William Prasifka
President
William, born in Dublin, Ireland, is a senior in Columbia College studying medieval history. He is a staunch advocate of traditional conservatism, as espoused most notably by Edmund Burke. He is the Founder and President of the Edmund Burke Society, and a member of the Sailing team.
As President, William is the public spokesman of the Columbia University College Republicans and oversees all CUCR activities. He is responsible for the organization’s adherence to its Constitution, and presides over meetings of the Executive Board.
Tyler Andrew Trumbach
Executive Director
Tyler is a junior at Columbia College, majoring in Western European Intellectual History. He is a strong supporter of the free markets and free trade. Tyler is also the President of the Young Conservative Coalition PAC and Financial Director of the Columbia chapter of Young American’s for Freedom.
As Executive Director, Tyler is responsible for managing the Deputy Program, planning and presiding over General Body meetings, and managing communications between Directors. In addition, he may act as a proxy to the president when necessary.
David Paszko
Director of Finance
David is our soft-spoken Director of Finance. He studies History, likes classical music and Kanye West, and is a huge Hemingway fan, whom he feels really captures the no-frills, straight to the point spirit that made this country so great.
As Director of Finance David is responsible for ensuring the legal, ethical and prudent application of club resources. He assumes primary responsibility for fund raising efforts. He is responsible for preparing budget requests, reimbursements, payment vouchers and account transfers.
Tom Callander
Director of Operations
I actually don’t know anything about Tom. He likes to keep himself mysterious…the ladies love it.
As Director of Operations, Tom is responsible for ensuring the legal, ethical and prudent application of club resources. He assumes primary responsibility for fund raising efforts. He is responsible for preparing budget requests, reimbursements, payment vouchers and account transfers.
Taylor Thompson
Director of Communications
Taylor is a sophomore in Columbia College, majoring in American history. He believes strongly that the party of the free market and of small government must retake the word “progressive” if the Left is to be defeated. He is a Senior Editor on the Columbia Political Review, and a native of Carrollton, Ohio.
As Director of Communications, Taylor is responsible for the weekly communication with the General Body. He is responsible for the safekeeing of important CUCR documents, including the Constitution. He is responsible for maintaining notes and records of meetings, events, votes and attendance.
David Bowles
Director of Intergroup Affairs
David is a Financial Economics/Pre-Med rising Junior at Columbia College. He’s involved with the Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, believes in entrepreneurship, and loves working out. He’s a conservative because “if we fail to uphold our American values, we have failed our future selves and the future of America.” His reading list is the Bible, Too Busy Not to Pray, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Economist, Our Kind of People
As Director of Intergroup Affairs David is responsible for maintaining contact and good relationships with other groups on campus. He is responsible for planning joint events and meetings. We wish him luck–our relationships with OMA, Lucha, and EAAH are his responsibility.
Rishi Kodali
Director of Public Relations
As Director of Public Relations, Rishi is Responsible for writing or delegating editorials in campus publications. She supervises all CUCR publications and ensures compliance with University regulations. Will also coordinates efforts to bring conservative speakers to campus.
Government pillaging? bad. Viking pillaging? great.
Kate Christensen
Social Director
Beautiful Sophomore Kate Christensen has it all: conservative values (brains), beauty, and shocking degree of athleticism (rowing) for a school as nerdy as Columbia. She brings a much needed moral conservatism to this den of Upper West Side Marxism, and wins people over to the conservative cause by being the most down-to-earth and (by far) the friendliest person on the board.
As Social Director, Kate is responsible for planning events like Ronald Reagan’s birthday party and CUCR golf and tennis tournaments. She is in charge of membership recruitment efforts (Attention all CU conservatives: it’s okay you can come out now!). She is known for designing CUCR apparel, which lends itself well to be worn while playing croquet, biking around Chatham or raging at any country club in New England.
Hates Stalin
Jesse Eiseman
Creative Director
Jesse is a Junior at Columbia College, studying Economics and concentrating in television studies and political controversy. He considers himself a liberal of the old school, possibly the last of his kind, in the tradition that goes from Locke, Kant and Milton down to Isaiah Berlin and Johnny “ignore the health care parts” Rawls. He’s looking forward to reigniting the ideals of the Declaration of Independence on this campus.
He spends his spare time reading Marginal Revolution, Mother Jones and Salon, TNR, Slate and theatlanticwire. He also spends time he doesn’t have writing blog posts–as he’s your loyal webmaster.
Jesse is responsible, as far as Jesse can be considered responsible for anything, for advertising CUCR events and recruitment campaigns. He is responsible for maintaining and expanding CUCR’s online presence.
Greenwich Gangsta
Nashoba Krishnamurthy Santhanam
Regent Creative Director
Hailing from the wilds of Greenwich, Connecticut, Nashoba is a Junior at Columbia College, studying Economics and Political science, while concentrating in refinement studies. He brings a fresh dose of traditional, Old New England values to the College Republicans, from fashionable blazers to fashionable drinks. Tired of the intervention-happy, economically illiterate state of so many of his liberal companions, he views CUCR as an island of comfort amid the storm of Columbian….well, nonsense, sometimes.
As the Creative Director is currently getting his tan on in Oxford, England, Nashoba acts as his representative on the Executive Board, fully participating in all of the hilarity that the Republican board is known across Connecticut for.
