About Our Staff

Meet the SLCA staff and learn about their work with our community partners.

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  Suzanne Hinton, Associate Director

  Hinton, a New Hampshire native and longtime Boston resident, holds degrees in philosophy from Drexel University in Philadelphia and The University of Tennessee in Knoxville. She has worked in higher education as a gender task force coordinator, diversity trainer, and professor of service-learning courses in philosophy, ethics, and gender studies. Hinton has also taught social justice to Bahraini college students at the Institute of Banking and Finance in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

  Hinton’s work directing the Office of Service Learning and Community Action has taken her to South Boston to address issues of homelessness, to South Florida where she lived and worked with her students in a community of migrant farm worker families, and to South America, where she collaborates with students and professors from Emerson and the Nacional Universidad de Colombia on a multimedia project on images of everyday life as a peace force. She teaches Communities and Race Relations, Sociology of Everyday Life, and Action for Community Transformation.

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  Ryan Catalani, Global Citizenship Coordinator

  Ryan Catalani is a freshman Film Production major from Kaneohe, Hawaii. Apart from his role as the Global Citizenship Coordinator, Ryan serves as the web editor for Emerson’s campus newspaper, the Berkeley Beacon. He is also the co-founder and chief technology officer at Bookzingo, a startup that works towards changing the way students buy and sell textbooks.

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  Matt Durham, Arts and Lectures Coordinator

  Matt Durham is a senior Writing, Literature and Publishing major from North Stonington, Connecticut. His heroes include Atticus Finch, Gandhi, and Michael Pollan. On campus, Matt is the vice president of the Emerson Democrats and the treasurer for Emerson Peace and Social Justice. He enjoys culinary adventures, volunteering, good books, and being an idealist. For better or worse, he has been a die-hard Boston Red Sox fan his whole life. Matt's tentative plan is to try and save the world, but he's still hammering out the details.

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  Casey Eisenreich, Communications Manager

  Casey Eisenreich is a senior Studio Television Production major from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Aside from being the communications manager, Casey is a Resident Assistant in Piano Row and enjoys spending her free time volunteering at Bikes Not Bombs and exploring Boston.

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  Isabel Thottam, Student Leadership Coordinator

  Isabel Thottam is a junior Writing for Film and Television major with a minor in Entrepreneurship. As the student leadership coordinator, Isabel leads the Alternative Spring Break program at Emerson. She is also co-leading this year's trip to work on food access issues in New Mexico.

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  Elizabeth Venere, Communications Manager

  Elizabeth Venere is a sophomore Writing, Literature, and Publishing major from Montvale, New Jersey. In addition to spreading the news about Emerson’s service learning courses and student volunteering, Elizabeth is a writer for Atlas Magazine and a member of Undergraduate Student for Publishing.