Asma (ahs-ma) A. Neblett
Digital Portfolios Specialist
Email: digitalportfolios@slu.cuny.edu
Asma (ahs-ma) is a graduate student of the Digital Humanities Master’s program at The CUNY Graduate Center and the Digital Portfolios Specialist at SLU. She provides guidance, learning materials, and consultations for students and instructors to facilitate The Digital Portfolio Project of the SLU Learning Hub.
Brian Fleurantin
Writing Mentor
Email: Brian.Fleurantin05@slu3.cuny.edu
Brian is a Writing Mentor supporting Urban Studies MA Research Methods students. Brian has been working at Housing Works and helped his coworkers win union ratification and assisted in their first collective bargaining agreement as well. Brian graduated from SLU with a Master’s in Urban Studies along with a Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Public Administration and Public Policy in June 2021.
Britney Taylor
Writing Mentor
Britney is a Writing Mentor supporting a cohort of the Urban Studies MA Capstone. Britney earned a Bachelor’s of Arts in English from Western Washington University in 2019, and a Master’s of Arts in Urban Studies with an emphasis in Public Administration from CUNY School of Labor & Urban Studies in 2023. Britney is a lifelong disability justice organizer who holds a certificate in Disability Advocacy from the American Association of People with Disabilities. She is also a Certified Professional in Accessibility Core Competencies. Having previously worked for the New York Public Library, you’ll often find her reading or writing when off campus.
Cody Kalina
Supplemental Instruction Leader SLU Pre-College Programs
Email: Cody.Kalina@slu.cuny.edu
Cody is a Supplemental Instruction Leader for SLU’s Pre-College Programs. He is also a non-fiction writer, a visual artist, and an English instructor who has worked with a variety of students at Queens College, Columbia University, LIU Brooklyn, and Santaluces Community High School in Florida, over the last ten years. Cody holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and an M.Ed. in Educational Leadership from Florida Atlantic University.
Grace Flores-Robles
Quantitative Reasoning Fellow
Email: gfloresrobles@gradcenter.edu
Grace is the Quantitative Reasoning Fellow at SLU. She is also a doctoral candidate in psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center, where she received a Quantitative Certification and an MA in Psychology. Grace holds a BS in Psychology with minors in Biology and Statistics from the University of Texas at El Paso. She looks forward to using her advanced training in statistics to support students and faculty at the SLU Learning Hub.
Michael Rymer
Associate Director of the SLU Learning Hub
Email: Michael.Rymer@slu.cuny.edu Telephone: 646-313-8322
Michael Rymer is the Associate Director of the SLU Learning Hub. He has worked in writing centers at colleges across New York City, including Yeshiva University and Baruch College, where he served as a curriculum specialist. Michael holds an MFA in Nonfiction Writing from Sarah Lawrence College and an MA in Language and Literacy from the City College of New York. He has contributed to the Village Voice, the Los Angeles Review of Books, Writing Center Journal, WLN and other publications.
Sasha Graybosch
Writing Advisor
Email: Sasha.Graybosch@slu.cuny.edu
Sasha Graybosch is a fiction writer, essayist, writing instructor, and consultant who holds a BA in English from the University of Kansas and an MFA from New York University. Her writing has appeared in Hobart, Electric Literature, Canteen, elimae, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She’s taught courses in composition at the Fashion Institute of Technology and creative writing at NYU, and she’s also a writing consultant at the FIT and Baruch College writing centers. She enjoys supporting writers with planning and organizing for large projects, understanding assignment expectations, brainstorming, improving arguments, and refining language choices.
Victoria Cho
Writing Advisor
Email: Victoria.Cho@slu.cuny.edu
Victoria Cho is a writer and educator with experience supporting students from middle school to graduate school. She previously managed a career and college-readiness program alongside social workers, teachers, and counselors. She has helped students with a variety of learning styles and from diverse backgrounds. Victoria enjoys discussing research strategies, structure, transitions, and purpose of an assignment. Her writing can be found in Nonwhite and Woman (Woodhall Press 2022), The Offing, SmokeLong Quarterly, The Collagist, Perigee, Quarter After Eight, Word Riot, and Mosaic. She is a Kundiman Fellow and an alumna of VONA/Voices. Victoria holds an MFA from University of New Orleans and a Bachelor’s from Boston University.
L Torres
Writing Advisor
Email: lucy.torres@slu.cuny.edu
L Torres is a NYC writer, artivist and educator. L is a double CUNY alum; she holds a BA in English and MFA in Creative Writing from Queens College. An unwavering artivist, L’s writing zeroes in on gender/racial/(dis)ability/class/age/body size equitability and justice, while dismantling social conventions. L is honored to call herself a CUNY educator.
Yousef Tehrani
Supplemental Instruction Leader
Email: yousef.tehrani@slu.cuny.edu
Yousef Tehrani has been teaching and tutoring English and writing since 2009. He has a master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and has taught and tutored at Columbia University and at several colleges within the City University of New York. He is interested in the intersections between education and psychology.