The Graduate School Dean’s Advisory Board brings together a group of graduate students with a range of experiences, degree goals, fields of study, and perspectives. The board members are in different stages of their graduate careers and at different points in their career paths overall, bringing diverse viewpoints to the table.
As an advisory board, students discuss policy proposals and provide feedback to the dean. Members are also able to talk directly with the dean about their or their peers’ concerns.
Members of the 2023-24 Dean’s Advisory Board are:
- Collin Laaker (Chair), Neuroscience Training Program PhD, claaker@wisc.edu
- Ben Carlee, Music DMA, bcarlee@wisc.edu
- Quinn Kinzer, Human Ecology PhD, qkinzer@wisc.edu
- Suhjung Janet Lee, Neuroscience PhD and Public Affairs MS, slee2285@wisc.edu*
- Nattaporn Luangpipat, English (Composition and Rhetoric) PhD, luangpipat@wisc.edu
- Praneeti Mitra, Industrial Engineering: Systems Engineering and Analytics MS, pmitra2@wisc.edu
- Thomas Niepsuj, Endocrinology and Reproductive Physiology MS, niepsuj@wisc.edu*
- Leslie Orrantia, Social Welfare PhD, orrantia@wisc.edu
- Ellie Plachinski, Chemistry PhD, eplachinski@wisc.edu
- Steven Shakiba, Real Estate and Urban Land Economics MBA, shakiba@wisc.edu*
- Shreya Singh, Communication Arts (Rhetoric, Politics, and Culture) PhD, shreya.singh@wisc.edu
- Lesley Stevenson, Communication Arts PhD, lcstevenson@wisc.edu*
- Estephani Torresvillanueva, Astronomy PhD, torresvillan@wisc.edu
- James Unzaga, Materials Science & Engineering PhD, unzaga@wisc.edu
*ASM-appointed member