GGC consultants come from varied backgrounds, providing you with the opportunity to tap into a wide-range of experience for your grant applications. The team regularly works with students on searching for funding and strengthening grant applications. Additionally, GGC consultants run workshops at the SSRC in Woodburn Hall and represent the GGC at various campus events.
Meet Our Consultants

Esen Gokpinar-Shelton
SENIOR PROPOSAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTANT & TEAM LEAD
Esen is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, with particular interests in higher education institutional research and international and comparative education studies.
About EsenKelsey Marie Large
Proposal Development Consultant
Kelsey is currently a PhD candidate in the School of Education. She has also pursued a minor in Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences. Kelsey focuses her research on deaf education, with particular emphasis on deaf education teacher preparation and listening and spoken language development for students utilizing hearing assistive technology.
About Kelsey
Jaime Carini
Proposal Development Consultant
Jaime is pursuing dual doctorates at the Jacobs School of Music, Indiana University Bloomington (IUB): the Ph.D. in musicology and the D.M. in organ performance and literature, with a minor in historical performance. Engaging in multi-disciplinary work across the humanities, performing arts, and social sciences, Jaime focuses her research interests on the intersection of music and political economy.
About JaimeRishika Chakraborty
Proposal Development Consultant
Rishika is a Ph.D. student in the School of Public Health, pursuing a major in Environmental Health and a minor in Epidemiology. She has been awarded two internal fellowships from the IU School of Public Health and a Travel-Research Fellowship from Dhar India Studies Program to conduct summer research in India.
About RishikaMitchell Widmer
Proposal Development Consultant
Widmer is a recipient of the Baden-Württemberg Stiftung in 2014 for German and musical studies in Freiburgim Breisgau, Germany. He was also a United States Teaching Assistant in coordination with Fulbright Austria for the 2018-2020 academic years.
About Mitchell