ELSO Advisory Board

The English Language Support Office (ELSO) Advisory Board provides guidance and recommendations in relation to ELSO’s mission, goals, activities, and program sustainability, and ultimately provides advice to the Director of the Knight Writing Institute and Dean of the Graduate School. The Board also functions informally to exchange information and coordinate efforts to serve international and multilingual U.S. resident graduate and professional students. 

Roles of Board Members

• Reflect the needs and interests of faculty, staff, graduate students, and professional students related to the charge of the English Language Support Office, which is to promote international and multilingual graduate and professional student success by providing writing and speaking support to international and multilingual graduate and professional students in diverse programs, from diverse linguistic backgrounds, and at diverse points in their degree programs.
• Review and suggest revisions to ELSO’s mission, goals, and outcomes to ensure they are in keeping with ELSO’s charge and effectively represent the diverse populations ELSO seeks to support
• Provide the director and faculty of ELSO with faculty/staff/graduate student/professional student perspectives on effectiveness, relevance, sustainability, and future direction of the ELSO program and activities.
• Promote ELSO activities across campus, increasing the visibility of these activities and promoting wide participation across disciplines and degree types.

Meeting Frequency

The Board meets at least four times per academic year (twice per semester). Subcommittees may be formed to focus on specific issues.

Membership Terms

Faculty/staff Board members are appointed for two-year renewable terms. Graduate student/professional student members are appointed for renewable annual terms.

Constitution of the Board

The ELSO Advisory Board is appointed and chaired by the ELSO Director. The Advisory Board includes:

• Faculty representatives from across Cornell’s graduate and professional programs
• Faculty and staff representatives of other Cornell programs charged with supporting international graduate students and scholars
• International graduate and professional student representatives of different degree types and fields

Composition

The ELSO Advisory Board strives to maintain the following composition:

• Chair: ELSO Director
• 12 graduate faculty members, with representation from each of the major colleges/schools (College of Agriculture and Life Sciences; College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; College of Arts and Sciences; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business; Cornell Ann S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science; College of Engineering; College of Human Ecology; School of Industrial and Labor Relations; Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy, Cornell Law School; College of Veterinary Medicine)
• 2-4 graduate and professional students
• 4-6 staff from relevant programs (e.g., University Career Services, International Teaching Assistant Program, Graduate Writing Service, Graduate and Professional Student Assembly, Alumni Affairs and Development, Office of Global Learning, Cornell Libraries, etc.)

• Ernesto Bassi, Associate Professor, Department of History, Director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, College of Arts and Sciences 
• Michelle Crow, Advisory Board Chair, Director, English Language Support Office, Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
• Newton de Faria, Professor of Practice, Director of the Masters of Engineering Program, Nancy E. and Peter C. Meing School of Biomedical Engineering; College of Engineering 
• Tom Estad, Lecturer, Management Communication, Cornell Peter and Stephanie Nolan School of Hotel Administration and the Samuel Curtis Johnson Graduate School of Management, Cornell SC Johnson College of Business
• Sean Fath, Assistant Professor, Organizational Behavior, ILR School 
• Gaby Castro Gessner, Director of Assessment and Planning, Cornell University Libraries 
• George Hutchinson, Director, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines; Newton C. Farr Professor of American Culture and the George Reed Professor of Writing and Rhetoric, Literatures in English 
• Ayushi Kapoor, Chair, Diversity and International Students Committee (DISC), Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA), master's student, Public Administration
• Ishita Kashyap, Vice Chair, Diversity and International Students Committee (DISC), Graduate and Professional Student Assembly (GPSA), master's student, Public Administration
• Holger Klinck, Director of the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics; Faculty Fellow with the Atkinson Center for a Sustainable Future at Cornell University; College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
• Dan Lamb, Senior Lecturer, Cornell Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy 
• Brandon Lanners, Executive Director, Office of Global Learning 
• Nathan Lindberg, Senior Lecturer, English Language Support Office, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines 
• Ru Liu, Doctoral Student, Community Nutrition, School of Human Ecology
• Laura Patricia Lozano Taba, master's student, ILR School
• Hongnan Ma, International Programs Director, Alumni and Development 
• Colleen McLinn, Associate Dean for Professional Development, Graduate School
• Melissa Myers, Senior Lecturer, English Language Support Office, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
• Theshani Nuradha Piliththuwasam Gallage, PhD Candidate, Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Guglielmo Papiri, Chair, International Graduate and Professional Student Association (IGPS), Doctoral Student, Physics
• Amie K. Patchen, Environment, Climate & Health Concentration Chief, Lecturer, Department of Public and Ecosystem Health, College of Veterinary Medicine 
• Robbert van Renesse, Professor, Computer Science, Cornell Ann. S. Bowers College of Computing and Information Science 
• Fouad Saleet, Assistant Dean for External Education, Cornell Law 
• Derina Samuel, Associate Director, International Teaching Assistant Program 
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• Maria Alejandra Anaya Torres, JSD candidate, Cornell Law School 
• Mildred E. Warner, Professor, Dept. of City & Regional Planning & Dept of Global Development, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning 

