Practical Matters: The FA's Executive Council

by Sarah Kain Gutowski, Chair, New Member Program

If you would like a particular issue brought to the attention of the FA (separate from a grievance) your Executive Council Representative is the person you should contact.

An EC Representative's primary charge is to serve as a liaison between the union's membership and its officers. You may have noticed, however, that our officers are pretty approachable and easy to speak to, so the other significant function of the Executive Council is that it occasionally acts as a decision-making, or governing, body within the union.

 

Because that's a fairly important charge, EC Representatives are elected by members within their academic areas (although some academic areas are grouped together). This is one of the reasons it's so important to become a voting member of the union. (If you haven't yet, please do!) You'll find the following list of EC Representatives available also on the FA's web site under Contact information: 

The Executive Council 

Ammerman Campus Representatives
Area	Representative
Nursing, Health & Human Services	Lisa Aymong
Music, Art, Theater, Philosophy, Women Studies	Alex Nohai-Seaman
Library, Central	Krista Gruber
Social & Behavioral Studies, Legal Studies	Christina Bosco
English	Kim Ng-Southard
Business Admin, Business Information Systems, Accounting	Kevin McNamara
Biology & Physical Science	Matt Pappas
Counseling	Matt Zisel
Engineering, Computer Science, Industrial Technology	Mike Simon
Math	Jane-Marie Wright
Communications	Melanie Weinstein-Zeolla

Grant Campus Representatives
Area	Representative
Business Programs	Ali Laderian
Nursing, Health Science, PE, Veterinary	Alice Tobin
Social Science	Andrea Macari
Library, Counseling, Liberal Arts	Bruce Seger
Natural Science & Math	Davorin Dujmovic
Humanities	Janet Simpson

Eastern Campus Representatives
Area	Representative
Science, Math, Social Science, Business, Nursing, Culinary, PE	Nic Pestieau
Library, Humanities, Counseling	Nina Acquavita
PA / Specialist Representatives
Area	Representative
Programmatic	Lisa Behnke
Instructional Labs	Deb Kiesel
Technical Areas and Instructional Centers	Andrew Stone