Principal Officers
President
James Davis
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
Andrea Vásquez
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
Felicia Wharton
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
Penny Lewis
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.
James Davis (Brooklyn College)
President
Andrea Vásquez (Graduate Center)
First Vice President
Felicia Wharton (BEOC)
Treasurer
Penny Lewis (School of Labor and Urban Studies)
Secretary
David Hatchett (Medgar Evers)
Vice President
Senior Colleges
Sharon Utakis (Bronx CC)
Vice President
Community Colleges
Larry Bosket (Brooklyn College)
Vice President
Cross Campus Units
Lynne Turner (Graduate Center)
Vice President
Part-Time Personnel
Angel Martinez (Bronx CC)
Claudia Shacter-DeChabert (Graduate Center)
Pamela Stemberg (CCNY/Hostos)
Part-Time Personnel Officers
Luke Elliott-Negri (Graduate Center)
Jennifer Gaboury (Hunter College)
Sharon Persinger (Bronx CC)
Youngmin Seo (LaGuardia CC))
University-wide Officers
Amy Jeu (Hunter College)
Lucy McIntyre (Central Office)
Janet Winter (John Jay College)
Cross Campus Officers
Michael Batson (College of Staten Island)
Susan Kang (John Jay College)
George Emilio Sanchez (College of Staten Island)
Senior College Officers
Geoffrey Kurtz (Manhattan CC)
Howard Meltzer (Manhattan CC)
Emily Schnee (Kingsborough CC)
Community College Officers
Marva Lilly (John Jay/ Retired)
Nancy Romer (Brooklyn College/Retired)
Retiree Officers
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.
Click here for DA minutes.
PSC Executive Council Member Delegates
Michael Batson
Lawrence Bosket
James Davis
Luke Elliott-Negri
Jennifer Gaboury
David Hatchett
Amy Jeu
Susan Kang
Geoffrey Kurtz
Penny Lewis
Marva Lilly
Angel Martinez
Lucy McIntyre
Howard Meltzer
Sharon Persinger
Nancy Romer
George Emilio Sanchez
Emily Schnee
Youngmin Seo
Claudia Shacter-DeChabert
Pamela Stemberg
Lynne Turner
Sharon Utakis
Andrea Ades Vásquez
Felicia Wharton
Janet Winter
Baruch College Delegates
Stuart Davis
Neil V Hernandez
Maria L Plochocki
Mark Rice
Evan Gill Smith
Amitai Touval
Stan Wine
Alternate Delegates
Debra Caplan
Karanja Keita Carroll
Jean Gaffney
Elisabeth Gareis
Elisabeth L Wollman
Bronx Community College Delegates
Peter Kolozi
Diane Price Banks
Joseph L.V. Donica
Stephen Duncan
Carol Lang
Marianne Pita
Alternate Delegates
Evangelia Antonakos
Kevin Bozelka
Andrea Ortuno
Crystal Rodriguez
Brooklyn College Delegates
Carolina Bank Muñoz
Joseph Entin
Madeline Fox
Mobina Hashmi
Alex Juhasz
Veronica Manlow
Ben Snyder
Alternate Delegates
Frans Albarillo
Ana Djordjevic
Derek Ludovici
Tanya Pollard
Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center Delegate
Vacant
City College Delegates
Nancy M Cardwell
Robert Balun
Philip Barnett
Susan DiRaimo
Harold Forsythe
Carol Huang
Itzhak (Itzik) Mano
Pamela Stemberg
Alternate Delegates
Joseph Davis
Carla Cappetti
David Rumschitzki
Harold Aram Veeser
College Laboratory Technicians Delegates
Jeanette D Batiz (Bronx CC)
Syed Amir Abdali (City College)
Sharif Elhakem (Lehman College)
Habib Girgis (Lehman College)
Orit D Gruber (CSI)
Pedro Irigoyen (Queensborough CC)
Alternate Delegates
Edward Coppola (Brooklyn College)
George Giannopoulos (Queens College)
Michael Irgang (Brooklyn College)
Persio Pereyra (Bronx CC)
College of Staten Island Delegates
George Sanchez
Alyson Bardsley
Jonathan Cope
Catherine Lavender
Michael Paris
Ruth Powers Silverberg
Eleni (Nelly) Tournaki
Alternate Delegates
Megan Caldwell
