MOLLY ROSE KAUFMAN (Co-Exec Director), is a Co-Founder of the University of Orange. She began her work in restoration urbanism at the Cities Research Group in the 1990s. Prior to the launch of UofO, she worked as a journalist and youth media producer. She loves exploring Orange with locals and visitors alike and frequently can …
AUBREY MURDOCK (Co-exec Director) is an artist, urbanist and educator based in Orange, New Jersey. Her interdisciplinary practice utilizes drawing, painting, video, sound, installation, curricula, and social practice. Murdock scrutinizes the phrase “there is nothing there” and the role this myth plays in structures of inequity. Her current work centers her home state of Wyoming …
MINDY THOMPSON FULLILOVE, MD, University of Orange Board President, is a social psychiatrist and professor of urban policy and health at The New School. Prior to joining the New School in 2016, she worked for 26 years as a research psychiatrist at the New York State Psychiatric Institute and was a professor of clinical psychiatry …
Dr. Margaux Simmons (Co-director of Music City program) is a composer, flutist, improvisor, and music educator. She studied with Cecil Taylor at Antioch College and Pauline Oliveros and Will Ogden at UC San Diego. She is a founding member of The Pyramids and has traveled, composed, studied and performed music extensively in North America, Europe, and …
DOUGLAS FARRAND (Co-Director of Music City program) is a composer, musician, and educator concerned with developing practices that invite us to explore our myriad processes of listening and embody a collective investigation of place, community, and personhood. He works in contexts including experimental music, youth education, and the application of sound and listening practices to …
KHEMANI GIBSON, UofO Academic Dean, is a graduate of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey with a B.A. in history, Pan-African Studies, and Spanish. A lifelong Orange resident, Khemani Gibson is a product of the Orange Public Schools system graduating from Orange High School in June 2010. During his college career Mr. Gibson was able …
HOLLY BARSZCZ is a geographer, organizer and the UofO administrative manager. She began her work in Orange in our inaugural class of 2016 HUUB Fellows and returned the following year to serve as a Senior Fellow. As a HUUB Fellow she launched the ongoing Building Solidarity Potluck Series where community members come together to share …
RAY SYKES (Sykez) is an artist from Orange New Jersey. A part of a group called Soundbox Banditz as well as a duo DefNote and associated with fellow Soul Touchers He Who Shines Truly, Sykez music consists of all aspects of hip hop culture. Ray is a lead organizer with UofO’s Music City Festival and …
CÉSAR PRESA is a musician, organizer, farmer, and chef-extraordinaire. He makes music with Yaya and as a solo instrumental act. He is a lead organizer with UofO’s Music City Festival, co-curates the Living Room Series, and runs the concert series “Soundscapes”, which features eclectic, off-the-beaten track sounds from Essex County and beyond. César is involved …
DOMINIC MOULDEN The UofO is proud to announce Dominic Moulden as our inaugural Ernest Thompson Fellow for Program and Coalition. Dominic T. Moulden is a longtime resource organizer at Organizing Neighborhood Equity (ONE DC), a collectively-led organization that builds people power and economic and racial equity in Washington, DC. He is a frequent lecturer at …
