Members of Executive Committee of Academic Senate

Position/Division/Group Name E-mail Term Ends June
President*  Erik Woodbury woodburyerik@deanza.edu 2025
Vice-President Patty Guitron guitronpatty@deanza.edu 2025
Executive Secretary So Kam Lee leesokam@fhda.edu 2026
Part-time Faculty Representatives (2) Mary Donahue donahuemary@deanza.edu 2025
Christina Wright wrightchristina@deanza.edu 2025
Academic Services & Learning Resources (1) Cecilia Hui
James Adams (F24)
huicecilia@fhda.edu
adamsjames@fhda.edu 
2025
Asian Pacific American Staff Association - APASA Sherwin Mendoza mendozasherwin@fhda.edu 2025
Biological, Health & Environmental Sciences (2) Lakshmikanta "LK" Sengupta senguptalakshmikanta@fhda.edu 2025
Lianna Wong

wonglianna@fhda.edu

2025
Black Faculty and Staff Association - BFSA VACANT    
Business, Computer Science &
Applied Technologies
 (2)
VACANT    
James Tallent tallentjames@fhda.edu  2025
Career Technical Education & Workforce Development (2) VACANT   2025

VACANT

   
Counseling - General  (2) VACANT    
VACANT    
Counseling - Embedded** (2) Christian Rodriguez rodriguezchristian@fhda.edu 2025
Umar Douglas

douglasumar@fhda.edu

2025
Creative Arts (2)  Mark Hamer

Rachel Silveria (W25)

(Mark and Rachel share one seat/vote)

hamermark@deanza.edu

sliveriarachel@deanza.edu

2025

2025

VACANT

   
De Anza Latinx Association - DALA (1)

Veronica Avila Acevedo

avilaveronica@fhda.edu 

 
Disability Support Programs & Services and Adapted PE (2) Kevin Glapion glapionkevin@fhda.edu 2025

VACANT

   
Equity & Engagement (1)

Cynthia Kaufman

kaufmancynthia@fhd.edu 

2026
Intercultural/International Studies (2)

Viviana Alcazar

alcazarviviana@fhda.edu 

2026
VACANT  
Language Arts (2) Shagun Kaur kaurshagun@fhda.edu 2024
Lauren Gordon 2024
Physical Education & Athletics (2) Mark Landefeld

landefeldmark@fhda.edu

2025

Rusty Johnson

Dawnis Guevara (F24)

johnsonmark@fhda.edu

guevaradawnis@deanza.edu

2025

Fall 24


Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering (2)

Cheryl Balm
Megan Brophy (F24)

balmcheryl@fhda.edu
brophymegan@fhda.edu 

2025

Lisa Mesh

meshlisa@fhda.edu 

2025
Social Sciences & Humanities (2)  Ravjeet Singh singhravjeet@fhda.edu 2025
  Jayanti Roy  royjayanti@fhda.edu 2025
Student Development & EOPS (1) Leah Smith
smithleah@deanza.edu 2025
Curriculum Committee Sukhjit Singh singhsukhjit@deanza.edu 2027

Associate Members of the Academic Senate (Non-Voting)

Position/Division/Group Name E-mail Term Ends June
DASG Representatives (2) Jin Huang   2024
    2024
Office of Instruction Sam Bliss, AVPI blisssam@fhda.edu  2025
Classified Staff Representative Deborah Armstrong armstrongdeborah@fhda.edu 2024
Faculty Association (FA) Representative Mary Donahue donahuemary@fhda.edu 2024

* Tie-breaking vote
** Area includes: Student Success & Retention Services; First Year Experience ; Puente/ LEAD; UMOJA; IMPACT AAPI; International Students Program; English Performance Success – including Adult Ed consortium; Math Performance Success; Men of Color; College Promise / Outreach; Career Training; Veterans; REACH; Biological, Health & Environmental Sciences

Previous Members of Executive Committee

Position/Division/Group Name Term Served
President*  Cheryl Balm 22-24
Vice-President Erik Woodbury 23-24
Executive Secretary    
Part-time Faculty Representatives (2)    
   
Academic Services & Learning Resources (1) Alex Swanner Fall 23
Asian Pacific American Staff Association - APASA    
Biological, Health & Environmental Sciences (2)    
   
Black Faculty and Staff Association - BFSA    
Business, Computer Science &
Applied Technologies
 (2)
   
   
Career Technical Education & Workforce Development (2)    
   
Counseling - General  (2)    
   
Counseling - Embedded** (2)    
   
Creative Arts (2)  Rachel Silveria Fall 23
   
De Anza Latinx Association - DALA (1)    
Disability Support Programs & Services and Adapted PE (2)    
   
Equity & Engagement (1)    
Intercultural/International Studies (2)    
   
Language Arts (2)    
   
Physical Education & Athletics (2)    

Dawnis Guevara (Fall 2023)

Fall 23


Physical Sciences, Mathematics & Engineering (2)
   
   

Jyothsna Viswanadha

Chris Dileonardo

Fall 2023
Social Sciences & Humanities (2)     
     
Student Development & EOPS (1)    
Curriculum Committee Erik Woodbury Fall 17-Fall 23
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