Meet the Team - UCSC Institute for Social Transformation

Institute Staff

Katharyne Mitchell

Dean of Social Sciences
Professor of Sociology

831-459-2919
kmitch@ucsc.edu

Chris Benner

Director
Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology

530-574-7585
cbenner@ucsc.edu

Susan Grasso

Research Coordinator

831-459-5991
sgrasso@ucsc.edu

Evin Knight

Director of Operations

831-459-1266
eck@ucsc.edu

Darío León

Research and Community Coordinator

831-459-5985
dariol@ucsc.edu

Joni White

Director of Events,
Division of Social Sciences

831-502-7758
joni@ucsc.edu

Andrea Limas

Asst. Director of Communications,
Division of Social Sciences

831-459-7050
alimas@ucsc.edu

David Shaw

Right Livelihood College Coordinator
Ph.D. student in Environmental Studies

daveshaw@ucsc.edu

Katherine Quinteros

Chancellor’s Graduate Intern
Building Belonging Through Researcher-Practitioner Collaboration

Melanie Mak

Chancellor’s Undergraduate Intern (CUIP)
Marketing, Communications, Website, & Video Editing

Kora Fortun

Website Intern

Executive Board

Eva C. Bertram

Associate Professor of Politics

ebertram@ucsc.edu

James Doucet-Battle

Assistant Professor of Sociology

jbattle@ucsc.edu

Robert W. Fairlie

Professor of Economics

rfairlie@ucsc.edu

Sylvanna M. Falcón

Associate Professor of Latin American & Latino Studies

smfalcon@ucsc.edu

Lars Fehren‑Schmitz

Associate Professor of Anthropology

lfehrens@ucsc.edu

Jennifer A. González

Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture

jag@ucsc.edu

Sikina Jinnah

Associate Professor of Environmental Studies

sjinnah@ucsc.edu

Sri Kurniawan

Professor of Computational Media

skurnia@ucsc.edu

Adriana Manago

Assistant Professor of Psychology

amanago@ucsc.edu

Marc Matera

Associate Professor of History

mmatera@ucsc.edu

Eduardo Mosqueda

Associate Professor of Education

mosqueda@ucsc.edu

Enrico Ramirez‑Ruiz

Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics

raruiz@ucsc.edu

Visiting Research Fellows & Scholars

Ingrid Behrsin

Research Fellow

ibehrsin@ucsc.edu

Cheryl Holzmeyer

Research Fellow

cholzmey@ucsc.edu

Gina Ziervogel

Visiting Scholar

gziervog@ucsc.edu