Inauguration Steering Committee

Co-Chairs

Daniel Colón-RamosDorys McConnell Duberg Professor of Neuroscience and Cell Biology; Associate Director, Wu Tsai Institute

Kimberly M. Goff-CrewsSecretary and Vice President for University Life

Committee Members

James BundyElizabeth Parker Ware Dean, David Geffen School of Drama; Artistic Director, Yale Repertory Theatre; Professor of Drama

Heather CalabreseAssistant Vice President for University Life 

Katie Chang, Chair, Graduate School Assembly, GSAS ’27 

Alison ColeExecutive Director, Yale Alumni Association 

Edward Cooke, Charles F. Montgomery Professor of the History of Art; Director of the Center of Study in American Decorative Arts and Material Culture; Professor of American Studies

Lynn CooleyDean, Yale Graduate School of Arts and Sciences; Vice Provost for Postdoctoral Affairs; C. N. H. Long Professor of Genetics; and Professor of Cell Biology and of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology

Suzette Courtmanche, Senior Administrative Assistant to the Head of Pauli Murray College

Alexandra Daum, Associate Vice President for New Haven Affairs and University Properties

David Evans, Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Head of Berkeley College

José García-León, Henry and Lucy Moses Dean of Music, Yale School of Music

Susan Gibbons, Chief of Staff to the President and Vice Provost for Collections and Scholarly Communication

Renee Kopkowski, Vice President for Communications

Michael Lotstein, University Archivist

Reina Maruyama, Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Rohini Pande, Henry J. Heinz II Professor of Economics and Director, Economic Growth Center

Mimi Papathanasopoulos, President, Yale College Council, YC ’26

Alex Rich, President, Graduate and Professional Student Senate, GSAS ’27

Christine Rodriguez, Assistant Professor for the Graduate Entry Pre-specialty Nursing Program and Assistant Dean for Simulation and Clinical Innovation at Yale School of Nursing

W. Mark Saltzman, Goizueta Foundation Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Professor of Cellular and Molecular Physiology and of Chemical Engineering; Head, Jonathan Edwards College 

Martha Schall, Associate Vice President for Institutional Affairs

Nina Stachenfeld, Senior Research Scientist in Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine; Chair of the Yale Women Faculty Forum

Stephanie Wiles, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Yale University Art Gallery