ELECTED OFFICERS & STAFF
Elected Officers 2023-2026
Zoe Carey, President
Zoe Carey has taught courses on technology & inequality, social theory, and design at Eugene Lang College and Parsons. She was a founding member of the Student Employees at the New School and served on the bargaining committee that won their first contract. Zoe is writing a dissertation about data-driven policing technologies, expertise, and accountability in the Sociology Department at NSSR. Unions can plan an important role in countering the corporate direction of higher education, and Zoe is proud to have helped ACT-UAW's two founding units - NYU Adjuncts and TNS Part-Time Faculty - renegotiate landmark contracts in 2022. |
Jaclyn Lovell, First Vice President
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Colette Mazzucelli, Second Vice President
Colette Mazzucelli is a member of the NYU New York graduate facility in International Relations (Faculty of Arts and Science) and Global Affairs (School of Professional Studies) who served as the First President (Academia), Global Listening Centre, 2020-22. The Founder and Principal of LEAD IMPACT Reconciliation Institute Inc,. she is editor of the Anthem Press Ethics of Personal Data Collection Series. She was part of the Organizing Committee for the NYU Unit in 2022 and the Workers in Unity slate in the 2023 election campaign. |
Darrel Alejandro Holnes, Recording Secretary
Darrel Alejandro Holnes is an Afro-Panamanian American Writer. His plays have received productions or readings at the Kennedy Center for the Arts, American College Theater Festival (KCACTF), The Brick Theater, Kitchen Theater Company, Pregones Theater/PRTT, Primary Stages and elsewhere. He is a member of the Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Civilians R&D group, Page 73's Interstate Writers Workshop, and other groups. He is the founder of the Greater Good Commission and Festival, a festival of Latinx short plays. He is an assistant professor of English at Medgar Evers College (CUNY), where he teaching creative writing and playwriting, and a faculty member of the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at New York University. |
Lee-Sean Huang, Sergeant at Arms
Lee-Sean Huang is a Taiwanese American design practitioner, educator, and community builder based in Providence and New York City. He splits his time between serving as the Director of Design Content and Learning at AIGA, the largest professional association for design in the United States, teaching at the Parsons School of Design and the School of Visual Arts, and running Foossa, the service design and strategy consultancy that he co-founded. He previously founded the design practice at Purpose, a consultancy that builds and supports movements to advance the fight for an open, just, and habitable world. |
Dianca London Potts, Guide
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Trustees for the Executive Board of ACT-UAW Local 7902
Anika Sharma Anika Sharma is a recognized Global Digital Expert and Organic Growth Leader. She has over 20 years of Digital, Brand Management and Consumer Marketing experience, and was recognized as a Rising Star by both Ogilvy North America and Grey Worldwide. Anika is a regular speaker at companies like Google, Bing, and Lenovo as well as at several US universities, including NYU Stern. |
David Vinjamuri
David Vinjamuri is an adjunct Associate Professor of Marketing at NYU where he teaches graduate students and is also President of ThirdWay Inc., whose clients over the last 19 years include over sixty public libraries plus American Express, Marriott, The U.S. Army, Navy and Commerce Department. David is the author of Library Space Planning: A PLA Guide (ALA, 2019), Accidental Branding: How Ordinary People Build Extraordinary Brands (Wiley, 2008) and two novels. In his corporate career, David worked as a brand manager and new products director for Johnson & Johnson and also worked in marketing at Coca-Cola and DoubleClick. He previously worked as a corporate financial analyst at Citigroup. |
Tiffany Johnson
Tiffany Johnson has 15+ years strategic data and technology experience in advertising and consulting, working with Fortune 100 companies such as IBM, Samsung, Nissan, Yum Brands, Clorox and others. She believes in continually challenging how we think about data, how we collect data, and how that data can help businesses stay innovative. |
