CETLL Faculty Advisory Board (2025-2026)

Lindsey Albracht

English

Lindsey Albracht (she/her/hers) works as an Assistant Professor of English and the Co-Director of First-Year Writing and Part-Time Instruction. Her research and teaching focus on literacy, writing assessment, writing program administration, labor within writing programs, technical writing, and critical digital pedagogy.

Anisha Clarke

Mathematics

Dr. Anisha Clarke has taught mathematics in the SEEK Program at Queens College for over fifteen years. She strives to make math accessible to all students and believes that, while it can be challenging, everyone is capable of learning and succeeding. She also supports efforts to help fellow educators find balance in their personal and professional lives.

S.E. Hackney

Graduate School of Library and Information Studies

Dr. S.E. Hackney is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of Library and Information Studies at Queens College, CUNY. His research examines the intersections of librarianship and the history of computing with regards to digital text and information processing, and he does extensive work with community recordkeeping groups around information privacy and surveillance. His teaching and pedagogical practice focuses on the ethics of information work, and the shifting relationships between workers, institutions, and the communities they serve.

Leila Walker

Library

Leila Walker is the Humanities and Digital Scholarship Librarian at Queens College. She provides research and instruction support as the subject area specialist for the departments of English, Linguistics & Communication Disorders, Women’s & Gender Studies, and Irish Studies. Since 2018, she has led the Open Educational Resources Initiative at QC, training over 100 faculty members and saving QC students over $2.5 million in textbook fees. She holds a PhD in English from the CUNY Graduate Center. Her research interests include scholarship and social justice, plant humanities, and 19th century literature, not always at the same time.

Erica Doran

Psychology

Erica Doran (she/her) is a lecturer in the Psychology Department, where she is the course director for the department’s writing-intensive experimental psychology course and a member of its DEI committee. She also serves on the college’s Middle States Committee tasked with examining Queens College’s educational effectiveness assessments. In addition to her Ph.D. in psychology, she has a J.D. from Fordham School of Law, which she currently uses in connection with pro bono work related to, among other things, immigrant rights. She also serves on the Pre-Law Advisory Board. She is also the Chapter Chair for the Queens College chapter of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC), the union representing faculty and staff at CUNY. In her spare time, she volunteers at an animal shelter, works at restoring her 200-year-old house, and fantasizes about getting through all the emails in her inbox.

Amy Wan

English

Amy J. Wan (she/her) is Professor of English at Queens College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She teaches undergraduate and graduate classes on writing, literacy, and pedagogy and is the author of Producing Good Citizens: Literacy Training in Anxious Times (Pittsburgh, 2014). She is the recipient of the CCCC Braddock Award (2023) and the Richard Ohmann Award (2012). Her current project analyzes how to create spaces for change and resistance within the global US university through a historical and contemporary study of policies addressing access, diversity, race, and language. She is also the co-PI for a $1.7 million U.S. Department of Education AANAPISI grant awarded to Queens College in 2022. She has also designed and facilitated faculty development workshops and seminars on topics that such as anti-racist pedagogies, writing assignment design, writing feedback for multilingual learners, writing technologies, and place-based pedagogies.

Sally Izquierdo

Psychology

Dr. Sally Izquierdo is a Board Certified and NYS Licensed Behavior Analyst and a NYS Licensed Psychologist. She graduated from Florida Gulf Coast University with a master’s degree in counseling and from CUNY Queens College and The Graduate Center with a PhD in Behavior Analysis. Dr. Izquierdo has over 30 years of clinical experience, providing support to individuals with developmental disabilities, families, and professionals in homes, schools, and in the community.

At Queens College, Dr. Izquierdo is Director of the Applied Behavior Analysis graduate programs and is responsible for the clinical training for all master’s programs in the psychology department. As Director of QC Project REACH, she has developed behavior analytic supports for autistic CUNY students, and workshops for neurodivergent students and faculty. Dr. Izquierdo is dedicated to helping improve the practice landscape for behavior analysts in New York, experience opportunities for students, and inclusive supports for neurodivergent college students.

