Futures Initiative Teaching Fellows and Mentors

Peer Mentoring Liaison

Thomas DeAngelis

Thomas DeAngelis is a first-year doctoral student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Thomas recently earned a B.A. in Sociology from CUNY Brooklyn College where he was both a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellow and a CUNY Pipeline Fellow. He is interested in the displacement of black people by urban renewal in New York City and Salvador, Brazil and how people organized against urban renewal. Drawing on Stuart Hall’s method of conjunctural analysis, Thomas hopes to develop a broader understanding of the political, economic, geographic, and ideological forces that allowed for urban renewal to displace black people from housing in both Salvador and New York City. More broadly, Thomas holds interests in black geographies, black radical thought, and Afro-Pessimism.

Teaching Fellows

Hilarie Ashton, English, Queens College
Ryan Donovan, Theater, Hunter College
Janey Flanagan, Urban Education/E-learning, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Esther Michelle Gabay, English, Kingsborough Community College
Maria Greene, Urban Education/Chemistry, Borough of Manhattan Community College
Richard Lissemore, Speech, Language, Hearing Science, Lehman College
Evan Misshula, Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Irene Morrison-Moncure, Classics, Hunter College
Rachel Oppenheimer, Urban Education/High-School Equivalency, La Guardia Community College
Natalie Oshukany, Music, City College
Danica Savonick, English, Queens College
Hallie Scott, Art History, Brooklyn College

Graduate Leaders

Hilarie Ashton, GC, English
Rachel Oppenheimer, GC, MALS and LaGuardia CC
Natalie Oshukany, GC, Music

Undergraduate Mentors

Nancy Acosta, Lehman College
Curtis Appiah, City College
Luvenia Aucapina, Queens College
Christina Billotto, Kingsborough CC
Rivka Bondar, Kingsborough CC
Nick Calabro, John Jay College
Orri Cohen, Brooklyn College
Francisca Eghan, City College
Tova Engel, Queens College
Yvenalie Gardere, City College
Sarah Gavartin, Hunter College
Ayomide Gbadamosi, Kingsborough CC
Luis Gonzalez, Kingsborough CC
Gabriella Grimes, Hunter College
Hurriya Hassan, Queens College
Nadette Haywood, Lehman College
Caitlin Higgins, Lehman College
Fariha Khan, Hunter College
Nayab Khan, Hunter College
Kseniya Kravtsova, Hunter College
Yakov Leonov, John Jay College
Michelle Mack, Lehman College
Isamar Martinez, Lehman College
Wadgma Masab, Queens College
Neelrup Mitra, City College
Baker Mohammed, City College
Allan Muchnik, John Jay College
Kyra Ong, Hunter College
Maria Osorio, Brooklyn College
Jhanil Peralta, Lehman College
Clarissa Pichardo, Lehman College
Rachel Pressberg, Brooklyn College
Chava Suionov, Queens College
Sharene Vaughn, Lehman College
Biao Wang, John Jay College
Bingqian Zhang, John Jay College