Events

Ariadne Rosales

Social Media and Special Projects Manager

Yana Kucheva

Associate Professor of Sociology

Jose Alvarado

Communications Associate

Namrata Kupte

Design Lead and Communications Manager

Jack Levinson

Associate Professor

Jana Chammaa

Project Manager

Charlene Darbassie 

Administrative Manager

James Biles

Associate Professor

Iris Lopez

Katherine K. Chen

Professor

Maritsa V. Poros

Professor of Sociology

Gwendolyn Dordick

Doctoral Lecturer

Norma Fuentes-Mayorga

Director of the LALS Program

Larry Au

Assistant Professor

Laura Bowman

Office Assistant

General Colin L. Powell, (USA, Ret.) April 5, 1937 – October 18, 2021