Campus Planning and Physical Development Committee

Sen. Richard Davis joined Columbia in 2007 as the Howard Levene Professor of Statistics. His research expertise includes time series, applied probability, spatial temporal modeling, heavy-tailed modeling, and extreme value theory.

Professor Davis was director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics from 2008 to 2013, after which time he became Chair of the Department, serving from 2013 to 2019. He served as the Natural Sciences Chair representative to the Arts and Sciences Policy Planning Committee (PPC) from 2018 to 2019, and served on several PPC subcommittees. From 2021 to 2023, he served on the Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee and on the University Senate. Professor Davis was a member of the Data Science Institute’s executive committee from 2014 to 2019. He has served as chair of the Statistics Department’s DEI committee, and has engaged with the group of DEI chairs from the Natural Sciences. In 2016, he served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the largest professional society for statisticians and probabilists.

Sen. Katherine Brooks is a Collection Analysis Librarian in the Columbia University Libraries. In this position, she analyzes electronic resource usage data to support strategic collection development and management in the Libraries while also serving as a science librarian. On the University Senate, Katherine co-chairs the Campus Planning and Physical Development Committee and the Libraries and Digital Resources Committee. Before joining the Libraries, Katherine was a Frontiers of Science postdoctoral fellow in the Ecology, Evolution and Environmental Science Department and instructor in the College.

Karla Camacho is from Orange County, California. She is on the Columbia College Student Council where she serves as Vice President. She is a first-generation Latina, double-majoring in Ethnicity and Race Studies and Political Science. Other than CCSC, she is involved with Columbia's FLI Network and political volunteering off-campus.

Honey Sue Fishman provides vision, organization, and leadership to the operation of Columbia’s undergraduate residence halls and Alfred Lerner Hall, the student center. 

This broad scope of work encompasses short- and long-term capital planning of the physical assets, custodial and maintenance, and guest services for student residents, visitors, and administrators. With her team, Honey Sue aims to provide a consistent, easy to navigate, and rewarding campus experience. 

In addition to these responsibilities, Honey Sue manages Columbia’s Trademark and Licensing program and several on-site services provided by contracted vendors. Honey Sue has served in various leadership roles during her tenure at Columbia. Most recently, she served as executive director of Business Services. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Washington University in St. Louis. 

Sen. Heidi L. Allen, MSW, PhD is an Associate Professor at Columbia School of Social Work. She studies the impact of social policies, like Medicaid –America’s health insurance for the poor –on access to health care, health and mental health outcomes, and financial well-being. The primary aim of her research is to eliminate disparities by rigorously informing and evaluating social policies that sit at the intersection of health and poverty. Over the past decade, her scholarship has been published in the leading medical and health policy journals and featured prominently in the media and during Medicaid policy proceedings. 

Sen. Giovanni O. Oliveros as a postdoctoral research scientist in the Department of Pathology and Cell Biology for the past two years, I have worked tirelessly to advance not only my research career but also my lab’s scientific objectives. My experience, coupled with prior teaching and mentoring experience outside Columbia, has prepared me to represent postdoctoral researchers at a time when research needs are at an all-time high and funding is in limbo.

Through both my laboratory and mentoring / teaching experience, I have seen how funding shifts can impact the research and mentoring experience - even a small cut has drastic impacts on a trainee’s stability, growth, and future success. With drastic funding cuts and the future of postdocs uncertain, it is imperative that our voices are heard, particularly on issues such as job security, professional development, and salary equity, for all the hard work we contribute to the Columbia community.

My passion for building a more responsible, transparent, supportive research environment is what drives me to serve. As the postdoctoral senate representative, I will work to make sure the postdoc community at Columbia is well represented and our needs are met. I am ready to represent the postdoctoral community.

Sen. Christopher Munsell is the Glascock Associate Professor of Professional Practice of Real Estate Development Finance at Columbia GSAPP. Chris has been featured for his innovations in the hybrid learning environment and for his research on artificial intelligence. He is a regular speaker on capital markets, climate finance, structured finance, and real estate pedagogy with organizations that include PropTech Norway, the Asian Real Estate Association of America, Boston University, the American Real Estate Society, Women in Real Estate Development (WiRED), the Penn Club of New York, Opal Group, MSRED Alumni Inc. and the Center for Teaching and Learning at Columbia University.

Chris has over fifteen years of real estate finance experience working for large institutions and middle-market investors. He has structured and managed more than $3 billion in real estate across all asset types and in more than 20 states. Chris is an Executive Board Member of the Real Estate Network of the Columbia Alumni Association, as well as a member of the Urban Land Institute, the Commercial Real Estate Finance Council, the International Council of Shopping Centers, and the Columbia Alumni Global Sustainability Network. Chris holds a Master of Science in Real Estate Development from Columbia University and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Boston University.

Sen. Carlos V. Cruz ’88CC was raised in the Marcy Avenue projects in Brooklyn and in South Texas by immigrants from Panama and Mexico and learned the beauty of bringing diverse people together and the power of community, an outlook that he put into practice in his vast extracurricular involvement at Columbia.  As multi-year President of Columbia Pride, and Vice President, Development, and Communications Chairs of the Latino Alumni Association, sometimes simultaneously, he takes great pride in helping amplify and support everyone in the Columbia community.  In his many interactions with Columbians, he is always inspired by our ideas, accomplishments, and character.  After a few great years working with the wonderful team at Columbia Undergraduate Admissions right after graduation with a concentration in Economics, Carlos embarked on a career in supply chain, product development, sourcing, and merchandising where he has risen to positions of leadership at Gap, Inc. and Target, helped structure startups, and consulted. Carlos currently sits on the Board of Directors of the Columbia College Alumni Association and the 1754 Society and the Columbia Alumni Association Board.

