Leadership
LaShawnda Brooks, Executive Director
Catherine Wong, Associate Director and Manager of Programs
Leislie Godo-Solo, Education Programs Specialist
Brittany Zorn, Arts & Sciences Program Specialist
Juliana (Juju) Wong, Interim Recruitment & Alumni Programs Specialist
Janelle Bonasera, Coordinator of Partnerships & External Relations
Sara Cerretani, Operations Coordinator
IRT Mailbox, General Inquiries
“It's a responsibility I bear willingly to allow others, as IRT allowed me to do, to realize their vocation as educators, and thrive in the pursuit.”
Why I Serve
"As a tenured professor of History and Latin American Studies at New York University, a day hasn't gone by in the nearly twenty years since IRT has been in my life when I haven't drawn on the lessons I learned as an Intern, not just the intellectual lessons but life lessons, too, in every facet of my professional and personal development. Giving back in any way - as informal IRT recruiter on my campus, as modest financial donor, as Advisory Board Member, but mainly as a proud alum always ready to extol the importance of IRT - is more than gratitude. It's a responsibility I bear willingly to allow others, as IRT allowed me to do, to realize their vocation as educators, and thrive in the pursuit." Alejandro Velasco, IRT ’99, Advisory Board Member
Advisory Board
- Asna Afzal,’99
- Mercy Lee Bell, '08
- Andrew H. Chin, ’00
- Dr. Sari Edelstein, '98
- Kimberly Formisano, ’86
- Andrew J. Guff, ’79
- Victoria Kataoka, ’93
- Aleena Kibria '23
- Michael Koehler '94
- Jasmine Ma '23
- Kevin Maillard, IRT '94
- Alarik Myrin, III, ’88 (Co-Chair)
- Dr. Chera Reid, IRT ’00
- Richard Shin, ’90
- Dr. Alejandro Velasco, IRT ’99
- Renee O. Wilmot, IRT '12, '17
- Bruce S. Wilson, ’77
- Adam K. Wise, ’83
- Gonzalo S. Zeballos, IRT ’92
- LaShawnda Brooks (Ex Officio)
- Beth Parsons (Ex Officio)
