THE 2011-12 OPENCUNY BOARD

The OpenCUNY Board is elected by and from the OpenCUNY community each academic year. The board consists of six voting members: the two OpenCUNY Coordinators, and four Board Members. The primary task of the OpenCUNY Board is to develop and maintain the Terms of Participation that defines OpenCUNY.org’s governance policy and any other policies deemed appropriate by the Board.

2011-2012 Board Members:

• JOHN BOY (Sociology)
  a.k.a “jboy”
  EMAIL JOHN

  John is a doctoral student in sociology working on religion and social theory. He’s been building web sites since his early teens and has been a free-software advocate for almost as long. He is a sustaining member of the SDF Public Access UNIX System. He also regularly contributes to The Immanent Frame, the Social Science Research Council’s award-winning blog on religion, secularism and the public sphere.

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• JEN GIESEKING (Environmental Psychology)
  a.k.a. “jgieseking”
  EMAIL JEN

  Jen Gieseking is a Ph.D. candidate in environmental psychology at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her dissertation research focuses on the production of lesbians’ and queer women’s urban spaces and places in New York City from 1983 to 2008 in order to understand what the shifts say about their changing experiences of justice and oppression.  She recently continued this work by performing a comparison study in Berlin as an Alexander von Humboldt German Chancellor Fellow. She is interested in the co-production of urban space and identity with a special focus on sexuality and gender; cognitive and mental mapping methodologies; theories of the geographical imagination; and expressions and experiences of justice, oppression, and the everyday.

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• KIERSTEN GREENE (Urban Education)
  a.k.a. “kgreene”
  EMAIL KIERSTEN

  Kiersten Greene is a PhD candidate in the Urban Education program at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests lie at the intersection of policy, practice, and technology in the K-12 public school classroom. Her dissertation focuses on blogs written by New York City teachers–specifically, how the local knowledge found within these narratives can inform future school reform and policymaking decisions. She is currently an Instructional Technology Fellow with the Macaulay Honors College at Baruch College. She has taught teacher education courses at Hunter College and Pace University, and prior to starting work on her PhD taught at a public school in New York City for five years. When she’s not reading, researching, or writing, you can find her knitting. She is excited to serve on the OpenCUNY Board.

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• KEITH K. MIYAKE (Earth & Environmental Sciences/Geography)
  a.k.a. “kmiyake”
  EMAIL KEITH

  Keith Miyake is a geography doctoral student in the Earth and Environmental Sciences Department at the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, and a Graduate Teaching Fellow in the Environmental, Geographic, and Geological Sciences Department (EGGS) at Lehman College in the Bronx. His research interests are primarily in political ecology, environmental justice, and environmental governance, but also include critical race theory, feminist and queer theory, radical cartography, militant research and radical pedagogy. He is also involved in research on park access for people of color as an environmental justice issue in New York City.

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PAST OPENCUNY BOARDS

2010-11

• JOHN BOY  a.k.a “gcsoc” and “jboy” (Sociology)
• BORIS DAUSSÁ-PASTOR a.k.a. “bdaussa” (Theatre)
• JEN GIESEKING a.k.a. “jgieseking” (Environmental Psychology)
• KEITH MIYAKE a.k.a “kmiyake” (Earth & Environmental Sciences/Geography)