Who We Are
What is the Executive Committee?
The Brooklyn College PSC Chapter’s Executive Committee (EC) is a body elected by the chapter membership for three year terms. The EC consists of a Chairperson, Vice-Chairperson, Secretary, Four At-Large Officers, and Delegates and Alternative Delegates to the Delegate Assembly (DA).
According to the PSC Constitution, the Chapter EC is responsible for executing union policies, administering the business of local membership, and representing the views of the campus or specialized professional personnel.
Some EC members represent the Brooklyn College Chapter at the Delegate Assembly. The DA is the union’s central policy-making body. The DA holds open meetings each month during the academic year. The DA includes representatives from each of the chapters plus the 27 General Officers of the union who comprise its Executive Council.
Thandi Farley, Coordinator of Organizing, is the PSC staff organizer assigned to Brooklyn College. Contact info: tfarley@pscmail.org.
Meet Your Executive Committee Members for 2023-2026:
Alan Aja, Officer at Large
Professor & Chair, Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
1205 Boylan Hall
(718) 951-5561
Aja is Professor and Chair in the historic Department of Puerto Rican & Latino Studies at Brooklyn College (CUNY). His research interests include the racial wealth gap, education and labor policy, collective action and sustainability. His recent book with Dr. Michelle Holder, Afro-Latinos in the U.S. Economy (Lexington Books, 2021), is the first statistical profile on the U.S. Afro-Latinx community in the economics discipline. His previous work includes Miami's Forgotten Cubans: Race, Racialization and Local Afro-Cuban Experience (Palgrave-McMillan, 2016) and independent and collaborative pieces in the Washington Post, Boston Review, Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Education Week, the Nation, Dissent, the American Prospect and other publications. Prior to academia, Aja worked as a labor organizer in Texas. He is a frequent pick-up basketball player and a mediocre volunteer youth soccer coach.
Frans Albarillo, Delegate
Library, Room 140
(718) 758-8213
With an academic background in linguistics, Frans continues to pursue his interest in language and information. During Covid-19, Frans began to pursue surveillance and privacy studies as a lens through which to view higher education information systems, higher education data, and academic library work. Frans enjoys cats, cycling, open-water swimming, and thru-hiking.
Carolina Bank Munoz,
Professor, Sociology
James Hall 3101
x1773
Carolina Bank Muñoz's work focuses on immigration, labor, work, and Latin America. She is most recently the co-author of A People's Guide to New York City with Penny Lewis and Emily Tumpson Molina (UC Press 2022). Her previous books include Walmart in the Global South with Bridget Kenny and Antonio Stecher (University of Texas Press 2018), Building Power from Below: Chilean Workers Take on Walmart (Cornell ILR 2017) and Transnational Tortillas: Race, Gender and Shop Floor Politics in Mexico and the United States (Cornell ILR 2008), which was awarded the Terry Book prize. Her current research project looks at Black migration to Chile and the politics of national identity. Apart from scholarly endeavors, she was Chair of her union chapter at Brooklyn College and is also active with the Immigrant Student Success Office (ISSO).
Ana Djordjevic, Alternate Delegate
Adjunct Lecturer, Health and Nutrition Sciences
ana.djordjevic@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Djordjevic has been an adjunct instructor at Brooklyn College since the Fall 2020 teaching public health in the Health and Nutrition Sciences Department. Djordjevic is also a labor educator at the New York State Nurses Association, the largest RN union in New York. She is also a health justice activist working as part of the Campaign for NY Health to pass universal, guaranteed healthcare in New York and the United States. Djordjevic holds a Master’s degree in Health Policy, Planning and Financing from the joint program at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the London School of Economics. She is the editor of two iterations (2017 and 2020) of the Commonwealth Fund's International Health Profiles. Djordjevic also worked at several human rights organizations such as PEN America, Physicians for Human Rights and Human Rights Watch. She sits on the Board of Physicians for a National Health Program-NY Metro and is a proud member of the EC of the BC PSC! A native of Belgrade, former Yugoslavia, Djordjevic lives in Midwood, Brooklyn.
Joseph Entin, Chapter Co-Chair
Joseph Entin, Chapter Co-ChairProfessor, English
Boylan Hall 3107
718.951.5784
Joseph Entin teaches in the English Department and the American Studies program at Brooklyn College. He is the author of Sensational Modernism: Experimental Fiction and Photography in Thirties America (2007), Living Labor: Fiction, Film, and Precarious Work (2023), and co-editor of three other books. He has received the Claire Tow Distinguished Teacher Award, the Eric M. Steinberg College Citizenship Award, a Whiting Award for Excellence in Teaching in the Humanities, and is a co-founder of the Brooklyn College Listening Project (http://bclisteningproject.org/). He was an organizer in his graduate student labor union (Unite-HERE Local 33) and has served on the Executive Committee of the Brooklyn College chapter of the PSC for 15 years.