Norka Blackman-Richards

SEEK

Norka Blackman-Richards has dedicated decades to higher education, focusing on creating anti-racist, equity-focused spaces and movements. She has spent over twenty years at Queens College of the City University of New York, supporting student success.

Currently, she serves as the Director of the Percy Ellis Sutton SEEK program at Queens College, one of the oldest opportunity programs in the United States, and she also lectures in English Composition. Her commitment to ensuring academic success for students from challenging backgrounds is a hallmark of her work.

Her work as an advocate, curator, and leader has been recognized with multiple awards, including the 2025 New York City & State’s Trailblazers in Higher Education, the Queens College 2023 Inaugural Presidential Award for Diversity and Inclusion (Dr. Frank H. Wu), the 2019 Presidential Award for Excellence in Service (Dr. Felix O. Matos Rodriguez) , and The Jewel of Queens College Award in 2014 (Dr. Evangelos J. Gizis).

Blackman-Richards is a published writer and speaker on Black Women, Justice, Equity, and first-generation low-income student success in higher education. She holds degrees in Nonfiction Writing (M.F.A), English Language Teaching Education (M. Ed), Business Administration with a minor in Personnel Administration (B. Sc), and is currently completing a degree in Trauma-informed Pedagogies in Higher Ed (EdD).

Susan Davis

Music

Dr. Susan A. Davis is Professor and Graduate Coordinator of Music Education at the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College. She teaches courses in instrumental methods, music education research, the psychology of music and music education, and mentors undergraduate and graduate student teachers.

Her research on culturally responsive music praxis and philosophy has resulted in numerous publications and international presentations, with contributions to the Bulletin of the Council for Research in Music Education, String Research Journal, Music Educators Journal, Visions of Research in Music Education, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Journal of General Music Education, American String Teacher, International Journal of Music Education, and the Oxford Handbook of Feminism and Music Education. She is also an active clinician and conductor throughout the Northeast.

Since 2017, Professor Davis has played a central role in Queens College’s accreditation efforts, contributing to the institution’s successful bid for initial accreditation by the National Association of Schools of Music in 2021. Building on that work, she served as the Provost’s Middle States Faculty Fellow in 2023–24, during which she designed and launched the Departmental Advisor Hub to strengthen faculty advising and student success. She currently serves as a Working Group Co-Chair for Middle States Standard IV in preparation for Queens College’s 2024–26 re-accreditation process. Her honors include the President’s Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Arts and Humanities (2024), a CUNY Mellon Faculty Diversity Fellowship (2016–17), and the Faculty Day Award for Excellence in Teaching at Brooklyn College (2015).

Dr. Davis earned a B.F.A. in Music Performance from Stony Brook University and an M.S.Ed. in Music Education from Queens College. She taught in public schools for 11 years before completing her Ph.D. in Music Education at New York University, where her research focused on the mentorship of pre-service and in-service teachers.

David Rivera

Educational and Community Programs

Dr. David P. Rivera is an associate professor and coordinator of the graduate programs in mental health and school counseling at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), where he is also the Founding Director of the CUNY LGBTQI Student Leadership Program. He holds degrees from Teachers College, Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Wyoming. His professional experience includes college counseling, higher education administration, and consultations on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging. Dr. Rivera has worked at a variety of institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, Prince George’s Community College, and the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. A counseling psychologist, his research is guided by critical theories and social justice frameworks and explores cultural competency development and issues impacting the marginalization and wellbeing of people of color and oppressed sexual orientation and gender identity groups, with a focus on microaggressions. He has published books, journal articles, and book chapters in various areas of multicultural psychology, education, and social justice, and his latest co-edited books, the award-winning Affirming LGBTQ+ Students in Higher Education and Critical Theories for School Psychology and Counseling: A Foundation for Equity and Inclusion in School-Based Practice were released in 2022. Dr. Rivera holds leadership positions with The Steve Fund, the American Psychological Association, the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, and the Council for Opportunity in Education. Dr. Rivera is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and has received national honors from the American College Counseling Association and the American College Personnel Association.