The College of Visual and Performing Arts’ diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) efforts are led by Associate Dean Seyeon Lee and the college’s DEIA committee. Read the VPA DEIA bylaws.
VPA DEIA Committee
- Jen Ballard, administrative specialist, Department of Drama (staff representative)
- Rachel E. Dubrofsky, professor and chair, Department of Communication and Rhetorical Studies
- Alix N. Ferrer-Yulfo, professor of practice of museum studies, School of Design
- Micaiah John ’25, acting major/disability studies minor, Department of Drama (student representative)
- Loren Loiacono, assistant professor of composition and theory, Setnor School of Music
- Emily Nolan, professor of practice, Department of Creative Arts Therapy
- Ricky Pak, assistant professor of acting, Department of Drama
- Ekaterina Vanovskaya, assistant teaching professor of studio arts, School of Art
- Rebecca Ruige Xu, professor of computer art and animation, Department of Film and Media Arts
For more information about diversity and inclusion initiatives at Syracuse University, visit diversity.syr.edu.
Featured image: The Inclusive Music Recording Studio is a two-week summer camp hosted at SubCat Studios in Syracuse that brings youth with intellectual and developmental disabilities together with music education graduate students to collaboratively operate a recording studio. The studio was developed by Setnor School of Music faculty members Jim Abbott and John Coggiola.