Meet the Team
Elected by the Senate, our team is dedicated to ensuring graduate students receive better representation and are more engaged in the campus community. Come meet our Executive Board, and don't hesitate to reach out to us at gradgov@georgetown.edu if you have any questions or comments.
Elected Members
President - Nadia sarfraz
Nadia is a PhD student in the Chemistry Department. Her research focuses on fluorescent tool development for RNA probing and dynamics studies. Nadia also serves as the vice-president of the Georgetown Graduate Student Consulting Club (GGCC), the Chemistry DEI graduate student representative, the co-president of Women in Chemistry (WoChem), a volunteer analyst for Phelan-Mcdermid Syndrome (PMS) in conjugation with Harvard Medical School and Patient Centered Outcome Research group (PCORI), and serves as a the founder and chair of The Us Foundation (TUF) a nonprofit group based in Zimbabwe that aims to support youth facing homelessness. Nadia is an avid advocate for human rights and STEM policy, working on multiple collaboration efforts to bridge the siloed spheres of policy, law and science globally. Her career goals lay at the intersection of her passions and interests, as she hopes to continue to be an active leader and member of the greater world. Nadia prides herself on being a good friend, sister, daughter, dog-aunt and outdoor enthusiast, ensuring she enjoys the small and simple things in life along the way.
vice president - Micaila Curtis
DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY - Alisha McDougal
DIRECTOR OF PROGRAMMING - David Zumbrennen
DIRECTOR OF GROUPS - KATHERINE CHAN
Katherine is currently a part-time student in the Integrated Marketing Communications program at the School of Continuing Studies. She also works full-time as the Assistant Director, MBA Admissions Marketing Operations at the McDonough School of Business. In this role, she manages marketing operations initiatives and executes strategy related to marketing analytics data. She is also a member of the MBA Admissions Committee. Prior to joining Georgetown McDonough, she worked at a market research firm and her experience includes business development, client services, and learning and development. Katherine graduated from the University of Virginia with a Bachelor of Arts in cognitive science and psychology. She is excited to collaborate with student groups through GradGov as the Director of Groups.
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS - Teresa Garcia-Bautista
Director of web and TECHNOLOGY- RANJAn Biswas (MBA '23 )
Ranjan Biswas is a flex student at the McDonough School of Business. He currently works in a supervisory capacity at the Library of Congress, in-charge of their Digitization and Modernization efforts. His goal for GradGov is to be able to develop an immersive platform for students to openly discuss any comments or concerns they may have regarding Georgetown and be the working liaison between graduate students and Georgetown University faculty.
TREASURER - Collin Kee
DIRECTOR OF ALUMNI RELATIONS - Drew Miles
Drew grew up in Winter Park, FL, a suburb of Orlando, and moved to Tallahassee to attend Florida State University. He was a member of the honors college and graduated with a double major in Real Estate and Finance. After graduating, Drew moved to Jacksonville, FL to work for Regency Centers as a Capital Markets Analyst, where he still works today. Drew is a current student in the Master's in Real Estate program (MPRE) within the School of Continuing Studies.
In his spare time, he likes to read on the beach, agonize over FSU sports, and workout at F45.
In his spare time, he likes to read on the beach, agonize over FSU sports, and workout at F45.
DIRECTOR OF AFFAIRS - Zoe Malchiodi
Zoe Malchiodi is a Tumor Biology PhD Candidate studying immune-stromal interactions in pancreatic cancer. Zoe received her BA in Biochemistry & Molecular biology at Boston University (’16), before completing her MS degree (GSAS ’19), sparking her interest in cancer research. Zoe has been an active member of the GU community. She was formerly VP and currently the President of the Medical Center Graduate Student Organization (MCGSO), which represents the Biomedical Graduate Education (BGE) study body. Zoe is the VP of Engagement for GradGov with the goal of building and growing positive relationships with internal and external entities for the benefit of GU graduate students. In her free time Zoe enjoys going for longs runs, listening to podcasts, and reading.
Chief of Staff - ERIC SALDANHA(MBA '23)
DEPUTY CHIEF OF STAFF - SYDNEY KASOK(M.A. ART AND MUSEUM)
Sydney is an Art and Museum Studies M.A. student. Before coming to Georgetown, Sydney studied Metals and Jewelry design at Rochester Institute of Technology, where she discovered her love of art history, student government, and travel. Sydney is currently in London for the semester learning about Art Business at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art.
