Executive Committee Members

FFU Officers

Kari Evanson

FFU Co-Chair

Kari Evanson is our Co-Chair from FFU full-time faculty. She teaches in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

Diane George

FFU Co-Chair

Diane George is our Co-Chair from FFU part-time faculty. She has been an adjunct in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Fordham’s Rose Hill Campus since 2016. She previously served as an FFU local steward.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

Cornelius Collins

FFU Chief Steward

Cornelius Collins is our Chief Steward focusing on the Rose Hill and Westchester campuses. He teaches in the English Department at Rose Hill.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

Josh Jordan

FFU Chief Steward

Josh Jordan is a Senior Lecturer of French in the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures at Fordham’s Lincoln Center campus. He served as FFU Chair 2018-2022 and has taught at Fordham since 2010, first as an adjunct, now as a lecturer.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

Kathleen LaPenta

FFU Chief Steward

Kathleen came to Fordham in 2010 and is now Senior Lecturer in Italian. She has been an active member of our union since its formation in 2018 and is proud to serve as Chief Steward.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

FFU Local Stewards

Ellen Lauter

FFU Steward, Lincoln Center

I have taught at Fordham since 2006. I hold a Master’s in Art Therapy and Social Work and have both an LCSW license and Art Therapy license from NYS. I am a graduate of Fordham Graduate School of Social Service. My entire social work career starting in 1996 as an intern placed there by Fordham, was with The Legal Aid Society Juvenile Rights Practice, first as a staff social worker in the Bronx and then as a supervisor in the Manhattan office. In 2000, I founded a not for profit organization called Artshare, a weekend visual arts intervention program which collaborated with the Kings County District Attorney YCP/GRASP program. Up through 2018, we worked with adolescents involved in the court system to create both indoor and outdoor murals in Brooklyn.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com

Dawn Fariello

FFU Steward, Rose Hill

Dawn Fariello is a lecturer in the Biology Department at Rose Hill.

Contact: fordhamfacultyunited@gmail.com