Sen. Brent Stockwell is the William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of Biological Sciences and Chair of the Department of Biological Sciences, Professor of Chemistry in Arts & Sciences, and Professor of Pathology and Cell Biology. He is a current Senator representing tenured natural sciences faculty in A&S, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Senate. He served on the Alumni Relations and Campus Planning and Physical Development Committees in the Senate. He has been on the Columbia faculty for 22 years, where he has consistently advocated for improved resources for science. In a series of papers from 2003 to 2012, Professor Stockwell discovered a previously unrecognized form of cell death that he termed ferroptosis. Professor Stockwell has received numerous awards, including being elected to the US National Academy of Medicine, the Lenfest Distinguished Columbia Faculty Award, the Great Teacher of Columbia College Award from the Society of Columbia Graduates, and the Dean Peter Awn Commitment to the LGBTQ community Faculty Award. He has been in the top 1 percent of highly cited researchers the last six years and was ranked among the top 50 scientists in the world by citations in 2025. He has published >200 scientific articles and received >50 research grants for >$40 million. He has served as Chair of the Educational Policy and Planning Committee in A&S, on the Columbia College and College of General Studies Joint Committee on Instruction, as Chair of the Provost's Advisory Committee on the Libraries Research Subcommittee, and as Chair of the Provost Faculty Advisory Committee. He has a BA in Chemistry and Economics from Cornell and a PhD in Chemistry from Harvard.

Sen. Ben Orlove, an anthropologist, has conducted fieldwork in the Peruvian Andes since the 1970s and also carried out research in Africa, the Italian Alps, and the Pacific Northwest in the US. His early work focused on agriculture, fisheries, and rangelands. More recently he has studied climate change and glacier retreat, with an emphasis on water, natural hazards, and the loss of iconic landscapes. In addition to his numerous academic articles and books, his publications include a memoir and a book of travel writing. He has served as a Lead Author on two reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and is active in climate policy work.

Orlove taught for many years at the University of California, Davis. At Columbia University, he is a professor in the School of International and Public Affairs, and also teaches in the Climate School. He is a Senior Research Scientist at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society and has served as one of the four co-directors of the Center for Research in Environmental Decisions.

Armando Javier Gimenez (CC’26) serves as ABC’s current President and Interim-Indigenous Representative. Armando is dedicated to advocating for underrepresented groups on campus in his work on ABC and Columbia Black Pre-Law Society. Armando is dedicated to his positions and responsibilities within the Columbia community and strives to assist and serve its students. 

Sen. Andrew J. Einstein is a cardiologist, cardiac imager, and researcher at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital. He serves as Director of Nuclear Cardiology, Cardiac CT, and Cardiac MRI, Director of the Advanced Cardiac Imaging Fellowship, and a tenured Professor of Medicine, with primary appointment in the Department of Medicine and secondary appointment in the Department of Radiology. Born and raised in New Jersey, Dr. Einstein received an A.B. from Princeton University and attended Mount Sinai School of Medicine, where he received an M.D. as well as a Ph.D. in the Department of Biomathematical Sciences. His graduate research focused on developing image analysis methodology in microscopy. He also received an M.S. in patient-oriented research/biostatistics from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health. After internship and residency in internal medicine at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, he completed fellowship training at Mount Sinai.

Dr. Einstein’s clinical activities are centered on cardiovascular PET, SPECT, CT, and MRI, and he serves on the attending physician staff in the Heart Institute. His research, which uses each of these modalities, focuses on improving the use of imaging in cardiovascular medicine, with particular interests and current funded projects in quality of healthcare, radiation safety, global health, amyloidosis, artificial intelligence, and device development. It is funded by multiple NIH grants, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and industry.

Dr. Einstein is the author or coauthor of over 300 papers and abstracts, in leading journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, Circulation, and the Journal of the American College of Cardiology. This work has been influential in affecting clinical practice, and has been widely reported in the popular media and cited over 16,000 times in the scientific literature. For it, Dr. Einstein has received the American College of Cardiology's Douglas P. Zipes Distinguished Young Scientist Award, the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging’s Hermann Blumgart Award, the American Federation for Medical Research's Junior Physician Investigator Award, and the Lewis Katz Cardiovascular Research Prize for a Young Investigator.

He is a member of the editorial boards of JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging and the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, and served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. He is frequently invited to lecture on subjects related to cardiovascular imaging, and has addressed organizations such as the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, European Society of Cardiology, International Atomic Energy Agency, U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Senate in an AAAS Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy briefing. He has served as a member of study sections of the Center for Scientific Review, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, and National Cancer Institute. He is Chair of the Academic Cardiology Section of the American College of Cardiology, and a member of the boards of directors of the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the Cardiovascular Council of the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. He serves as a member of the Congressionally-chartered National Council on Radiation Protection and Measurements and of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s Advisory Committee on the Medical Uses of Isotopes, and previously served as a voting member of the Food and Drug Administration’s Medical Imaging Drugs Advisory Committee. Dr. Einstein has served as a mentor to over fifty trainees at various stages ranging from high school to junior faculty.