Principal Officers
President
James Davis
James Davis, Professor of English at Brooklyn College, has served as PSC President since his election in 2021. He holds elected leadership positions in the AFT, NYSUT, and the Municipal Labor Committee and chairs the PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund trustees. As the COVID-19 pandemic extended beyond year one, he led the PSC’s impact bargaining with the CUNY administration, including the struggle for a coherent vaccine policy and the rollover of unused travel funds. During his first term, the PSC revived its membership campaign and gained hundreds of new members after a pandemic-era decline. He has advocated consistently for preserving municipal retiree access to traditional Medicare and engaged PSC members in that fight. In collaboration with coalition partners in the CUNY Rising Alliance, the PSC brought new state funding into the University, including millions of dollars to hire full-time faculty, and prevented the worst of the Mayoral cuts to CUNY.
As President, he has used his platform to advocate for educational quality and accessibility, racial and economic justice, and professional respect and job security on our campuses. The union’s legislative and electoral efforts have been energized by PSC member participation during his first term. Working with the Executive Council, he coordinated an inclusive process for engaging members in every title to develop an ambitious bargaining agenda for the next contract and prepared the union’s negotiations committee for bargaining. The Campus Action Teams that animate the union’s contract campaign grew from the deliberate collaboration of Chapter Chairs and the Executive Council. He has attended chapter meetings at every senior and community college and remains committed to engaging union members as the fights continue for a just contract and a New Deal for CUNY. A devoted teacher and scholar, he has published widely on American literature and received Brooklyn College’s Excellence in Teaching Award.
First Vice President
Jennifer Gaboury
Jennifer Gaboury is a Lecturer on an adjunct conversion line in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at Hunter College. She teaches courses related to politics, gender, and sexualities and is working on a book on bathrooms, sharing intimate public space, and forging stronger commitments to public institutions. She has served on the boards of CLAGS, the Alternatives to Marriage Project, and currently sits on the steering committee for NYC Opt Out. She previously worked at Human Rights Watch.
Jen has been involved with the PSC since 2003, where she organized with the Adjunct Project and joined the Legislative Committee. She recently served as Hunter College’s Chapter Chair and as the Interim VP for Senior Colleges, in addition to serving on the Executive Council, Legislative Committee, and our Bargaining Committee.
As someone serving on a union-won adjunct conversion line, Jen is deeply committed to winning more dedicated adjunct conversion lines and expanding our “Hire From Within” campaign. She has long been involved with the CUNY Rising Alliance and looks forward to building a strong advocacy community among our largest constituency: CUNY alumni! Jen helped develop our “district captain” program, where members serve as the conduit between our elected reps and members in their city, state, and/or federal election districts; and she looks forward to growing this network. She’s been deeply involved with our state funding efforts tied to a New Deal for CUNY and is a champion of making CUNY tuition-free (again!) for in-state undergrads.
Treasurer
Felicia Wharton
Felicia Wharton has served as Treasurer of the PSC since her election in 2021 and is a Doctoral Lecturer at the Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center (BEOC), administered by the New York City College of Technology. In her years as Treasurer, she has demonstrated a commitment to accurately accounting for all union funds, coordinating budget development, ensuring compliance, and safeguarding the union’s assets. Felicia is a PSC-CUNY Welfare Fund Trustee, NYSUT Board member, AFT Civil Human Rights Committee member, and PSC Teacher Education Representative. To address issues in teacher education, Felicia, working with David Gerwin of Queens College, established the PSC Teacher Education Working Group (TEWG) to unify, support, and develop a solid teacher-educator network across CUNY. Members of TEWG have provided input in state-level discussions and comment periods, such as edTPA, and have been appointed to NYSUT committees to address various issues in education. Felicia has a long record of advocacy for the Educational Opportunity Centers (EOCs), highlighting issues faculty and staff face daily, and continues to improve the working conditions for this group of PSC members. Felicia 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.
Secretary
Andrea Vásquez
Andrea Vásquez previously served as the PSC First Vice President from 2021-2024. A Brooklyn native, Andrea attended NYC public schools and earned her BA from Hunter College. She is Associate Director at the Graduate Center’s American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning and has been active in the PSC since 2000, when she moved from an RF line into the HEO series. Before becoming First VP, she was a Delegate, then HEO Chapter Chair where she focused on building new leadership and on contract enforcement, after the PSC won the HEO Salary Differential and improvements to reclassification. As Secretary, Andrea will continue to focus on a New Deal for CUNY, increasing membership and engaging in coalition work with other unions and organizations, including the CUNY Rising Alliance.