Maddy Fox, Delegate
James 3608
I am an Associate Professor in Children & Youth Studies, Sociology, affiliated with the Urban Ed program at the Graduate Center, and a founding member of the Public Science Project. I teach critical youth studies, soc of childhood, soc of education, participatory action research, and qualitative methods. In my work, I engage critical participatory action research with young people and communities to investigate, interrogate, and impact public policy that intersects with young people's lives. Recently we conducted a participatory action research project to develop a rezoning of seven elementary schools in a segregated corner of Brooklyn (D15 PAR Project). Before pursuing a PhD, I was a labor and community organizer. My work as an active union member at Brooklyn College is rooted in my love for CUNY, my confidence in the liberatory potential of public education, and comes from my deep commitment to participatory approaches as key to systemic transformation – nothing about us without us.
Mobina Hashmi, Chapter Co-Chair
Assistant Professor, Television, Radio & Emerging Media
Whitehead Hall 405
718.951.5000 x1961
Mobina Hashmi draws upon cultural studies, critical media studies, cultural geography, postcolonial studies, science & technology studies, and critical race studies. Hashmi’s current research focuses on cyborgs as one paradigm for new modes of citizenship as it is being articulated by countries, corporations and institutions in an increasingly interconnected and technologized global context. Hashmi is particularly interested in how the cyborg-subjects of new information and labor technologies are embodied as raced, gendered and national subjects in media representations. Teaching interests include media criticism and history, new media technologies and society, globalization and media, gender and media, race and media, cultural studies, media and national identity, and science-fiction film and television.
Lawrence Johnson, Officer at Large
Assistant Professor, Sociology
James Hall 3501
718.951.5000 x1779
lawrencej@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Lawrence Johnson joined the faculty at Brooklyn College in fall 2012. His research explores discourses of racism, particularly in relation to black elected officials. Other research interests include the intersection of sports and black masculinity. In his courses he approaches contemporary social issues from a critical position that utilize the sociological imagination and frameworks of colonialism.
Distinguished Professor, Film
WEB Building 214
718.951.5664
alexandra.juhasz@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Dr. Juhasz writes about and makes feminist, queer, fake, and AIDS documentaries. Her current work attends to fake news, poetry, online feminist pedagogy, YouTube, and other more radical uses of digital media and their archives. Her work as media artist, curator, and writer engages with linked social justice commitments, including COVID-19, AIDS, black queer and lesbian media, feminist and queer/trans film, and activist archives and collectives. She publishes about her cultural and political commitments in scholarly and more public platforms including Hyperallergic, BOMB, MS, X-tra, and Lamda Literary Review. alexandrajuhasz.com
Yana Kuchirko, Secretary
Yana Kuchirko, SecretaryAssistant Professor, Psychology
4307C James Hall
718.951.5000 x6076
yana.kuchirko@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Yana Kuchirko is Assistant Professor of Psychology at Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center. Her research focuses on socialization of children at the intersections of ethnicity/race and gender. Ongoing projects focus on understanding how parents across cultures construct ideas about and regulate children’s access to emotionally “difficult knowledge.”
Mark Lauterbach, Officer at Large
Mark Lauterbach, Officer at LargeAssociate Professor. Early Childhood/Art education
2401A James Hall
917-617-0181
I am an associate professor in the Early Childhood/Art Education department having joined the faculty in 2012. Prior to joining Brooklyn College I was the head of research and assessment for the Cooke Center for Learning and Development. I have worked in education for over 30 years, with my first 10 years as a preschool teacher. My teaching focuses on working with young children with disabilities and my latest research has focused on developing literacy programs for young people in foster care.
Derek Ludovici, Alternate Delegate
James Hall 3301 H
Derek Ludovici is an adjunct of Anthropology at Brooklyn college and a PhD candidate at the Graduate Center. He also adjuncts a class at City College. His research focuses on social movements and organizing. His dissertation (in-progress) focuses on mutual aid organizing during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Veronica Manlow, Delegate
Professor, Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship Department
Whitehead, Room 223
(917) 297-1754
I’m an Associate Professor in the newly named Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship department in the Murray Koppelman School of Business. My current research investigates luxury labor performed by artisans in ateliers and factory workers in larger brands, and considers the interactional dynamics and organizational challenges involved in luxury selling. I wrote Designing Clothes (2007/2009/2018), co-edited Global Fashion Brands: Style, Luxury, History (2014) and was a section editor of The Fashion Business Reader (2019). I was a co-editor of the Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies (2021) along with CUNY colleagues Eugenia Paulicelli (Graduate Center and Queens) and Elizabeth Wissinger (Graduate Center and Borough of Manhattan Community College) and a co-author of Crafting Luxury: Craftsmanship, Manufacture, Technology and the Retail Environment (2022). I was the guest editor of a special issue on luxury production in Design, Business & Society (2018) and I am the principal editor of the Luxury Studies journal (2022).I am one of the organizers of the international IPOL conference. I’m the academic director of Brooklyn College's Innovation + Entrepreneurship Lab which I hope will take shape in the Fall academic year to be a hub for entrepreneurship and innovation across disciplines. In Spring 2023 I won the Faculty Award for Outstanding Service to Brooklyn College.
