Directors & Staff

Heather Kolakowski

CIHF Executive Director & Senior Lecturer, Food & Beverage Management | Nolan School of Hotel Administration

Heather Kolakowski ’00 is a lecturer in food and beverage management at the Nolan School of Hotel Administration She...

Saleh Kalantari

Associate Professor, Human Centered Design | College of Human Ecology

Saleh Kalantari, PhD, EDAC, is the Academic Director of CIHF and an associate professor in Cornell University’s...

Mardelle Shepley

Academic Director; Professor, Department of Human Centered Design | College of Human Ecology

Dr Mardelle McCuskey Shepley, BA, MArch, MA, DArch, is an emerita professor in the the Department of Human Centered...

Brooke Hollis

Co-Founder and Executive Director Emeritus CIHF; Lecturer & Executive-In-Residence, Sloan Program in Health Administration | Cornell Brooks School of Public Policy

Brooke Hollis serves on the leadership team of the Sloan Program working on alumni and industry external relations He...

Rohit Verma

Co-Founder and Executive Director Emeritus; Dean, USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor and Professor of Management Science | Darla Moore School of Business

Rohit Verma is the Dean, USC Educational Foundation Distinguished Professor and Professor of Management Science at the...

Christine Tanner

Program Manager | Cornell Institute for Healthy Futures

Chris Tanner joined the institute from Cornell University’s Mann Library where she was a research librarian for 6...

Jennifer Mayo

Senior Director, External Relations | Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

Jennifer Mayo is Senior Director of External Relations leading the corporate relations activities of the School of...