Driven by her passion to win a just contract for all, as we also fight for the quality education our students deserve, Andrea has served on the contract negotiations team since 2010. She understands the significance of the major structural and economic advances that the PSC has won for and with members, and she is committed to securing a contract that strengthens and improves upon those victories. Andrea has spent years fighting for the best possible budgets for funding CUNY and the best possible contracts for members. Facing management at the bargaining table, building alliances with Albany legislators, speaking at PSC events and meetings, demonstrating in the streets of our city, engaging in civil disobedience, and conducting surveys are all components of our campaigns. She looks forward to continuing this work for #APeoplesCUNY, alongside PSC members.
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
Jennifer Gaboury (Hunter)
First Vice President
Andrea Vásquez (Graduate Center)
Secretary
Felicia Wharton (BEOC)
Treasurer
Rulisa Galloway-Perry (John Jay College)
David Gerwin (Queens College)
Justyna Jagielnicka (Manhattan CC)
Heather James (Manhattan CC)
University-wide Officers
Penny Lewis (SLU)
Vice President Senior Colleges
Michael Batson (College of SI)
Stuart Davis (Baruch College)
Susan Kang (John Jay College)
Senior College Officers
Kathleen Offenholley (Manhattan CC)
Vice President Community Colleges
Sharon Persinger (Bronx CC)
Emily Schnee (Kingsborough CC)
Youngmin Seo (LaGuardia CC)
Community College Officers
Lawrence Bosket (Brooklyn College)
Vice President Cross Campus Units
Zee Dempster (Grad Center)
Lucy McIntyre (Central Office)
Zeno Wood (Brooklyn College)
Cross Campus Officers
Lynne Turner (Grad Center)
Vice President Part-Time Personnel
Claudia Shacter-DeChabert (SLU)
Pamela Stemberg (CCNY/Hostos)
Laura E. Stephens (Medgar Evers)
Part-Time Personnel 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
Stuart Davis
Zee Dempster
Jennifer Gaboury
Rulisa Galloway-Perry
David Gerwin
Justyna Jagielnicka
Heather James
Susan Kang
Penny Lewis
Marva Lilly
Lucy McIntyre
Kathleen Offenholley
Sharon Persinger
Nancy Romer
Emily Schnee
Youngmin Seo
Claudia Shacter-DeChabert
Pamela Stemberg
Lynne Turner
Andrea Vásquez
Felicia Wharton
Zeno Wood
Baruch College Delegates
Camilla Torres-Castro
Stuart Davis
Donna Gitter
Safia Jama
Amitai Touval
Mark Rice
Stan Wine
Alternate Delegates
Timothy Aubry
Agnese Gangadeen
Elisabeth Gareis
Jamel Hudson
Bronx Community College Delegates
Diane Price Banks
Joseph L.V. Donica
Stephen Duncan
Carol Lang
Alternate Delegates
Tokunbo Adeshina Jr
Kevin Bozelka
William Calathes
Maria Treglia
Bronx Educational Opportunity Center Delegate
Jacqueline Corcoran
Alternate Delegate
Faouzi Abousalham
Brooklyn College Delegates
Frans Albarillo
Joseph Entin
Madeline Fox
Mobina Hashmi
Yana Kuchirko
Mark Lauterbach
Derek Ludovici
Naomi Schiller
Alternate Delegates
Ana Djordjevic
Beth Ferholt
Alexandra Juhasz
Mariana Regalado
Benjamin Snyder
Brooklyn Educational Opportunity Center Delegate
Zakia Dunson
Alternate Delegate
Shavon Munchez-Jackson
City College Delegates
Carla Cappetti
Nancy M Cardwell
Susan DiRaimo
Harold Forsythe
Carol Huang
Daniel Katch
Chad Kidd
Jasmina Sinanovic
Alternate Delegates
Philip Barnett
Joseph Davis
Luis Lopez Jr
Pamela Stemberg
College Laboratory Technicians Delegates
Pia Austria (John Jay College)
Jeanette D Batiz (Bronx CC)
