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New Staff and Recent Departures

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The University of Chicago employs more than 10,000 staff members across all parts of the University

Welcome to our 168 new staff who joined the University of Chicago in July 2025, and best wishes to our colleagues who recently departed the University last month. This list, organized by area of the University, is updated monthly. 

NEW STAFF


ADVANCEMENT (ADV)

Anna Gaffney
Alyssa Hitchcock
Jackie Kasuya
Tess Martin
Jo Murphy
Chux Nwaomah
Claire Rigot-Nicholas
Tony Sansalone
Kyle Seibert
Jaclyn Stacy

DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)

Kara Hendrickson
Mark Lester
Lexie Vogel

BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)

Agostina Brinatti
Cedric Elkouh
Ben Fraser
Shay Houseknecht
Xuhang Ke
Patrick Kim
Mauricio Koechlin
Vaishnavi Krishna Mohan
Juliana Lalinde
Angus Li
Emre Mutlu
Georgios Nikolakoudis
Ryungha Oh
Victor De Faro Quadros
Julian Tsang
Lena Zofia Wisniewska

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)

Santosh Reddy Alluri
Evelyn Arambula
German Avila
Basima Azam
Lauryn Babbitt
Lindsay Basto
Quinlan Batcheller
Allison Blount
Melissa Braunstein
Amy Chadburn
Darrell Conley
Catherine Cruz- Montes
Shannon Daniels Eizenberg
Maliya Delawan
Hawa Diabor
James Diamond
Heather Durai
Nicole Fairchild
Matteo Fardin
Daniel Flood
Ricia Francis
Alexander Fung
Riya Gandhi
Sarah Garner
Erica Goff
Berissa Harrigan
Christie Hoell
Trevor Jellison
Stephanie Johnson
Viktoriya Kalinina
Renee Khan
Andrew Kim
Erin King
Benjamin Kramer
Robbie Kuang
Andrew Kucharski
Stela Lapic
Ilaria Lonoce
Irina-Mihaela Matache
Dina Mohammed
Keerthi Chowdary Myneni
Samantha Orozco
Janice Pacheco
Camille Radhakrishnan
Izabela Rockhill
Sumit Sen
Ahnaf Dil Sharar
Annie Shin
Ahmad Shiraz
Lori Solenday
Avi Strok
Jessica Tuck
Sebastian Vazquez Wilkin
Hendrik von Kentzinsky
Christina Ziolkowski

BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Esma Akgun
Yegor Baranovski
Maximilian Barrett
Eduardo Castrejon
Yutong Chen
Cooper Desmond
Silvia Ferenac
Jaclyn Ferguson
Eric Fithian
Leena Ghrayeb
Jingzhou Huang
Grant Johnson
Kristina Kokoneci
Kyle LaFollette
Hannah Lybbert
John McClafferty
Josue Mendoza
Paul Metzler
Diana Pinilla
Jinwon Sohn
Alexis Solis
Tong Wang
Zi Wang
Hanboya Yan
Chuwen Zhang
Michael W. Zhang
Zyho Zhang
Qihang Zhang
Valentina Zvereva

CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)

Natalie Johnson
Laurel McGerty
Kelsey Ruiz
Honesty Thomas

THE COLLEGE

Haley Wegscheid

CROWN

Mel Lamagna
Dante Sudilovsky
Stacie Tao

DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY

Deserie Jeffers

ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT

Will Harrison
Parker Keller
Anna Lindower
Ruby Lynch
Lily McCain
Aliya Rife
Samara Wilson

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION (F&A)

Angie Jacob

HARRIS SCHOOL

Jonah Manso
Maxwell Ramstad
Lauren Sirota
Nathan Finisterre Waller

HUMAN RESOURCES

Juanita Soto

INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH (ICSG)

Jennifer Agbo
Emily Lightfoot
Ema Nakayama

IT SERVICES

Matthew Staton

LABORATORY SCHOOLS

Marnie Klein
Kevin Kooienga
Matthew Stephens

LAW SCHOOL

Daniel Kalish

LIBRARY

Frances Lee
Corinne Tozzi
Matthew Yang

PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)

Jonier Amaral Antunes
Yachira Martinez
Suruchi Sharma
Aliyah Vale

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Kimberly Sawyer

PRESS

Rayshawn Harris
Richard Rodriguez
Omar Scott
Arthurlee Sikes
Joe Weidner

PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)

Elaina Eichorn
Reem Hussein

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Akhil Francis
Bailey Howell
Jeremy Weirich

OFFICE OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION, NATIONAL LABORATORIES, AND GLOBAL INITIATIVES (SING)

Alyssa Master
Heather Walsh
Emelia Zaeske

SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION (SSD)

Matthew Pham
Ella Sherman


RECENT DEPARTURES


ADVANCEMENT (ADV)

