ACT-UAW LOCAL 7902 ELECTED OFFICERS & STAFF
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Jaclyn Lovell
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Jaclyn Lovell, President
Jaclyn Lovell teaches writing at Parsons and the Center for English Language Studies. Editor in Chief at LIT (2009-2014) and Printed Matter Editor for Boog City (2016-2017), creative writing is central to her life both in and outside the classroom. Wisconsin-born, she can still catch frogs with her bare hands and continues to smile on her subway commute from Brooklyn. When she’s not grading essays, she’s defending Part-Time Faculty rights as a New School union rep, officiating weddings for close friends and family, and singing anywhere she can. |
Gordon Beeferman
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Gordon Beeferman, First Vice President
Gordon Beeferman is a composer, pianist/organist, and writer, whose operas, chamber and orchestral music, avant-jazz, and collaborations with choreographers, writers, and other artists have been performed in New York and internationally. He has taught at NYU’s College of Arts and Sciences Department of Music since 2019, and been active in Local 7902 as a steward, organizer, and now 1st Vice President. His mother, a professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies, co-founded the union at her college more than 40 years ago, and he is proud to carry on the family tradition of building worker power against wealthy corporate bureaucrats! |
Jack Condie
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Jack Condie, Recording Secretary
Jack is a PhD student in the Philosophy Department at the New School for Social Research. Whilst his main interests are in Ancient Philosophy and Aesthetics, he has a long history of being involved in political communications and communications strategy. He has managed social media for the Mayor of Annapolis, and for SENS UAW helping develop a coherent communications strategy for both. He has a BA in Liberal Arts from the Great Books program at St. John’s College in Annapolis, Maryland (2020) and an MA from The New School for Social Research in Philosophy (2023). He’s passionate about creating strategy at the local level to unite our local’s various units across campuses and build solidarity amongst the higher education sector in this critical juncture in our industry. His personal website can be found: here |
Bahareh Ebne Alian
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Bahareh Ebne Alian, Financial Secretary-Treasurer
Bahareh Ebne Alian holds a PhD in Sociology from the New School for Social Research. |
Lee-Sean Huang
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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
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Dianca London Potts, Guide
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Anika Sharma
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Anika Sharma, Trustee
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 Palmer
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David Palmer, New York University Unit Chair
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. |
Annie Larson
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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. |
Elijah Blanton
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Elijah Blanton, SENS Unit Chair
Elijah is a second year PhD student in the department of economics, where he researches deindustrialization and labor market segmentation. Elijah has been engaged in labor, student, and community organizing for more than a decade. |
Donna Freeman-Tweed
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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. |
JOINT COUNCIL
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NYU Joint Council
Alex Arakelian Alexander King Andy Eicher Anthony Freire Ayana Evans Barry Greenhut Caroline Werner Cate Fallon Charles Gelman Diti Almog Elizabeth Benninger Erin Heiser ANONYMOUS Hunter Hanson Irina Rich Langer Jason Tomme Jean Campbell Jeff Stark Jess Haskins Joan Greenberg John King John Santoro Judith Sloan Kathy Bishop Lauren Petty Leila Buck Linn Cary Mehta Liza Featherstone Marguerite Lukes Mark Johnson Mary Helen Kolisnyk Megan Goldman Petri Melisa Annis ANONYMOUS Olatunde Olusesi Riley Dunbar Robert Ausch Sharon Vatsky Sue Zizza |
New School Part Time Faculty Joint Council
Alan McGowan Andrea Katz Beata Szpura Christopher Nazzaro Darcy Rothbard Elizabeth Marner-Brooks Elizabeth Torres Em Joseph Fields Harrington Heidi Gelover Ivan A. Eguigure Jerzy Gwiazdowski Jessica Marshall Jocelyn Casey-Whiteman Julian Guthrie Keren Kori Shavit Lizzie Olesker ANONYMOUS Mark Armstrong Mary Barto Matt Browning ANONYMOUS Paula Stuttman Rafael Mutis Garcia Rebecca Nison Shane Selzer Shea Dean Shireen Soliman Warren Spielberg |
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SENS Joint Council
Cameron Williams Danielle Twiss Gant Roberson John L. Black Josephine Baker Karthik Manickam Kirti Varma Madhav Tipu Ramachandran Maryam Mushtaq Matthew Zavislan Sawyer Mifsud Stefan Gehrman |
SHENS Joint Council
William Groth |
ELECTED STEWARDS
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NYU
Charles Gelman Andy Eicher David Palmer Gordon Beeferman Judith Sloan Melisa Annis Marie Buck Hunter Hanson Erin Heiser Greg Myers Jason Tomme Sue Zizza |
The New School
Douglas Morse Alan McGowan Alison McNulty Mary Barto Stanley Dorn Julian Guthrie Jamerry Kim Anya Kurennaya Christopher Nazzaro |
COMMITTEES
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Special Election Committee — TBA
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STAFF
Cheryl Coles
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Cheryl Coles, Office Administrator
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Alexander King
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Alexander King, Data Analyst
Alexander King is a game designer, analyst and teaching artist based in Brooklyn. His work centers on data-driven design and simulation, and his work has been featured in festivals like ALT.CTRL.GDC and IndieCade. Alexander is an adjunct professor at both NYU and The New School, where he teaches classes on game design and complex systems (and spreadsheets). Before working in games, Alexander was an analytics consultant working in finance and ecommerce, but the economies he models now are usually fictional. He has a BA in Economic History from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA in Game Design from the NYU Game Center. He's been a member of the Joint Council representing the NYU Unit since 2023, and in 2024 was appointed to role of data analyst for ACT-UAW 7902. |
Josh Bartman
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Josh Bartman, Database Administrator
The Database Administrator will maintain and expand our newly developed database system, managing the deployment pipeline, data security, and continuing development to support union needs. Josh Bartman has led this development over the past nine months and will continue that work in this new role. Josh is a member of UAW Local 4121 and has been providing software solutions for various applications over the past six years. |
Brian Allen
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Brian Allen, 7902 Union 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. |
Julia Geiger
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Julia Geiger, 7902 Union Organizer
Julia Geiger (she/they) is a staff organizer with ACT-UAW Local 7902. Julia's current areas of focus include contract enforcement and member engagement and education. Prior to joining Local 7902, Julia was the chair of A Better NYLAG, a chapter within UAW Local 2325, the Association of Legal Aid Attorneys; she also represented clients in immigration court and in immigration appeals. Julia holds a BA from Harvard College and a JD from Yale Law School. |
Annie Levin
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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. |
Molly Ragan
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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. |
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Union Representatives
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NYU Reps
Judy Polyne Caroline Werner Robert Ausch Gerasimos Karavitis Melisa Annis Riley Dunbar SENS Reps Elijah Blanton (Unit Chair) |
The New School Part-Time Faculty Reps
Annie Larson (Unit Chair) Doug Morse Ivan Eguigure Azure Osborne-Lee Paula Stuttman Nora Heilmann SHENS Reps Lupe Larez Bill Groth Yasmin Mohabbat |