A permanent staff manages the operations of the institute and is, responsible for academic programs, computing, publications and development activities.
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Director of Publications, Facilities, and Personnel
Ronda received her B.S. in Anthropology from the University of California, Riverside. She spent five years at Chevron Corporation in San Francisco in various production and management positions within General Services before moving to New Mexico. She joined the SFI administrative staff in 1987. She has been part of the SFI publications program for 20 years, and assumed human resources and facilities responsibilities in 1996.
Coordinator, Business Network
Casey moved to Santa Fe in 1998 from a suburb of Detroit, Michigan. She spent her undergraduate years at both Syracuse University and College of Santa Fe, majoring in Film Production. Although Santa Fe was supposed to be a stop along way to fame and fortune in New York City, she fell in love with the stunning New Mexico sunsets and vast, polka-dotted landscape. Casey previously worked on various films in Santa Fe and surrounding areas until she stumbled upon the Santa Fe Institute and began wrangling scientists instead of actors – and finding it more of a challenge! When she’s not at SFI, Casey can be found playing with her arroyo pup, reading a great book, going on epic drives, and scouring various sources for new music.
Vice President, Development and Corporate Relations
Nancy Deutsch joined SFI in September 2009. She brings a successful track record in corporate, foundation and major gifts fundraising to SFI. Although she began her fundraising career at WETA in Washington, DC in the late 1970’s, the bulk of her success has been in support of higher education at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University and UC Irvine. As Vice President for Development and Corporate Relations, Nancy is responsible for raising funds from individuals and family foundations in support of SFI’s three key priorities – annual giving, the Omidyar Challenge and the varied education and outreach programs conducted each year. Further, she oversees the Business Network corporate affiliates program that draws the active engagement of corporations from around the world into the research programs undertaken by SFI.
With more than 60% of SFI revenue coming from private sources, Nancy and her fundraising team are ready to show how an investment ...
Director of Communications
John German joined the Institute in April 2010. Working with scientists and staff, he articulates the Institute's research and character to SFI's community and publics. Previously he was a science writer, communicator, and speechwriter at Sandia National Laboratories, where he led the corporate communications and media relations teams, edited lab publications, and developed numerous online and multimedia communication products.
Manager, Office of the President
Ginny Greninger joined the Santa Fe Institute in February 2000. Ginny held the position of Manager, Office of Academic Affairs working with SFI Vice Presidents and education and outreach efforts. In 2005 Ginny was appointed Manager, Office of the President, assisting SFI President Geoffrey West and working with Vice President Chris Wood, the Board of Trustees, Science Board, External Faculty and Science Steering Committee. Ginny continues in the President's Office working with SFI President Jeremy Sabloff. Ginny is a native Chicagoan, lived and worked in the Los Angeles area for ten years, and moved to Santa Fe in 1998. Ginny received a Bachelor of Science degree in Psychology from Loyola University, Chicago.
Director, Sponsored Research Planning and Administration
The Santa Fe Institute, Sponsored Research
Elisabeth V. Johnson is Director, Sponsored Research Planning and Administration, at the Santa Fe Institute, in Santa Fe, New Mexico. In this role she is responsible for research development and strategic planning for Institute-wide research programs, assisting faculty with identifying funding sources for their individual research projects, preparing and submitting proposals, and managing the post-award administration of sponsored research programs. She also handles federal and state government and foundation relations for the Institute. Prior to this, Elisabeth was Director, Corporate, Foundation and Research Relations for the Professional Schools at UCLA. In this capacity, and within UCLA Development, she was responsible to develop and bring to fruition philanthropic relationships between corporations / foundations and the Professional Schools and to represent Professional Schools’ priorities during development and implementation of campus-wide development strategies for the University’s most important foundation and corporate partners. Earlier, Elisabeth directed the North Campus Strategic Research Initiatives, a program ...
