Meet Your New Colleagues
In this feature, we provide short profiles of some new Stony Brook University employees – who they are, what they want you to know about them, what they care about.
We will continue to update this page, so if you have someone you’d like to suggest – even yourself – to feature here, please fill out this Meet Your New Colleagues Google Nomination Form or write to us at BeConnected@stonybrook.edu to get things rolling. In the meantime, meet some of your colleagues below, check out our video playlist and watch for more to come.
Raymond J. Webb, PhD
Director of Student Life for the Health Sciences Center (HSC), Office of Student Life,
Division of Student Affairs
Start Date: October 15, 2024
When Ray Webb saw the job description for a brand-new position in Student Life at Stony Brook University’s Health Sciences Center (HSC), he knew right away it epitomized everything he wanted to accomplish in his career, and his life. And it suited his experience to a ‘T’.
Jesika Lento
Assistant Director of Student Life Operations and Initiatives
Start Date: April 21, 2024
Jesika Lento is Stony Brook University’s Assistant Director of Student Life Operations and Initiatives. On a daily basis, she is responsible for budget management, student onboarding and implementing the Office of Student Life’s strategic goals. She owes much of her success to her passion for higher education administration, her desire to help students thrive and some key mentors who helped her along the way.
Karla Gibbs
Director of Retail Operations, Stony Brook University (SBU) Campus Store, Auxiliary
Services Association
Start Date: January 1, 2023
Born and raised in Ecuador, Karla Gibbs decided she would brave cold winters – reluctantly at first – to come live in New York with her family when she married an American man more than two decades ago. Far from regretting the move, Gibbs has happily settled into life on Long Island – and a flourishing career at Stony Brook University (SBU), where she says her main mission is “making all students, no matter where they come from, feel like this is a second home. That they belong and are welcome here.” She also says “Stony Brook changed my life.”