Syed Amir Abdali (City College)
Pedro Irigoyen (Queensborough CC)
Torren Hope (Medgar Evers College)
Zeno Wood (Brooklyn College)
Alternate Delegates
Sanjay Jahalal
Amy Jeu
Greg Klimaytis
College of Staten Island Delegates
Jonathan Cope
Alyson Bardsley
Karen A Contreras
Valerie Forrestal
Harry Thorne
Halil E Ozen
Alternate Delegates
Christina Hagedorn
Andrew Leykam
Louis Rotondo
Richard Flanagan
CUNY Central Office Delegate
Lucy McIntyre
CUNY Law School Delegate
Kara Sheli Wallis
Graduate Center Delegates
Jessica Bal
Coline Chevrin
Patrica Cipollitti
Aliqae Geraci
Jean Grassman
Kenya Harris
Helena Najm
Alexander Pau Orejuela Soria
Forrest Pelsue
Hedda Phan
Joseph Riccio
Alternate Delegates
Elizabeth Alsop
Eliot Bates
Jean Beaman
Haoju Lu
Khouloud Mallak
Claudia Shacter-Dechabert
Guttman Community College Delegate
Kristina Baines
Alternate Delegates
Andrea Morrell
Higher Education Officers Delegates
Rulisa Galloway-Perry (John Jay)
Kevin Adams (Medgar Evers)
Takiyah Ali (Lehman)
Theoni Angelopoulos (Hunter)
Jeffrey Ballerini (Queensborough)
Allison Baptiste (Hostos)
Jaime Berco (Kingsborough)
Elbagina Bonilla (Hostos)
Lawrence Bosket (Brooklyn)
Shakia Brown (John Jay)
Billie Coleman (NYCCT)
Brendan Davey (CCNY)
Donniece Davis-Cooper (Laguardia)
Zee Dempster (Graduate Center)
Denecia Marshall (York)
John Gallagher (BMCC)
Julie Hegner (Brooklyn)
Gary Hotko (Baruch)
Justyna Jagielnicka (BMCC)
Helen Keier (John Jay)
Jennifer Lee (Graduate Center)
Thomas Lee (Queens)
Esther Llamas (Medgar Evers)
Tanit Lang Michelson (Hunter)
Terry Mares (CSI)
Dan Matte (York)
Darryl Minor (Baruch)
Mary Murphy (CSI)
Chastity Norman (NYCCT)
Keith Okrosy (Hunter)
Veronica Ordaz (Graduate Center)
Maria Patestas (KCC)
Jesus Perez (Brooklyn)
Sean Persaud (QCC)
Christina Randall (Bronx)
Anselma Rodriguez (CWE/Brooklyn College)
Gitanjali (Angie) Sadhu (Guttman)
Samina Shahidi (SLU)
Sam Sue (Law School)
Christina Teran (Queens)
Andrea Vasquez (Graduate Center)
Patience Yeboah (John Jay)
Alternate Delegates
Holly Block (CSI)
Seamus Campbell (CCNY)
Elizabeth Stevenson (NYCCT)
Gia Blackwell (BMCC)
Ariel Maguire (Brooklyn College)
Tanya Serdiuk (Medgar Evers College)
Hostos Community College Delegates
Marcella Bencivenni
Daniel Casey
Heather Deverna
Norberto Hernandez Valde
Alternate Delegates
Craig Bernardini
Felipe Pimentel
Alexandra Milsom
Hunter Campus Schools Delegate
Cristina Moore
Alternate Delegates
(one vacancy)
Hunter College Delegates
Jennifer Gaboury
Tanya Agathocleous
Sarah Chinn
Jeremy Matthew Glick
Jessica Hardie
Sándor John
Roberta Walker Kilkenny
Joseph Kilkenny
Christopher Mitchell
Renee Schaller
Christopher Stone
Alternate Delegates
Markus Bidell
John Jay College of Criminal Justice Delegates
Avram Bornstein
Holly Clarke
Jonathan Epstein
Elizabeth “Zabby” Hovey
Jayne Mooney
Corinna Mullin-Rouabah
Kenn Vance
Nataniel Wright
Alternate Delegates
Danny Kessler
Nivedita Majumdar
Christen Madrazo
Toy-Fung Tung
Gregory “Fritz” Umbach
Kingsborough Community College Delegates
Scott Cally
Arturo Enamorado III
Maria Hernandez
Ashiza Shah
Michael Spear
Alternate Delegates
Vincent Cuccia
Ivana Espinet
Rick Repetti
LaGuardia Community College Delegates
Laura Tanenbaum
Darren Barany
Hara Bastas
Thomas Cleary
Rena Grossman
Andreas Karras
Rebecca Tally
Alternate Delegates
Lara Beaty
Milena Cuellar
Kristen Gallagher
Karen Miller
Filip Stabrowski
Lehman College Delegates
Diane Auslander
Ayanna Alexander-Street
