Office of Residential Programs

Meet the Staff

Meet the Associate Director

 Kristen Sylvester

 

Kristen Sylvester has the honor of serving as the Associate Director for East Campus and Wien Hall. Originally from Smithtown, NY on Long Island, Kristen spent four years working in Residential Education at New York University, and prior to that obtained her Master's Degree in Higher Education Administration, also at NYU. Kristen became passionate about the field of Student Affairs at her undergraduate, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in upstate Troy, NY, where she got her BS in Management and Technology. Kristen truly enjoys building community amongst residence hall students and is thrilled to be working in the East Campus/Wien Hall area.

Meet the Graduate Assistants

 
Caroline Miceli

Graduate Assistant for East Campus: Caroline Miceli

Location: East Campus
School Year: 2010
Major/Minor: SIPA MIA, Master of International Affairs Campus
Activities: Gender Policy Working Group, Women in Humanitarian Affairs Working Group, ballroom dance club
Interests: International development, global philanthropy, wine, dancing, traveling

 
Rebecca Engle

Graduate Assistant for Wien Hall: Rebecca Engle

Location: EC/Wien
School Year: First Year Grad Student
Major/Minor: International Affairs: Economic and Political Development
Campus Activities: GA with Office of Residential Programs
Interests: Traveling, photography, cooking, reading, international development, gender policy, visiting museums, tennis, hiking, laughing, sleeping, eating good food with my friends, exploring, writing, playing with my nephew

Meet the East Campus Staff

 
Lena Fan

Community Adviser: Lena Fan
Location: EC H801
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Neuroscience and Behavior
Campus Activities: Asian American Alliance, Chinese Adopted Sibling Program for Youth, Chinese Students Club Concert
Interests: Traveling, trying out new sports

 

Resident Adviser: Alexander Harstrick
Location: EC 10th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Pre-med/Political Science
Campus Activities: Hamilton Society, SKA Shotokan. Young Republicans
Interests: Snowboarding, karate, exploring, hiking

 

Resident Adviser: Jaimie Lee
Location: EC 12th floor
School Year: SEAS 2010
Major/Minor: Biomedical Engineering/Pre-med
Campus Activities: Health Education Awareness League (HEAL), Student Help for the Aging (SHA)
Interests: Teaching, medicine, reading, building models, movies

 

Resident Adviser: Veronica Zhang
Location: EC 14th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Economics, Mathematics
Campus Activities: CU Orchestra, Music Performance Program
Interests: Violin, photography, fashion

 

Resident Adviser: Innokenty Pyetranker
Location: EC 16th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Economics – Political Science
Campus Activities: Emerging Leaders Program, Hillel
Interests: Running, Playing racquetball, Looking at maps

 

Resident Adviser: Ayoola Stewart
Location: EC 18th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Anthropology, Comparative Ethnic Studies
Campus Activities: Tutor DDC and Academic Success Program, Women’s Heritage Month Committee, Multicultural Recruitment Committee, Women’s Ways of Leading Committee
Interests: Anthropology, reading, sleeping, going into the city, jazz, traveling

 
Kenneth Liu

Resident Adviser: Kenneth Liu
Location: EC 20th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Economics
Campus Activities: Lambda Phi Epsilon
Interests: Languages, fashion, cross country, movies

 

Resident Adviser: Nirvikar Jassal
Location: EC 8th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Political Science and Middle East Studies
Campus Activities: Columbia International Relations Forum, Academic Awards Committee
Interests: Cinema, Traveling, Beaches

 
Kevin Jason

Resident Adviser: Kevin Jason
Location: EC H105
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Economic – Political Science
Campus Activities: Multicultural Business Association, Advance!
Interests: Music, politics, basketball, things that are Italian

 
Raul Mendoza

Resident Adviser: Raul Mendoza
Location: EC H202
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: History
Campus Activities: Roosevelt Institution, MeNam-Mays Undergraduate Fellow
Interests: George Orwell literature, Cold War, Political strategy, board games

 

Resident Adviser: James Tyson
Location: EC H401
School Year: CC 2011
Major/Minor: Political Science (IR) and Psychology
Campus Activities: Spectator
Interests: Surfing, sailing, squash, trumpet, piano