• Yodpol Akaraphan, Master’s Student, Real Estate 
• Andrea Bachner, Professor of Comparative Literature, College of Arts and Sciences
• Sarah Besky, Associate Professor, International and Comparative Labor Relations, Law, and History, School of Industrial and Labor Relations
• David Bindel, Associate Professor of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and Information Science 
• Hanyu Chen, Postdoc, Food Science, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
• Christopher Collins, Associate Professor of Human Resource Studies; Director of Executive Master of Human Resource Management Program (EMHRM); School of Industrial and Labor Relations 
• Hae-Song Jung, Master’s Student, School of Industrial and Labor Relations 
• Karim-Aly Kassam, Associate Professor in the Departments of Natural Resources and the American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program; College of Agriculture and Life 
• Daler Kaziev, Master’s Student, Department of Natural Resources, College of Agriculture and Life Sciences 
• Ahsan Kibria, Master’s Student, Public Administration 
• Sean Kim, Doctoral Student, Biomechanics, Silby School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering 
• Kavya Krishnan, Doctoral Student, Field and Crop Sciences
• Van Dyk Lewis, Associate Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, College of Human Ecology 
• Xin Li, Associate University Librarian, Cornell University Libraries Gen Meredith, Professor of Practice, Department of Public & Ecosystem Health 
• David M. Lin, Associate Professor of Neurobiology, College of Veterinary Medicine 
• Mengwei “Vivienne” Liu, Doctoral Student, Systems Engineering, College of Engineering 
• Barbara Mink, Senior Lecturer, Management Communication at the Cornell SC Johnson College of Business, Johnson Graduate School of Management 
• Markeisha Minor, Dean of Students, Cornell Law School 
• Sean Nicholson, Professor, Brooks School of Public Policy, Department of Economics, Director, Sloan Program in Health Administration 
• Akira Okuda, Master’s Student, Industrial and Labor Relations 
• Mary K. Redmond, Director, English for International Students and Scholars; Senior Lecturer, Spanish Language 
• Jessica Sands, Multilingual Specialist and Senior Lecturer, Knight Institute for Writing in the Disciplines
• Ecem Saricayir, Doctoral Student, History of Architecture and Urban Development, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning 
• Baojun “Bar” Sheng, Doctoral Student, Near Eastern Studies 
• Praveen Kumar Srivastava, Master’s Student, Industrial and Labor Relations, Graduate and Professional Student Assemble (GPSA) representative 
• Michael Tomlan, Professor of City and Regional Planning, Director of History Preservation Planning, College of Architecture, Art, and Planning; Director of Graduate Studies in Real Estate 
• Caleb Yu, Graduate and International Student Career Advisor, Cornell Career Services