Renee Bell
David Hyman
Humberto Lizardi
Stuart Chen-Hayes
Alternate Delegates
Smee Wang
Maria T. Fernandez
Jeannette Graulau
Sarah S Ohmer
Manhattan Community College Delegates
Kathleen Offenholley
Oluremi Alapo
Anthony J. Creaco
Rebecca Garte
Anthony Gronowicz
Heather James
Hemalatha Navaratne
Andrew Smallwood
Rebecca Smart
Sharell Walker
Alternate Delegates
Lisette Acosta
Tess Bilhartz
Brian Lorio
Cara O’Connor
Diana Rikard
Manhattan Educational Opportunity Center Delegate
Karen Berry
Alternate Delegates
Latoya Cameron
Medgar Evers College Delegates
Maudry-Beverley Lashley
Fabienne Snowden
Laura E. Stephens
Alternate Delegates
Roberto A Herrera
Kay C Lashley
Joyce Roberson-Steele
New York City College of Technology Delegates
Carole Harris
Megan Behrent
Sandra Cheng
Jessica DeCoux
Angela Loguercio
Sean P MacDonald
Benjamin Heim Shepard
Sarah Ann Standing
Robert Walljasper
Alternate Delegates
Debarati Biswas
Rebecca Olerich
Christopher Swift
Delia Williams-Gunpot
Queens College Delegates
Erica Doran
David Gerwin
Jane Guskin
Teresa Hazas
Walter Lucken
Malcolm Macdougall
Kate Schnur
Anestoria Shalkowski
Annie Tummino
Alternate Delegates
Melissa Checker
Maggie Dickinson
Emily Drabinski
Jonathan Halabi
Omari Weeks
Queensborough Community College Delegates
Paul Marchese
Michael Cesarano
George Fragopoulos
Tim Keogh
Christine Mooney
Chrystelle Voigt
Alternate Delegates
Kurt Anschlowar
Mark Schiebe
Mangala Tawde
Noel Vadi
Research Foundation Central Office Delegate
Orlando Liang Chen
Research Foundation Field Units Delegates
Antonica James
Retirees Delegates
Anne Friedman
Lorraine Cohen
Jacquline DiSalvo
William Friedheim
Glenn Kissack
Cecelia McCall
Marcia Newfield
Alternate Delegates
Robert Cermele
Francine Egger-Sider
Joan Greenbaum
David Hatchett
Robert Nelson
York College Delegates
Fabiola Salek Aseff
Matthew Garley
Freya Linda Pritchard
Ian Hansen
Alternate Delegates
Jacob Apkarian
Elizabeth Meddeb
Juana Ramos
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.
Kevin Adams
Paul Bartlett
Hara Bastas
Jeanette Batiz
Michael Batson
Megan Behrent
William Bianculli
Jason Bishop
Lawrence Bosket
Barbara Bowen
Peter Bratsis
Shakia Brown
Seamus Campbell
Carla Cappetti
Robert Cermele
Sandra Cheng
Holly Clarke
Jonathan Cope
Jennifer Corby
Tim Cusack
James Davis
Stuart Davis
Susan DiRaimo
Luke Elliott-Negri
Joseph Entin
Alan Feigenberg
Harold Forsythe
Jennifer Gaboury
John Gallagher
Rulisa Galloway-Perry
Soribel Genao
David Gerwin
Carole Harris
Mobina Hashmi
Julie Hegner
Gary Hotko
Shirley Jackson
Justyna Jagielnicka
Heather James
Amy Jeu
Boyda Johnstone
Susan Kang
Timoth Kirk
Glenn Kissack
Peter Kolozi
Geoffrey Kurtz
Maudry-Beverly Lashley
Penny Lewis
Marva Lilly
Esther Llamas
Angela Loguercio
Steve London
Nivedita Majumdar
Gerald Markowitz
Charisse Marshall
Elizabeth Mazzola
Cecelia McCall
Howard Meltzer
Hillary Miller
Darryl Minor
Daniel Montiel
Cheryl Morrison
Hemalatha Navaratne
Robert Nelson
Bonnie Nelson
Marcia Newfield
Keith Okrosy
Veronica Ordaz
Sean Persaud
Sharon Persinger
John Pittman
Anselma Rodriguez
Nancy Romer
Emily Schnee
Youngmin Seo
Claudia Shacter-deChabert
Jasmina Sinanovic
Rebecca Smart
Samir Sonti
Michael Spear
Pamela Stemberg
Laura Stephens
Lynne Turner
Alia Tyner-Mullings
Sharon Utakis
Andrea Vásquez
Dominic Wetzel
Felicia Wharton
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.
Victoria Chevalier
James Davis
Nivedita Majumdar
Roxanne Shirazi
