Dean of Students Office

VoteDeis Coalition

The VoteDeis Coalition is made up of students, faculty and staff committed to supporting voter registration and participation among the Brandeis University community.

The VoteDeis Campus Coalition Steering Committee is comprised of students and faculty dedicated to facilitating civic engagement at Brandeis. The committee includes the following individals:

  • Jessica Basile, Assistant Dean, Graduate Student Life

  • LeManuel “Lee” Bitsóí, Vice Provost for Access and Excellence

  • Nova Brent '28, VoteDeis Student Club President

  • Professor Jill Greenlee, Associate Professor, Politics Department and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Department

  • Yoni Kahn ’24, Masters of Public Policy candidate at the Brandeis University Heller School of Social Policy and Management, former ENACT Your Vote Campus Student Engagement Fellow, 2024 All IN Student Voting Honor Roll recipient

  • Eileen Kell, Academic Administrator for Graduate Programs in Education and Womens and Gender Studies

  • Professor Dan Kryder, Luis Stulberg Chair in Law and Politics, Politics Department

  • Madeline Leventhal ’26, VoteDeis club member, 2025 All IN Student Voting Honor Roll recipient

  • Michelle Puls, Director of Student Engagement

  • David Weinstein, VoteDeis Coordinator and Club Advisor, Assistant Director of ENACT: The Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation

Additional members of the VoteDeis Campus Coalition: 

  • Sarah Baskin ’26, Community Engagement Ambassador Program (CEAP)
  • Madeleine Delpha, Assistant Director of Programs and Community Engagement, Rose Art Museum
  • Jasmine (Jazz) Dottin, Events and Communications Administrator, Division of Social Sciences
  • Monique Pillow Gnanaratnam, Dean of Students, Dean of Students Office
  • Stephanie Grimes, Associate Director of Alumni Relations
  • Cheryl Hansen, Senior Academic Administrator, Department of Sociology
  • Lauren Jordahl, Department of Sociology; Social Justice and Social Policy (SJSP); Peace, Conflict, and Coexistence Studies (PAX)
  • Marc Kiredjian ’05, Associate Director, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
  • Jeffrey Lenowitz, Assistant Professor, Department of Politics
  • Kathleen McMahan, Executive Administrator and Communications Specialist, Office of the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences
  • Jeffrey Shoulson, Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences, Professor of English
  • Aimee Slater, Government Information & Social Sciences Librarian
  • Leah Steele, Office of Marketing and Communications
  • Yasmin Vera, Education Coordinator, Rose Art Museum and Chair of the Brandeis Faculty and Staff Pride Alliance

Alumni and former members: 

  •  Rani Balakrishna ’25, former Brandeis Undergraduate Student Union President (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)

  • Hannah Borgida ’21, Waltham Group Advocacy
  • Kate Danziger ’22, Brandeis NVP, Environmental Studies and Biology
  • Ria Escamilla-Gil ’27, Undergraduate Student Union President (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)

  •  Mandy Feuerman ’25, former VoteDeis student president, former ENACT Your Vote Campus Student Engagement Fellow (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)

  • Alison Hagani ’22, UDR for Sociology Department
  • Noah Hochfelder, Springboard Fellow (Innovation Track) Brandeis University Hillel / Mitzvote (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)
  • Yoni Kahn ’24, Masters of Public Policy candidate at the Brandeis University Heller School of Social Policy and Management, former ENACT Your Vote Campus Student Engagement Fellow, 2024 All IN Student Voting Honor Roll recipient (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)
  • Emma Kenney ’21, Campus Compact Poll Worker Recruiter, Sociology and Economics, History
  • Zoe Lazar ’23, Campus Compact Poll Worker Recruiter, Major in Sociology Minor in Business and Education Studies
  • Maia Lefferman ’25, former VoteDeis student president, former ENACT Your Vote Campus Student Engagement Fellow, 2023 All IN Student Voting Honor Roll recipient (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)
  • Gabriella Lieberman ’23, Politics and Health: Science, Society & Policy
  • Kathleen McMahan, Executive Administrator and Communications Specialist, Office of the Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences (Inaugural Steering Committee Member)
  • Jake Mitchell, Waltham Group Advocacy Group, Waltham Group Teaching Assistants in Public Schools, Education UDR, CEAP ambassador, Biology Major and secondary education minor 2022
  • Kaitlin Polgar ’21, Health: Science, Society & Policy Major
  • Sophia Reiss ’23, Philosophy, Editor-in-Chief, Brandeis University Law Journal
  • Noah Risley ’24, Brandeis Undergraduate Student Union President, Comparative Literature and International and Global Studies majors, Legal Studies and Politics minors; Brandeis Democrats
  • Leigh Swigart, VoteDeis Co-Founder, Director of Programs in International Justice and Society, International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life (retired)
  • Eliza Welty ’22, Brandeis Democrats, Department of Politics
  • Hannah Wilson ’21