Yael Zand (M.A., 2007) is in her second year of teaching since graduating from TC. She started teaching at P.S. 8 in Washington Heights and currently teaches third grade at P.S. 126 in the High Bridge area of the Bronx. 

 

Dis/abilities Studies

Oona Tanya C. Mapua (M.A., 2006) established a learning environment called Uplifting Natural Achievers in January 2007. In this position, she conducts individualized literacy enrichment and literacy intervention during the school year and literacy workshops during the summer. Mapua shares, “The last two years have been amazing—filled with exciting days of learning and laughter with my students (ages 3–12). I have been applying every ounce of knowledge learned at Teachers College, and I continue to learn from my students everyday!”

 

Applied Developmental & Language Psychology

Melissa A. Modica (Ed.M., 2008) is currently a school psychologist at Monroe-Woodbury High School in Central Valley, New York. She does everything from counseling parents to collaborating with teachers on educational and psychological testing. Although her job is demanding, it is also rewarding. She writes, “I love being actively involved in my student’s lives—it’s very rewarding, and I know I’m making a difference.”

Felicia Lebewohl Rosen (Ed.M., 2005) is a school psychologist at the Westchester Fairfield Hebrew Academy in Greenwich, Connecticut.

 

Guidance & Habilitation

Leib Kelman (M.A., 1976) is the dean of the large all-girls private school Prospect Park Bnos Leah Yeshiva in Brooklyn. He was recently feted at the school’s annual dinner marking his 33rd year at the school.

Gail Mahoney Warek (Ed.M., 1976; M.A., 1975) is currently the Deputy Director of Global Leadership Development for the organization Save the Children.

Mary E. Whitney (Ed.D., 1967) retired from teaching in 1998 and has since written eight local history books. The latest, Hemet, was released in August 2008 (Arcadia Publishing Company, www.archadiapublishing.com). Proceeds from the book go directly to the Hemet Area Museum Association. Whitney has been volunteering as the Hemet Museum Docent for 10 years.

 

Health Education

Laura Conway (M.A., 2008) is working with a team of professors, doctors, nutritionists and translators at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine, as well as outreach workers from a variety of hospitals on a grant funded project where her team is developing multilingual, culturally sensitive patient education materials, focusing on chronic diseases and nutrition.

Srdjan Stakic (Ed.D., 2005; M.A., 2001) is a team leader for the Drug Abuse Prevention Campaign with the Media, Central Asia Drug Action Programme through the UNDP & European Commission (http://cadap.eu-bomca.kg).

 

Nursing Education

Connie Vance (Ed.D., 1977) has continued her scholarship, research and consultation in mentoring and leadership development with professional associations and hospital departments of nursing. She presented a paper, “The Mentor as Pygmalion: Realizing Potential,” at the International Mentoring Association conference in March Las Vegas. She has also co-authored (with Dr. Roberta Olson) the book, The Mentor Connection in Nursing (Springer, 1998). Vance is also as professor at the College of New Rochelle’s School of Nursing.

 

Nutrition

Ana Kosok (Ed.D., 2005) works in private practice as a behavior therapist focusing on clients with substance abuse problems. She is also the executive director of Moderation Management (www.moderation.org), a non-profit organization for problem drinkers seeking to decrease their drinking to non-harmful levels.

Julieta Andico Songco (Ed.M., 1994; M.S., 1972) was part of the People to People Ambassador Program delegation and presented a paper “Nutritional Health and Wellness, a 21st Century Legacy or Paradox” in Beijing, China, in November 2008.

 

Reading Specialist

Polly Dee Perlstein Goltche (M.A., 2005) writes that she is happily working as a reading/literacy specialist at the Great Neck Public Schools.

 

Special Education

Marcia (Marcie) Roe Bishop (Ed.D., 1976) has spent the last 30+ years in education and related fields. She was a classroom teacher and director of special education in Wisconsin; did post doctoral work in neuropsychology and school psychology in Ohio and has worked as an educational psychologist in Columbus, Ohio, and Ithaca, New York. For the past nine years she has been a principal in the rural school district, Spencer-Van Etten Central near Ithaca.

Corrine R. Donley (Ed.D., 1986; M.A.T., 1983) is a behavior analyst/consultant in private practice in Wisconsin and hopes to retire in 2009. She has 10 grandchildren of which one is a girl. She also has three great grandchildren. With her families in New Jersey, Michigan and Ohio she sadly reports she doesn’t seem them often. She continues to love traveling and is preparing to go to Norway, Sweden and Denmark in August.

Helen (Tenney) Smith (M.A., 1983) has trained as a school psychologist and worked at Franciscan Children’s Hospital in Boston as an Educational Clinician. She became fascinated with reading disorders/dyslexia and was trained in Orton Gillingham. “There is not a day that goes by that I do not use the knowledge I got at TC, and I often think of returning but the commute from New Hampshire would be rough!” she writes.