 
Maria (Tina) Herrera

Resident Adviser: Maria Christina Herrera
Location: EC H505
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Latino Studies, Anthropology, Pre-med
Campus Activities: Community Impact – Berrie Buddies
Interests: Travel, music, movies, skiing, basketball, cooking

 

Resident Adviser: Christopher Yim
Location: EC H601
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Psychology
Campus Activities: Berrie Buddies, Undergraduate Recruitment Committee, Intramural Basketball
Interests: Spanish, basketball, food, movies

 

Resident Adviser: Mark Wade
Location: EC H706
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Political Science
Campus Activities: Kleos Financial, Groupo Quisqueyano, SOL, BSO, NSBE
Interests: Basketball, art, music, fashion, and entertainment

 

Resident Adviser: Andrea McKinnon
Location: EC 906
School Year: SEAS 2011
Major/Minor: Operations Research, Biomedical Engineering
Campus Activities: Undergraduate Recruitment Committee
Interests: Softball, Monopoly

Meet the Wien Hall Staff

 

Community Adviser: Markrete Krikorian
Location: Wien 12th floor
School Year: CC 2011
Major/Minor: Chemistry
Campus Activities: Columbia University Armenian Club, Chandler Society
Interests:  Acquiring knowledge, learning from the world around me (i.e. books, experiences, and people), improving myself and my surroundings

 

 

Resident Adviser: Kiran Singh
Location: Wien 3rd floor
School Year: SEAS 2011
Major/Minor: Chemical Engineering, French
Campus Activities: Project Health, DDC, GlobalMed, REQ, The literary team of the CBW Community Health Center
Interests: Public Health, education

 

Resident Adviser: Chuck Roberts
Location: Wien 4th floor
School Year: 2012
Major/Minor: Undeclared
Campus Activities: Columbia International Relations Council and Association (Model United Nations), CU College Republicans, Undergraduate Recruitment Committee
Interests: Soccer Officiating, International Relations, Politics, Travel, and Brooks Brothers

 

 

Resident Adviser: Nicole Oparaeke
Location: Wien 5th floor
School Year: CC 2011
Major/Minor: Hispanic Studies, Biology
Campus Activities: Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, Asthma Gym, Columbia Association of Pre-Dental Students
Interests: Jesus, Spanish, teeth, cranberry juice, soccer, Costa Rica

 

 

Resident Adviser: Cody Haefner
Location: Wien 6th floor
School Year: CC 2012
Major/Minor: Undecided, considering Political Science and/or Religion
Campus Activities: Columbia Music Theatre Society, 115th Annual Varsity Show, H.E.A.L.
Interests: Singing, theater, the performing arts in general (seeing and participating in on both the performing side and behind the scenes)

 

 

Resident Adviser: Sonal Bothra
Location: Wien 7th floor
School Year: CC 2012
Major/Minor: Economics, Sustainable Development
Campus Activities: AHIMSA – Jain Organization, Engineers Without Borders, DDC Volunteer
Interests: Dance – Indian Classical, Traveling

 

Resident Adviser: Osarimabo Imoisili
Location: Wien 8th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Political Science
Campus Activities: AMSA (American Medical Students Association)
Interests: Social and Biological sciences, cooking, martial arts

 

 

Resident Adviser: Alison Hard
Location: Wien 9th floor
School Year: CC 2012
Major/Minor: Francophone studies, Sustainable Development
Campus Activities: Undergraduate Recruitment Committee, Flute Choir, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority
Interests: Cooking (especially French food), music (flute and piccolo), working with children (babysitting), writing (occasionally for the Spectator), reading, French, museums, and going to shows in NYC

 

 

Resident Adviser: Jennifer Hui
Location: Wien 10th floor
School Year: EN 2010
Major/Minor: Biomedical Engineering
Campus Activities: Society of Women Engineers, The Chandler Society for Undergraduate Chemistry, Tau Beta Pi, and AMSA
Interests: Watching TV, listening to music, robotics, sharing the joy of engineering and problem-solving with younger generations, conducting research in my lab

 

 
Markrete Krikorian

Resident Adviser: Natalie Neumann
Location: Wien 11th floor
School Year: CC 2010
Major/Minor: Premed - History
Campus Activities: Columbia tennis, ballroom dance
Interests: Reading, yoga, tennis, dance