Annie Larson, New School Part-Time Faculty Unit Chair
Annie Larson is a knitwear designer, educator, and PTF Unit Chair for ACT-UAW Local 7902. She teaches Machine Knitting in Parsons School of Fashion at The New School and has a made-to-order sweater label called ALL Knitwear. Annie lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. |
David Palmer, New York University Unit Chair Adjuncts Unit of ACT-UAW Local 7902
David Palmer is a writing and humanities educator, grant writer, queer historian, and NYU Unit Chair. At NYU, he teaches in Liberal Studies and the Opportunity Program, where he also tutors. David also teaches in the First-Year Writing program at Eugene Lang College. David believes the union is a vessel for democratic participation and is committed to implementing structures that center the members. He believes members are the highest authority and seeks to elevate their voices and maximize inclusion. |
SENS Unit Chair
Donna Freeman-Tweed, SHENS Unit Chair
Donna Freeman-Tweed is a patient-centered, culturally sensitive physician assistant with 22 years of experience in public and private health settings. She believes in empowering patients to be active participants in their health and wellness through access to accurate medical information and advice. She is also an impassioned advocate of education and access to the best standards of medical care for everyone. |
New School Part Time Faculty Joint Council
Alan McGowan
Ariel Goldberg
Beata Szpura
Charles Goldman
Christopher Nazzaro
Douglas Morse
Elizabeth Marner-Brooks
Heidi Gelover
Ivan A. Eguigure
Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman
Joseph Ayers
Matt Browning
Matthew Spiegelman
Mimi Maxmen
Natalia Zubko
Nora Heilmann
Oliver Kellhammer
Shireen Soliman
William L. Phipps
Mary Barto
Lizzie Olesker
Alan McGowan
Ariel Goldberg
Beata Szpura
Charles Goldman
Christopher Nazzaro
Douglas Morse
Elizabeth Marner-Brooks
Heidi Gelover
Ivan A. Eguigure
Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman
Joseph Ayers
Matt Browning
Matthew Spiegelman
Mimi Maxmen
Natalia Zubko
Nora Heilmann
Oliver Kellhammer
Shireen Soliman
William L. Phipps
Mary Barto
Lizzie Olesker
NYU Joint Council
Judith Sloan
Shoshana Sussman
Sarah Dohrmann
Dafna Naphtali
Ayana Evans
Kathy Bishop
Gordon Beeferman
Moya Luckett
Olatunde Olusesi
Irina Rich Langer
Caroline Werner
John King
Jess Haskins
Jason Tomme
Diti Almog
Charles Gelman
Sharon Vatsky
Anthony Freire
Alexa Forosty
Andy Eicher
Robert Ausch
Riley Dunbar
Alex Arakelian
Alexander King
Liza Featherstone
Cate Fallon
Scott Burkhardt
Jeff Stark
Mary Helen Kolisnyk
Robert Ellis
John Santoro
Mark Johnson
Judith Sloan
Shoshana Sussman
Sarah Dohrmann
Dafna Naphtali
Ayana Evans
Kathy Bishop
Gordon Beeferman
Moya Luckett
Olatunde Olusesi
Irina Rich Langer
Caroline Werner
John King
Jess Haskins
Jason Tomme
Diti Almog
Charles Gelman
Sharon Vatsky
Anthony Freire
Alexa Forosty
Andy Eicher
Robert Ausch
Riley Dunbar
Alex Arakelian
Alexander King
Liza Featherstone
Cate Fallon
Scott Burkhardt
Jeff Stark
Mary Helen Kolisnyk
Robert Ellis
John Santoro
Mark Johnson
SENS Joint Council
Madhav Tipu Ramachandran
Forrest Deacon
Josephine D. Baker
Hoyeon Lee
NYU Elected Stewards
Colette Mazzucelli
Anthony Friere
Charles Gelman
Andy Eicher
David Palmer
Gordon Beeferman
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Judith Sloan
Melisa Annis
Colette Mazzucelli
Anthony Friere
Charles Gelman
Andy Eicher
David Palmer
Gordon Beeferman
Darrel Alejandro Holnes
Judith Sloan
Melisa Annis
The New School Stewards
Douglas Morse
Alan McGowan
Alison McNulty
Mary Barto
Douglas Morse
Alan McGowan
Alison McNulty
Mary Barto
ACT-UAW Local 7902 — Election Committee Members — 2023
Patrick Ciasch
Piersa Cvetkovski
Joe Gilford
Cagla Orpen
Paula Stuttman – Chair
ACT-UAW Local 7902 — Special Election Committee Members — 2024 TBA
Patrick Ciasch
Piersa Cvetkovski
Joe Gilford
Cagla Orpen
Paula Stuttman – Chair
ACT-UAW Local 7902 — Special Election Committee Members — 2024 TBA
STAFF
Brian Allen, NYU Organizer
