01 / President
NiCole Buchanan
Professor, Psychology
Faculty elected
Leadership team
UTSF’s leaders and representatives bring faculty voices from across disciplines into one democratic organization.
We fight for you
Executive Council
UTSF’s elected officers lead the union’s democratic work and remain accountable to its members.
02 / Vice President
Zachary Kaiser
Associate Professor, Art, Art History and Design
03 / Secretary
Julie Libarkin
Professor, Earth and Environmental Sciences
04 / Treasurer
Musaib Ashraf
Associate Professor, Accounting & Information Systems
Important oversight
At-Large Executive Board Members
At-large members bring broad faculty perspectives and independent oversight to the Executive Board.
01 / At-Large Board Member
Satish Joshi
Professor, Agriculture & Natural Resources
02 / At-Large Board Member
Marc Breedlove
Professor, College of Natural Science
03 / At-Large Board Member
Andaluna Borcila
Associate Professor, James Madison College
Across campus
Association representatives
Your local UTSF connections—also called Area or Assembly Representatives.
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Agricultural, Food, and Resource EconomicsVacant
Animal ScienceVacant
Biosystems & Agricultural EngineeringVacant
Community SustainabilityJessica Toombs
EntomologyRufus Isaacs
Fisheries and WildlifeVacant
Food Science and Human NutritionKatherine Alaimo
ForestryVacant
HorticultureCourtney Hollender
Plant, Soil and Microbial SciencesEric Patterson
School of PackagingVacant
School of Planning, Design & ConstructionDeyanira Nevárez Martínez
College of Arts and Letters
African & African American StudiesVacant
Art, Art History, and DesignBen Van Dyke
EnglishKaveh Askari · Kristin Mahoney
Linguistics, Languages & CulturesBrian Buccola
PhilosophyVacant
Religious StudiesJon Keune
Romance & Classical StudiesValentina Denzel
TheatreVacant
Writing, Rhetoric & American CulturesLiza Potts
College of Communication Arts & Sciences
Advertising and Public RelationsNancy Rhodes
CommunicationAllison Eden
Communicative Sciences & DisordersThea Knowles
Media & InformationJean Hardy
School of JournalismVacant
College of Education
Counseling, Educational Psychology & Special EducationMichael Lachney
Educational AdministrationVacant
KinesiologyVacant
Teacher EducationVacant — 2 positions
College of Engineering
Biomedical EngineeringVacant
Chemical Engineering & Materials ScienceVacant
Civil & Environmental EngineeringVacant
Computer Science and EngineeringVacant
Electrical & Computer EngineeringVacant
Mechanical EngineeringVacant
College of Human Medicine
Epidemiology & BiostatisticsCandice Johnson
Family MedicineVacant
MedicineVacant
Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive BiologyJose Teixeira
Pediatrics & Human DevelopmentMichael Williams
Pharmacology & ToxicologyMaria do Carmo Pereira da Costa
Public Health (C.S. Mott Department)Dick Sadler
RadiologyChunqi Qian
SurgeryVacant
Translational NeuroscienceCaryl Sortwell
College of Law
LawQuinn Yeargain
College of Music
MusicCara Stroud · Jane Bunnell
College of Natural Science
Biochemistry & Molecular BiologyJosh Vermaas
ChemistryRobert Maleczka
Computational Mathematics, Science and EngineeringVacant
Earth and Environmental SciencesJay Zarnetske
Integrative BiologyHeather Eisthen
MathematicsCasim Abbas
Microbiology, Genetics & ImmunologyVacant
Physics & AstronomyMegan Donahue
PhysiologyVacant
Plant BiologyLauren Sullivan
Statistics & ProbabilityVacant
College of Nursing
NursingVacant
College of Social Science
AnthropologyChantal Tetreault
EconomicsBen Bushong
Geography, Environment & Spatial SciencesVacant
HistoryNaoko Wake · Ronen Steinberg
Human Development & Family StudiesLori Skibbe
School of Human Resources & Labor RelationsMichelle Kaminski
Political ScienceVacant
PsychologyBlair Burnette
School of Criminal JusticeJoe Hamm
School of Social WorkSacha Klein
SociologyNing Hsieh
College of Veterinary Medicine
Large Animal Clinical SciencesVacant
Pathobiology & Diagnostic InvestigationVacant
Small Animal Clinical SciencesVacant
Eli Broad College of Business
Accounting & Information SystemsMichelle Nessa
ManagementVacant
Supply Chain ManagementAnne Dohmen
James Madison College
James Madison CollegeDaniel Ahlquist · Anna Pegler-Gordon
Lyman Briggs College
Lyman Briggs CollegeRobert Bell
MSU Libraries
LibrariesEmilia Marcyk-Taylor · Zoe McLaughlin · Evalyn Stow
Residential College in the Arts and Humanities
RCAHEstrella Torrez