Staff Emeritus

Daniel A. Sharp

Staff
David Mortimer
President
Mr. Mortimer is president and a trustee of The American Assembly, a national, non-partisan, and public affairs forum founded by Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1950 and affiliated with Columbia University. Before joining The American Ass... more >
Joe Karaganis
Vice President
Joe Karaganis joined the American Assembly as Vice President in 2010. His work focuses on the relationship between digital convergence and cultural production, and has recently included research on broadband adoption, data policy... more >
Karla Garcia
Chief Financial Officer
Karla Garcia is the Chief Financial Officer at The American Assembly. She is responsible for all financial activity at the Assembly and serves as program coordinator for various projects. She has held several positions at Colum... more >
Nicholas Hamilton
Project Manager
Nicholas Hamilton joined The American Assembly as Project Manager in the summer of 2012. His research includes urban economic development, governance, and policy partnership networks in the United States, Tunisia, Egypt, and Chil... more >
Kristoff Grospe
Project Specialist
Kristoff Grospe began working at the American Assembly as a Project Specialist during the summer of 2012. Before joining The Assembly, he graduated from New York Law School, where he studied intellectual property, Internet, and i... more >
Mark Leneker
Program Coordinator
Mark joined The Assembly in 2003 and previously held an administrative assistant position at The Institute for Democracy Studies. He worked as an agent assistant at the commercial talent agency Schiffman, Ekman, Morrison, and Ma... more >
Terry Roethlein
Program Coordinator
Mr. Roethlein has been a Program Coordinator at The American Assembly since 2001, working on U.S. global policy, urban studies, financial governance, and cultural policy Assemblies. He has worked as a global communications assis... more >
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Toni L. Griffin

Toni L. Griffin is Professor and Director of the J. Max Bond Center for Architecture at the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York and  was a participant at The American Assemblies on "Reinventing America's Legacy Cities" in Detroit and "Revitalizing the Legacy Cities of Upstate New York."