Introduction
The Faculty Leadership Institute (FLI) is a program that helps identify, foster and support emerging leaders as they prepare to further their leadership trajectory. The Faculty Leadership Institute offers each cohort the opportunity to engage with campus leaders in targeted discussions regarding current campus issues and build leadership skills. Since its inception in 2013, FLI has had over 150 fellows.
A group of 12-15 faculty members are chosen to make up the new leadership class each year. Monthly meetings throughout the academic year focus on two types of activities:
- Meetings with campus leadership: During these meetings, leaders explain their role in the university, share their leadership path, and engage in an open conversation on topics of concern to the faculty.
- Leadership skill development: Opportunities for leadership training are provided through workshops taught by certified experts throughout the year.
While formal meetings of the leadership cohort occur monthly, informal get-togethers occurring more frequently are encouraged and build upon the relationships between participants.
Faculty members interested in participating should complete an application form during the annual application period in the spring semester. Preference is given to Associate Teaching Professors and Senior Instructors, although all ranks are welcome to apply. For questions about this program, please contact Anu Sharma, Faculty Fellow for the Faculty Leadership Insititute.
Applications to participate in the AY 2025-2026 cohort will open up Spring 2025.
Meet our FLI alumni
Aun Ali, Assistant Professor, Religious Studies
Melinda Piket-May, Associate Professor, Electrical, Computer and Energy Engineering
Rosie Cowell, Associate Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science
Pui Fong Kan, Associate Professor, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Nicholas Villanueva, Associate Professor, Social Sciences
Helanius Wilkins, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
Colleen Reid, Associate Professor, Geography Department
Kelly Parkes, Associate Professor, Department of Music Education
Laura Winkiel, Associate Professor, English
David Drake, Associate Professor,Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Operations
Marina Vance, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering (and Environmental Engineering Program)
Caroline Conzelman, Principle Instructor/ Teaching Professor, Residential Academic Programs
Carmen Pacheco, Scholar in Residence, Mechanical Engineering
Mona El HelBawy, Teaching Associate Professor, Computer Science
Taylor Jaworski, Associate Professor, Economics
Robert Marshall, Associate Professor, Aerospace Engineering Sciences
- Check out the article about 2023-24 FLI cohort in CU Boulder Today!
- Nabilah Carlon, Teaching Associate Professor, Chemistry
- Sebastian Casalaina-Martin, Professor and Department Chair, Mathematics
- Erin Espelie, Associate Professor, Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts
- Jolene Fisher, Assistant Professor, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design
- Karen Gebhardt, Director for Undergraduate Online Learning and Director of the Online Economics Program
- Andrew Goodwin, Associate Professor, Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Dejun "Tony" Kong, Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership
- Christopher Lowry, Associate Professor, Integrative Physiology
- Rahul Nandkishore, Associate Professor, Physics
- S.N. Nyeck, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
- Rachel Rinaldo, Associate Professor, Sociology
- Shawhin Roudbari, Assistant Professor, Environmental Design & Co-Director, CEDaR
- Núria Silleras-Fernández, Associate Professor, Spanish and Portuguese & Women and Gender Studies
- Julie Steinbrenner, Teaching Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
- Noah Zikmund, Teaching Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership and Information Analytics
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Sam Boyd, Associate Professor, Religious Studies and Jewish Studies
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Melissa Braaten, Associate Professor, School of Education
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Juliann Couture, Associate Professor, University Libraries
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Celine Dauverd, Associate Professor, History
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Marissa Ehringer, Professor, Integrative Physiology
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Arne Höcker, Associate Professor, Germanic & Slavic Languages & Literatures
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Mija Hubler, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering
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John Keller, Teaching Professor of Distinction, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
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Nancy Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
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Warren Sconiers, Associate Teaching Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
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Bryan Semaan, Associate Professor, Information Science
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Mike Soltys, Teaching Associate Professor, Integrated Design Engineering
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Julia Staffel, Associate Professor, Philosophy
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Lev Szentkirályi, Assistant Teaching Professor, Social Responsibility and Sustainability
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Kay Weaver, Professor and Department Chair, Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design
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Sabrina D. Volpone, Associate Professor, Organizational Leadership
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Alaa Ahmed, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Leilani Arthurs, Associate Professor, Geology
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Stephanie Bonjack, Assistant Professor, University Libraries
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Emmanuel David, Associate Professor, Women and Gender Studies
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Ruth Hickerson, Senior Instructor, Communications
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Joseph Kasprzyk, Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
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Cecilia Pang, Associate Professor, Theatre & Dance, Libby RAP
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Kira Pasquesi, Instructor, Education
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Honor Sachs, Associate Professor, History
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Elias Sacks, Associate Professor, Religious Studies
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Stacey Schulte, Senior Instructor, Environmental Design
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Boswell Wing, Associate Professor, Geological Sciences
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Brian Zaharatos, Senior Instructor, Applied Math
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Amanda Carrico, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
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Clint Carroll, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
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Jillian Heydt Stevenson, Associate Professor, English
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Steven Hobbs, Senior Instructor, Integrative Physiology
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Marianne Holbert, Assistant Professor, Environmental Design
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Carla Jones, Associate Professor, Anthropology
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Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, Associate Professor, History
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William Kleiber, Associate Professor, Applied Mathematics
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Rebecca Kuglitsch, Associate Professor, University Libraries
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Stacey Schulte, Senior Instructor, Environmental Design
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Evan Thomas, Associate Professor, Environmental Engineering
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Margaret Berg, Professor, Music
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James Cordova, Associate Professor, Art and Art History
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Lisa Dilling, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
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Janet Donavan, Senior Instructor, Political Science
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Jennifer Fitzgerald, Associate Professor, Political Science
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Teresa Foley, Senior Instructor, Integrative Physiology
