Executive Committee
The DSC Executive Committee, elected by and from the incoming DSC at its first plenary meeting, serves for one year commencing on July 1. The committee consists of the three Co-Chairs of the DSC, the USS representative (ex-officio, non-voting), and the UFS Liaison (ex-officio, non-voting).
The Executive Committee
- makes decisions on a day-to-day basis for the DSC as per the policies established and actions taken by the Steering Committee and the DSC and be subject to review by these bodies;
- consults and seeks the advice of the Steering Committee on the Executive Committee members' duties;
- establishes or disestablishes whatever ad-hoc committees are deemed necessary to discharge its responsibilities;
- interfaces with faculty, staff, and administration; and
- prepares agendas for Plenary and Steering Committee meetings.
For detailed responsibilities of the Executive Committee members, visit their pages below.
Co-Chair for Student Affairs
Eero Laine is a student in the Theatre Program and a member of the Film Studies Certificate Program. His research interests include theatrical violence, mediated performance, gender, and sports studies. He currently teaches in the Theatre and Film Departments at the College of Staten Island.
Co-Chair for Communications
Kimberly Libman is a doctoral candidate in the Environmental Psychology program. Her current research "Eating the City" looks at how people at perceive, navigate and use urban food environments. She also coordinates a collaboration between CUNY and London Metropolitan University that examines how global cities respond to childhood obesity. She has taught at Hunter College and currently teaches at the New School.
Co-Chair for Business
Chris Alen Sula is a doctoral candidate in philosophy and a member of the doctoral certificate program in Interactive Technology and Pedagogy. His research focuses on individual's interactions with each other and the world, including topics in metaethics, intentionality, and cognitive science, as well empirical work in moral psychology and evolutionary biology and formal models of social behavior and decision making. He is currently an adjunct lecturer at Lehman College.
USS Delegate
Jill Belli is a student in the English PhD program at the GC and an Instructional Technology Fellow at Baruch College. She is working on certificates in American Studies and Interactive Technology & Pedagogy, and her interests also center on Composition & Rhetoric and Utopian Studies.
UFS Liaison
Anick Boyd is a fourth year student in the Comparative Literature department. Her research interests include French, German and Anglophone literature, especially the modernist novel and tragedy.