Program Coordinator , Santa Fe Institute, Education
Juniper received her B.A. in Political Science and Business Administration from the College of Santa Fe in 2009. She is a native New Mexican and is currently a student in the St. John's Graduate Institute Liberal Arts Program. She spent a year at the Office of the Lieutenant Governor in Santa Fe working as an office manager and administrator. She joined the Santa Fe Institute staff in 2011.
IT Group Leader
Nate Metheny was trained in classical violoncello performance and attended Indiana University for solo performance studies. Nate has been using computers since the age of 5 and has held full-time positions in Information Technology since the age of 16 after his early graduation from high school at age 15. Nate has worked on the computing infrastructure at the Santa Fe Institute since 2004 and prior to that worked for several start-up companies in and around the Santa Fe area since his move back to New Mexico in 1998.
Information Architect and Content Manager
Atty Mullins is a graduate of Stanford University and the MIT Media Lab. He has 25 years of experience in software development and design. He has worked on projects ranging from computation linguistics and speech recognition to content management systems and search. Prior to joining SFI, Atty was employed by Tellme Networks (now owned by Microsoft) and Xerox PARC. Has has also been involved in several startup ventures in Silicon Valley. At SFI, Atty's responsibilities include web development and design, content management systems, collaboration systems and search. He lives in Santa Fe with his wife, three sons, two dogs, and two cats.
Administrative Assistant , Santa Fe Institute, Business Network and Development
Vice President of Education and Institutional Outreach, Santa Fe Institute, Education
President, Santa Fe Institute
JEREMY ARAC SABLOFF (B.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1964; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1969) is the President of the Santa Fe Institute (2009 - ). Before coming to the Santa Fe Institute, he taught at Harvard University, the University of Utah, the University of New Mexico (where he was Chair of the Department), the University of Pittsburgh (where he also was Chair), and the University of Pennsylvania (where he was the Williams Director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum from 1994-2004 [and Interim Director, 2006-2007] and Christopher H. Browne Distinguished Professor of Anthropology).
He also was an Overseas Visiting Fellow at St. John's College, Cambridge, England. He is a past President of the Society for American Archaeology, a past Chair of Section H (Anthropology) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and past Editor of American Antiquity. He served as Chair of the Smithsonian Science Commission and currently is ...
Program Coordinator and Personal Assistant to Distinguished Professor Geoffrey West
Originally from the United Kingdom, Hilary Skolnik lived in California and New York before moving to Santa Fe in 2005. She attended University in the UK and received her B.Sc. in Economics and Business. She owned her own business and has experience in advertising, commercial printing, real estate and the cosmetics industry. She has competed in the national Scrabble championship and in many regional bridge tournaments.
Coordinator, Publications, Facilities, and Personnel
Originally from Southern California, Laura moved to Arizona, where she attended Prescott College and received her B.A. in English in 1970. She has worked at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the College of Santa Fe, School of American Research, and was the Registrar at the Santa Fe Preparatory School for fifteen years before joining the staff at SFI in 2000. She is most proud of her two girls and six grandchildren, and in her free time she enjoys exploring wilderness areas in New Mexico and Utah, and often takes people on daytrips – and sometimes on overnight camping trips. Polyphemus (her camera) goes with her everywhere!
Vice President, Administration and Director, Business Network, Santa Fe Institute
Chris received his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1973. Following a postdoctoral appointment at Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Washington DC, he returned to Yale as a faculty member with joint appointments in the Departments of Psychology, Neurology, and Neurosurgery. Chris left Yale in 1989 to lead the Biophysics Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory, a position he held until becoming the Santa Fe Institute's Vice President in 2005. At Los Alamos, Chris' group was responsible for a wide range of biophysical and physical research, including protein crystallography, quantum information, and human brain imaging. During 2000-2001, Chris served as interim director of the National Foundation for Functional Brain Imaging, a collaboration involving Harvard / Massachusetts General Hospital, University of Minnesota, and a number of academic and research institutions in New Mexico devoted to the development and application of advanced functional imaging techniques to mental disorders. Chris' research ...
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