Executive Director, Communications and Marketing

Email:            dacruz@usc.edu

Phone:          213.740.8683

Leslie is responsible for overall direction of the USC Viterbi School’s Department of Communications and Marketing.  He also serves as managing editor of USC Engineer magazine. 

 

 

Diane Ainsworth
Communications Manager
Email: dainswor@usc.edu
Phone: 213.821.5808

 

Diane is a communications manager covering aerospace and mechanical engineering, biomedical, chemical and petroleum engineering, civil and environmental engineering, industrial and systems engineering, the astronautics and space division and materials sciences.  She handles media relations and contributes articles for the School’s web site, biannual magazine and newsletter, as well as overseeing newsletter production.  Diane did her undergraduate work at UCLA and later earned a master’s degree. She has an extensive background in print journalism and has worked many years as a public affairs representative for two campuses of the University of California and Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory.  

 

 

John Cohoon
Public Communications Manager
Email: cohoonj@comcast.net
Phone: 323.461.6148

 

John is responsible for speechwriting, institutional public relations, web research and many other miscellaneous tasks.   He works primarily from home.  A public relations professional at USC for almost 30 years, John also received his M.A. in journalism from USC.  Prior to USC, he worked as an intelligence agent for the U.S. Army.

Digital Communications Manager and Webmaster

Email:            dziegiel@usc.edu

Phone:          213.740.3492

 

Jason is responsible for the technical side of the website and works closely with the content managers to make sure the USC Viterbi School of Engineering's web presence reflects the school.  He is also the coordinator of the school's Web Group which discusses challenges, strategy and web solutions within the USC Viterbi School.   And he serves as the webmaster of Department of Electrical Engineering.  Jason received his B.S. degree in Computer Engineering and Computer Science from USC in May 1998 with a minor in Multimedia and Creative Technologies.

 

 

Eric Mankin
Communications Manager
Email:            mankin@usc.edu
Phones:        213.821.1887 or 310.448.9112

 

Eric is public information director for the Viterbi School's Information Sciences Institute as well as covering events and research in the departments of electrical engineering and computer science. He contributes to Viterbi School and USC publications amd web sites. Eric has a degree in philosophy from the University of Wisconsin, and extensive experience as a journalist and editor in both magazines (Time-Warner) and newspapers (the Los Angeles Herald Examiner). He has been at USC since 1992, and speaks Spanish and French and (less well) German and Russian.