House Fellows are active community members affiliated with a specific House in the West Campus House System. House Fellows contribute to the intellectual and social life of the House through programs, activities, discussions, screenings, workshops, arts events, etc.

As Associate Dean of Students/Senior Advisor to the Dean, “Dr. Renee” focuses on campus climate issues.

Oumar Ba is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government. Ourmar was born and grew up in Senegal and moved to the United States at age 23. He has lived in Ohio, Florida, Georgia, and now central New York.

Taylor Bouraad is the Assistant Director for the First-Year Experience. In her role, she oversees programming for new students as they navigate their transition to campus during their first year.

Dr. Richard (Rick) Canfield joined the Cornell faculty in 1990 and from that time has enjoyed mentoring many excellent Cornell undergraduates in research.

Bonnie is the Associate Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education where she serves as the chief of staff to Vice Provost Nishii and oversees several areas in the vice provost’s portfolio

Michell Chresfield is an Assistant Professor in Africana Studies where her research and teaching focuses on Black and Indigenous histories, the history of science and medicine, and the history of racial formation and identity making in twentieth c

Chris Csíkszentmihályi is an artist, technologist, humanist, and designer.

As the Assistant Director in the Einhorn Center for Community Engagement, Jake oversees Cornell’s Engaged College Initiative.

Julie Edwards is the Assistant Vice President for Student Health and Wellbeing. She oversees Cornell Health and campus-wide health and wellbeing initiatives.

Gustavo Flores-Macías is Professor of Government in the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Public Policy in the Brooks School of Public Policy at Cornell University.

Tom Fox '71 moved into an old West Campus freshman dorm (thankfully now removed from the landscape) in 1967, and lived in Baker Tower the following year.

Jazlin Gomez Garner (she/her) is a Lecturer and Pedagogy Specialist with Cornell’s Intergroup Dialogue Project.

Sally is a member of the Inclusive Academic Advising team in CALS and in her former lives taught biology, science and english as a foreign language to many many students and student teachers in the UK, Australia and the US in addition to raised tw

Rachael Goodfellow (she/her) is the Director of Health Professions Advising, where she leads a team of pre-health advisors and helps guide students through their journey to a diverse spectrum of health careers.

Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui is originally from Guinea, where he attended Law School before serving as law clerk, judge, and legal counsel for the National Commission on Trade, Agreements, and Protocols. He received a Ph.D.

Cindy Hazan joined the faculty of the Department of Human Development at Cornell in 1988 after receiving her PhD in Social and Personality Psychology from the University of Denver.

Cathy Rosa Klimaszewski is Associate Director and Ames Curator of Education at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art. Ms. Klimaszewski grew up in a small town in Northern Pennsylvania in a family of six children, five girls and one boy.

Sarah Kreps is the John L. Wetherill Professor in the Department of Government, Adjunct Professor of Law, and the Director of Tech Policy Institute in the Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy.

Former Becker House Professor Neema grew up in India, moving ten times before she left an architectural practice in Bangalore for graduate school in Berkel

Caroline Levine teaches in the Department of Literatures in English. These days she spends most of her time thinking about climate change and climate justice and working for meaningful change.

Levitt served as Chair of the Theatre, Film, and Dance Department from l986 to l995 during which time he oversaw the final phases of construction of the twenty-four million dollar Schwartz Center for Performing Arts.

Jonathan Miller’s work as a journalist and communications specialist has taken him to more than 20 countries in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the Pacific.

Rebecca Nelson is a Professor in the Department of Global Development and the School of Integrative Plant Science (SIPS). Her interests relate to food security, participatory research, circular economy and the defense of Nature.

Ian is the Executive Director of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and a Professor in Ecology and Evolution.

Donald A. Rakow is a retired associate professor in the Section of Horticulture in Cornell University’s School of Integrative Plant Science.
Maddie Reynolds is the Outreach and Information Services Librarian with Cornell University Library and the Cornell Prison Education Program (CPEP).

I’m a professor in the Classics department, where I teach and research about ancient Greek and Roman science and technology like medicine, mathematics, astronomy, and mechanics.

Gemma Rodrigues is the Ames Director of Education and Curator of the Global Arts of Africa a

Sonja is the director of education and academic initiatives for Cornell Botanic Gardens and an adjunct associate professor of Horticulture in the School of Integrated Plant Sciences.

I grew up in Wilmington Delaware along the Brandywine River, and enjoyed summers with family on farmland in both eastern and western Nebraska.


Jane Walcott earned a BA in Biology from Beloit College in Wisconsin, an MA in Neurobiology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and teaching certification from the University of Wisconsin at Green Bay.

Actively engaged in the Cornell and Ithaca communities for more than 30 years, and an alumna of Cornell, Suzanne embraces Cornell’s Core Values.