Robert Grosso
Christina Hagedorn
John Lawrence
Tara Mateik
CUNY Central Office Delegate
Lucy McIntyre
Graduate Center Delegates
Zoe Hu
Sofya Aptekar
Giacomo Bianchino
Nicholas Devlin
Hanna Goldberg
Jean Grassman
Jeremy Kane
Ella Merriwether
Alycia Sellie
Claudia Shacter-deChabert
Alternate Delegates
Kenya Harris
Marc Kagan
Leslie McCall
Evan Rothman
Yzza Sedrati
Alexander Pau Orejuela Soria
Guttman Community College Delegate
Kristina Baines
Higher Education Officers Delegates
Rulisa Galloway-Perry, (John Jay)
Michele Doney, (Baruch)
Daryl Minor, (Baruch)
John Gallagher, (BMCC)
Justyna Jagielnicka, (BMCC)
Christina Randall, (Bronx CC)
Jesus Perez, (Brooklyn)
Anselma Rodriguez, (Brooklyn)
Jennifer Harrington, (City)
Geniece Pacifici-Elijalde, (City)
Warren Orange, (City)
Cynthia Bink, (City Tech)
Chastity Norman, (City Tech)
Phillipe Marius, (CSI)
Mary Murphy, (CSI)
Alexander Romeo, (CSI)
Zee Dempster, (Grad Ctr)
Maureen Lamar, (Grad Ctr/SLU)
Jennifer Lee, (Grad Ctr/SPS)
Isela Lopez, (Grad Ctr/ASRC)
Gerry Martini, (Grad Ctr)
Nancy Silverman, (Grad Ctr)
Andrea Vasquez, (Grad Ctr)
Allison Baptiste (Hostos CC)
Christina Freeman, (Hunter)
Keith Okrosy, (Hunter)
Shakia Brown, (John Jay)
Janet Winter, (John Jay)
Maria Patestas, (Kingsborough CC)
Peter Santiago, (Kingsborough CC)
Kate Wayler, (Kingsborough CC)
Donniece Davis-Cooper, (LaGuardia CC)
Renee Freeman-Butler, (LaGuardia CC)
Karlene Johnson, (Lehman)
Mark Miller, (Lehman)
Kevin Adams, (Medgar Evers)
Esther Llamas, (Medgar Evers)
Sam Sue, (Law School)
Jeffrey Ballerini, (Queensborough CC)
Victoria O’Shea, (Queensborough CC)
Cheryl Morrison, (York)
Alternate Delegates
Julie Hegner (Brooklyn)
Cheryl Walker, (Bronx CC)
Laurie Aguirre, (City Tech)
Terry Mares, (CSI)
Andrew Bennett, (Guttman CC)
Elbagena Bonilla, (Hostos CC)
Takiyah Ali (Lehman)
Cristina Teran, (Queens)
Dan Matte, (York)
Hostos Community College Delegates
Craig Bernardini
Marcella Bencivenni
Daniel Casey
Felipe Pimentel
Alternate Delegates
Olga Steinberg
Hunter Campus Schools Delegate
Cristina Moore
Alternate Delegates
Vacant
Hunter College Delegates
Jennifer Gaboury
Tanya Agathocleous
Markus Bidell
Michael Berube
Sarah Chinn
Tim Cusick
Thomas DeGloma
Peter Dudek
Sándor John
Jack Kenigsberg
Roberta Walker Kilkenny
Christopher Stone
Alternate Delegates
Jeremy Matthew Glick
Stuart Kaufer
Stephanie Margolin
Christopher Mitchell
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Delegates
Elizabeth “Zabby” Hovey
Holly Clarke
Jonathan Epstein
Nivedita Majumdar
Gerald “Jerry” Markowitz
Jayne Mooney
Corinna Mullin
John Pittman
Sandra Swenson
Kenn Vance
Alternate Delegates
Paul Bartlett
Genevieve LaForge
Christen Madrazo
Roger Szajngarten
Toy-Fung Tung
Kingsborough Community College Delegates
Scott Cally
Vincent Cuccia
Maria Hernandez
Rick Repetti
Michael Rosson
Michael Spear
Alternate Delegates
Tamara Bellomo
Kwame Nyanin
Ashiza Shah
LaGuardia Community College Delegates
Laura Tanenbaum
Hara Bastas
Lara Beaty
Thomas Cleary
Carrie Conners
Sarah Ellen Durand
Paul Fess
Andreas Karras
Alternate Delegates
Charlene Bryant
Dahlia Elsayed
Kristen Gallagher
Karen Miller
Lehman College Delegates
David Manier
Ayanna Alexander-Street
Diane Auslander
Eleanor T. Campbell
Stuart Chen-Hayes
Robert Farrell
Dana Fenton
Ruth Wangerin
Alternate Delegates
Maria T. Fernandez (Mariposa)
Sheila W. Hankin
Humberto Lizardi
Mary Phillips
Luis R. Vega
Manhattan Community College Delegates
Kathleen Offenholley
Anthony J. Creaco
Shawn Grant
Anthony Gronowicz
Will Craig Hutchison
