2022 Sachs Program Grants Evaluation Committees
The Sachs Program 2022 Grant Awards review process was administered by our 2022 Evaluation Committees. Six committees were convened separately to each discuss one of the six Annual Grant Award categories. Committee Members were selected based on a range of expertise, including expertise relevant to the application pool, and included previous grant recipients, students, faculty, staff, alumni, and community members. Their evaluation was informed by the Sachs Program’s mission, priorities, and current program criteria.
In a year with a record number of applications received, with so many wonderful, ambitious, and imaginative proposals, the decisions made by the 2022 Committee Members were extremely challenging. We would like to share our sincere thanks and to acknowledge them for their hard work and thoughtfulness.
Committee Members
- Alex Smith
Philadelphia Author, Teacher, Musician, and Visual Artist - Amber Rose Johnson
Ph.D Candidate, English and Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania; Coordinator, Black Cultural Studies Collective - Ania Vu
Composer and Pianist; Ph.D Candidate, Department of Music, University of Pennsylvania - Elizabeth McGinsky
Project Director, The Enterprise Center - Brooke O’Harra
Theater Director and Artist; Senior Lecturer, Creative Writing, University of Pennsylvania - Clayton Colmon
Associate Director of Instructional Design, Arts & Sciences Online Learning, University of Pennsylvania - Danny Orendorff
Curator and Writer; Executive Director of Vox Populi Gallery - Davesh Soneji
Associate Professor and Graduate Chair, Department of South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania - Erin O’Malley
MFA Candidate in Creative Writing and Poetry, Arizona State University; BA, University of Pennsylvania - Eto Otitigbe
Artist and Curator; Assistant Professor of Sculpture, Brooklyn College; Percent for Art program commissioned artist for Amy Gutmann Hall - Farrah Rahaman
Scholar and Cultural Worker; Panel Producer at BlackStar; Ph.D Candidate, Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania - Fred Schmidt-Arenales
Artist, Filmmaker, and Organizer; MFA, University of Pennsylvania - Gabriel Martinez
Artist; Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Fine Arts and Design, University of Pennsylvania - Ivanco Talevski
Artist; Senior Lecturer, Undergraduate Fine Arts and Design, University of Pennsylvania; MFA, University of Pennsylvania - Jamal Batts
Curator, Writer, and Scholar; University of California President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine; Curator in Residence, Undergraduate Fine Arts and Design, University of Pennsylvania - Jean-Christophe Cloutier
Associate Professor, English and Comparative Literature, and Undergraduate Chair, University of Pennsylvania - Jonathan Zimmerman
Judy and Howard Berkowitz Professor in Education and Professor of History of Education, University of Pennsylvania - Juan Castrillón
Multimodal Cultural Anthropologist and Ethnomusicologist; Inaugural Gilbert Seldes Postdoctoral Multimodal Fellow, Annenberg School for Communication; Middle East Center Regional Scholar; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania - Julia Bloch
Author; Director, Creative Writing Program, University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania - Kay Seohyung Lee
Artist; MFA, University of Pennsylvania - Kiana Murphy
Postdoctoral Research Associate, American Studies Department, Brown University; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania; Coordinator, Black Cultural Studies Collective - Kiera Abdur-Rahman
Screenings Manager, Scribe Video Center - Levester Williams
Artist; Animator and Video Producer, Arts & Sciences Online Learning, University of Pennsylvania - Lisa Marie Patzer
Artist; Communications and Web Director, SNF Paideia Program, University of Pennsylvania - Lucy Corlett
BA, University of Pennsylvania - Lyndsay Hoy
MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Pennsylvania - Mohannad Ghawanmeh
Scholar, Cineaste, Educator, and Culturist; Executive Director, Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture - Nicole Maloy
Director, Office of Social Equity & Community, University of Pennsylvania; MS, BS, University of Pennsylvania - Nicole Pollard
Curator of Lived Culture, Philadelphia Contemporary - Nikki Brake-Sillá
Playwright and Filmmaker; Project Manager, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; BA, University of Pennsylvania - Nora Gross
Scholar, Educator, Documentarian; Visiting Assistant Professor in Sociology and Core Fellow, Boston College; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania - Rachel Zolf
Interdisciplinary Author and Artist; Lecturer, English, University of Pennsylvania - Ramey Mize
Assistant Curator of American Art, Portland Museum of Art; Ph.D, University of Pennsylvania - Glenn Sonnie Wooden
Artist and Entrepreneur; MFA, University of Pennsylvania - Sophie Hochhäusl
Assistant Professor for Architectural History and Theory, Graduate Architecture, University of Pennsylvania - Sosena Solomon
Documentary Filmmaker and Multimedia Visual Artist; Lecturer, University of Pennsylvania - Taja Jones
Associate Director of Development, ICA Philadelphia; BA, University of Pennsylvania - Tamir Williams
Ph.D Candidate, History of Art, University of Pennsylvania; MA, University of Pennsylvania
2022 Grant Awards
The Sachs Program 2022 Grant Awards support 49 ambitious and creative projects in the arts and humanities at the University of Pennsylvania.