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Our Team

Marientina Gotsis, MFA
CoFounder & Director

Maryalice
Jordan-Marsh, PhD, RN

Senior Scholar

Vangelis Lympouridis, PhD
Senior Scholar

James C. Roberts, Esq.
Advisor

Pat Levitt, PhD
Advisor

Skip Rizzo, PhD
Advisor

James Finley, PhD
Collaborator

David Baron, MSEd, DO
Advisor (Emeritus)

Donna Spruijt-Metz, MFA, PhD
Collaborator (Emerita)

Dennis Wixon, PhD
Collaborator (Emeritus)

Beth Fisher, PhD, PT, FAPTA
Collaborator

Isabela Granic
Collaborator (Emerita)

Laura Garcia, PhD
Visiting Scholar (Emerita)

Diane Tucker, MA, MFA
Consultant (Emerita)

Nina Poulos Ramage, MFA
Consultant (Emerita)

JT Vernon, MSW, ASW
Visiting Scholar (Emeritus)

Scott Fisher
Advisor (Emeritus)

Rohit Varma, MD, MPH
Advisor (Emeritus)

Stacy Davies
Visiting Scholar

Kaitlin "KB" Bonfiglio
Adjunct Faculty

Current Students & Mentees

Undegraduates

Anik Panja
BFA Game Development and Interaction Design

Frances Zoe
BA Media Arts + Practice

Anne Guo
BS Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Kaleb Stephens
BS Global Health

Andrew Le
BS Biological Sciences

MFA Interactive Media

MFA Fine Arts

MS Product Development Engineering

PhD Media Arts & Practice

Alumni, Mentees & Research Assistants*

2023

2022

2021

2020

2019

2018

2017

2016

2015

2014

MD Doctor of Medicine

Andrew Joyce

 

PhD Social Work

Hyunsung Oh

 

MFA Interactive Media

Michael T. Lin

Bryan Zhang

 

MSW Social Work

Sarah Farrell

 

MS Global Medicine Management

Mera Gobrial

 

BS Business Administration/BA East Asian Languages & Cultures

Catherine Uong

2013

MFA Interactive Media

Yasaman Hashemian

Lily Chou

Jason Mathias

Xuan Li

 

MS Computer Science

Zheng Zeng

 

BS Occupational Therapy

Max Swider

 

BS Biomedical Engineering

Caroline Win

 

BS Health Promotion & Disease Prevention

Kelly Morgan

 

High School

Isabella Astor
The Buckley School, Sherman Oaks, CA

2012

MFA Interactive Media

Erin Reynolds

Yun Dai

 

Graduate Certificate
(Scoring for Motion Pictures and TV)

Brent Hengeveld

2011

MCM Communication Management

Ying Sun

 

BA Interactive Entertainment

Matteo Marjoram

 

BS Business Administration & Management

Wakefield Li

2010

PhD Communication

Helen Hua Wang

 

MA Strategic Public Relations

Amy Akmal

 

BA Interactive Entertainment/Film Production

David Turpin

2009

MFA Interactive Media

Diana Hughes

 

BA Interactive Media

David Villatoro

* Listed by graduation year and without pictures because you grow up so fast! If you are incorrectly categorized and have a more recent link you prefer, email gotsis ( at ) usc.edu. This list is still incomplete and short of at least 50 people as of Dec 29, 2020. Email us anyway if you do not see yourself in here!