Boyda Johnstone
Hemalatha Navaratne
Owen Roberts
Andrew Smallwood
Rebecca Smart
Sharell Walker
Alternate Delegates
Melissa Butler-Haughton
Lane Glisson
Heather James
Siobhan Mcbride
Remysell Salas
Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center Delegate
Karen Berry
Alternate Delegates
Latoya Cameron
Medgar Evers College Delegates
Maudry-Beverley Lashley
Alma Sanchez
Laura E. Stephens
Alternate Delegates
Jimoh Abdulhakeem
Todd Craig
Hollie Jones
New York City College of Technology Delegates
Carole Harris
Katie Albany
Megan Behrent
Colleen Birchett
Sandra Cheng
Kyle A.Cuordileone
Angela Loguercio
Sean MacDonald
Annie Ngana-Mundeke
Benjamin Heim Shepard
Sarah Standing
Alternate Delegates
Gwen Cohen Brown
Jessica DeCoux
Lise Hunter
Jinwon Kim
Ryan McMillen
Rebecca Olerich
Christopher Swift
Queens College Delegates
Karen Weingarten
Melissa Checker
Erica Doran
Soribel Genao
Julie George
David Gerwin
Jane Guskin
Oded Nir
Kate Schnur
Annie Tummino
Alternate Delegates
Jacqui Cornetta
Miles Grier
Tracy Hazas
Ted Kesler
Natalie Bump Vena
Christopher John Williams
Queensborough Community College Delegates
Philip Pecorino
Adrian Bordoni
Julian Stark
Alternate Delegates
Vacant
Research Foundation Delegate
Charles Chaung
Research Foundation Field Units Delegates
Antonica James
Retirees Delegates
Anne Friedman
Robert Cermele
Jacqueline DiSalvo
William Friedheim
Cecelia McCall
Eileen Moran
Marcia Newfield
Alternate Delegates
Joan Greenbaum
Glenn Kissack
Diane Menna
Robert Nelson
Blanca Vazquez
York College Delegates
Ian Hansen
Fabiola Salek Aseff
Shirley Jackson
Freya Linda Pritchard
Charles Snyder
Alternate Delegates
Gila Acker
Matthew Garley
Esther Debbie Louis
Daniel C Robie
Zohra Saad
AFT/NYSUT DELEGATES
The American Federation of Teachers (AFT) and New York State United Teachers (NYSUT) are our national and state affiliates. The PSC sends delegates to the AFT bi-annual national conventions (held in even-numbered years) and the annual NYSUT Representative Assembly.
Anthony Andrews, Jr.
Robert Balun
Hara Bastas
Jeanette Batiz
Michael Batson
Cynthia Bink
Lawrence Bosket
Barbara Bowen
Robert Cermele
Arthur Chitty
Lorraine Cohen
Lizette Colón
Jonathan Cope
James Davis
Stuart Davis
Iris Delutro
Susan Diraimo
Jacqueline Disalvo
Jacqueline Elliott
Luke Elliott-Negri
Michael Fabricant
Robert Farrell
Margaret Feeley
Beth Ferholt
Jennifer Gaboury
John Gallagher
Rulisa Galloway-Perry
Soribel Genao
David Gerwin
Joan Greenbaum
Anthony Gronowicz
Orit Gruber
Jane Guskin
Jennifer Harrington
David Hatchett
Carol Huang
Justyna Jagielnicka
Amy Jeu
Karlene Johnson
Marc Kagan
Susan Kang
Geoffrey Kurtz
Steve LebersteinPenny Lewis
Marva Lilly
Steve London
Nivedita Majumdar
Gerald Markowitz
Angel Martinez
A. Gerald Martini
Elizabeth Mazzola
Howard Meltzer
Franklin Mirer
Joyce Moorman
Corinna Mullin
Sonia Murrow
J. Paul Narkunas
Hemalatha Navaratne
Immanuel Ness
Marcia Newfield
Keith Okrosy
Daliz Perez-Cabezas
Sharon Persinger
Marianne Pita
John Pittman
Anselma Rodriguez
Nancy Romer
George Sanchez
Emily Schnee
Youngmin Seo
Ian Singleton
Michael Spear
Rosa Squillacote
Pamela Stemberg
Christopher Swift
Joanna Thompson
Garland Max Thorn
Lynne Turner
Alia Tyner-Mullings
Sharon Utakis
Andrea Vásquez
Ruth Wangerin
Dominic Wetzel
Felicia Wharton
Stanley Wine
Janet Winter
AAUP DELEGATES
The PSC is also affiliated with the American Association of University Professors (AAUP). It has four delegates to the AAUP annual meeting.
Lorraine Cohen
James Davis
Laroi Lawton
Nivedita Majumdar