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June Gruber, Assistant Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Mark Rentschler, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Kevin Rich, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
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Stacey Smith, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology
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Seema Sohi, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
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Liz Stapp, Senior Instructor, Accounting & Business Law
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Joel Swanson, Assistant Professor, Technology and Arts Program
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Nichole Barger, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Max Boykoff, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies
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Dabove Juan Pablo, Associate Professor, Spanish & Portuguese
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Jaelyn Eberle, Associate Professor, Geological Sciences
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Michaele Ferguson, Associate Professor, Political Science
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Sam Flaxman, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology
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David Hekman, Associate Professor, Management and Entrepreneurship
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Tara Knight, Associate Professor, Critical Media Practices
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Daryl Maeda, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
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Donna Mejia, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
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Beth Osnes, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
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laurialan Reitzammer, Associate Professor, Classics
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Matthew Roeder, Associate Professor, Conducting and Music Education
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Fernando Rosario-Ortiz, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
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Tiffany Beechy, Assistant Professor, English
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Irene Blair, Associate Professor, Psychology and Neuroscience
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Adam Bradley, Associate Professor, English
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David Brain, Assistant Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
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Heidi Bustamante, Instructor, Integrative Physiology
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Priscilla Craven, Senior Instructor, French & Italian
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Jeremy Darling, Associate Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
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Andrea Feldman, Senior Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
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Virginia Ferguson, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Mark Hoefer, Assistant Professor, Applied Mathematics
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Daniel Kellogg, Associate Professor, Music
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Heather Lewandowski, Associate Professor, Physics
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Gesel Mason, Assistant Professor, Theatre and Dance
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Matt McQueen, Associate Professor, Integrative Physiology
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Rebecca Safran, Associate Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Associate Professor, Computer Science
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Richard Stevens, Associate Professor, Media Studies
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Benjamin Teitelbaum, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology
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Steven Vanderheiden, Associate Professor, Political Science
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Deborah Whitehead, Associate Professor, Religious Studies
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Michael Willis, Senior Instructor, Accounting & Business Law
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Andrew Cain, Associate Professor, Classics
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Joshua Correll, Associate Professor, Psychology
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Anne Dougherty, Senior Instructor, Applied Mathematics
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Nils Halverson, Associate Professor, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences
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Jenny Knight, Associate Professor, Molecular, Cellular & Development Biology
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Steve Lamos, Associate Professor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
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Stephanie Mayer, Senior Instructor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology
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Kevin O'Connor, Assistant Professor, Education
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Hillary Potter, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies
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Lori Seward, Senior Instructor, Business
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Charles Wetherbee, Associate Professor, Music
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Mas Wiersma, Associate Professor, University Libraries
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Marcia Yonemoto, Associate Professor, History
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Ernesto Acevedo-Muñoz, Professor, Cinema Studies
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Janet Casagrand, Senior Instructor, Integrative Physiology
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Lori Emerson, Assistant Professor, English
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Amy Javernick-Will, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
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Keller Kimbrough, Associate Professor, Asian Languages and Civilization
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Tamara Meneghini, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
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Todd Murray, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Rolf Norgaard, Senior Instructor, Program for Writing and Rhetoric
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Adam Norris, Senior Instructor, Applied Mathematics
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Caroline Sinkinson, Associate Professor, University Libraries
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Seth Spielman, Assistant Professor, Geography
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Phoebe Young, Associate Professor, History
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Derek Briggs, Professor, Research & Evaluation Methodology
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Kerry Cripe, Senior Instructor, Theatre and Dance
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Doug Duncan, Senior Instructor, Astrophysical & Planteray Sciences
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Vicki Grove, Senior Instructor, Germanic and Slavic
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Robert Guralnick, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Biology
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Ruth Heisler, Senior Instructor, Integrative Physiology
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Andrew Johnson, Research Data Librarian, University Libraries
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Joe Jupille, Associate Professor, Political Science
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Penny Kelsey, Associate Professor, English
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Suzanne Magnanini, Associate Professor, French and Italian
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Susan Mart, Associate Professor, Law
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Shelly Miller, Professor, Mechanical Engineering
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Roseanna Neupauer, Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Architectural Engineering
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Karen Ramirez, Senior Instructor, Center of the American West
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Erika Randall, Associate Professor, Theatre and Dance
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Cindy White, Associate Professor, Communication