2024-2025 PGSC Officers
- President: Jack Mostyn
Contact: mostyn@gatech.edu
The president orients the organization towards yearly goals and leads monthly meetings. They represent the psychology graduate student body in meetings internally and across campus. This position also assists all other officers with their roles and maintains the organization's administrative documents, in addition to coordinating all meetings for PGSC and assisting the department with activities. Also supporting the communicative tasks of PGSC- such as the newsletter, alumni communications, and leadership-student communications.
- Vice President: Amanda Arbuckle
Contact: aarbuckle3@gatech.edu
Organization orientation and maintenance : Assists president with setting direction for organization. Host meetings and facilitate discussion if president is absent. Assist with paperwork and constitution editing , social events and coordination, creating agenda, reminders and booking meeting rooms each semester. Debriefs and coordinates with department chair, administrative staff relevant ideas, events, and issues. Assist social chair with the department newsletter information, setup, and disbursement. Maintaining the graduate student catalogue documents. Assist alumni officer with alumni and speaker communications and outreach. Help with the Graduate Student Survey.
Treasurers: Tessa Fink and Jennifer Spalten
Contact: tfink7@gatech.edu ; jspalten7@gatech.edu
Ensuring we are accredited with the student org umbrella coordinating with the Director of Graduate Studies, Scott Moffat. Coordinate with social chair to request Buzz funds for events. Maintain the student org account with the Director for budget purposes. Request GT funds (e.g., GT bills) and departmental funds. PIG management providing semester updates on the status of funding and availability. Coordinate and manage merchandise purchases with appropriate documentation. Communicate with vendors regarding payments. Assists as needed with the graduate student survey.
- Faculty Representative & Alumni Officer: Hanna Neroj
Contact: dhneroj3@gatech.edu
The faculty representative and alumni officer attend the monthly department faculty meetings. At these meetings, they represent the student body and take meeting minutes. This position is also in charge of sending out an “outgoing student” survey and coordinates the PGSC Applied Speaker Series.
- First-Year Mentor: Isabella Martincic
Contact: imartincic3@gatech.edu
The first-year mentor welcomes new students into the psychology graduate student body. They keep a “who is doing what, where” catalog for incoming students, plan meetings, and collect feedback from the first-year students. They also arrange the summer mentorship program for first years and more senior students in the program.
- Social Chair: Doga Dogan
Contact: ddogan6@gatech.edu
Coordinates event management, conceive, plan and oversee social events throughout the year including Annual PGSC events. Responsible for even communication, sharing information with the secretary for the newsletter. Group message management for upcoming events. Research and provide secretary with 4 different Atlanta based events monthly. Coordinate and recruit for the Better Together committee with Chair, Tansu Celikel and other administrative staff. Graduate student survey assistance.
- Media Officer: LaTajah Lambey
Contact: llambey3@gatech.edu
The media officer continuously edits the Psychology and PGSC web pages, social media, plans, conceives, and oversees consistent content. Meet with students and faculty of GT Psych to plan and execute website or social media content and sends relevant media updates to the Secretary.
- Secretary – Sarah Kim
Contact: skim3432@gatech.edu
The secretary designs, administers, and presents the annual Graduate Student Survey. Design the monthly PGSC newsletters and record minutes for PGSC monthly meetings.
- First-Year Representative: Aleah Davis
Contact: adavis466@gatech.edu
The first-year representatives relay information from PGSC to the first-year students and gathers feedback. Additionally, this position oversees updating the first-year handbook in May.
