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Friedman School Staff Listing

  • Dana Kovacs, Education Administrator
  • Mena Majeed, Faculty Affairs Officer
  • Kate Templeton, Executive Administrative Assistant to Dean Christina Economos
  • Dana Kovacs, Education Administrator, administrative contact for Dean for Educational Programs Tim Griffin
  • Mena Majeed, Faculty Affairs Officer, administrative contact for Dean for Faculty Affairs Sara Folta
  • Susan Williams, Senior Strategic Projects Coordinator, administrative contact for Executive Administrative Dean Liz Nahar
  • Lisa Cho, Faculty Coordinator for a portfolio of faculty members
  • Courtney King, Director of Business Operations
  • Kenji Thrash-Correia, Assistant Director, Business Operations
  • Susan Williams, Senior Strategic Projects Coordinator
  • Annie DeVane, Director of Marketing and Communications
  • Sarah Cronin, Senior Communications Specialist
  • Lisa Hann, Senior Recruiting and Marketing Specialist
  • Georgia Meireles, Communications Specialist
  • Julia Appel, Senior Strategy & Planning Manager
  • Venus Israni, Assistant Dean, Diversity, and Inclusion
  • Allison McQueen, Educational Program Development Director
  • Benny Belvin, Director of Career Services
  • Lori Ioannone Rodriguez, Associate Director of Career Services
  • Samantha McGurgan, Associate Director of Career Services
  • Hannah Symons, Administrative Coordinator
  • Courtney King, Director of Business Operations
  • Kenji Thrash-Correia, Assistant Director, Business Operations
  • Ellen-Marie Bransfield, Financial Administrator
  • Seedang Simonin, Director of Sponsored Research Administration
  • Armen Barseghyan, Senior Research Administrator
  • Lauren Burchfield, Senior Research Administrator
  • Jarvis Smith, Senior Research Administrator
  • Kim Wright, Senior Research Administrator
  • Hung-Hsin Yang, Senior Research Administrator
  • Matt Hast, Assistant Dean of Student Affairs
  • Isabel McFall, Senior Administrative Coordinator
  • Marny Mitchell, Director of Admissions
  • Alexis Smith, Registrar
  • Katie Stebbins, Executive Director
  • Hallie Maly, Project Manager
  • Nicole Schultz Ninteau, Project Manager

If you would like to add your project or edit staff on this list, please contact Susan Williams in the Friedman School Business Office.

Academic Alliance for Anticipatory Action

  • Evan Easton-Calabria, Social Scientist
  • Komal Rathod, Senior Researcher
  • Carolyn Van Sant, Project Manager

ChildObesity180

  • Peter Bakun, Statistical Manager
  • Sarrah Chouiakh, Project Administrator
  • Danielle Krobath, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Travis Moore, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Katrina Sarson, Senior Program Manager
  • Daniel Schultz, Senior Program Manager
  • Shanti Sharma, Associate Director of Research and Evaluation
  • Catherine Wright, Associate Director

Feinstein International Center

  • Raphael Lotira Arasio, Fieldwork Administrator
  • Evan Easton-Calabria, Senior Researcher
  • Halina Dzesiatava, Project Manager
  • Eileen Huang, Communications Specialist
  • Elspeth Long, Project Administrator
  • Mesfin Ayele Molla, Team Leader
  • Anna Ronell, Administrative Manager
  • Fasil Yemane, Business Manager

Food is Medicine Institute and Mozaffarian Research Team

  • Dariush Mozaffarian, Director
  • Cecilia Gerard, Managing Director, Strategy and Partnerships
  • Danisha Charles, Project Manager
  • Frederick Cudhea, Statistical Programmer
  • Lizbeth Loaeza Moreno, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Julia Reedy Sharib, Project Manager
  • Patty Sheehan, Clinical Trials Director
  • Peilin Shi, Statistical Programmer
  • Orsolya Szabo, Senior Project Coordinator
  • Ashton Valdovinos, Research Assistant

Food Prices for Nutrition

  • Rachel Gilbert, Researcher
  • Alex Knueppel, Project Coordinator  

Food Systems Nutrition Innovation Lab

  • Elizabeth Marino-Costello, Senior Program Manager
  • Shaelin Cullen, Project Coordinator
  • Nour Elshabassi, Project Manager
  • Audrey Karabayinga, Data Analyst
  • Yanlin Ren, Data Analyst
  • Maha Sheikh, Communications Specialist
  • Maleeka Shrestha, Project Coordinator
  • Robin Shrestha, Associate Director
  • Jennifer Stickland, Program Administrator

HDMI: Healthy Diets Monitoring Initiative

  • Becket Harney, Project Administrator
  • Teresa Schwendler, Assistant Researcher

IMMANA: Innovative Methods and Metrics for Agriculture and Nutrition Actions

  • Becket Harney, Project Administrator
  • Alex Knueppel, Project Coordinator 
  • Elena Martinez, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Intervention, INC
  • Jennifer Furman, Project Coordinator
  • Ana Maafs, Postdoctoral Scholar

LASTING: Leading a Sustainability Transition in Nutrition

  • Shijun Gao, Postdoctoral Scholar
  • Becket Harney, Project Administrator

New Entry Sustainable Farming Program

  • Jennifer Hashley, Project Director
  • Julien Barrere, Farmer Training Sr. Program Administrator
  • Sara Davis, Food Hub Project Administrator
  • Colleen Hanley, Program Manager
  • Leah Jurman, Farm Manager
  • Caitlin Kenney, Project Coordinator
  • Emily Round, Project Administrator
  • Freddy Soza, Operations Manager
  • Eduardo Tovar Lopez, Associate Director
  • Benjamin Zoba, Farm Supervisor

NutriCare

  • Mary Kate Cohen, Project Administrator

PAST Forward

  • Jennifer Stickland, Program Administrator