SUNY COIL Advisory Council
The SUNY COIL Center is guided by an advisory council, which convenes on a regular basis (typically four times each calendar year) to communicate work from subcommittees and steer the direction of the SUNY COIL Center. Council appointments are made by the Director of the SUNY COIL Center in consultation with current Council members and a designee from the host campus.
Tracy Allen
Dean of the School of Sciences, SUNY Oneonta
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Tracy H. Allen is the founding dean of the School of Sciences and has served as dean or interim dean at SUNY Oneonta for nine years. After earning a Ph.D. in Geosciences at Oregon State University, his path to becoming an academic leader started as a faculty member, Environmental Science Program Director, and later as a long-term Chair of the Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability. Dr. Allen’s passion for teaching merited him the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Innovative Uses of Instructional Technology Award. As an administrator, he is committed to facilitating high impact experiential learning and teaching and creating opportunities for global connectedness, community engagement, science outreach, and sustainability. Throughout his career he has partnered with Global Education, leading nearly 400 students to 15 different countries, and advancing COIL initiatives.
Abigail Bryant
Director of EOP Student Success, SUNY System Administration
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Abigail Bryant is a Brooklyn native with a master’s degree in Sociology with a concentration on Race, Class & Gender. Abby, as she likes to go by, has a decade of experience in Higher Education. She specializes in student success which she defines as self-actualization through deep learning with respect to community cultural wealth, and radical hope. At the core of Abby’s work and education is to be an agent of social change, influencing students to strive towards excellence. She possesses extensive experience in promoting opportunity and access to students who are from historically disadvantaged backgrounds. She currently serves as the Director of EOP Student Success at SUNY System Administration. There she coordinates with 55 campuses to create the necessary conditions for students to thrive throughout their educational journey. Abby is fueled by first-hand experience of the inequities and pitfalls that exist in our current education system.
Francesca Cichello
Senior Executive Director, Center for International Education, SUNY Empire State University
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Since 2006, Francesca Cichello has worked to serve the unique needs of international students at Empire State University. She leads a global network of students, faculty, and staff in Europe, the Middle East, and Latin America. Cichello has championed access-based virtual learning and has expertise in hybrid teaching and learning models that blend international distance learning and classroom-based instruction. Her research interests include the internationalization of higher education and American education within the global context. Cichello has served on various international task forces devoted to linking the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to educational programming.
Chiara De Santi
Associate Professor of Modern Languages, Farmingdale State College
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Chiara De Santi (she/her/hers) is Associate Professor of Modern Languages at Farmingdale State College, where she is the COIL Coordinator and the Chair of the COIL Advisory Council and of the COIL Review Board, after having led the Provost COIL Task Force in 2021-2022. As a faculty, her COIL collaborations have been with Chile, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and South Africa. She is also the advisor of the Global Learning: COIL Microcredential and of the Global and Cultural Awareness Microcredential. For COIL at Farmingdale, click here.
Kathleen Feit
Director of Finance, SUNY Oneonta
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Christina Lee
Global Education Coordinator, Monroe Community College
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Christina Heyon Lee (she/her) is the Global Education Coordinator at Monroe Community College. Her work focuses on building strategic partnerships and creating curricular programming with a global lens while incorporating perspectives on diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging, and social justice. She is co-chair of the Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accountability (IDEA) Council, co-leads MCC’s Global Roundtable, and mentors the Global Union Student Association. In the community, Christina is Vice President of Brighton Central School District’s Board of Education, board member of the Asian/Pacific Islander American Association of Greater Rochester and vice chair of the community advisory board for WXXI/The Little Theatre. She is a graduate of the United Way of Greater Rochester’s Asian Pacific American Leadership Development Program and an alumna of the SUNY SAIL (Strategic, Academic, and Innovative Leadership) Institute. She was recently selected as an inaugural fellow in the SUNY AANHPI (Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander) Leadership Institute. Born in Seoul, South Korea, she immigrated to Rochester as a child. She earned degrees in cultural anthropology from SUNY Buffalo and University of Colorado, Boulder, and is a 2024 graduate of the Warner School of Education at the University of Rochester. Her EdD project focused on increasing a sense of belonging for Asian American students at MCC.
Michelle Lopez
Director of Global Education, SUNY Oneonta
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Michelle Lopez graduated from the University at Buffalo with an MA in Caribbean Studies. She has been the Director of Global Education at SUNY Oneonta since December 2022. Overseeing the university’s mission to globalize the campus, she assists students and faculty in pursuit of global connections (COIL, fellowships, exchange, international internships, etc.). Michelle has spent time studying and working in Cuba, studying in Mexico (Yucatán), studying in Spain, working in Costa Rica, and has traveled to Japan, Guyana, Argentina, Colombia, Canada, Morocco, and western Europe.
Alejandra M. Pickett
Director of Online Teaching, SUNY Online
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Alejandra M. Pickett is the director of Online Teaching for SUNY Online, at the system-level of the State University or New York (SUNY). She is the former the director of the Open SUNY Center for Online Teaching Excellence, and the former associate director of the award-winning SUNY Learning Network (SLN). Today she develops openly-licensed and freely available tools and resources to assist campuses, faculty, and instructional designers improve online teaching and learning. She consults and speaks regularly on effective online teaching and learning, large-scale online faculty development, online course quality, badging, online community building, online instructional design, and leveraging technology to enhance instruction online. Click here to visit the SUNY Online Online Teaching webpage, or click here to contact Alexandra.
Christopher Price
Director of Educational Development, SUNY Center for Professional Development
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Christopher Price is the Director of Educational Development for the State University of New York (SUNY) Center for Professional Development (CPD). At the CPD, Chris designs and implements professional development programs for faculty and staff both in and outside SUNY. He is an active member of the Professional and Organization Development (POD) Network serving as a member of the Core Committee in 2020-2023, Chair of the Professional Development Committee in 2018-19, and Chair of the 2017 Institute for New Faculty Developers. Prior to his position at the CPD, Chris was Director of the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching (CELT) at SUNY Brockport for 12 years. He started working at Brockport after receiving his PhD in Political Science from the University at Albany in 2004. Chris continues to teach online for Brockport as an instructor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies program. He has been invited to give a keynote address or presentation over twenty times at conferences and campuses across the U.S. Teaching, learning, and educational development workshops and presentations Chris has conducted include discussion-based teaching, communicating effectively with students, collaborative learning, academic integrity, teaching with technology, course design and using critical reflection to improve teaching and learning. In 2013, he received the SUNY Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service.
Annette Richie
Director of Global Academic Programs, University at Albany
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Dr. Richie oversees COIL, Global Distinction, the International Studies Minor and Peace Corps Prep.
Chilton Reynolds
Director of the Faculty Center for Teaching, Learning & Scholarship, SUNY Oneonta
Ex officio, non-voting member
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Hope Windle
Director of the SUNY COIL Center
Ex officio, non-voting member
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Hope Windle is the Director of SUNY COIL (State University of New York Collaborative Online International Learning), leading with 19 years of instructional design acumen. Empowering 225+ global member institutions, providing professional workshops, connecting institutions, professors and 60,000 students annually in 32 countries on 6 continents. She speaks internationally on the value of culturally focused, student team-based projects enacting social change locally and globally.