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
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
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
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
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
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)
Christopher Campbell
Digital Pedagogy Specialist
Chris is a doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center who specializes in AIDS literature, queer theory, and memoir. At Baruch, Chris served as a 2020-21 Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) Fellow and has taught First-Year Writing and Great Works of Literature since 2016. (Read more)
Lukasz Chelminski
Digital Pedagogy Specialist
Lukasz is a doctoral candidate in history at the CUNY Graduate Center. He has taught at Brooklyn College, The Cooper Union and Queens College. He is currently a digital pedagogy specialist at the Baruch College Center for Teaching and Learning 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)
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
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
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
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
Janine Agarwal
Instructional Designer
Christopher Campbell
Instructional Design Specialist
Lukasz Chelminski
Instructional Design Specialist