Graduate Council
The SESE Graduate Council (GC) started in 2009 in an effort to establish better lines of communication between the graduate students and the faculty. GC has 8 elected graduate students in the following roles: President, Vice President, Secretary, Recruitment Chairs (2), and Graduate Student Advocates (3).
Our primary goal is to provide support to the graduate student body through informational seminars, resource documents, important deadline reminders, and open meetings. Our major contribution to the department is the organization and orchestration of Recruitment Weekend for prospective graduate students. Other efforts include helping with the graduate student orientation schedule, providing feedback to faculty search committees, providing support during qualifying exam season, and advocating for graduate students, as issues arise.
2023-2024 GRADUATE COUNCIL
President : Alejandro Olvera (ajolver2@asu.edu)
Vice President : Skylar Grayson (sigrayso@asu.edu)
Secretary : Erin Alexander (eralexa1@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Peter Smith (psmith57@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Maxwell Queener (mqueener@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate: Krishna Kanumalla (skanuma1@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Heather Hewitt (hbhewitt@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Sophie Phillips (srphil10@asu.edu)
PAST COUNCILS
2022-2023 Graduate Council
President : Claire Richardson (crricha5@asu.edu)
Vice President : Jayanth Serla (jserla@asu.edu)
Secretary : Erin Alexander (eralexa1@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Grace Haverstock (ghaverst@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate : Anjali Ramesh (anjali.ramesh@asu.edu)
Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Student Advocate : Alejandro Olvera (ajolver2@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Ebraheem Farag (ekfarag@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Heather Hewitt (hbhewitt@asu.edu)
2021-2022 Graduate Council
President : Mansi Padave (mpadave@asu.edu)
Vice President : Mara Karageozian (mekarage@asu.edu)
Secretary : Rachel Holsteen-Bruyere (rbruyere@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Mrudula Gopal Krishna (mgopalkr@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate : Felix Ishimwe (fishimwe@asu.edu)
Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Student Advocate : Mohini Jodhpurkar (mjodhpur@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Joseph Powell (jhpowel3@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Qian Yuan (qyuan23@asu.edu)
2020-2021 Graduate Council
President : Mansi Padave (mpadave@asu.edu)
Vice President : Jisoo Kim (jkim545@asu.edu)
Secretary : Madison Borrelli (meborrel@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Mara Karageozian (mekarage@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate : Mariah Heck (mheck2@asu.edu)
Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Student Advocate : Justin Hom (jrhom@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Jessie Bersson (jbersson@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Paul Horton (pahorton@asu.edu)
2019-2020 Graduate Council
President : Ed Buie II (ebuieii@asu.edu)
Vice President : Grace Carlson (gacarls1@asu.edu)
Secretary : Mansi Padave (mpadave@asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Lena Heffern (lheffern@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate : Jisoo Kim (jkim545@asu.edu)
Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Student Advocate : Justin Hom (jrhom@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Mariah Heck (mheck2@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : John Malloy (jmalloy3@asu.edu)
2018 - 2019 Graduate Council
President : Sean Peters (speter24@asu.edu)
Vice President : Mitch Phillips (mgphilli@asu.edu)
Secretary / Internatinal Student Advocate : Srinidhi Ravi (sravi@ser.asu.edu)
Graduate Student Advocate : Edward Buie II (ebuieii@asu.edu)
International Graduate Student Advocate : Mansi Padave (mpadave@asu.edu)
Diversity & Inclusion Graduate Student Advocate : Emily Garhart (egarhart@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Jonathan Hoh (jrhoh@asu.edu)
Recruitment Chair : Grace Carlson (gacarls1@asu.edu)
2017–2018 Graduate Council
Meghan Guild, President
Jessica Noviello, Vice-President
Nivedita Mahesh, Secretary
Alyssa Anderson, Recruitment Chair
Kevin Hubbard, Recruitment Chair
John Christoph, Student Engagement
Lucia Perez, Graduate Student Advocate
Hannah Shamloo, Graduate Student Advocate
2016–2017 SESE Graduate Council
Meghan Guild, President
Karalee Brugman,Vice President
Megan Miller, Graduate Student Advocate
Jessica Novello, Recruitment Chair
Lucia Perez, Recruitment Chair
Angel Garcia, Student Engagement
Gregory Vance, Student Engagement
Crystyl Fudge, Secretary
2015-2016
2014-2015
2013-2014
President: Chelsea Allison
Faculty Liaison: Kristen Bennett
Secretary: Dominique Garello
Administration Liaison: Kristina Davis
Recruitment (2): Caleb Wheeler, Julie Mitchell
ASU/GPSA ambassador: Kimberly Ward-Duong
Student Engagement Chair: Michael Veto
2012-2013
President: Jean-Francois Smekens
Grad Oversight: Kelsey Young
Computer Rep: Drew Enns
Secretary: Kristen Bennett
Administrative Liaison: Chelsea Allison
ASU/GPSA Ambassador: Michael Veto
Recruitment: Caleb Wheeler & Kristina Davis
2011-2012
President: Jean-Francois Smekens
Secretary: Mike Veto
Grad Oversight Rep: Kelsey Young
Computing Rep: Bryce Carande
Recruiting Reps: Drew Enns and Kristen Bennett
Administrative Liaison: Chelsea Allison
Outreach Liaison: Mark Richardson