New Staff and Recent Departures
Welcome to our 140 new staff** who joined the University of Chicago in September 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)
Nicholas Farrar
Ava Johnson
Megan Morelock
DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)
Thomson Guster
Rebecca Himelstein
Andres Rojas
ACADEMIC INITIATIVES
Camryn D'Angelo
BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)
Ada Gianassi
Mohit Negi
Tomoki Nishiyama
Daphne Schneewind
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)
Rauful Alam
Ibrahim Al-Sawalha
Rinoa Barbuto
Andrea Berkemeyer
Saurabh Bhandari
Arieal Blackmon
Danielle Bruesch
Ashley Buford
Lauren Capucci
Kathy Chen
Michelle Cook
Julia Cox
Bineeta Debnath
Shreya Dhar
Adheeta Dongre
Nadia Elhadi
Madeline Flynn
Sydney Fuentes
Annie Greene
Natalie Grosek
Matthew Gutierrez
Kyla Hatton
Aya Hilal
Catherine Hoyle
Molly Huber
Mark Jensen
Christian Johnson
Emily Kelleher
Erin Kirby
Amanda Manesis
Ishmael Mendoza
Pamela Morris
Zyara Morton
Sylvia Munoz
Idia Ogbomoh
Ivan Paredes
Keia Phinn
William Presley
Marcelo Ramirez
Sophie Raphael
Mallory Roushar
Sarah Shaikh
Pavan Kumar Shapalli
Costanza Siniscalchi
Lexy Sokolowski
Alanna Storck
Jessica Stradley
Elias Tannira
Austin Taylor
Rachel Terheide
Taylor Trunzo
Madison Tuffield
Koshy Tvelil
Millenia Jimenez
Mira Verma
Zoe-Claire Weiner
Sophia Weiner-Light
Laura Catherine Wilhelm
Stephanie Wilk
Demi Williams
BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Giosue Cavagna
Yufan Chen
Toby Cortelyou
Justin Curto
Giulio Frey
Jin Guang
Lucy Hart
Michael Kravchenko
Sarah Larson
Jingxi Li
Jacopo Marini
Mason Ramagos
Chloe Rifat
Andrea Ross
Constance Tolmaire
Sidney Tooley
Colin White
Hanying Yao
Cheng Yu
CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)
Ilham Algayed
Cambron Bice
Olivia Cattau
Yiyu Cheng
Diamond Craig
Amaya Dunford
Megan Japczyk
Joseph Johnson
Mark Manderino
Neeti Shenoy
Sam Shields
Kaya Snyder
Jazmyn Wilson-Willis
Tatyanna Young
THE COLLEGE
Noah Hickey
CROWN
Mary Ann Pitcher
Leon Sawh
Lily Shrayfer
Kenyatta Starks
Cici Wang
DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY (DSS)
Justin Omokaye
Imanol Ramirez
Miguel Santiago
ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT
Maria Rosario
FACILITIES
Jeramia Giters
Teo Sosa
GRAHAM SCHOOL
Trish Bredar
INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE AND SUSTAINABLE GROWTH (ICSG)
Kristina Costa
LABORATORY SCHOOLS
Zoey Blickstein
Christian Brown
Sue Groesbeck
Laura Grandau
Shelby Jacobsen
DeJuana Joseph
Jason Krumwiede
Matt Mettille
Bryce Wilcoxson
LAW SCHOOL
Alexis Rybak
Emma Young
LIBRARY
Syamala Neeraja
Eddy Ozoma
PRESS
Rio Janisch
PROVOST
AJ Bramhan
Kat O'Malley
PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)
Maria Maugeri
PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)
Kevin Gibson
Lindsay House
Xiaohan Li
OFFICE OF SCIENCE, INNOVATION, NATIONAL LABORATORIES, AND GLOBAL INITIATIVES (SING)
Ethan Gillman
SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION (SSD)
Claire Chen
Carl Coates
Kevin Shaw
Libby Stouffer
RECENT DEPARTURES
ADVANCEMENT (ADV)
Yasmin Omer
DIVISION OF THE ARTS & HUMANITIES (AHD)
Ebere Agwuncha
Molly Heiler
Nolan Kishbaugh
ACADEMIC INITIATIVES (AI)
Devin Haas
BECKER FRIEDMAN INSTITUTE (BFI)
Hussein Moussa
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (BSD)
Nely Baeza
Lauren Beltran
Maheep Bhamra
Robin Bradley
Shan Cao
Stephen Chung
Spencer Claxton
Chelsea Cobb
Julia Coyne
Meghan Day
Nija Givens
Michelle Gorrell
Lisa Grady
Grace Hynes
Ao Liu
Sebastian Machera
Drew Memmott
Hannah Na
Kavita Ram
Bianca Ramos
Laila Rashid
Vicki Scott
Myanh Ta
Ling-Jia Wang
Yang Yang
Nikki Yap
Daisy Zarco
BOOTH SCHOOL OF BUSINESS
Quinn Boynes-Buckner
Grace Mitchell
Carrie Wang
Wenzhi Wang
CAMPUS AND STUDENT LIFE (CSL)
Mark Burgess
Reginald Moore
THE COLLEGE
Graham Certain
Sydney Roche
COMMUNICATIONS
Melissa Sherwin
DIVINITY SCHOOL
Pauline Lee
DEPARTMENT OF SAFETY AND SECURITY (DSS)
Joseph Vesel
ENROLLMENT AND STUDENT ADVANCEMENT
Daniel Clark
Stephanie Lange
Michael Mcginn
FACILITIES
Michael K. Radovich
HARRIS SCHOOL
Jennifer Brooks
HUMAN RESOURCES (HR)
Daisy Castro
INSTITUTE OF POLITICS (IOP)
Koran Addo
LIBRARY
Rhonda Owens
PHYSICAL SCIENCES DIVISION (PSD)
Lincoln Bryant
Evelyn Campbell
Vladimir Drinfeld
Yao Ge
Giulia Giannini
Andrew Goldschmidt
Jaswitha Reddy Guntaka
Lilia Johnson
Carissa Kumar
Jing Liu
Rounak Naphade
Adam Solomon
Xiaochuan Wu
Zhihao Zhao
Yuzhe Zhu
PRITZKER SCHOOL OF MOLECULAR ENGINEERING (PME)
Peter Duda
Jered Feldman
POLSKY CENTER
Narayan Subramanian
OFFICE OF THE PROVOST
Heidi Heitkamp
URBAN LABS
Desire Bernard
Guglielmo Briscese
Abigail Evans
Evelyn Morris
For any updates and corrections to this page, please email uchicagointranet@uchicago.edu.
** The correct number of new staff for September 2025 is 140. 522 was incorrectly listed as the number of new staff for September 2025 in the Staff version of the Citizen newsletter on October 22, 2025.