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Meet our amazing team.

We’re a talented group of pedagogues, teachers, technologists, researchers, and so much more! Get to know us and what we can do for you.

Meet our: Digital Pedagogy Specialists | Communication Fellows | WAC Fellows | Affiliated Partners

Full-time Staff

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Meechal Hoffman

Senior Director

Meechal has been providing pedagogical faculty development and supporting student success at Baruch since 2014, first at Baruch’s Schwartz Communication Institute and now in a newly expanded Center for Teaching and Learning. (Read more)

    Tamara Gubernat

    Associate Director

    Since joining the CTL in 2015, Tamara has helped guide Baruch faculty through transitioning their courses between teaching formats (in-person, hybrid, online) as a process to strengthen their teaching and an opportunity to build classroom community. (Read more)

      Julia Goldstein

      Associate Director

      Julia has been supporting active, inclusive, and communication-intensive teaching and learning at Baruch since 2017, in leadership roles at the Schwartz Communication Institute and now the CTL. Before that she developed her teaching and curriculum design skills… (Read more)
        Seth Graves

        Seth Graves

        Digital Pedagogy Manager

        Seth has assisted faculty in innovative teaching at Baruch since 2016, now at the CTL and previously as coordinator of Baruch’s First-Year Writing and Great Works programs. He’s taught at CUNY since 2012 and The New School (creative writing) since 2010. His research focuses on the Web’s influences on learning, literacy, and creativity. (Read more)

          Hamad Sindhi

          Hamad Sindhi

          Digital Pedagogy Manager

          Hamad is an educational sociologist and Digital Pedagogy Manager at the CTL. Hamad earned his Ph.D. in sociology at The CUNY Graduate Center, and has taught as an adjunct instructor at several CUNY colleges since 2011… (Read more)

            Melina Moore

            Assistant Director for Writing in Public and International Affairs

            Melina has been dedicated to enhancing student writing and communication across the curriculum at Baruch since 2017, when she first joined the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute… (Read more)

              Debra Hilborn-Davis

              Program Coordinator for Student Support and Curriculum Development

              Debra is the Institute’s Program Coordinator for Student Support and Curriculum Development. In this role she operationalizes student support, refines existing curricula, and… (Read more)

                Alfred Waller

                Administrative Coordinator

                With a B.A. in Psychology and Elementary Education Concentration, Alfred started out as an Assistant Director for the Parkchester Baptist Church Summer Day Camp and Youth Developer for Girl Scout Council of Greater New York where he helped develop… (Read more)

                  Digital Pedagogy Specialists

                  Amanda Matles

                  Digital Pedagogy Specialist

                  Amanda is a geographer, educator, filmmaker, graphic designer and doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center. Amanda joined the Baruch College Center for Teaching and Learning in 2021 and has taught writing intensive courses in the… (Read more)

                    Pamela Thielman

                    Pamela Thielman

                    Digital Pedagogy Specialist

                    Pamela is a historian of theatre design whose current research focuses on sixteenth and seventeenth-century European performance. In addition to a Ph.D. in Theatre and Performance from The Graduate Center, CUNY, she holds an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy and… (Read more)

                      Katherine Tsan

                      Katherine Tsan

                      Digital Pedagogy Specialist

                      Katherine has a joint background in information science and European history (she holds an M.L.S. from Queens College, CUNY and a Ph.D. from Yale University). She teaches and publishes about European history, Open Educational Resources in history and… (Read more)

                        Communication Fellows

                        Tanzeem Ajmiri

                        Communication Fellow

                        Tanzeem is a doctoral student in the Critical/Social Psychology Department at CUNY The Graduate Center. She has been teaching for six years at both Hunter College and LaGuardia Community College. (Read more)

                          Orubba Almansouri

                          Communication Fellow

                          Orubba is a doctoral candidate in Urban Education at the CUNY Graduate Center. She holds an MA in Near Eastern Studies from NYU and a BA in history and English from the City College of New York. (Read more)

                            Sophia Bishop

                            Communication Fellow

                            Sophia earned her PhD in Philosophy from the CUNY Graduate Center, and her BA in Philosophy from the University of Delaware. Her research considers the metaphysical fallout for… (Read more)

                              Eva Dunsky

                              Communication Fellow

                              Eva has a BA from Barnard College and an MFA in Fiction and Literary Translation from Columbia University, where she also taught a section of University Writing for International Students. As an alumna of the Writing Centers at both Barnard and Columbia… (Read more)

                                Fabián Escalona

                                Communication Fellow

                                Fabián is a doctoral candidate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. His dissertation surveys the circulation of theatre and performance in the Latin American Southern Cone during the late colonial/early republican transitional era. (Read more)

                                  Eva Gordon Ryali

                                  Communication Fellow

                                  Eva holds a BA from The New School and an MFA from Spalding University. She is currently a doctoral candidate in English at The CUNY Graduate Center, where she studies nineteenth century female journalists and editors in New York City… (Read more)

