Previous PLDA Cohorts - Office of Organizational Leadership

2024-2025 Cohort

Ryan Earp
Plant Biology

Sophia Fox-Dichter
Planning and Public Policy

Sandra George
Political Science

Leah Hopson
Marine and Coastal Sciences

Maria Ibrahim
Molecular Biosciences

Alejandro Andreas Jaume Losa
Spanish and Portuguese

Prakash Kandel
Public Policy and Administration

Shrinivas Nandi
Microbial Biology

José Ramírez-Garofalo
Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources

Diana Sánchez (she/her/ella)
Spanish and Portuguese

Urvi Shukla
Public Affairs and Administration

Kaitlyn Snyder
Kinesiology and Applied Physiology

Helen Stott
Developmental Biology

Yadiel Varela Soler
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering

2023-2024 Cohort

Ashley Codner
English

Gabriela Rodica Constantin-Dureci
Spanish and Portuguese

Zachary Finkel
Biomedical Engineering

Bryce Hammer
Classics

Aslam Kakar
Global Affairs

Yanan Li
Public Policy and Administration

Jessica Martinez
Chemistry

Hajar Owji
Pharmaceutics

Ariela Parisi
Spanish and Portuguese

Levben Parsons
Earth and Planetary Sciences

Harmony Patel
Health Informatics

Rebecca Risman
Biomedical Engineering

Shawn Rumrill
Chemistry and Chemical Biology

Marius Rusu
Italian

Rudrani Sarma
English

Talia Seymore
Toxicology

Jiawei Shao
Spanish and Portuguese

Muhammad Zulqarnain
Electrical and Computer Engineering

2022-2023 Cohort

Matthew Ackerman
Library and
Information Science

Julie Aromi
Library and
Information Science

Anthony Azari
Criminal Justice

Alice Benishyaka
Global Affairs

Marissa Caldwell
Communication

Aishwarya (Aish) Deshpande
Microbial Biology

Anna Fateeva
Cellular and Molecular Pharmacology

Zakiyah Henry
Toxicology

Alison Hight
History

Tianhao (Theo) Liu
Management (Economics Concentration)

Candace Longoria
Kinesiology and Health

Katherine (Kate) Lubina
Epidemiology

Farzana Afrose Lubna
Plant Biology

Anais Mahone
Social Work

Denise Mercado
Anthropology

Pedro Ivo Monico
Earth & Environmental Sciences

Bria Paige
English

Tatevik Yolyan
Linguistics

2021-2022 Cohort

Jorlanditha Austin
Communication

Vijay Chillar
Criminal Justice

Elena Chung
Center for Computational and Integrative Biology—Chemistry

Sylvester Cruz
English

Kevinn Eddy
Cellular & Molecular Pharmacology / Pharm – Chemical Biology

Kaylee Fernandez
Bilingualism &
Second Language Acquisition

Sonal Gahlawat
Biomedical Engineering

Giuseppe Grispino
Italian

Endia Hayes
Sociology

Kendall Hill
Psychiatric Rehabilitation, Counselor Education & Supervision

Mina Khavandi
French

Lauren Nolan
Planning & Public Policy

Charlotte Olsen
Physics & Astronomy

Kelly Roberts
Literatures in English

Elizabeth Rosenzweig
Quantitative Biomedicine

Gabrielle Rossi
Public Administration

Paolo Scartoni
Italian

Sarah Skubel
Plant Biology, Natural Products & Human Health

Batoul Taki
Electrical & Computer Engineering Department

Andrea Tsentides
Accounting

Stephanie Tubiolo
Choral Conducting

Tsung-Chi Wu
Physics & Astronomy

Corrine Yap
Mathematics

May Yuan
Clinical Psychology

2020-2021 Cohort

Alicia Codrington Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation	Michael Conteh Global Affairs	Rudrani Gangopadhyay Comparative Literature
Nazia Habib Multidisciplinary PhD Program In Biomedical Sciences	Samuel Hontz Music	Hanjin Mao Public Administration
Rebecca McGinn Classics	Alysse Moldawer Anthropology	Shilpaa Mukundan Biomedical Engineering
Ivy Munoko Accounting/AIS	Christopher Oakden Linguistics	Raymond Ortiz Public Administration
Rebecca Pena Global Affairs	Oren Rabinowitz Plant Biology	Josephine Shenouda Epidemiology
Alketa Stefa Multidisciplinary PhD Program In Biomedical Sciences	Rachel Strow Economics	Mi Hyun Yoon American Studies