Brian Allen (he/him) is an organizer with ACT-UAW. His areas of focus are collective bargaining campaigns and existing membership organizing with healthcare workers at The New School and adjunct faculty at New York University. Brian graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.S. in Public Policy from The Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University and is in his final year of study at The City University of New York School of Law in the Evening J.D. Program. Brian formerly interned for the United Campus Workers of Georgia-CWA Local 3265, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys-UAW Local 2325 and the Industrial Division of CWA. In addition to labor rights, Brian is passionate about environmental justice in southern Appalachia and confronting voter disenfranchisement in his home state of Georgia. When he can find a reprieve from the ongoing class struggle, Brian enjoys fishing the East River while pondering the social production of space near his home in Astoria, Queens. Cheryl Coles, Office Administrator |
Annie Levin, UAW Union Organizer
Annie Levin (she/her) is a staff organizer at ACT-UAW where she focuses on external organizing, membership activities, and contract campaigns, as well as media strategy and political coalition building. Annie holds a Masters Degree in Liberal Studies from The New School for Social Research as well as an MFA in Fiction from Hunter College. As an MFA student at Hunter, Annie was awarded a Hertog Fellowship to act as research assistant to novelist Francine Prose. After completing her education, Annie taught writing and literature at New York University, Hunter College, and Fordham University as an adjunct instructor. In 2018, Annie moved from teaching to political organizing and journalism. She volunteered extensively for progressive candidates for elected office, especially those endorsed by Democratic Socialists of America. At the same time, she began writing and publishing work on the intersections between labor, culture, the arts, and politics. Her essays and reporting can be found in Observer, Jacobin, and Current Affairs, among other publications. In addition to her work within Local 7902, Annie is also a founding member of Sing in Solidarity, the choir of New York City Democratic Socialists of America. The choir helps build community through song by teaching labor songs and songs of revolution. The choir uses music to build solidarity with other Leftist social movements across all forms of difference created, exacerbated, or exploited under capitalism. Annie is a proud daughter of Brooklyn, New York where she resides with her husband and an unwieldy number of books. |
Dan Echikson, Organizer
Dan Echikson (he/him) is an organizer with our ACT-UAW Local 7902. His areas of focus include new organizing, contract bargaining, grievance processing, and internal organizing with student workers and part-time faculty at The New School. Dan holds a degree in History and Computer Science from Columbia University, where as a teaching assistant in the Computer Science department, he helped organize SWC-UAW, the union of student workers at Columbia. Dan has worked for the UAW since graduating college in 2017. When he isn’t having an organizing conversation or plotting out a union grievance, you might find Dan cycling on a bike path somewhere in Brooklyn, where he resides. |
Molly Ragan, UAW Union Organizer
Molly Ragan (she/they) is a staff organizer with Local 7902, part-time faculty in Parsons’ School of Design Strategies, member of the AAUP-TNS leadership council, a former SENS rep, and a Parsons alum. Molly leads organizing for Part-Time Faculty and the New Student Workers Union, and is also focused on building a broad coalition of students and workers at The New School. While currently centered around The New School, Molly’s approach to organizing leverages emergent strategy and community-centered design to empower workers at scale. Molly holds a BA with Honors in Political Science from the University of Arizona (2016) and an MS with Departmental Honors in Strategic Design & Management at Parsons School of Design (2022). She is currently pursuing an Advanced Certificate in Workplace Democracy and Community Ownership at CUNY’s School of Labor and Urban Studies (2024). Molly’s work with the UAW is just one piece of a larger practice aimed at catalyzing economic transition and realizing post-capitalist futures. In addition to labor organizing, Molly teaches post-capitalist business design at Parsons, bridges the worker power gap with the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives’ Union Co-op Council, and generally challenges the dominant landscapes of power wherever she goes. When not confronting capitalist norms, Molly enjoys springtime blooms, bouldering, and building community in her neighborhood in Queens. |