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Sincerely,
Marion R. Boultbee (Ed.D. 鈥�96)
President,
Teachers College
Alumni Association
Class Notes
APPLIED LINGUISTICS
Bruce Ballard (Ed.D. 鈥�94, M.Ed. 鈥�87, M.A. 鈥�82) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
ARTS ADMINISTRATION
Eric Oberstein (M.A. 鈥�09) produced Dafnis Prieto Big Band鈥檚 Back to the Sunset, which won the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.
Priya Sircar (M.A. 鈥�11) was named Director/Arts with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation based in Miami.
BILINGUAL/BICULTURAL EDUCATION
Shartriya Collier-Stewart (M.A. 鈥�99) was named Associate Dean of the School of Education at Nevada State College.
ENGLISH EDUCATION
Cati de los R铆os (Ph.D. 鈥�17, M.Phil. 鈥�16) was awarded the 2018 Promising Researcher Award and the Alan C. Purves Award from the National Council of Teachers of English.
Patrick J. O鈥機onnor (M.A. 鈥�91) was recognized for mentoring a student who received the gold medal in poetry in the nationally ranked Scholastic Writing Competition.
Lindsey Palmer (M.A. 鈥�13) published her novel, Otherwise Engaged (Skyhorse Publishing 2019).
TESOL
Fanshen Cox (M.A. 鈥�97) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
The U.S. Department of State selected Cara Schroeder (M.A. 鈥�07) for the 2018鈥�2019 English Language Fellow Program. She will be teaching English in Mexico at Universidad Tecnol贸gica Laja Baj铆o.
Anca L. Szil谩gyi (M.A. 鈥�07) published her debut novel, Daughters of the Air (Lanternfish Press 2017).
MUSIC & MUSIC EDUCATION
Karen Hall (Ed.D.CT. 鈥�06) was named Executive Director of the Los Alamos Arts Council.
Barbara Lister-Sink (Ed.D.CT. 鈥�15) was named among Musical America鈥檚 Top 30 Professionals of 2018.
RELIGION & EDUCATION
Darcel Holloway (Ed.D. 鈥�94 M.A., M.Ed. 鈥�84) released Well Done: The Album.
SPEECH鈥揕ANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY
Diane DiResta (M.S. 鈥�77) published Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz (Morgan James Publishing 2018).
SPEECH鈥揕ANGUAGE PATHOLOGY/BILINGUAL
Francesca Lormeus (M.S. 鈥�11) was selected as one of 鈥�40 Under 40鈥� by the SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association.
COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY
Kim Baranowski (Ph.D. 鈥�14, M.Phil., M.A., M.Ed. 鈥�10) received the 2019 Early Career Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival. Baranowski was also named a 2018 Citizen Psychologist by the American Psychological Association for her sustained commitment to leadership in advocacy, supporting survivors of human rights violations.
Under the name A.F. Brady, Alexandra Fribourg (M.A., M.Ed. 鈥�09) published Once a Liar (Harlequin 2019).
PSYCHOLOGY IN EDUCATION
Hala Alyan (M.A. 鈥�09) won the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction for her novel Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017).
Mallika Chopra (M.A. 鈥�18) published Just Breathe: Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, and More (Running Press 2018).
Amy Puca (M.A. 鈥�09) was promoted to Senior Evaluator at Via Evaluation.
Carmen Rita Wong (M.A. 鈥�00) is producing and hosting The Carmen Show: Life, Money + No Apologies, a podcast.
CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
911爆料网 Professor Emerita Frances Schoonmaker (Ed.D. 鈥�83) published The Black Alabaster Box (Auctus Publishers 2018), a young adult novel.
Lisa Edstrom (Ed.D. 鈥�18) received the 2019 Shirley Chisholm Dissertation Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Beverly Falk (Ed.D. 鈥�93) published High-Quality Early Learning for a Changing World: What Educators Need to Know and Do (Teachers College Press 2018).
Annie Rooney French (M.A. 鈥�76) retired from the Kentucky Department of Education as a preschool consultant.
