Our Team

MCDC is a large and growing collaboration of Chicago area university students, community organizations, project team mentors, professors, and staff.

Suzan van der Lee

Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences

Northwestern University

Mark Potosnak

Associate Professor and Department Chair of Environmental Science and Studies

DePaul University

Bennett Goldberg

Professor of Physics and Astronomy

Northwestern University

Nadja Insel

Associate Professor of Earth Science

Northeastern Illinois University

Michelle Birkett

Assistant Professor of Medical Social Sciences and Preventive Medicine

Feinberg School of Medicine

Northwestern University

Rohan Attelle 

Full Professor of Mathematics

Chicago State University

Denise Drane

Director of Research & Evaluation

 

Searle Center for Advancing Learning and Teaching

Northwestern University

Eunice Santos

Professor and Dean of School of Information Sciences

 

School of Information Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Arend Kuyper

Director of Data Science; Assistant Professor of Instruction

Northwestern University

Sunsoon (Julie) Hwang

Professor, Geography and GIS; Sustainable Urban Development

DePaul University

Yoo-Seong Song

Associate Professor

School of Information Sciences

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Howard Rosing

Executive Director; Steans Center

DePaul University

Sara Woods

Evaluation Specialist; Program Evaluation Core

Northwestern University

Katie Amato

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology

Northwestern University

Francisco Iacobelli

Associate Professor of Computer Science

Northeastern Illinois University

Ting Liu

Associate Professor, GIS Coordinator, Geography Advisor

Northeastern Illinois University

Bill Miller

Professor Emeritus of Chemical and Biological Engineering

Northwestern University

Rob Voigt

Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Computer Science (by courtesy)

Northwestern University

Elsa Anderson

Assistant Professor of Instruction; Environmental Science

Northwestern University

Lizhen Shi

Assistant Professor of Instruction; Statistics and Data Science

Northwestern University

Philip Yates

Associate Professor of Mathematical Science

DePaul University

Daniel Block

Professory of Geography: Acting Chair, Department of Geography, Sociology, History, Anthropology, and African-American Studies

Chicago State University

Amanda Stathopoulos

Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering

Northwestern University

Matthew Sperry

Senior Business Coordinator

Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO)

Northwestern University

Ragaa Abdallah

Chair Computer Technologies and Information Department

Oakton College