Tanya Pollard, Alternate Delegate
Tanya Pollard, Alternate DelegateProfessor, English
Boylan Hall 3108
718.951.5000 x3644
Tanya Pollard is a scholar of Shakespeare and early modern drama. She teaches and writes on the history of bodies, emotions, science, medicine, sexuality, gender, actors, performance, and responses to Greek theater. In addition to research, writing, and teaching, she works with theater companies on productions of early modern plays. Her books include Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages (2017), which was awarded the Roland H. Bainton Literature Book Prize; Drugs and Theater in Early Modern England (2005), Shakespeare’s Theater (2004); and four co-edited essay collections. Her edition of Ben Jonson’s The Alchemist will be published by Arden Early Modern Drama (2023). She is Chair of the Council of Scholars at Theatre for a New Audience, and works with other theater companies, including the Red Bull, the Public, and the Roundabout; she has appeared in live and televised conversations with actors including Ethan Hawke, Christopher Plummer, Phylicia Rashad, James Earl Jones, Sam Waterston, F. Murray Abraham, John Douglas Thompson, and Danai Gurira, and with directors including Trevor Nunn, Greg Doran, Simon Goodwin, and Arin Arbus. Awards include a Guggenheim, a Rhodes Scholarship, an NEH Fellowship, and a Whiting Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching.
Naomi Schiller
Naomi SchillerAssociate Professor, Anthropology
James Hall 3301 H
718.951.5000 x6641
Naomi Schiller began teaching at Brooklyn College in 2014. She is an associate professor of anthropology. Schiller’s research and teaching focus on urban politics, social justice, engaged methodologies, and race and class and the United States. She is author of Channeling the State: Community Media and Popular Politics in Venezuela (Duke University Press 2018). Naomi is co-producing a handbook for anti-displacement organizers in NYC about how to manage the city’s official community engagement procedures around land-use and housing. Her current book project explores struggles over land, self-determination, and climate adaptation in the Lower East Side. Naomi joined the labor movement as a graduate worker at New York University. She has been on the BC PSC Executive Committee since 2020.
Ben Snyder, Delegate
Ben Snyder, DelegateLecturer, Film
Ben Snyder is a television producer, filmmaker, and playwright. He wrote for the Netflix series Grand Army and produced the HBO series Betty, where he served as creator Crystal Moselle’s co-showrunner. Ben has developed television for BET, Channel 4, Lionsgate Entertainment, and Warner Bros. His most recent feature film, Allswell, with Elizabeth Rodriguez, Liza Colon-Zayas, Daphne Rubin-Vega, and Bobby Cannavale won Best Screenplay at Tribeca Film Festival, 2022. His previous film, 11:55, with Julia Stiles and John Leguizamo, premiered on Showtime. Ben was the story consultant and producer for the Sundance award-winning documentary The Wolfpack. His plays have been produced at P.S. 122, The Vineyard Theater, Crossroads Theatre, The Apollo Theater, New York Stage and Film, The New York City Hip Hop Theater Festival, and at HBO’s U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. Ben's plays have been nominated for NAACP Image Awards and published in the anthology, “Say Word! Voices from Hip Hop Theater,” Michigan Press. He is a member of Labyrinth Theater Company.
Daniel Tinkelman, Officer at Large
Daniel Tinkelman, Officer at LargeProfessor, Accounting
Whitehead Hall Room 506S
Daniel.tinkelman@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Dan Tinkelman joined Brooklyn College in 2016 after working at Pace and Hofstra Universities and working in both public accounting and the marketing industry. His main body of research has been on accounting for nonprofit organizations, for which the Government and Nonprofit Section of the American Accounting Association awarded him its Enduring Lifetime Achievement award. He has written or edited two books, four chapters in scholarly books, and 36 refereed articles on topics including nonprofit accounting, nonprofit governance, valuation, accounting education, legal issues related to auditing, accounting history, graphical displays, auditing, taxation, and financial reporting. He has served as an expert witness on topics related to auditor negligence, damages, nonprofit governance, and financial disclosure. He has been a CPA in New York since 1980.
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