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
Capstone Mentor
Email: Brian.Fleurantin05@slu3.cuny.edu
Brian is a Capstone Mentor supporting a section of the Urban Studies MA Capstone. 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.
Cody Kalina
Supplemental Instruction Leader SLU Pre-College Programs
Email: Cody.Kalina@slu.cuny.edu
Cody is the Interim 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.
Eva-Tshama Mulaja
Capstone Mentor
Email: Eva.Mulaja12@slu3.cuny.edu
Eva-Tshama constant eagerness to learn and comprehend how societies are organized has pushed her on a multidisciplinary academic and professional journey. Eva holds an MA in Urban Studies from SLU; a BA in Humanities and Social Sciences with a Major in Anthropology from the University of Strasbourg in France, and an AS in Criminal Justice. She is also pursuing a second Master’s degree, at Baruch College’s Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Eva has worked as a Cultural Research Coordinator and interned for the Kings County Supreme Court. She has also worked with isolated school-age immigrants and taught French. She currently serves as a member of the Anti-Racism Committee of a New York City Hospital. Originally from France, Eva is bilingual in French and English.
Mason Brown
Science Resources and ASRC Librarian
Email: mbrown3@gc.cuny.edu
Mason Brown is the SLU, Science Resources, and ASRC Librarian at the Graduate Center. He has a BS with a concentration in Zoo and Aquarium Science from Michigan State University, a Masters in Library Science from Simmons College, and a MS in Biology from City College of New York (CUNY). He has been working as a Librarian for over 15 years, 10 of those at CUNY. He has written on using comic books as a medium for teaching incoming freshmen the art of question asking, on effective interventions for preventing the spread of disease in vulnerable populations, and on the unique challenges of working as a librarian for a research heavy science facility. Before his library career, he worked hand feeding baby vultures, storks, and penguins at the Detroit Zoo. He has been the SLU library liaison since 2020.
Matthew Vanaman
Quantitative Reasoning Fellow
Email: mvanaman@gradcenter.cuny.edu
Matthew is pursuing his PhD in Basic and Applied Social Psychology at the CUNY Graduate Center. In his research, he studies the antecedents and consequences of moral values using a variety of quantitative and experimental techniques, with an emphasis on the role of harm-based reasoning in judgments of right or wrong. Prior to his appointment as a Quantitative Fellow, Matthew taught several statistics courses and labs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. His most recent appointment was at the CUNY Office of Undergraduate Studies, Academic Programs and Policy, where he used data analytics to assist with evaluation of remedial math and writing programs. Through the Research Foundation of CUNY, Matthew has also provided advanced statistical modeling and consultation to the Brooklyn College Department of Institutional Research and Data Analysis, with a focus on retention of transfer students. Outside of CUNY, Matthew provided data analysis services through a contract position at the New York City Workforce Professional Training Institute, which guided recommendations for policy and consultation to workforce training programs throughout the greater New York metropolitan area.
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 Consultant
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.
Tracey Wang
Writing Consultant
Email: Tracey.Wang@slu.cuny.edu
Tracey is a PhD candidate in English at the University of Virginia. She is currently writing her dissertation, focusing on contemporary Asian American novels and films. She has taught courses in composition, English literature, multiethnic American literature, and postcolonial theory. She speaks Mandarin Chinese, and has experience working with non-native English speakers. She is from Flushing, Queens.
Yousef Tehrani
Writing Consultant
Email: Daniel.Tehrani@slu.cuny.edu
Yousef Tehrani is a teacher, writer, and musician with a master’s in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL) and a bachelor’s in dance. He has been teaching and consulting with writers since 2009 and has presented at national and regional writing center conferences. His specialties are non-native and non-traditional students, blocked or anxious writers, creative process, and grammar. He writes in English and Persian and speaks Spanish and Turkish. His own creative process is an integration of dance, mountaineering, music, and language.
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