New Staff and Recent Departures
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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