Global Pomona Project Leadership & Steering Group

In accordance with the structure recommended by ACE, the two-year process will be led by a core leadership team, which began its work in September 2021, and a larger steering group representing a wide range of campus stakeholders.

The leadership team is comprised of:

• Seth Allen, vice president for strategy & dean of admissions and financial aid 
• Anne Dwyer, associate dean of the college and associate professor of German and Russian
• Manisha Goel, associate professor of economics
• Nicole Desjardins Gowdy, senior director of international and domestic programs
• Zayn Kassam, associate dean of the college and John Knox McLean Professor of Religious Studies (2021-22)
• Mark Kendall, chief communications officer
• Fernando Lozano, professor of economics and chair of the faculty

• April Mayes, associate dean of the college, professor of history, and coordinator of Latin American Studies

  (2023)

• José Rodriguez, vice president and chief information officer
• Hector Sambolin Jr., associate dean for academic affairs, academic success and assessment (2021-22)

The steering group is comprised of:

• Sefa Aina, associate dean and director of the Draper Center
• Mietek Boduszyński, associate professor of politics (2021-22)
• Paul Cahill, associate professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and faculty director of Oldenborg
• Carolina De la Rosa Bustamante, staff director of Oldenborg
• Martina Ebert, senior director, foundation relations and strategic initiatives
• Pierre Englebert, associate dean of the college and H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations and Professor of Politics (2022-23)
• Benjamin Keim, associate professor of Classics
• Daniel Martínez, professor of biology
• Jennifer Rachford, senior research and planning consultant, Office of Institutional Research
• Hazel Raja, associate dean and senior director of the Career Development Office
• Shannon Randolph, director of global social impact, The Rick and Susan Sontag Center for Collaborative Creativity
• Rosalía Romero, assistant professor of art history
• Shahan Sanossian, assistant vice president, advancement communications & events (2021-22)
• Yuqing Melanie Wu, professor of computer science (2021-22)