Randol Contreras, Sociology
Randol Contreras is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at The Graduate Center. For the last three years, he has had wonderful teaching experiences at the Borough of Manhattan Community College, Bronx Community College, Hunter College, and Lehman College. In his courses, students experienced their everyday worlds through writing – writing ethnographic research, biographies, and family histories. In this way, students learned how to connect their own life experiences to the academic material. Apart from teaching, Randol has also been employed as a researcher in several leading studies on immigration and ethnicity in New York City. In particular, he participated in the Immigrant Second Generation/Metropolitan New York Project led by Dr. Mary Waters of Harvard University, and Dr. Phil Kasinitz and Dr. Bill Mollenkoph of The Graduate Center. As for his own dissertation research, Randol investigated the lives of Latino men who are drug robbers or “stickup kids.” Through ethnographic research, Randol observed how these men negotiated careers within the illegal drug market, responded to improved policing and community empowerment, and related to people outside the illegal drug market (for example, neighbors, friends, girlfriends, and children). | 
Randol Contreras is a doctoral candidate in Sociology and has taught at the Borough of Manahattan Community College.
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Jason VanOra, Social/Personality Psychology
Jason VanOra is a doctoral candidate in Social/Personality Psychology at The Graduate Center, CUNY. His research employs a narrative approach toward understanding self and identity across settings of privilege and injustice. Jason's dissertation draws on the narratives of students in an attempt to explore meaning-making, agency, freedom, and constraints within the context of the academy. Before joining WAC, Jason held a full-time substitute lecturer position at New York City College of Technology, CUNY. Currently, as a first year CUNY Writing Fellow at Hostos, he is working with faculty to create and implement writing intensive courses in both history and literature. He will also be delivering writing workshops for students required to write formal research papers, as well as those preparing to take the CPE. | 
Jason VanOra is a doctoral candidate in Social/Personality Psychology and comes to Hostos with much experience teaching in the CUNY system. |
Miriam Jiménez
Miriam Jiménez is an advanced doctoral candidate in Political Science at The Graduate Center. As a teacher highly interested in critical thinking, she has implemented a number of writing intensive techniques in her own courses of American Politics, including American Political System, Mass Media in American Politics, Political Parties and Interest Groups, and Latino Issues in the United States. Born in Mexico City, Miriam has been an intense and committed Teaching Fellow at the City College of New York for three years, and a lecturer at Lehman College, Baruch College, and Fordham University. She has held research positions both in Mexico and in the United States, including the New York Bar Association, and nowadays expresses her multicultural interest in projects regarding long-term lines of ethnic representation in national institutions, immigration, and transnationalism, and political processes. | 
Miriam Jiménez is an advanced doctoral candidate in Political Science and has taught at Lehman & Baruch Colleges as well as Fordham University.
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Ronit Webman, Linguistics
Ronit Webman is a doctoral candidate in Linguistics at The Graduate Center, CUNY. Her dissertation involves sentence comprehension and second language acquisition. Ronit received a B.A. and M.A. in English Linguistics as well as a Teaching Certificate for English from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, where she specialized in the Theoretical Linguistics and the application of language to the areas of Communication and Cognitive Psychology. Ronit was principally engaged in the teaching of English as a Foreign Language (EFL/ESL) at the Hebrew University, Ben Gurion University and the Open University in Israel. In addition, she taught English grammar and linguistics to prospective English teachers at the Seminar Hakibbutzim Teachers College. | 
Ronit Webman is a doctoral candidate in Linguistics and works with the Language & Cognition department at Hostos. |
Romina Padró, Philosophy
Romina Padró is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at The Graduate Center. She works on philosophy of language and logic. She received a Licenciatura Degree in Philosophy from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has taught Introduction to Philosophy and Logic, and she has participated in a Writing Across the Curriculum program in Argentina. As first year Writing Fellow, Romina is working at Hostos with Professors Carlos Sanabria and Rosa Velazquez. | 
Romina Padró is a doctoral candidate in
Philosophy and has participated in Writing
Across the Curriculum in Argentina.
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Paul McBreen, Classics
Paul McBreen is a doctoral candidate in Classics. He is currently writing his dissertation proposal on mythological narratives of foundation legends of cities and holy precincts in as they are detailed across genres and time periods in ancient Greek literature. He is currently working with Professor Charles Drago as a CUNY Writing Fellow to develop a Writing Intensive (WI) course in Pathology for next school year and also supporting a current WI course in Radiology. His other WAC assignment is developing a WI course in Help Desk Support offered by the Business department at Hostos. Professor Alysa Cardone began this WI assignment and Professor Julio Gallardo will complete the final syllabus as he will be the instructor for this course. |  Paul McBreen is a doctoral candidate in Classics and has taught courses at various CUNY schools.
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