I can add a pic of myself here if I want to

Olivia Wood is a PhD student in English focusing on rhetoric & composition and LGBT studies. She teaches composition at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and is a Digital Pedagogy Fellow at City Tech’s OpenLab. Olivia holds an M.A. in English (2018) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and a B.A. in English and Anthropology (2016), also from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

I used the category “Student Profiles” and added tags for my research interests and the CUNY campuses I’m associated with. this replicates the “interests” and “affiliations” aspects of the current profile system. We can then link to the pages for those tags to easily view everyone with that interest/affiliation.
Only me and site administrators can edit my profile. I can see others’ profiles but cannot edit them.
We could copy/paste existing profiles into their own posts like this, and then assign the actual person as the “author” of the post, which would give them editing access even though we made it.