Graduate and Professional Student Association

General Assembly 2023 – 2024

General Assembly Meeting Minutes

Meeting minutes from General Assembly meetings are available below.

  1. General Assembly Minutes – September 2023
  2. General Assembly Minutes – October 2023
  3. General Assembly Minutes – November 2023
  4. General Assembly Minutes – February 2024
  5. General Assembly Minutes – March 2024
  6. General Assembly Minutes – April 2024

Other Documents

  1. An Open Letter to Address Doctoral Hooding Procedures at Commencement and Degree Celebrations

General Assembly Roster for 2023 – 2024

Get to know the 2023-2024 General Assembly Program Representatives! These individuals are all graduate and professional students at Mason who serve our community and represent and advocate for their various programs at our monthly GA meetings. We encourage you to contact your GA Program Rep with any questions, concerns, or requests.

To contact a rep, or if you do not see a GA Program Rep for your program, please reach out to us at gapsa@gmu.edu

Graduate Program Representative
Anthropology, MA Livia Santos
Applied Industrial and Organizational Psychology, MPS Hatisha Mehta
Applied Information Technology, MS Ailynne Hartsell
Biodefense, PhD Ryan Houser
Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, PhD Bill Jeffries
Biosciences, PhD Madeleine Becker
Chemistry and Biochemistry, PhD Brandi Williams
Chemistry, MS Brandon Speed
Civil and Infrastructure Engineering, PhD Shreya Guha
Climate Dynamics, PhD Douglas Nedza
Climate Science, MS Amber Verstynen
Computer Engineering, MS Dilip Epparapalli
Computer Science, MS Bhavya Sree Pannem
Criminal Justice, MS Shel’Daun Reynolds
Criminology, Law, and Society, MA Mackenzi Moran
Criminology, Law, and Society, PhD Gretchen Baas
Cultural Studies, PhD Toby Hickson
Data Analytics Engineering, MS Shiny Chilakabathini
Economics, MA Jacob Custer
Education, PhD Sahar Wahidi
Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD Monica Gorena Morales
English, MA Jonathan Nichols
Environmental Science and Policy, PhD Daya Hall-Stratton
Global Affairs, MA Ekaterina Kurbangaleeva
Health Informatics, MS Dharmi Kalpesh Desai
Health Services Research, PhD Carolyn Hoffman
Higher Education and Student Development, MA Cristina (Cris) Berry
History, PhD Grace May
Information Technology, PhD Matthew Willis
Interdisciplinary Studies, MAIS Miranda White
International Security, MA Kyle Tiemeyer
Mathematics, MS Joanna Ro
Mathematics, PhD Anthony Pizzimenti
Neuroscience, PhD Apoorva Veerareddy
Political Science, MA Barbara Montgomery
Political Science, PhD Sanggyu Suh
Psychology, PhD Emily Sharer
Public Health, PhD Julia Mandeville
Public Policy, MPP Gillian Sullivan
Public Policy, PhD Kristina Podesta
Sociology, MA Jill Howard
Sociology, PhD Emma Vetter
Writing and Rhetoric, PhD Kelby Gibson