Current Participants
2025 Innovation Initiative Participants

Each participant attended 4 workshops, developed an activity to engage students in GAI and engaged in numerous discussions about policy, implementation, alignment and other topics related to GAI.
June IIAI Cohort 2025 (pictured above)
- Randy Aimone (Marketing & Entrepreneurship) - Kent
- Reid Coffman (Architecture) - Kent
- Mark Dalman (Podiatric Medicine) - Kent
- Leslie Heaphy (History) - Stark
- Nicholas Ostrum (History) - Kent
- Eve McPherson (Music) - Trumbull
- Joe Vanfossen (Physics) - Tuscarawas
- Sheren Farag (Horticulture) - Salem
- Andrew Wiley (Special Education) - Kent
- Mahli Mechenbier (English) - Geauga
- Lindsay Baran (Finance) - Kent
- Roshinee Perera (Chemistry) - Tuscarawas
- Sanhita Gupta (Biological Sciences) - Geauga
- Melanie Tabak (Psychology) - Trumbull
July IIAI Cohort 2025
- Beth Devore (English), Ashtabula Campus
- Emily Herman McMillan (Foundation, Leadership & Administration),
- James Redfearn (Biological Sciences), Kent Campus
- Chelsea Swick-Higgins (English), Kent Campus
- Jiahui Wang (TLCS), Kent Campus
- Eric Taylor (Earth Sciences), Stark Campus
- Scott Tobias (Human Development and Family Science), Stark Campus
- Vick Jihyun (School of Fashion Design), Kent Campus
- Jacqueline Hughes (Fashion), Kent Campus
- Aaron Maguire (School of Communication Studies), Kent Campus
- Monica Miller Marsh (EHHS), Kent Campus
- Deepshikha Bhati (Computer Science), Stark Campus
- Kimberly DePaul (Nursing), Kent Campus