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

Welcome to our 123 new staff who joined the University of Chicago in August 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)

Chavonne Alford
Andrea Banks
Leah Cox
Ryan DaCosta
Linda Macias
Tiffany Xie
Christine Zielke

DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)

Brett Hoffman
Liza Malamut
Elisabeth Marshall Kallembach

BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)

Julio Mugnol
Marine Colon de Franciosi
Paul Kirch
Victor De Faro Quadros

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)

Andrew Adeyiga
Sabah Alfatal
Ben Amos
Evelyn Arambula
Kiera Bass
June Brown
Dingcai Cao
Aurora Castaneda
Julius Caston
Donatella Contini
Grant Czadzeck
Tushar Dave
Eva Durance
Carrie Everett
Kimberly Howard
Shriya Iyer
Koya Johns
Zoya Khan
Julianna Luna
Ronnie Lund
Katharine Mahoney
Ashley Mayo
Tania Miller
Apurva Nayak
Morayo Oladipo
Maria Potsi
Anel Reinoso
Erick Rios
Alexander Roach
Mabry Roby
Amanda Sarsfield
Christian Scott
Gigi Skedros
Autumn Smith
Constance Stayart
Erin Szuromi
Nguyen Tran
Brenda Vega
Andrew Wooldridge
Mark Xiao
Sara Zent

BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Swati Baweja
Brittani Brown
Gianna Burkhardt
Sijin Chen
Xiangyu Chen
Megan Combs
Ayoub Foussoul
Vaishnavi Gade
Juan Herrera
Shivam Kumar
Phuong Le
Fabian Melquiades
George Rao
Valeriya Sadovskaya
Samantha Santamaria
Taylor Savino
Advaita Singh
Stefano Sperti
Yuanchang Wei

CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)

Amanda Anderson
Alice Dahlka
Andrew Eaton
Paolo Eslava
Daniel Gallagher
Cherry Inthalangsy
Shalu Kandakudy
Martha Pena Mata
Corinne Pompey
Alvaro Ramos

THE COLLEGE

Olivia Blinn
Jasmyn Browder
Justin Hardee
Lucas Williams

DATA SCIENCE 4 EVERYONE

Rebecca Riegel 

ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT

Brennan Rudy

FACILITIES

Daniel James

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION (F&A)

Tony Barron

HARRIS SCHOOL

Carmen Curtis
Emma Steyaert

HUMAN RESOURCES

Mattie Koppendrayer

INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH (ICSG)

Becca Ward

INSTITUTE OF POLITICS (IOP)

Ravy Uong

LABORATORY SCHOOLS

Addison Bross
Heidi Byrnes-Cloet
Rose Zion Malloy
Isaac Toub

LAW SCHOOL

Matthew Martin
June Noyes
Mila Stern

LIBRARY

Torrey Beasley
Jennifer Morrison

PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)

Paul Deziel
Jinxing Jiang
Diana Leane

PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)

Jennifer Blanc
Freddie Sharmini
Varada Shevade
Ze ev Vladimir
Jacob Weglarz

RESEARCH COMPUTING CENTER 

Noah Oller Smith

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

Dev Gavaskar
Jessica Ward

SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION (SSD)

Geliela Tamrat Abshir
Abigail Feingold

UCHICAGO GRAD

Tyra Smith

URBAN LABS

Oren Tirschwell

UNIVERSITY RESEARCH ADMINISTRATION

Gabriel Earle
Kory Trott


RECENT DEPARTURES


ADVANCEMENT (ADV)

Zedrika Thomas

DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)

Mia Maccarella
Timnah Rosenshine

ACADEMIC INITIATIVES (AI)

Jennifer Gadda
Erin Zeman

BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)

Ishita Batra
Scott Blatte
Anastasiia Nebolsina
Ramiro Rossi

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)

Victor Alexander
Faya Beker
Lauren Benson
Ada Bulka
Briana Carroll
Hallie Chabrier
Charlie Fuller
Jacklyn Gideon
Julie Gruszczynski
Claire Hafter
Lei He
Erin Hernandez
Julie Hlavaty
Caroline Jadczak
Anikka Jordan
Emily Kim
Irena Kovacevic
Lauren LaHa
Diane Less
Amir Mani
Vanya Manthena
Taysha Martinez
Josue Martinez
Madeline Maslyar
Siobhan McDermott
Veronica Meza
Raven Mitchell
Rowland Ogwara
Marcos Santiago Figueroa
Rebecca Schedin
Clara Schmetter
Alana Serra
Juan Sun
Perry Tonoff
Patrick Walsh
Erik Wolf
Abby Wong
Diane Wright
David Yi

BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

Chelsea Beran
Ryan Bruno
Samuel Goldrup
Dawei Li
Duyen Nguyen
Maria Sanchez Bolanos
Abigail Strombeck
Rui Sun
Kerry Thomas
Jake Wallach

CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)

Tiffaney Mack
Bonnie McDuffie
Stephen Milani
Maria Sanchez

THE COLLEGE

Peter Baker
Kathleen Forde
Kathleen Howe
Elaine Kappel
Sean Lee
Yuntong Xu
Yancheng Zhang

COMMUNICATIONS

Paul Rand

CROWN SCHOOL

Lakisha Pittman
Katherine Pressler
Lynda Rudek

DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY (DSS)

Percy Mayfield

ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT

Will Lutterman
Dominique Partee

FACILITIES

Daniel Perez

FINANCE AND ADMINISTRATION (F&A)

Alex Van Wormer 

HARRIS SCHOOL

Gigi Pacheco
Marcus Sander 

INVESTMENT

Kristin Kostrzewa 

IT SERVICES

Lynette Lilly

LABORATORY SCHOOLS

Chisom Akpom
Lucy Biederman
Jeff Edmonds
Samuel Fajerstein
Catherine Finn
Tomoko Hata
Jessica Herrera
Katlyn Keller
Brian Luczak
Fiona Lynch
Eric Rizzi
Patricia Rust-Kovacs
Kent Smith
Abigale Wagner

LAW SCHOOL

Morgen Miller
Zhihong Zhang 

PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)

Benjamin Baldwin
Dinah Branch
Nina Brown
Markayla Epps
Colin Hudler
Jack LeGrow
Xiangchen Li
Molly Long
Alexis Schrubbe
Kluivert Suquino
Zhi Yue

PRESS

Megan Gardenhour
Rayshawn Harris
John Mierendorf
Lucina Schell

PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)

Isabella Castillo
Suzana Gomes
Nestor Zaluzec

OFFICE OF THE PROVOST

Channel Turbides

SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION (SSD)

Rebecca Harles
Anthony Youssef

URBAN LABS

Yiqing Chen
Bryant Cong
Tzu-Yun Lin
Priyal Patil

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