Building Naming Task Force

President Fitts established and tasked the Building Naming Task Force – which includes broad student, faculty, staff and alumni representation – to develop community-wide principles to guide our decisions in naming or renaming our buildings. He also asked the task force to utilize these new guidelines to provide a recommendation to the Board, consistent with legal requirements, regarding Hébert Hall – the name of which USG and others have long sought to change. Going forward, we will apply these principles to review building naming more generally.

Members of the Building Naming Task Force

Thomas LaVeist (Co-Chair)
Dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine

Ana López (Co-Chair)
Professor and Associate Provost for Faculty Affairs
Director, Cuban and Caribbean Studies Institute

Thomas Reese (Co-Chair)
Professor of Art History, School of Liberal Arts
Executive Director, Stone Center for Latin American Studies

Oluwatomi Akingbola
Medical Student, Class of 2021
Vice President, Downtown, Graduate and Professional Student Association

Libby Alexander (NC ’84)
Member, Board of Tulane

Carolyn Barber-Pierre
Assistant Vice President for Multicultural Affairs

Emily Clark (NC '76, SW *84, G *95, G *98)
Clement Chambers Benenson Professor in American Colonial History, School of Liberal Arts

Mollye Demosthenidy (L *07, PHTM *07)
Associate Dean for Strategic Initiatives and Associate Professor, School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
Vice Chair, University Senate

Halima Francis
Professor of Practice and Program Director of Public Administration, School of Professional Advancement

Vincent Ilustre (TC ’98, B *04)
Senior Associate Vice President, University Advancement

Mónica Lebrón (SE *19)
Deputy Athletic Director and Chief Diversity Officer, Athletics

Wayne Lee (A&S ’71, L *74)
Member, Board of Tulane

Reagan McKinney
Undergraduate Student, Class of 2021
Executive Vice President, Undergraduate Student Government

Lisa Molix
Associate Professor of Psychology, School of Science and Engineering

Robert Morton (A&S '96, PA *19)
Director, University Services
Chair, Staff Advisory Council

James Nieset (A&S ’64, L *67)

Chris Ralston (L *99)
President, Tulane Alumni Association

Arianne Sacramento
MD/MBA/MPH Student, Class of 2021
President, Graduate and Professional Student Association

Mita Sujan
Malcolm S. Woldenberg Chair of Marketing, A.B. Freeman School of Business

Deja Wells
Undergraduate Student, Class of 2022
Director of Diversity, Inclusivity and Equity, Undergraduate Student Government

Andy Wisdom (L *94)
Member, Board of Tulane

Justin Wolfe
William Arceneaux Associate Professor of Latin American History

Juhara Worku (LA ’20)

Ex-Officio
Beth Brown
Chief of Staff, Vice President and Secretary of the University

Will Ferbos
Associate Vice President for Institutional Affairs and Deputy Chief of Staff

Advisors
Ann Case
University Archivist

Ginny Wise
Senior Vice President for Advancement