Georgetown Faces

By day, Lanah Koelle manages academic records for the College of Arts & Sciences. By night, she moonlights as a jazz performer in Washington, DC.

Mitch Kaneda’s first and only job has been at Georgetown. He wouldn’t have it any other way. “It is all about our students,” he said.

Yi Song (L’10) first visited Georgetown as a 22-year-old exchange student. Now she helps international law students build fulfilling careers, just as she has.

When Tom Crowley arrived in 1997 as a maintenance electrician, he had an unexpected task: decking the university’s 19-foot Christmas tree with lights.

Fr. David Pratt has been a chaplain at Georgetown for eight years. Before that, he spent over two decades serving on aircraft carriers and aboard destroyer squadrons in the Navy.

Jade Madrid hunts down Spanish and Portuguese resources to help students’ research. In addition to her library expertise, she has her own backstory of experiences abroad that enrich her work.

Rick Pike is the associate director of information technology, facilities, resources and operations in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences. He has a simpler title for it though. …

Luis Mendez began his career at Georgetown mopping and shining the basketball courts. Thirty-two years later, he oversees all the services that make athletics run smoothly.

Meet Troy Meury, the community director at Copley Hall and Ida Ryan & Issac Hawkins Hall who loves building community with Georgetown students.

For years, Denise English was the first face students would see entering the Counseling and Psychiatric Services office. Now in a different role, she still wants students to feel loved.