Dear colleague,
We completed our union elections on Monday, and I am pleased to introduce the excellent team that has been elected to lead our union into the coming year. Please join me in congratulating all the new and ongoing members of the university-wide Executive Council and TA/GA Steering Committee and our chapter leadership on each campus.
Those elected to these bodies will help us face current and new challenges, with management using the pandemic as an opportunity to continue its attacks on our contract and our members’ working conditions and rights. Even as we defend the current one, we begin the process of building for a strong contract in Spring 2022. In both the short and long term, we must confront management’s agenda of layoffs and austerity with a people-centered alternative that models the public university of the 21st century that we aspire to create.
Our union is in a fight for all workers and students at Rutgers, and that means we need to strengthen our ties to our sibling unions in the Coalition of Rutgers Unions. Our successes depend on them, and theirs on us. We also rely on the support of the communities in which Rutgers is based, and we likewise champion their struggles for justice as our own.
I want to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of you for your confidence in our union in this critical time and for your willingness to stand up for what is right. We have a fight ahead of us this fall and in the coming year, but together, we can win.
Here are the results by campus:
Camden
Chapter Officers
President – Jim Brown, English and Communication
Vice President – Jamie Dunaev, Psychology
Secretary-Treasurer – John Powell, Paul Robeson Library
Chapter Executive Committee
Tim Knievel, Political Science
Nidhi Sheth, Computational and Integrative Biology
Katie Anderson, Paul Robeson Library
Bart Everts, Paul Robeson Library
Executive Council Representatives
Haydee Herrera-Guzman, Mathematical Sciences
Patrice Mareschal, Public Policy and Administration
TA/GA Steering Committee Representatives
Camden representative: Sarah DiGiorgis, Public Policy and Administration
At-large representative (university-wide seat): Ihsan Al-Zouabi, Criminal Justice, Newark
New Brunswick
Chapter Officers
President – Carla Katz, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Vice President – Will Brucher, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Secretary-Treasurer – Donna Murch, History
Chapter Executive Committee
Chris Hayes, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Andres Morera, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry
Althea Pestine-Stevens, School of Social Work
Todd Vachon, Labor Studies and Employment Relations
Executive Council Representatives
Nikol Alexander-Floyd, Women and Gender Studies
Omar Dewachi, Anthropology
Lilia Fernandez, History/Latino and Caribbean Studies
Kenneth Sebastian Leon, Latino and Caribbean Studies
Trip McCrossin, Philosophy
Paul O’Keefe, Geography
Andrew Urban, American Studies
TA/GA Steering Committee Representatives
New Brunswick representative: David Tate, English and Communication
At-large representative (university-wide seat): Ihsan Al-Zouabi, Criminal Justice, Newark
Newark
Chapter Officers
President – Kathleen Farley, Biological Sciences
Vice President – Paul Boxer, Psychology
Secretary-Treasurer – Rebecca Kunkel, Law Library
Chapter Executive Committee
James Pope, Law School
Manu Chander, English
Michelle Gittelman, Business School
Mi Hyun Yoon, American Studies
Executive Council Representatives
Angela Lawrence, Dana Library
Audrey Truschke, History
TA/GA Steering Committee Representatives
Newark representative: Miguel Diaz, Center for Molecular and Behavioral Neuroscience
Newark representative: Katherine Lloyd, Chemistry
At-large representative (university-wide seat): Ihsan Al-Zouabi, Criminal Justice, Newark
In solidarity,
Todd Wolfson, President, Rutgers AAUP-AFT
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