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Meet the Admissions Team

Below is an alphabetical listing of the Tufts admissions officers and their geographic liaison assignments. You can reach your appointed officer by e-mailing him or her at the address provided. If you need immediate assistance with your application, please contact the Admissions Office directly at undergraduate.admissions@tufts.edu. If you have questions about applying as a transfer student, e-mail transfer.admissions@tufts.edu instead.

*Please note: If you have questions regarding a specific high school (especially for Massachusetts), please call the office directly at (617) 627-3170 or email undergraduate.admissions@tufts.edu.

Njeri Allen

Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers njeri.allen@tufts.edu
  • Kentucky
  • Massachusetts*
  • North Carolina
  • South Carolina
  • Tennessee
  • Virginia (not including Arlington, Alexandria, or Fairfax County)
  • West Virginia
Hometown Charlotte, North Carolina
Favorite book

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Favorite quote

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare" -Audre Lorde

Sean Ashburn

Associate Director of Admissions He, Him, His sean.ashburn@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts (City of Boston)
  • New York (Queens)
Hometown Lebanon, Maine
Favorite book

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Favorite spot on campus

Indigenous Center

Alison Berryman

Director of Undergraduate Admissions She/Her/Hers alison.berryman@tufts.edu
  • Connecticut (Fairfield County)
Hometown Nashville, Tennessee
Favorite book

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

Favorite Quote

“A party without cake is just a meeting.” - Julia Child

Jon Conley

Assistant Director of Admissions He, Him, His jon.conley@tufts.edu
  • Ohio
  • Canada
  • India
  • Japan
  • Korea
  • Taiwan
  • Mongolia
  • Macau
  • Nepal
  • Bangladesh
  • Sri Lanka
Hometown Contoocook, New Hampshire
Favorite elephant fact

The African elephant is the world's largest land mammal – with males on average measuring up to 3m high and weighing up to 6 tonnes.

Favorite quote

“There may be people who have more talent than you, but there’s no excuse for anyone to work harder than you do.” - Derek Jeter

Ellie Davis

Associate Director of Admissions She/Her/Hers ellie.davis@tufts.edu
  • California (Imperial Valley, Orange, and San Diego Counties)
  • Connecticut (New Haven and Middlesex Counties)
  • Georgia
Hometown Berkeley, California
Favorite elephant fact

Ellie/Elly is one of the most popular names in English for Elephants!

Favorite book

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

Todd Denning

Assistant Director of Admissions He, Him, His todd.denning@tufts.edu
  • Alaska
  • District of Columbia
  • Massachusetts*
  • Oregon
  • Virginia (Arlington, Alexandria, and Fairfax County)
  • Washington
Hometown Florence, Oregon
Favorite elephant fact

Elephants have the longest pregnancy of any mammal at 22 months long.

Favorite campus spot

The Prez Lawn, especially at sunset!

Rae Deveney '21

Admissions Counselor She, Her, Hers rae.deveney@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts*
  • Caribbean
  • Europe
  • Oceania
  • Central Asia
Hometown Grafton, Massachusetts
Favorite book

Cat’s Eye by Margaret Atwood

Tufts class I'll like to take

Anything with Dr. Jennifer Eyl – her class, History of Christianity 1, changed my life!

JT Duck

Dean of Admissions He, Him, His joseph.duck@tufts.edu
Hometown Wheaton, Maryland
Favorite campus spot

Bendetson Hall – it’s where I get to partner with an extraordinary team of colleagues to read the applications (and stories, and aspirations, and journeys, and worldviews) of some of the nation’s, and the world’s, most promising and compelling students as we build each incoming class.

Favorite book(s)

If I had to pick just one: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers. But with books, you never have to pick just one, so some close seconds include: The Emperor of all Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot. 

Julia Dudley-Kramer

Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers julia.dudley_kramer@tufts.edu
  • SMFA at Tufts
  • California (Central Coast, Central Valley)
  • Massachusetts*
Hometown Reading, Massachusetts
Favorite work of art

Women of Paris: The Circus Lover by James Jacques Joseph Tissot is one of my favorite lesser-known paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts permanent collection.

Favorite elephant fact

Dumbo was recognized as Time Magazine’s “Mammal of the Year” in December 1941.

Thomas Duncan

Director of SMFA Admissions He, Him, His thomas.duncan@tufts.edu
  • SMFA at Tufts
  • Florida (Broward, Martin, and Palm Beach Counties)
  • Massachusetts*
Hometown Plymouth, Massachusetts
Favorite book(s)

Roussel, Walser, Proust, Stein, Lispector, Michaux, Huysmans, Artaud, Pynchon, Borges, Sterne, Rabelais, Kharms, Vvedensky, Pizarnik, Seneca, Sun Ra, Trakl, Carrington, Mallarmé, Bataille, Celan, Howe, Sarraute, Zürn, any book that has a lot of long lists in it, etc.

