Contacts
Academic Affairs

Elena Cabral
Assistant Dean of Academic Programs and Communications

Jane Eisner
Director of Academic Affairs
Debra Jackson
Executive Assistant, Academic Affairs

Laura Muha
Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs
Mindy Myers
Program Manager, Academic Centers

Winnie O'Kelley
Dean of Academic Affairs; Professor of Professional Practice
Expertise: Business & Economics

Jonathan Soma
Director, The Lede Program
Admission & Financial Aid

Tarin Almanzar
Associate Dean, Admissions and Financial Aid

David Hooker
Coordinator, Admissions and Financial Aid

Edwin Isaac
Associate Director, Financial Aid and Admissions
Ross Yelsey
Assistant Director, Admissions
Alumni & Development

Abigail Bedrick
Assistant Director of Development

Melissa Dassori
Major Gifts Officer
Brandon Glosser
Executive Assistant

Cynthia Helton
Director of Development

Janine Jaquet
Associate Dean, Alumni & Development, Strategy and Professional Programs
Brown Institute

Mark Hansen
Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute for Media Innovation & Professor of Journalism
Michael Krisch
Deputy Director
Career Development

Gina Boubion
Director

Julie Hartenstein
Associate Dean

Jake Holzman
Program Coordinator

Lauren Mack
Program Manager
Columbia Journalism Review
Brendan Fitzgerald
Associate Editor

Iris C. Lee
Finance & Operations Manager
Betsy Morais
Managing Editor

Kyle Pope
Editor-in-Chief and Publisher
Columbia Publishing Course

Shaye Areheart
Director of the Publishing Course and Professional Programs
Emma Skeels
Assistant Director, Columbia Publishing Course
Dart Center

Kate Black
Associate Director

Bruce Shapiro
Executive Director, Dart Center for Journalism and Trauma and Senior Advisor for Academic Affairs
Ira A. Lipman Center

Dolores Barclay
Administrative Manager, Ira A. Lipman Center

Jelani Cobb
Director, Ira A. Lipman Center
Knight Bagehot

Robert Smith
Director, Knight-Bagehot Fellowship in Business and Economics Journalism
Expertise: Business & Economics
Library
Kristina Williams
Journalism and Government Information Librarian
Office of the Dean

Steve Coll
Dean & Henry R. Luce Professor of Journalism
Chris Cook
Executive Assistant to the Dean (Temporary)
Professional Prizes

Lisa R. Cohen
Director, duPont/Professional Prizes; Adjunct Associate Professor
Melanie Marich
Program Administrator, Professional Prizes

Abi Wright
Executive Director
Professional Programs

Corey Ford
Director, Sulzberger Executive Leadership Program

Janine Jaquet
Associate Dean, Alumni & Development, Strategy and Professional Programs

Kate Kennedy
Assistant Director
Room & Studio Rentals

Jim Bittel
Director, Broadcast and Multimedia Technology

Julie Pozo-Cepeda
Associate Director, Events
Student Life

John Haskins
Dean of Student Life

Melanie Huff
Senior Associate Dean of Student Life

Chanel J Roche
Associate Director of Student Life
Tow Center
Jonathan Albright
Director, Digital Forensics Initiative

Emily Bell
Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Leonard Tow Professor of Journalism
Pri Bengani
Computational Journalism Fellow

Pete Brown
Senior Research Fellow
Katie Johnson
Program Manager

Dhrumil Mehta
Deputy Director, Tow Center for Digital Journalism; Associate Professor in Data Journalism
Sara Rafsky
Senior Research Fellow
sr3617@columbia.edu
Nushin Rashidian
Lead Research Fellow, Platforms and Publishers
George Tsiveriotis
Senior Research Fellow