Staff, Fellows, Visiting Scholars & Associates
Contact information is available through the Harvard University Telephone and Address Directory and individual links below. This list is updated quarterly.
Administration
- William (Ned) Friedman, Director of the Arnold Arboretum
- Matthew Jordan, Director of Finance
- Amy Mendez, HR/Payroll Coordinator
- Karen Marie Pinto, Coordinator of Administrative Services
- Laura Prendergast, Associate Director of Human Resources
- Alison Ring, Special Assistant to the Director
- David Russo, Facilities Manager
- Danny Schissler, Associate Project Manager
- Stephen Schneider, Director of Operations & Public Programs
- Deborah Smith, Accounting Associate
- Tracy Smith, Assistant Facilities Manager
Curation
- Jonathan Damery, Editor of Arnoldia
- Michael Dosmann, Keeper of the Living Collections
- Devika Jaikumar, Curatorial Assistant
- Kyle Port, Manager of Plant Records
- Kathryn Richardson, Curatorial Assistant
Education and Public Programs
- Ana Maria Caballero McGuire, Nature Education Specialist
- Catherine Cremin, Visitor Engagement Staff
- Amy Heuer, Visitor Engagement Fellow
- Ana Eder-Mulhane, Visitor Engagement Staff
- Regina Mission, Visitor Engagement Staff
- Nancy Sableski, Manager of Children’s Education
- Kate Stonefoot, Manager of Visitor Engagement
- Pamela Thompson, Manager of Adult Education
- Sheryl White, Coordinator of Visitor Engagement and Exhibitions
Institutional Advancement
- Jon Hetman, Associate Director of External Relations and Communications
- Wendy Krauss, Membership Manager
- Barbara Murphy, Development Assistant
- Janetta Stringfellow, Director of Institutional Advancement
Greenhouse and Nursery Plant Production
- Katherine Brainard, Plant Production Aide
- Chris Copeland, Greenhouse Horticultural Technologist
- Tiffany Enzenbacher, Manager of Plant Production
- Sean Halloran, Plant Propagator
- Christine Ventura, Living Collections Fellow
Horticulture
- Rachel Brinkman, Assistant Manager of Horticulture
- John DelRosso, Arboretum Head Arborist
- Ryan Devlin, Arboretum Horticultural Technologist
- Bob Ervin, Arboretum Arborist
- Andrew Gapinski, Head of Horticulture
- Scott Grimshaw, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Conor Guidarelli, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Wes Kalloch, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Brendan Keegan, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Benjamin Kirby, Arboretum Arborist
- Greg LaPlume, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Rachel Lawlor, Arboretum Gardener
- Colin McCallum-Cook, Arboretum Horticultural Technologist
- Laura Mele, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Jim Papargiris, Arboretum Working Foreperson
- Scott Phillips, Arboretum Horticulturist
- Jed Romanowiz, Head Operator
- Jared Rubinstein, Living Collections Fellow
- Nima Samimi, Arboretum Gardener
- Andrew (AJ) Tataronis, Arboretum Arborist
Horticultural Interns
Information Technology
- Mitchell Dickerman, Director of Information Technology
- Stephen Hill, Systems Administrator
- Victoria Lin, Sr. Database Administrator
- Matt Caulkins, Web Applications Program Manager
Library
- Larissa Elaine Glasser, Library Assistant
- Lisa E. Pearson, Head of Library and Archives
Research
- Mike Barrett, OEB Greenhouse Assistant
- Bridget Bickner, PhD Student
- Daniel Buonaiuto, PhD Candidate
- Grace Burgin, PhD Student
- Catherine Chamberlain, PhD Candidate
- Samridhi Chaturvedi, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Wayne Daly, Plant Technologist
- Peter Del Tredici, Senior Research Scientist Emeritus
- William (Ned) Friedman, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Faculty Fellow
- Austin Garner, PhD Candidate
- Ben Goulet-Scott, PhD Candidate
- Jake J. Grossman, Putnam Fellow
- Charlie Hale, Research Assistant
- Noel (Missy) Holbrook, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Faculty Fellow
- Robin Hopkins, Associate Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology; Faculty Fellow
- Esther Jules, OEB Faculty Administrator
- Amelia Keyser-Gibson, Research Assistant
- Al Kovaleski, Putnam Fellow
- Faye Rosin, Director of Research Facilitation
- Kristel Schoonderwoerd, PhD Candidate
- Antonio Serrato-Capuchina, Postdoctoral Fellow
- Jacob Suissa, PhD Candidate
- Benton Taylor, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
- Lee Toomey, Plant Growth Facilities Manager
Research Interns
Associates, Visiting Scholars, and Visiting Fellows
- John Herbert Alexander III, former Plant Propagator, Arnold Arboretum; Associate
- David Boufford, Senior Research Scientist, Harvard University Herbaria; Associate
- Anthony Brach, Curatorial Assistant, Harvard University Herbaria; Associate
- Bob Cook, Former Director, Arnold Arboretum; Associate
- Wendy Clement, Associate Professor, The College of New Jersey; Visiting Scholar
- David Des Marais, Assistant Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, MIT; Associate
- Pam Diggle, Professor and Associate Department Head, University of Connecticut; Visiting Scholar
- Rosetta Elkin, Associate Professor of Landscape at McGill University; Associate
- Ailene Ettinger, Research Associate, NOAA; Visiting Fellow and former Putnam Fellow
- Lorna Gibson, Matoula S. Salapatas Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, MIT; Associate
- Steve Gougherty, PhD Student, Boston University; Visiting Fellow
- Margaret Grose, Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, Australia; Visiting Scholar
- Caio Guilherme Pereira, Postdoctoral Associate, MIT; Visiting Fellow
- Lucy Hutyra, Associate Professor, Boston University; Associate
- Jianhua Li, Former Horticultural Taxonomist and Senior Research Scientist, Arnold Arboretum; Associate Professor of Biology and Dept. Chair, Hope College; Associate
- W. John Kress, Distinguished Scientist and Curator of Botany, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History; Visiting Scholar
- Richard Pagett, Former Interim Managing Director, Arnold Arboretum; Associate
- Rebecca Povilus, Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT; Visiting Fellow
- Maria Ángeles Decena Rodriguez, PhD Student, University of Zaragoza, Spain; Visiting Fellow
- Elizabeth Spriggs, Putnam Fellow; Visiting Fellow
- Dan Sullivan, retired molecular biologist; Associate
- Pamela Templer, Professor, Boston University; Associate
- Jie Yun, PhD Student, MIT; Visiting Fellow
- Kasia Zieminska, Putnam Fellow; Visiting Fellow