Janis (Koeppel) Strasser (Ed.D. 鈥�95 , M.Ed. 鈥�92) co-wrote Big Questions for Young Minds: Extending Children鈥檚 Thinking, published in 2017 by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, which has now been translated into Mandarin. She recently retired as Professor of Early Childhood from William Paterson University and is currently working with early childhood teachers in Anguilla.
ELEMENTARY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Sandy Lizaire-Duff (M.A. 鈥�99) was named The Pingry School鈥檚 new Lower School Director at the Short Hills campus in New Jersey.
Elaine Perlman (M.A. 鈥�93) has returned to Teachers College to serve as Director of the Peace Corps Fellows Program.
ECONOMICS & EDUCATION
Ipek Bakir (M.A. 鈥�15) of the Overdeck Family Foundation was named one of 贵辞谤产别蝉鈥� 鈥�30 Under 30鈥� in Education.
Community College Research Center stalwart Veronica Minaya (Ph.D. 鈥�16) consulted for the World Bank in several countries, including Afghanistan, where she helped establish the country鈥檚 post-war education system.
EDUCATION POLICY
Travis Bristol (Ph.D. 鈥�14, M.Phil. 鈥�13) joined the Berkeley Graduate School of Education as an Assistant Professor. He was also appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Center for Teacher Residencies.
POLITICS & EDUCATION
Kristen Barnes (M.A. 鈥�18) has been named the inaugural Assistant Director of Faculty Development and Diversity for Arts and Sciences at Columbia University.
SOCIOLOGY & EDUCATION
Isabel Martinez (Ph.D. 鈥�11, M.Phil. 鈥�10) published Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility (Rutgers University Press 2019).
HEARING IMPAIRMENT
Pam Allyn (M.A. 鈥�88), a 2017 911爆料网 Distinguished Alumni Awardee, was named Senior Vice President for Innovation & Development, Scholastic Education at Scholastic.
NUTRITION EDUCATION
Ellie Krieger (M.S. 鈥�94) received the Outstanding Social Media Award at eatrightPRO鈥檚 Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo 2018.
NURSING EDUCATION
Marianne T. Marcus (M.Ed. 鈥�77, M.A. 鈥�76) co-edited Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery (CRC Press 2017).
EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY 鈥� HUMAN COGNITIVE STUDIES EDUCATION
Laura Thompson (M.A. 鈥�02), third-grade teacher at William F. Cooke, Jr. Elementary School, received the Sanford Teacher Award for the state of Delaware.
Kate Moody (Ed.D. 鈥�93, M.Ed. 鈥�91) published The People鈥檚 Professors of Cuba: How the Nation Achieved Education for All (Lexington Books 2019).
INTERNATION & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
Keiichi Ogawa (Ph.D. 鈥�99; M.Phil., M.A. 鈥�97; M.Ed. 鈥�95) received the Prime Minister鈥檚 Labour Medal from the Lao Government for his leadership and significant contribution to the development of education.
INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION
Andrew Shiotani (M.Phil. 鈥�10) was named Director of Tufts University鈥檚 International Center.
FAMILY & COMMUNITY EDUCATION
Denny Taylor (Ed.D. 鈥�81, M.A. 鈥�80) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT
Toni Cela (Ed.D. 鈥�16, M.A. 鈥�01) co-edited Haitian Youth in the Americas (Presses de l鈥橴niversit茅 du Qu茅bec 2017), a bilingual (English/French) book.
Since graduating, Sarah (Lucas) Pouezevara (M.A. 鈥�01) has been supporting education and development programs in Africa and Asia for a range of international organizations. She edited a book that describes many of these efforts, Cultivating Dynamic Educators: Case Studies in Teacher Behavior Change in Africa and Asia (RTI Press 2018).
Hakim Mohandas Amani Williams (Ed.D. 鈥�12, M.Ed. 鈥�06, M.A. 鈥�05) received the 2019 Early Career Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
COMPUTING IN EDUCATION
Cheryl Buonome-Panzo (M.A. 鈥�12) was named Principal of East Shoreline Catholic Academy in Branford, Connecticut.
Heather Sutkowski (M.A. 鈥�11), a math educator, was recently awarded the Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) for the state of Connecticut.