2019-2020 Cohort

Vrushank Bhatt Microbiology and Molecular Genetics	Henry Boachi Communication	Hannah Dewald Infection, Immunity, and Inflammation
Eva Erber German	Christiane Fischer German	Nathaniel Flores Philosophy
Raffaella Fusco Italian Language and Literature	Marina Gerguez Stem Cell and Cancer/Medicine-Hematology/Oncology	William Jonsson Nutritional Sciences
Amanda Kaplan Sociology	Sean Karyczak Psychiatric Rehabilitation	Kristen Krause Social and Behavioral Health Sciences
Hazel Mitchley Linguistics	Tim Morris English	Maria Elizabeth Rodriguez-Beltran Comparative Literature
Enriqueta Somarriba Music	Chloe Wawrzyniak (Urbanski) Mathematics	Robert Young Chemistry and Chemical Biology

2018-2019 Cohort

Yoliem S. Miranda Alarcón Biomedical Engineering	Stephanie Brescia Higher Education	Tyler Carson Women and Gender Studies
Tahiya Chowdhury Electrical and Computer Engineering	Geoffrey Clarke Economics	Andrew Dieterich Neuroscience
Michelle Doose Epidemiology	Stephanie Fong Plant Biology	Andrea Gaytan Cuesta Spanish and Portuguese
Siqing “Erica” He Education	Morgan Kandrac Food Science	Julio Lopez Spanish and Portuguese
Jennifer McGee-Avila Nursing	Sandra Medina Spanish and Portuguese	Emily Rosado-Soloman Human Resource Management
Jordan Steiner Social Work	Tashanna Walker Geography

2016-2018 Cohort

Alyssa Coltrain English	Haruki Eda Sociology	Sara Elnakib Public Health
Noopur Gosavi Food Science	Danielle Hatchimonji Clinical Psychology	Maria Hernandez French
Ecaterina Locoman Political Science	Cristina Lozano Spanish and Portuguese	Enmanuel Martinez Comparative Literature
Christoph Mergerson Communication, Information and Library Studies	Dilafruz Nazarova Political Science	Kevin Sigerman English
Phillip Vines Plant Breeding and Genomics	Anja Vojvodic Political Science

2015-2017 Cohort

Beatrice Adams History	Ender Arserim Food Science	Amelia Duffy-Tumasz Geography
Sebastian Espinoza Chemical and Biochemical Engineering	Da Fei Planning and Public Policy	Ivelisse Irizarray Plant Biology
Senem Kaptan Anthropology	Benjamin Kinsella Spanish	Brandon Mauclair-Augustin Education
Ruby Evalyne Kerubo Orwenyo Social Work	Matthew Putnins Biomedical Engineering	Zhichao Song Neuroscience
Sheryse Taylor Toxicology	Crystal Marull Spanish and Portuguese

2014-2016 Cohort

Jesse Bayker History	Allison Bloom Anthropology	Kevin Clay Educational Theory, Organization, and Policy
Deirdre Dougherty Education	Sara Duncan Environmental Sciences	Steve Garwood EdD GSE Design in Learning Environments
Shawn Gonzalez German & Comparative Literature	Victoria Gregorio Planning and Public Policy	J.S. Karthikeyan Food Engineering
Melissa Murphy Nutritional Sciences	Antoinette Nelson Biomedical Engineering	Katie Orlemanski Anthropology
Silvia Perez-Cortes Bilingualism & Second Language Acquisition	Nafisa Tanjeem Women’s & Gender Studies

2013-2015 Cohort

Portia Allen-Kyle Sociology	Crystal Bedley Sociology	Kevin Crouse Educational Theory, Organization, and Policy
Allison Faig Chemistry & Chemical Biology	Ralph Gigliotti Organizational Communication	Roberta Hunter Learning Sciences, GSE
Luis Leyva Mathematics Education	Lake Mathison Bilingualism/Second Language Acquisition	Etienne Meunier Sociology, Sexuality
Aline Ramires Physics & Astronomy	Ammy Santiago Pharmacology & Physiology, Neuroscience	Lutisha Vickerie Organizational Management
Sarah Wolfson Environmental Sciences	(Shelley) Yi-Jung Wu Department of Educational Theory, Policy, & Administration (ETPA)

2012-2014 Cohort

Scott Barnard Classics	Kyle Caler Social Work	Shankar Chandramowli Planning & Public Policy
Christine Goldthwaite Communication, Information & Library Studies	Anneliese Haines Education	Samantha Lee Plant Biology
Christopher Manente Education	Mary Manning Art History	Sofia Pinto Education
Maria Qadri Biomedical Engineering	Alicia Raia Sociology	Surabhi Sahay Communication, Information & Library Studies
	Charlene Sharpe Geography

2011-2013 Cohort

Tara Coleman Comparative Literature	Deniz Daser Anthropology	Maria Dwyer Communication, Information & Library Studies
Arianna Fognani Italian	Bradley Forenza Social Work	Brittany Graf Plant Biology
Hasan Johnson Social Work	Omotayo Jolaosho Anthropology	Kelly Lovejoy Spanish and Portuguese
Jose Maldonado Ugaz Food Science	Vukosi Marivate Computer Science	Michelle Marano (Ouimet) Chemistry
Nicole Shea Education	Monica Vroman Computer Science