Jared is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History. His duties as executive chair include serving as the official representative of the GSA, preparing agendas for all GSA meetings, and meeting periodically with the the Vice Chancellor of Student Affairs, the Vice Chancellor of Research and Graduate Studies, the University Chancellor, the Graduate Student Committee, and the ASUN President. He also serves on the University Graduate Council. Email Jared
Vice-Chair of Internal Affairs - Karl Giuseffi
Karl is a Ph.D. student in Political Science, studying the neural correlates of political attitudes and behaviors. His duties as the Vice-Chair of Internal Affairs include presiding at the GSA Legislative Assembly meetings, overseeing all standing and ad hoc committees, coordinating events requiring use of University facilities, and managing RSO related documents. Email Karl
Vice-Chair of External Affairs - Jacob Friefeld
Jacob is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of History who focuses his research on nineteenth-century America. His duties as the Vice-Chair of External Affairs include maintaining a list of all graduate students on external committees, serving as liaison to ASUN, maintaining a list of frequent contacts for the GSA, serving as a respresentative on the Student Affairs Advisory Council, and coordinating activities with other university graduate student organizations. Email Jacob
Vice-Chair of Finance - Annika Denkert
Annika is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Mathematics with a focus in Algebraic Geometry. Her duties as Vice-Chair of Finance include maintaing all GSA fiscal records in synchronicity with SOFS, providing reports at legislative assembly meetings, chairing the GSA Finance Committee, coordinating with the executive committee and standing committees on budgets and possible funding sources, and presenting fiscal requests to the university's commitee for fee allocation. Email Annika
Vice-Chair of Representation - Tshepelayi Kabata
Tshepelayi is a Ph.D. student in Agricultural Economics. His duties of the Vice-Chair of Representation include maintaining the GSA website and listservs, managing the GSA email, chairing the Diversity Committee, and working with Campus Representatives to ensure each department is represented in the Legislative Assembly and that each representative understands the requirements of their position. If you have any questions about the GSA or would like to get involved, don't hesitate to contact me! Email Tshepelayi
Vice-Chair of Social Events - Liz Juchems
Liz is a second year M.A. student in the Department of Agricultural Economics. Her duties as the Vice-Chair of Social Events include communicating with graduate students and the community about at-large GSA events, coordinating activities with other graduate student organizations alongside the Vice-Chair of External Affairs, composing a monthly calendar of non-GSA events pertaining to graduate students, and chairing the GSA Social Events Committee. Email Liz
Vice-Chair of Graduate Student Appreciation Week - Joseba Moreno
Joseba is an M.A. student in Spanish Literature from the Basque Country (Northern Spain) who focuses his research on implementing new technologies in the Humanities. His duties as the Vice-Chair of Graduate Student Appreciation Week include communicating with other graduate students and the community about at-large GSAW activities and events, organizing the year-end awards ceremony, and chairing the GSAW committee. He also coordinates events for Open Access Week. Email Joseba
Vice-Chair of Legislative Affairs - Chris Gibilisco
Chris is a third year Ph.D. student in the Department of Philosophy who focuses his research on the intersection of philosophy and science. His duties as the Vice-Chair of Legislative Affairs include maintaining the GSA Constitution and By-Laws, chairing the GSA Elections and Constitution Committees, and providing advice concerning the rules of order for all GSA meetings. He also serves as Co-Chair for ASUN's Graduate Student Committee. Email Chris
Vice-Chair of Information - Morgan St. John
Morgan is a second-year M.A. student in Educational Administration pursuing a degree in higher education student affairs. Her duties as Vice-Chair of Information include serving as recording secretary for all GSA executive and legislative assembly meetings, maintaining a current list of voting members as well as past voting and attendance records, compiling monthly committee reports and making them available to the legislative assembly, and maintaining the Blackboard site. Email Morgan
2012-2013 Non-Exec Committee Chairs
Academic Affairs Committee Chair - Allysha Martin
Allysha is in her third year of the Ph.D. program in Modern Languages and Literatures. As Academic Affairs Committee Chair, she advocates for University graduate students on issues including access to facilities, funding for research, the faculty-graduate student relationship, and academic policies. Email Allysha
Distance Committee Chair - Ashley Yates
Ashley is a first year M.S. student in the Entomology Department, researching RNA interference in the Colorado potato beetle. Her duties as Distance Committee Chair include outreach to distance graduate students connecting them to campus and the GSA and dealing with issues important to distance learners such as access to courses, library services, student fees, communicating with advisors, and more. Email Ashley
Diversity Committee Chair - Anh Do
Anh is a doctoral student in Child, Youth and Family Studies. Her duties as Diversity Committee Chair focus on managing a committee which encourages and promotes participation in the GSA by students throughout the University community, including but not limited to students from racial and ethnic minorities, international students, women, and the LGBTQ community, and ensure that GSA programming is available and pertinent to the diverse graduate student community. Email Anh
Quality of Life Committee Chair - Grant Tietjen
Grant is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Sociology who focuses his research on criminology and ex-convicts within academia. His duties of Quality of Life Chair include managing the committee that advocates on behalf of UNL graduate students any issues affecting the quality of graduate student life including, but not limited to, health care, housing, transportation, and child care. He also serves on ASUN's Graduate Student Committee. Email Grant
