Workshop Alumni Advisory Board

Workshop Alumni Advisory Board

Members of HWW's alumni advisory board consult with the HWW PI and staff on future workshop designs and other programming.

Alumni Advisory Board (2023)

  • Meghan Forbes (HWW 2015) (University of Michigan), freelance writer, translator, editor, and curator 
  • Blanca Garcia-Barron (HWW 2019) (University of Texas, El Paso), Library Technician at Mt. San Jacinto Community College in Riverside County, California and MLIS graduate student at San José State University
  • Nushelle de Silva  (HWW 2021) (PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History and Music at Fordham University  
  • Sara B.T. Thiel (HWW 2016) (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Associate Editor for Built In's Expert Contributor Network
  • Sebastian Williams (HWW 2019) (PhD, Purdue University), Assistant Professor of English at Davis & Elkins College

Alumni Advisory Board (2022)

  • Kei Hotoda (HWW 2015) (PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago), Philosophy department program coordinator, University of Illinois at Chicago
  • Andrew Boge (HWW 2021) (University of Iowa), Graduate Assistant, Humanities for the Public Good, doctoral student and graduate teaching assistant at the University of Iowa in the Department of Communication Studies
  • Jamil Jorge  (HWW 2018) (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Program Coordinator, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  • John Moore (HWW 2016) (PhD, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Communications Specialist in the Humanities and Social Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis
  • Maureen Owens (HWW 2018), Account Manager at Carnegie

 Alumni Advisory Board (2021)

  • Lisa Betty (HWW 2019) (Forham University), PhD Candidate in History
  • Jallicia Jolly (HWW 2016) (PhD, University of Michigan), Visiting Assistant Professor in American and Black Studies at Amherst College
  • Jamil Jorge  (HWW 2018) (PhD, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), Program Coordinator, Naval Undersea Warfare Center
  • Yuko Nakamura (HWW 2017) (PhD, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee), User Experience Researcher, Google
  • Kantara Souffrant (HWW 2015) (PhD, Northwestern University), Assistant Professor of Art History at Illinois State University, Curator at the Milwaukee Art Museum