Lana Halima
Jackie Yim

DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)

Elizabeth Herbert
Nancy Pardee
Sarah White

ACADEMIC INITIATIVES (AI)

Anaga Dalal
Sade May
Evin McQuistion
Claire Sukumar

BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)

Sanghwa Ahn
William Arnesen
Daniela Bresciani Andaluz
Junbiao Chen
Jonah Gilbert
Miriam Gold
Kyel Governor
Linnea Holy
Tobias Leigh-Wood
Yash Singh
Sariya Stowers
Juri Trifonov
Santiago Velasquez

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)

Inci Bayramicli
Karson Buckley
Jessica Bustamante
Zhixin Cao
Aashana Daru
Sarah Dickson
Sadi Dixon
Steven Dotson
Laura Fetzer
Kayla Figatner
Andrew Fischer
Diane Hall
Connie Homan
Katherine Jennings
Rishit Jhaveri
Chunkai Jin
Omr Kassem
Caroline Krieger
Ashwath Kumaravel
Ying-Wan Lam
Samuel Li
Anastasija Malisic
Ashley Maschke
Lexi Nadolsky
Elida Nieves-Ortiz
Sarah Noone
Fortune Ortua
Smit Patel
Emily Patzik
Ella Postich
Sarida Pratuangtham
Madeline Quasebarth
Sandra Rodriguez
Sharif Salman
Mardin Shinoo
Linghao Song
Brittney Stano
Constance Stayart
Joshua Stemczynski
Peyton Stork
Daniel Story
Morad Suliman
Anitra Thomas
Terra Turner
Alyssa Valena
Jiayi Wang
Martina Williams
Thelma Wright
Leila Yazdanbakhsh
Lindsey Yeakle
Katherine Yeh
Ying Zhou

BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Grace Abifarin
Lorenzo Bruno
Carlo Geat
Billy Jin
Caroline Karr
Jungeum Kim
Rory Lawson
Yuanze Liu
Aria Liu
Sonali Mishra
Miata Moore
Julie Morton
Maria Cristina Niero
Chi-Chi Onyekonwu
Parshan Pakiman
Freddy Pinzon
Luigi Roncoroni
James Ross
Ruhi Roy
Joe Tatarka
Felix Trikos
Laura Wallace
Anna Zink

CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)

Amber Chess
Shashi Dyamenahalli
Richard Mason
Alec Thornburg
Josue Villacis
Ana West

THE COLLEGE

Rebecca Himelstein
Scott Jung
Rose Zion Malloy
David Maruzzella
Clara Mitchell
Tommy Pfannkoch
Susan Su
Xinmeng Zhang
Myles Francis
Tinaya York

COMMUNICATIONS

Evan Williams

CROWN SCHOOL

Nichole Ellington
Jazmin Fermin
Adelric Mccain
Eliza Moeller
Elizabeth Monge-Pacheco
Kari Walsh

DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY (DSS)

Tyson Lewis

ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT

Willem Gerrish
Sophia Kim
Carol Lin
Marcela Sanchez

FACILITIES

Aleksandr Kravchuk

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION (F&A)

Geethanath Marri

FACILITIES

John D'Angelo

HARRIS SCHOOL

Eloisa Avila-Uribe
Megan Busbice
Sarah Chrysler
Gerardo Espinal Franco
Jason Hanchar
Nicholas Moore
Anthony Tatarka
Cynthia Taylor
Mandana Malgorzata Vakil

HUMANITIES

Samantha Hyman

INVESTMENT

Prakhar Bansal
Joanna Rupp
Jingwen Tang

ISAC

Anne Flannery

IT SERVICES

Frederic Anderson
Jerome Roa

LABORATORY SCHOOLS

Sarah Abella
Arcelia Guerrero
Kendall Straughter
Yosef Tewolde

LAW SCHOOL

Lorrie Ragland
Melissa Segarra
Maddie Wilson

LEGAL

Tambra Black

LIBRARY

Dan Gibson

OFFICE OF CIVIC ENGAGEMENT

Christian Mitchell

PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)

Xiaoxue Du
Michael Grosse
Sierra Hinzman
Samuel McDermott
Tere Wang
Alpesh Sharma
Henry Way

PRESS

Katie Connolly
Thomas Puhr
Annika Rae

PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)

Alicia Bearden-Mannie
Austin Druse
Kamal El Bissati

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Katherine Hodge
Timika Oridota
Vickie Sides

SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION (SSD)

Elizabeth Baldo
Faisal Kattan
Sinan Parmar
Michael Smalenberger

URBAN LABS

Erick Andrade
Milly Arbelo
Kevin Badon
Ryan Cirillo
Leigh Anne Larsen
Leah Luben
Brenna Metrow
William Morgan
Lauren Ogle
Liv Shine
Mitchell Zufelt

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