                                    Femi Lewis

                                    Communication Fellow

                                    Femi holds an MFA in Creative Writing from City College (CUNY) and an MSED in Secondary English Education from St. John’s University. An educator for over 20 years, Femi has taught in secondary and higher education settings… (Read more)

                                      Ivana Mellers

                                      Communication Fellow

                                      Ivana is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on immigration from Latin America, laborers and consumers in the food system in the United States, and the food movement. (Read more)

                                        Charlie Rowe

                                        Communication Fellow

                                        Charlie earned his PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center. His research examines intersections between ethics and aesthetics in British and American Romantic poetry, with a particular focus on the embodied poetics of Walt Whitman. (Read more)

                                          Portia Seddon

                                          Communication Fellow

                                          Portia is a doctoral student in the Ethnomusicology Program at the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned her BA and MA degrees in Anthropology from Hunter College, CUNY. Portia has taught at Hunter College, CUNY in the Women & Gender Studies Department since 2012… (Read more)

                                            Reid Vancelette

                                            Communication Fellow

                                            Reid Vancelette is is finishing his Ph.D. in Linguistics at the Graduate Center, CUNY, with an interest in morphosyntax, second language acquisition, heritage speakers, and psycholinguistics. His dissertation uses various psychological methods such as eye-tracking to investigate… (Read more)

                                              Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh

                                              Communication Fellow

                                              Ji Hyon (Kayla) earned her doctorate in Theatre and Performance at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research focuses on the socio-politico-cultural implications of South Korean musical theatre and how it reflects and reveals Koreans’ understanding of race and racialized identities… (Read more)

                                                Writing Across the Curriculum Fellows

                                                Natalia Lara

                                                WAC Fellow

                                                Natalia is a doctoral student in Critical Social/Personality Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. She earned her B.A. in Psychology from the University of New Mexico in 2015. Initially trained in clinical psychology, Natalia has recently shifted her focus to include a critical social perspective. (Read more)

                                                  Alex Idso

                                                  WAC Fellow

                                                  Alex is a doctoral student in Biological Anthropology at the CUNY Graduate Center, an Adjunct Lecturer at Lehman College, and a member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology. She holds an MSc in Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology from …(Read more)


                                                    Affiliated Partners

                                                    We work very closely with our colleagues in the Division of Academic Excellence and Pedagogic Innovation, which also includes Educational Technology and the Digital Learning Hub.

                                                    Educational Technology

                                                    Craig Stone

                                                    Craig Stone

                                                    Project Manager for Educational Technology

                                                    Craig has supported Baruch College faculty members, staff, and students in the use of technology since 2011. At the CTL, he manages Vocat, a web platform that allows students and instructors to upload and interact with multimedia in various ways. (Read more)

                                                      Christopher Silsby

                                                      Project Manager for Blogs@Baruch

                                                      Christopher comes to the CTL from his work on Blogs@Baruch as a Communication Fellow with the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute. He also has a history in higher ed tech support and server administration at NYU, the University of Minnesota, and Carleton College. (Read more)

                                                        Aicha Bamba

                                                        LMS Administrator & Instructional Designer

                                                        Aicha has experience working at SUNY SYS Administration as a LMS Helpdesk Analyst. In this role, she provided extensive support to campuses participating in the SUNY Online initiative with Blackboard and Brightspace, offering tier 1 and tier 2 technical support… (Read more)

                                                          Shiraz Biggie

                                                          Shiraz Biggie

                                                          Educational Technologist, Blogs@Baruch

                                                          Shiraz joined the CTL in 2021 and works primarily with Blogs@Baruch. She is PhD candidate in Theatre and Performance at the Graduate Center focusing on Jewish and Irish theatre. She teaches children’s literature in performance at Brooklyn College and theatrical history at NYU. (Read more)

                                                            Catherine Kawalek

                                                            Catherine Kawalek

                                                            IT Academic Tech and Pedagogy Manager

                                                            Cathy wears 2 hats at Baruch College: teaching-the-teachers how to create effective and engaging online classes, and for the past 5 years, teaching BPL, the senior capstone class in strategy and planning in the Zicklin School of Business. (Read more)

                                                              Digital Learning Hub

                                                              The Digital Learning Hub (DLH) builds and supports online and hybrid programs and courses. Learn more about the DLH and services they offer.

                                                              Jeff Bennett

                                                              Online Program Manager

                                                                Maria Leather

                                                                Administrative Assistant for Digital Learning Hub

                                                                  Tom Morgan

                                                                  Instructional Media Specialist

                                                                    Chris Campbell

                                                                    Christopher Campbell

                                                                    Instructional Design Specialist

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                                                                      Lukasz Chelminski

                                                                      Instructional Design Specialist

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