Favorite work(s) of art

Laura Owens, Glenn Ligon, James Ensor, Sigmar Polke, Mike Kelley, Fischli+Weiss, Theaster Gates, Tauba Auerbach, Hanne Darboven, John Rafman, Charline von Heyl, Christian Marclay, Isa Genzken, Guy de Cointet, Ree Morton, R.H. Quaytman, Dieter Roth, Adolf Wölfli, Rachel Harrison (did I mention that I’m enthusiastic about a lot of things?)

Justin Gunn

Admissions Counselor He, Him, His justin.gunn@tufts.edu
  • Alabama
  • Arkansas
  • Illinois
  • Indiana
  • Louisiana
  • Massachusetts*
  • Mississippi
Hometown Durham, North Carolina
Favorite Tufts Tradition

Painting the cannon because not only does it allow students to express themselves, but needing to guard it until sunrise adds a bit of a fun challenge

Favorite Quote

"Don’t believe in yourself. Believe in me. Believe in the me who believes in you"

Nicole Horsman

Admissions Counselor She, Her, Hers nicole.horsman@tufts.edu
  • SMFA at Tufts
  • Massachusetts*
  • Nevada
  • New Mexico
  • Oklahoma
Hometown Andover, Massachusetts
Favorite elephant fact

Elephants “talk” to each other using low-frequency sounds that humans cannot hear.

Favorite book

Art Matters by Neil Gaiman

Gracie Marshall '15

Associate Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers grace.marshall@tufts.edu
  • California (San Mateo and Santa Clara Counties)
Hometown Palo Alto, California
Favorite elephant fact

In addition to the familiar trumpet blast sound they're known for, elephants also purr much like cats do.

Tufts class I'd like to take

MUS-44: History of Rock 'n Roll...again

Ellie Miller '22

Admissions Counselor ellen.miller@tufts.edu
  • New Jersey (Hunterdon, Morris, North Passaic, Sussex, and Warren Counties)
  • Kansas
  • Massachusetts*
  • Missouri
  • New York (Hudson Valley, The Catskills, Rockland County)
Hometown Kansas City, Missouri/Kansas
Favorite Book

The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon

Favorite Tufts Tradition

The midnight organ concert on Halloween!

Riley Myhaver

Admissions Counselor She, Her, Hers riley.myhaver@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts*
  • New York (Suffolk County)
  • Pennsylvania (Western and Central)
Hometown Gray, Maine
Favorite elephant fact

The elephant brain is roughly four times larger than the human brain!

Favorite work of art

There are so many good works of art to choose from, but Martha Graham’s “Lamentation” will always be one of my favorite pieces to watch.

Indigo Naar '21

Admissions Counselor She, Her, Hers indigo.naar@tufts.edu
  • Florida (Northern and Central Florida)
  • Massachusetts*
  • New Jersey (Middlesex County)
  • New York (Nassau County)
Hometown St. Petersburg, Florida
Favorite campus spot

The SMFA Welding Shop

Favorite work of art

The Visitors by Ragnar Kjartansson

Valerie Nam

Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers valerie.nam@tufts.edu
  • Colorado
  • Delaware
  • Maryland
  • Massachusetts*
Hometown Lawrence, Massachusetts
Favorite elephant fact

Elephants say hello to each other by “hugging” their trunks – that’s so cute!

Favorite book

The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack

Sam Nicol

Admissions Counselor He, Him, His samuel.nicol@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts*
  • New Jersey (Bergen and Sussex Counties)
  • New York (Buffalo, Rochester, Monroe and Erie Counties)
  • Rhode Island
Hometown Indianapolis, Indiana
Favorite book

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Favorite elephant fact

Elephants can drink up to 50 gallons of water in a day, and can hold 2.5 gallons in their trunk. That’s one heck of a water bottle!

Rhiannon Pabich

Associate Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers rhiannon.pabich@tufts.edu
  • Arizona
  • California (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, Ontario)
  • New York (Brooklyn)
  • Texas (Amarillo, Beaumont, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock, Midland)
Hometown Hiram, Georgia
Favorite elephant fact

Elephants are excellent swimmers, and use their trunks like snorkels!

Favorite work of art

Candy Chang’s public installations, especially Before I Die and I Wish This Was

Denny Paredes

Director of Strategic Planning He, Him, His denny.paredes@tufts.edu
  • California (Long Beach, Los Angeles/Pasadena)
  • Florida (Southern, excluding Broward, Martin, and Palm Beach Counties)
  • Hawai’i
  • Puerto Rico
  • Virgin Islands
  • Latin America
Hometown New York City, New York
Favorite campus spot

Bendetson Hall. This is not only where I get to meet students on paper in their applications, but also where I connect with them in person once they are on campus!

Favorite Tufts tradition

Painting the cannon, because it gives students an outlet to express themselves in a creative and nontraditional way.

