Staff

Sandra Aguilar

Sandra Aguilar oversees metadata, indexing, and institutional archiving.

Sedda Antekelian

Sedda Antekelian develops educational content, programming and community partnerships utilizing Armenian Genocide testimony collections.

Alan Auyeung

Alan Auyeung oversees the collection, management and transfer area of broadcast video equipment; administers educational, instructional and referen

Nita Awatramani

Doug Ballman

Doug works in the Institute’s technology group as a Technical Project Leader on a variety of different technology projects including the current, m

Crispin Brooks

Crispin Brooks is the curator of the Institute’s Visual History Archive. He holds a M.Phil.

David Brown

Amy Carnes, PhD

Amy Marczewski Carnes, PhD, completed her doctorate in French at UCLA in 2007 and worked at Human Rights Watch in Los Angeles befo

Mills Chang

Mills Chang is the Senior Software Architect leading the software development of USC Shoah Foundation ITS Department.

Lesly Culp

Lesly Culp is USC Shoah Foundation’s Interim Director of Education and Outreach.

Noah Ehrlich

Daryn Eller

Daryn Eller manages the Institute’s institutional media collection and participates in cataloging the Visual History Archive testimonies.

Ryan Fenton-Strauss

Ryan Fenton-Strauss manages the video archive and post-production team.  He joined the USC Shoah Foundation in 2003, and oversees the digitization

Lindsay Friedman

Lindsay manages Echoes & Reflections, the Institute's flagship Holocaust Education program with ADL and Yad Vashem.

Inna Gogina

Inna Gogina is the archivist of the USC Shoah Foundation Visual History Archive.

Georgiana Gomez

Zachary Goode

Zachary Goode fulfills most filming and editing requests that come to ITS.  He also helps oversee the digitization and quality control of new colle

Ita Gordon

Ita is a cataloguer and indexer of Holocaust survivors testimonies. She also worked as a translator.

Sam Gustman

Sam Gustman has been chief technology officer (CTO) of the Shoah Foundation since 1994. Gustman is also associate dean and CTO at the USC Libraries where he oversees IT for the Libraries and started the USC Digital Repository.

Kathy Guyton

Rachel Herman

Rachel Herman helps curate content for IWitness and other educational programs.  Rachel received her M.A.

Francesca Innocenti

Francesca is the Liaison between Operations and other Shoah Foundation departments as well as visitors, scholars, and guests.   Other responsibilit

Greg Irwin

Greg Irwin manages the content and development of IWitness, the Institute’s educational website.

Sandhya Venkat Iyer

Karen Jungblut

With the Institute since 1996, Karen has led an international and multilingual staff to successfully catalog and index the archive and has been ins

Karen Kim, PhD

Karen Kim is the senior researcher and evaluator for the USC Shoah Foundation.

Monika Koszyńska

Jeffrey Langham, PhD

Jeffrey Langham oversees the management and the strategic development of the Institute's website.

Zach Larkin

Zach Larkin supports the Institute’s Managing Director and Executive Office through his involvement in stewardship strategies, content development,

Jenna Leventhal

Jenna Leventhal is the Deputy Director of Education and Operations at USC Shoah Foundation.

Akhila Marupaduga

Susan McKibben, PhD

Kate Canada Obregon

Kate is an alumni of the USC Dornsife School of Letters Arts and Sciences wh

Anita Pace

Anita Pace, Director of Technology for the Shoah Foundation Institute at the University of Southern California, is responsible for ov

Alex Paiva, Jr

Alex Paiva Jr is a programmer helping build the Dimension in Testimony platform by using AI services to allow for an interactive experience with te

Larina Palacpac

Larina Palacpac supports the financial management of the Institute by assisting in account reconciliation, budget development and financial reporti

Rachel Peacock

Jayne Perilstein

Jayne joined USC Shoah Foundation in 2012, and is based in New York and Philadelphia.

Badema Pitic, PhD

Badema Pitic joined the Center for Advanced Genocide Research in 2017, where she is involved in the Center's outreach and academic programming dire

Susan Popler

Susan Popler is Director of the Visual History Archive Program where she is driving initiatives to reimagine how audiences access, engage with and

Matthew Rabin

Zovaira Rodriguez

Zovaira Rodriguez is the Procurement Specialist for the USC Shoah Foundation and has been with the institute for 3 years.

Michael Russell

Michael Russell is a lead web developer at USC Shoah foundation.

Arie Salma

Arie Salma is a web developer and program analyst for the Shoah Foundation. He specializes in front end, back end and CMS development.

Lacey Schauwecker

Lacey Schauwecker contributes to the Institute’s educational and professional development programming, with a focus on Spanish-language materials.

Cynthia Schirmer

Cynthia Schirmer currently oversees the finances and business operations of the Institute.  She has worked for the Shoah Foundation since March 201

Jeff Schulz

Jeff Schulz is a Senior Software Engineer leading the Angular development for USC Shoah Foundation's interactive web sites.

Kim Simon

Having been at the Institute for 24 years, Kim Simon is currently involved in developing and scaling the Institute’s impact and reach globally. She directs the development and implementation of key public engagement programs that connect USC Shoah Foundation to its many distinct audiences.

Jessica Sinclair

Jessica joined USC Shoah Foundation as Community Program Administrator in 2022.

Dawna Sirard

Stephen D. Smith, PhD

Dr. Stephen D. Smith is an adjunct Professor of Religion at the University of Southern California. He served as executive director of the Institute for twelve years.

Martin Šmok

Richard Starr

Kori Street, PhD

Dr. Street currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Association of Holocaust Organizations and as a member of the Education Working Group of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Andrea Szőnyi

Andrea Szőnyi is based in Budapest (Hungary) and oversees the Institute's international educational programs including content development, profess

Hoan Tran

Hoan Tran oversees the data archival and storage infrastructure for the Institute’s content.

Edith Umugiraneza

Edith Umugiraneza joined the USC Shoah Foundation in 2009 as a consultant and later became an indexer.

Svetlana Ushakova

Svetlana Ushakova provides the service of research, annotation, and evaluation to the Dimensions in Testimony program.

Consolée Uwamariya

Chetham Visweswar

Andrea Waldron

Nicole Watkins

Nicole Watkins serves as the Director of Donor Relations for USC Shoah Foundation’s Advancement team and is responsible for managing our donor rela

Mark Weicht

Mark Weicht is a Video Archivist and Post Production Specialist.

Robert Williams, PhD

Dr. Robert Williams is the Finci-Viterbi Executive Director, on the steering committee of the Global Task Force Against Holocaust Distortion, and served for four years as chair of the Committee on Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial at the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.

Cate Wilson, PhD

Cate Wilson is the Community Engagement and Outreach specialist for the USC Shoah Foundation’s education department.

Daphne Yang

Daphne Yang is an annotation specialist in the Dimensions in Testimony program.

Letisha Young

Letisha Young joined the Shoah Foundation in July of 2017 as the Program Manager of Administrative Programs.

Aaron Zarrow

On staff since 2011, strategic communications manager Aaron Zarrow joined the organization for the first time in 1995 as a production assistant.