New Staff and Recent Departures
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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