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY & MEDIA
Rosemarie Piccioni (Ed.D. 鈥�03, M.Ed. 鈥�01) was named Associate Provost of Online Education at the ArtCenter College of Design.
Joohee Son (Ed.D. 鈥�13, M.Ed. 鈥�10) received 911爆料网鈥檚 inaugural Alumni Award for Outstanding Service at the College鈥檚 Academic Festival 2019.
ADULT EDUCATION GUIDED INTENSIVE STUDY
In January 2016, Richanne C. Mankey (Ed.D. 鈥�07) became the 19th president of Defiance College in Defiance, Ohio, and the first woman to hold the job.
EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION
Norman Atkins (M.A. 鈥�97), co-founder of the Relay Graduate School of Education, received the 2018 Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.
Yolanda Borr谩s (M.A. 鈥�98) has won awards for her Spanish illustrated songbooks and music for young children, including the Parents鈥� Choice Award, International Latino Book Award and Dragonfly Book Award.
Robert P. Macrae (Ed.D. 鈥�00, M.A. 鈥�94) was appointed Head of School at Louisville Collegiate School in Kentucky.
Danielle R. Moss (Ed.D. 鈥�06, M.Ed. 鈥�99, M.A. 鈥�95) was named CEO of Oliver Scholars, a college-access organization that prepares Black and Latinx students for success from middle school through college graduation.
HIGHER & POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION
911爆料网 Alumni Council Member Delmy Lendof (Ed.D. 鈥�13) was appointed Associate Dean for Student Affairs at New York University Steinhardt.
Holly Tedder (M.A. 鈥�16) was named Director of the Barnard Office of Disability Services.
HIGHER EDUCATION
Sybil Jordan Hampton (Ed.D. 鈥�91, M.Ed. 鈥�82), a 2018 911爆料网 Distinguished Alumni Awardee, received a Diversity Leadership Award from the University of Chicago.
Belinda Miles (Ed.D. 鈥�00, M.A. 鈥�88), President of Westchester Community College, delivered greetings on behalf of academe at 911爆料网 President Thomas Bailey鈥檚 Inauguration in December 2018.
In May 2018, Case Western Reserve University presented its Emerita Trustee and former Professor of Education Anne S. Pruitt- Logan (Ed.D. 鈥�64, M.A. 鈥�50) with an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
INQUIRY EDUCATION LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
Carla Theodorou (Ed.D. 鈥�11, M.Ed. 鈥�09) was named head of Nassau BOCES Department of Regional Schools and Instructional Programs.
Delores Lowe Friedman (Ed.D. 鈥�93) published Wildflowers: A Novel (2017).
NURSING EDUCATION 鈥� PROFESSIONAL ROLE
Gerard Dela Cruz (M.A. 鈥�10) received the Clinical Nurse Excellence Award鈥揂dvanced Practice Nurse from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
PRIVATE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP
Tony Alleyne (M.A. 鈥�10) received the 2019 Early Career Award at 911爆料网鈥檚 Academic Festival.
Dennis Bisgaard (M.A. 鈥�98) has been named Head of School, Whittle School & Studios, D.C. Campus.
Jos茅 M. De Jes煤s (M.A. 鈥�11), a graduate of the Klingenstein Center for Independent School Leadership, was named Head of School of Lake Forest Academy in Illinois.
Laura Kulkarni (M.Ed. 鈥�15) opened a branch of The Goddard School in Millburn, New Jersey.
EXECUTIVE PSYCHOLOY - ORGANIZATIONAL
Monique Herena (M.A. 鈥�17), a graduate of 911爆料网鈥檚 Executive Master鈥檚 Program in Change Leadership (XMA), was named one of American Banker鈥檚 鈥淲omen to Watch 2018.鈥�
SOCIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Chad Plenge (M.A. 鈥�18) was named President of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Badger Boys State Alumni Association.
STUDENT PERSONAL ADMINISTRATION
Stephen Pultz (M.A. 鈥�87) was appointed to the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Board of Directors.
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Published Wednesday, Jul 31, 2019