Lindsay Pike

Associate Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers lindsay.pike@tufts.edu
  • SMFA at Tufts
  • Massachusetts*
Hometown Eastchester, New York
Favorite elephant fact

Lucy the Elephant is a six-story tall structure that was modeled after Jumbo by inventor James V. Lafferty in 1881. Residing in Margate City, New Jersey, Lucy is one of the oldest surviving roadside tourist attractions in America and a National Historic Landmark.

Favorite book

The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin

Paz Pitarque

Associate Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers paz.pitarque@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts*
  • Africa
  • China
  • Middle East
  • Southeast Asia
  • Pakistan
  • Turkey
  • Hong Kong
Hometown Quito, Ecuador
Favorite book

A Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion

Tufts class I’d like to take

EC-144 Income Inequality, Poverty, and Economic Justice

Eishna Ranganathan

Assistant Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers eishna.ranganathan@tufts.edu
  • Massachusetts*
  • New Jersey (Jersey Shore, Monmouth County, Southern NJ)
Hometown New Delhi, India and Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania
Favorite elephant fact

Ganesh, one of the gods within Hinduism, has the head of an elephant.

Favorite Tufts tradition

Illumination Ceremony

Dan Rodriguez

Assistant Director of Admissions He, Him, His daniel_r.rodriguez@tufts.edu
  • SMFA at Tufts
  • Massachusetts*
  • Michigan
  • Utah
Hometown Haverhill, Massachusetts
Favorite book

Misery by Stephen King

Favorite work of art

Paul Gauguin, Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (It’s in the MFA collection!)

Jolssen Rodriguez

Admissions Counselor He, Him, His, Él jolssen.rodriguez@tufts.edu
  • American Samoa
  • Connecticut (New London and Windham Counties)
  • Guam
  • Massachusetts*
  • New Jersey (Essex, Hudson, and Union Counties)
  • Texas (Austin, El Paso, Rio Grande Valley, San Antonio)
Hometown Peabody and Lynn, Massachusetts
Favorite book(s)

Michael Scott’s The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series has to be one of my favorite personal reads but Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed is one of my favorite academic reads ever. If you want to begin your understanding of how educational structures are formed, operate, and continue to inequitably thrive in our society, then Freire’s work is a must.

Favorite quote

I know this is cheesy but “Shoot for the moon, even if you miss, you’ll land amongst the stars” has always motivated me to do my best.

Tom Screnci

Associate Director of Admissions He, Him, His thomas.screnci@tufts.edu
  • California (San Fernando Valley County, West Los Angeles)
  • Connecticut (Litchfield and Waterbury Counties)
  • Massachusetts*
  • New York (Westchester County)
Hometown Milton, Massachusetts
Favorite elephant fact

Baby elephants don’t learn to control their trunks until they are about 1 year old.

Favorite work of art

As a lover of the outdoors, I really enjoy basically anything by Albert Bierstadt and Paul Signac.

Jon Sokolski '14

Senior Assistant Director of Admissions He, Him, His jonathan.sokolski@tufts.edu
  • California (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sacramento and San Francisco Counties, Northern California)
  • Massachusetts*
Hometown Burlington, Massachusetts
Favorite campus spot

Upstairs in the Campus Center (couches, pool tables, and The Sink)!

Favorite Tufts tradition

Not stepping on the Jumbo logo in the lobby of the athletic center.

Beky Stiles '12

Associate Director of Admissions She, Her, Hers rebekah.stiles@tufts.edu
  • Iowa
  • Minnesota
  • Nebraska
  • New Hampshire
  • New Jersey (Mercer and Somerset Counties)
  • North Dakota
  • South Dakota
  • Wisconsin
Hometown Chichester, New Hampshire
Favorite campus spot

The lawn tucked behind Paige Hall where you’ll find an unexpectedly good view of Boston and a handful of very comfortable bright blue chairs.

Tufts class I’d like to take

SCP-0031: 3D Foundations: Wood, Welding and Plaster

Aaron Watts E'18

Senior Assistant Director of Admissions He, Him, His / They, Them, Theirs aaron.watts@tufts.edu
  • New York (Bronx)
  • Pennsylvania (Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery, and Philadelphia Counties, Lehigh Valley, Northeastern Pennsylvania)
Hometown Colorado Springs, Colorado
Favorite campus spot

The Sink

Favorite book

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat by Samin Nosrat

Chase Weldon

Director of Access and Outreach He, Him, His chase.weldon@tufts.edu
  • California (Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties)
  • Massachusetts*
  • New York (Manhattan and Staten Island)
Hometown San Antonio, Texas
Favorite book

The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

Favorite quote

"For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end." - Michelle Obama 

Will Wilson '21

Admissions Counselor He, Him, His william.wilson@tufts.edu
  • Connecticut (Hartford and Tolland Counties)
  • Idaho
  • Maine
  • Massachusetts*
  • Montana
  • New York (Albany, Central and Northern Upstate)
  • Vermont
  • Wyoming
Hometown Lewiston, Idaho
Favorite book

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

Favorite campus spot

The top floor of the Campus Center

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