ASPIRE! Peer and Near-Peer Mentoring Trainees
Accountability and Safe-space, to Promote, Inspire, Recharge, and Empower!
This service is provided by TRANSFORM, in partnership with the Office of Faculty Professional Development, Diversity & Inclusion. The goal of ASPIRE! peer and near-peer mentoring program is to support early career faculty researchers from diverse backgrounds at Columbia University Irving Medical Center to enhance retention in academia, promote research career development, and strengthen mentorship satisfaction
Current Trainees - Cohort 4
Revathi Balasubramanian
Yi Cai
Carla Concepcion-Crisol
Evianna Cruz Herrera
Ricardo Cruz-Acuna
Christina Eckhardt
Thomas Hays
Cristin Holland
Debbie Malden
Gemma Moya-Gal
Yael Ruth Nobel
Elizabeth Park
Maria Pizzirusso
Lauren Richter
Diana Rodriguez-Moreno
Manaswi Sangraula
Bernadine Waller
Katherine Xu
Xuhai Orson Xu
Current Trainees - Cohort 3
Thomas Connors
Yevgeniya Gartshteyn
Abigail Greenleaf
Ikjae Lee
Matthew Lewis
Ofir Livne
Nadia Liyanage-Don
Zachary Mannes
Lucas Matthews
Hila Milo Rasouly
Joshua Motelow
Ryan Moy
Emily Paine
Ayesha Sania
Corianna Sichel
Alison Taylor
Milenna van Dijk
Joshua Weiner
Giulia Zanni
Past Trainees
Cohort 2
Brooke Aggarwal
Dominique Bailey
Natalie Bareis
Rushelle Byfield
Wei-li Chang
Hua-Jay Cherng
Matthew Cummings
Lauren Gonzales
Atlas Khan
Patrick Lao
Annie Lee
Tamar Lubell
Yiming Luo
Son McLaren
Katherine Nash
Robbie Parks
Nooralam Rai
Dana Sacco
Jennifer Small-Saunders
Cohort 1
Cristina Fernandez
Fatemeh (Flora) Momen-Heravi
Hilda Fernandez
Jordan Nestor
Justine Kahn
Katherine Dimitropoulou
Lisa Eisler
Lynn Petukhova
Robyn Gartrell
Syeda Imama Naqvi
Talea Cornelius