People

Zo is a first-year MSW and MSP dual student, concentrating in Domestic Social and Economic Development. A 2014 graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s Social Thought and Political Economy program, Zo is interested in analyzing complex systems of power and domination and collaborating with others to dismantle structures that reproduce inequality and oppression. Zo loves live music, bike riding, outdoor adventures, and their cat, Phoebe

Arpit is a first-year MBA student from Amritsar, India. He graduated from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology with a B.E. in Mechatronics Engineering. For the last six years, he worked with Alstom Transport, a French MNC, building and testing trains across three continents. He loves visiting museums, photography, and reading poetry and prose in different languages.

Jessica Klingler Cissell is the Assistant Provost, Graduate Education and International Community in the Office of the Provost.  In this role, Jessica sets the strategic direction for The Graduate Center, including the university-wide graduate fellowships, co-curricular and development programming for over 8,000 graduate and professional students.

Nancy provides administrative support for The Graduate Center. In this role, she supports and assists the director and manager of The Graduate Center with event logistics, coordinates activities with outside vendors, processes the accounting through WorkDay, manages the logistics of specific events, and greets visitors.

Rachel works closely with the leadership staff of The Graduate Center and plays a key role in its continuing innovative development as a dedicated campus space with interdisciplinary programming and information resources for graduate and professional students at Washington University in St. Louis.

Sandra is responsible for developing and executing comprehensive engagement strategies for our graduate and professional students by leveraging data analytics to inform engagement strategies, and optimizing TGC’s resources to enhance graduate and professional student programming, recruitment and retention.

She is a recent WashU alumna who graduated with her PhD in German and Comparative Literature. Sandra enjoys computational analyses and translates her passion for storytelling into building data stories and communicating insights.

Jessica provides day-to-day leadership of the university-wide graduate fellowship programs housed in The Graduate Center.  Jessica works with graduate students interested securing external funding by designing structures to enable students to more easily discover and pursue external funding opportunities.

Tiana is a 3^rd year PhD student in Mathematics from St. Louis, MO. She has a B.S in Mathematics from Saint Xavier University, an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Noth Carolina A&T, and an M.A. from WashU. She is the Social Media Manager for the Black Graduate Student Association (BGSA). She likes exercising, cooking, and rewatching her comfort show Living Single in her free time.

Phaidra is a first-year MBA student from Tampa, Florida. She graduated from the University of South Florida with a BS in Business Management. She loves to travel, challenge her friends to cook-offs, watch Korean Dramas, and spend quality time with her family in her spare time.