Principal Officers | Executive Council | Delegate Assembly
Principal Officers
President
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James Davis served as Chapter Chair at Brooklyn College from 2015 to 2021, where he is professor of English. He was elected to the PSC Executive Council in 2018 as Senior College Officer and served on the Bargaining Committee. A longtime PSC activist, he was drawn to organizing with students and colleagues 17 years ago to prevent tuition hikes and military recruitment on campus. He has helped to wage successful chapter campaigns for health and safety, academic freedom, union membership, adjunct equity, anti-racism and cross-title solidarity. With the PSC, he has led lobbying teams in Albany and demonstrations in the streets, represented the union in public hearings and helped to negotiate the implementation of the full-time faculty teaching-load reduction. He currently holds an elected position on the American Association of University Professors National Council. Prior to his Brooklyn College appointment, James spent four years adjuncting at NYC-area colleges and two years in a tenure-line position at a community college. A devoted teacher and scholar, he has published widely on American literature and is a recipient of the Excellence in Teaching Award from Brooklyn College.
First Vice President
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Andrea Vásquez is First Vice President of the PSC. For over fifteen years, she has worked to organize HEOs across CUNY and to reconstitute the Graduate Center PSC chapter. Andrea has served on the PSC Executive Council for several terms and, in the last two rounds of bargaining, on the negotiations committee, where she helped defend past gains and win new demands for all members, including improvements to HEO reclassification and a new HEO salary differential. She is a leader in the legislation work of the PSC and spearheads the union’s coalition work with CUNY Rising Alliance and with other unions and community groups in revenue coalitions. Andrea was instrumental in the creation of the New Deal for CUNY legislation that was filed in early 2021 and she is responsible for the campaign to pass and implement the bill among PSC members and in the legislature. Andrea supports the work of members in several PSC committees and also works with adjunct liaisons to build membership and meet the needs of CUNY adjunct faculty. In her regular job, Andrea is associate director of the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and managing director of the Graduate Center’s New Media Lab. She works with a team of producers and historians to create classroom documentaries and U.S. history web resources. In addition to supporting the work of Graduate Center students who use digital technologies in their academic research, Andrea’s own recent work is directing the ongoing CUNY Digital History Archive project.
Treasurer
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Felicia Wharton is a doctoral lecturer at the Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center (BEOC) and has taught mathematics at New York City College of Technology (NYCCT). In 2014, she became the chapter chair of the BEOC and served on the PSC finance committee. Felicia is an active advocate for the Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs), ensuring that EOCs maintain wage and benefit parity with CUNY employees in similar titles, and as chair has established a strong relationship with the NYCCT PSC chapter, as NYCCT is the administering college of the BEOC. She is a CUNY graduate with a PhD in urban education from the Graduate Center, a master’s in pure mathematics from Hunter College, and recently a master’s in higher education administration from Baruch College. Her research focuses on the issues and challenges teachers and students encounter in teaching and learning mathematics in adult education programs. Her work has been published in “Coteaching in International Contexts: An examination of Ten Years of Research and Practice and Transforming Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively.”
Secretary
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Penny Lewis is Associate Professor of Labor Studies at the CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies, and was Vice President for Senior Colleges for the PSC from 2018 to 2021. She received her doctorate at the Graduate Center and has worked at CUNY since, including as a graduate fellow at John Jay, adjunct at Queens, teacher at the Hunter Campus Schools, and instructor at Borough of Manhattan Community College. A PSC activist since grad school, Penny has been on the Executive Council since 2009, Co-Chair of the Solidarity Committee, Labor-Management Chair and on the Bargaining Committee. She has helped lead numerous campaigns over the years, such as successful efforts to win in-state tuition for undocumented students, local campus reductions in class size and pay equity raises, and efforts to help the PSC and other New York unions prepare for the Janus decision. She writes about social movements, and is co-editor of the forthcoming Immigration Matters: Visions, Strategies and Movements for a Progressive Future (The New Press, 2021) and coauthor of the forthcoming A People’s Guide to New York City (University of California Press, 2021). Penny is excited to be part of a strong team to secure past gains and bring us closer to a just and equitable CUNY for workers and students alike.
Executive Council
The Executive Council (“the EC”), the union’s 27-member leadership group, is responsible for making policy recommendations to the DA. The EC includes the four principal officers listed above and the 23 people listed here. They are elected directly by the entire membership or the constituency they represent and have overall executive responsibility for the union. EC members serve three-year terms.
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James Davis (Brooklyn College) Andrea Vásquez (Graduate Center) Felicia Wharton (BEOC) Penny Lewis (School of Labor and Urban Studies) David Hatchett (Medgar Evers) Sharon Utakis (Bronx CC) Rosa Squillacote (Hunter College) Iris DeLutro (Queens College) Angel Martinez (Bronx CC) Lawrence Bosket (Brooklyn College) Myrlene Dieudonne (NYC College of Technology) Michael Batson (College of Staten Island) Geoffrey Kurtz (Manhattan CC) Marva Lilly (John Jay/ Retired) |
Delegate Assembly
The Delegate Assembly (“the DA”) is the union’s central policy-making body The DA holds open meetings at the union hall each month during the academic year. The DA is comprised of representatives from each of the chapters plus the 27 General Officers of the union who comprise its Executive Council.
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Delegates PSC Executive Council Members Michael Batson Lawrence Bosket James Davis Iris Delutro Myrlene Dieudonne Luke Elliott-Negri Jennifer Gaboury David Hatchett Amy Jeu Susan Kang Geoffrey Kurtz Penny Lewis Marva Lilly Angel Martinez Howard Meltzer Sharon Persinger Nancy Romer George Emilio Sanchez Emily Schnee Youngmin Seo Pamela Stemberg Rosa Squillacote Lynne Turner Sharon Utakis Andrea Ades Vásquez Felicia Wharton Janet Winter Baruch College Alternate Delegates Bronx Community College Alternate Delegates Brooklyn College Mobina Hashmi Alternate Delegates Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center City College Alternate Delegates College Laboratory Technicians Alternate Delegates College of Staten Island Alternate Delegates CUNY Central Office Graduate Center Alternate Delegates Guttman-NCC Alternate Delegate Higher Education Officers HEO Alternate Delegates Hostos Community College |
Alternate Delegates (Hostos) Melvin Huffnagle Olga Steinberg Hunter Campus Schools Alternate Delegates Hunter College Alternate Delegates John Jay College of Criminal Justice Alternate Delegates Kingsborough Community College Alternate Delegates LaGuardia Community College Alternate Delegates Lehman College Alternate Delegates Manhattan Community College Alternate Delegates Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center Alternate Delegate Medgar Evers College New York City College of Technology Alternate Delegates Queens College Alternate Delegate Queensborough Community College Alternate Delegates Research Foundation Research Foundation Field Units Retirees Alternate Delegates York College Alternate Delegate
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