TLC Staff
Luke Waltzer
director
Laurie Hurson
assistant director of open education
Marwa Answar
Assistant Program Officer
Miranda Fedock
academic program specialist
Zach Muhlbauer
tlc fellow
english
Janelle Poe
tlc fellow
english
Jenna Queenan
tlc fellow
urban education
Kristi Riley
tlc fellow
Sociology
Danielle Bennett
TLC Fellow
History
Jessie Stein
Open Teaching Fellow
earth and environmental sciences
TLC Alumni
Elizabeth Alsop | Mellon Humanities Scholar, 2016-2018, Comparative Literature
Assistant Professor & Academic Director of the Communication and Media Program, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Manju Adikesavan | TLC Fellow, 2023-2025, Environmental Psychology
Visiting Assistant Professor, Social Science and Cultural Studies, Pratt Institute
Sule Aksoy | Postdoctoral research associate, 2022-2025, Assistant Professor of Science Education, SUNY Brockport
Varnica Arora | Open teaching fellow 2024-2025,
Psychology
Ana Flavia Badue | TLC Fellow, 2022-2024, Anthropology
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology, CUNY Graduate Center
Molly Bauer | TLC Fellow, 2022-2023, Art History
Instructor, Cornish College of the Arts
Fernanda Blanco-Vidal | TLC Fellow, 2019-2022, Environmental Psychology
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Pedro Cabello del Moral | TLC Fellow, 2022-2024, LAILAC
Substitute Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, Hunter College
Claire Cahen | TLC Fellow, 2021-2022, Environmental Psychology
Assistant Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy, Occidental College
Agustina Checa | TLC Fellow, 2021-2022, Ethnomusicology
Assistant Professor of Music at Lehman College & Graduate Center, CUNY
Mei Ling Chua | TLC Fellow, 2017-2020, Environmental Psychology
Visiting Professor in the Urban Placemaking and Management Program, Pratt Institute
Atasi Das | TLC Fellow, 2020-2022, Urban Education
Assistant Professor of Early Childhood & Childhood Education at Lehman College
Elizabeth Decker | TLC Coordinator, 2016-2019, English
Assistant Teaching Professor and First-Year Writing Course Coordinator, Rutgers University
Lucia Dikaczova | TLC Coordinator, 2022-2023
Ph.D. Candidate, Philosophy, McGill University
Ryan Donovan | TLC Fellow, 2018-2019, Theater and Performance Studies
Assistant Professor of Theater Studies, Duke University
Lais Duarte | TLC Fellow, 2018-2020, Anthropology
PhD Candidate, CUNY Graduate Center
Talisa Feliciano | TLC Fellow, 2020-2022, Anthropology
DEI Auditor, Dreamscape; Instructor, Macaulay Honors College
Asilia Franklin-Phipps | TLC Post-doctoral Fellow, 2018-2020, Education
Assistant Professor of Educational Studies and Leadership, SUNY New Paltz
Inés Vaño Garcia | TLC Fellow, 2019-2021, LAILAC
Assistant Professor of Spanish & Linguistics, Framingham State University
Anke Geertsma | TLC Fellow, 2017-2019, Comparative Literature
Communications and Events Manager, Office of Academic Initiatives and Strategic Innovation; Doctoral Fellow, CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, CUNY Graduate Center
Angela LaScala-Gruenewald | Digital projects fellow, 2024-2025, Sociology
Shima Houshyar | TLC Fellow, 2021-2023, Anthropology
User Researcher, ITHAKA
Cristine Khan | TLC Coordinator, 2019-2025, Sociology
PRODIG+ Postdoctoral Fellow, Sociology Department, SUNY Stonybrook
Kyueun Kim | TLC Fellow, 2019-2020, Theater and Performance Studies
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of English, Linguistics, and Theatre Studies, National University of Singapore
Sakina Laksimi | TLC Fellow, 2017-2021, Urban Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Urban Education, CUNY Graduate Center
Sarah Litvin | TLC Fellow, 2017-2019, History
Program Director, Jewish Heritage Travel; Museum Consultant, Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation; Researcher, Turnstile Tours & Studio
Oriana Mejías Martínez | TLC Fellow , 2023-2025, Lailac
Andrew McKinney | TLC Fellow, 2015-2017, Sociology
University Director of Research and Publishing Strategies in Open Education, CUNY Office of Library Services
Kaitlin Mondello | TLC Fellow, 2017-2018; TLC Post-Doctoral Fellow, 2018-2020, English
Visiting Assistant Professor of English, University of St. Joseph Connecticut
Louis Olander | TLC Fellow, 2017-2019, Urban Education
Director of Research and Veteran Initiatives, Disability:IN; Owner, Louis Olander Consulting LLC
Cristina Pardo Porto | TLC Fellow, 2022-2023, LAILAC
Assistant Professor of Spanish, Syracuse University
Avra Spector | TLC Fellow, 2016-2020, Comparative Literature
Program Director, Retraining Program for Immigrant Engineers (RPIE), Cooper Union
Chy Sprauve | TLC Fellow, 2021-2023, English
Assistant Professor, Black, Race and Ethnic Studies; Coordinator, Black, Race and Ethnic Studies Concentration, Department of English, Queensborough Community College, CUNY
Chandni Tariq | TLC Fellow, 2022-2024, History
PhD Candidate, History, CUNY Graduate Center
Brooke Thomas | Editorial Fellow, 2024-2025, English
Luis Henao Uribe | Humanities director,
Jeff Voss | TLC Fellow, 2023-2025, English
Katie Uva | TLC Manager of Editorial Projects, 2020-2022, History
Lecturer, Lehman College, Baruch College, & Queens College, CUNY; Research Associate, Curriculum Development, NY Public Library; Copyeditor, Urban History Association; Contractor, The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation
John Zayac | TLC Fellow, 2019-2021, Earth and Environmental Sciences
Assistant Professor, Earth Science and Geography, Vassar College
Anna Zeemont | TLC Fellow, 2020-2022, English
Assistant Professor of English and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, SUNY Buffalo State