 

Developmental Psychology

Richard Campagna (M.A., 1991) is a member of the Adjunct Faculty at John Marshall Law School. He is also an international legal consultant, legal and medical interpreter, author and public speaker. He is working on his auto-biography, Beyond Ideology: The Genesis of An Existential Libertarian, which will be published in the fall of 2009 (www.richardcampagna.org).

Mollie Hartford (M.A., 2007) is now the coordinator of programming and media planning at The N, a Nickelodeon Kids and Family digital network.

Monique Howell (M.A., 2006) is a school psychologist at Martin De Porres High School in Riverdale, New York.

Caryn Huss (M.A., 1984) works as a School Psychologist for New York City Department of Education District 79 Bronx H.S. Long-term Suspension Center with Level 5 offenders from area high schools. The program combines clinical treatment and academic rigor in a small, alternative setting. She has worked as a counselor, psychologist and educator in several different residential treatment settings with various populations and ages including her own private practice. In 2006 Huss obtained a doctorate in educational administration.

Brittany Reynolds (M.A., 2006) works in a Psychology Lab as a Research Assistant studying the effects of child maltreatment and prenatal cocaine exposure in a longitudinal study at the Drexel University College of Medicine. She lives in Audubon, New Jersey.

Nina Segal (M.A., 1987) is a senior career consultant with the United Nations Secretariat in their Office of Human Resources Management (OHRM), where she works in the Career Resource Centre providing a range of career development services for UN staff members. For nine years Nina was the Assistant Dean/Director of Career Services at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA). Nina wrote International Jobs, 5th and 6th editions, published by Perseus Books. She resides in Hastings-on-Hudson with her husband and three children.

 

Sociology & Education

Sydney Brooks (M.A., 2006) is an Assistant Director of Corporate and Foundation Relations and Faculty Grant Support at the Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Shirley Feldman (M.A., 2005) is an ESL Instructional Specialist at East Somerville Community School in Somerville, Massachusetts. She spent four years as the East Bay Director of the Jewish Coalition for Literacy, a nonprofit organization that recruits, trains, and places community volunteers as one-on-one literacy tutors for public elementary school students. Feldman taught abroad in Beirut, Lebanon, and was an ESL teacher (as a New York City Teaching Fellow) in two New York City middle schools.

 

Bilingual/Bicultural Education

Yeon Ju (Angela) Bae (M.A., 2004) is enrolled in an Ed.D. in IED program. She currently works for the CPLC Education Center, a private institute providing ESL/Standardized Tests for F-1 international tonal students.

Jessica Bedard (M.A., 2007) is currently in her tenure year of teaching at Long Beach Public Schools in New York. She is part of a pilot program co-teaching a Spanish inclusion class in which she, a special education teacher, works alongside a Spanish teacher teaching beginner’s Spanish to 7th and 8th grade mainstream students and students with special needs. Bedard is starting her C.A.S. in Administration and plans to continue teaching in Long Beach focusing on bilingualism and special education.

Jennifer Losapio (M.A., 2008) is currently a teacher in New York City at the Amistad Dual Language School.

 

Comparative & International Education

Masako Hamada (Ph.D.; Ed.D., 2002) studied international educational development, including inter-cultural communication and conflict resolution, second language acquisition, and gender issues, and works at Villanova University.

 

International Educational Development

Leonisa Ardizzone (Ed.D., 2001) is wrapping up her third year as Executive Director of the Salvadori Center (www.salvadori.org), a non-profit that uses architecture and engineering to introduce teachers and learners to the wonder, beauty and logic of the built environment. Leonisa’s background in science education has helped transform the organization into a leading provider of project-based math and science professional development to teachers in New York City and beyond. On the side, Leonisa has recently released her second jazz album to critical acclaim.

Brittany B. Ford (M.A., 2008) works for the Advocates for Children of New York as an Education Specialist for Project Achieve, a New York educational advocacy organization on the foster care project. Project Achieve does direct case work and helps build the capacity for New York foster care and preventive agencies to deal with highly complex education issues, including preschool services, special education, high school admissions among others.

Brandi N. James (M.A., 2006) recently completed her first, two-year diplomatic assignment in Lagos, Nigeria, with the Department of State as a Vice Consul. She will be in Washington, D.C. until August 2009 learning French for her next diplomatic assignment in Paris.

Ochan Kusuma (Ed.D., 1992) is working as an educational consultant to international schools with the company Education Across Frontiers.

Kahla L. M. Thompson Nelson (M.A., 1996) is married to Eric Nelson, who is General Manager of Cable China. They have four children ages 11, 10, 6 and 4. They reside in Suzhou City where she teaches ESL at Dulwich College Suzhou.

Reid Particelli (M.A., 2001) teaches history at Sacred Heart Preparatory, a college preparatory high school in Atherton, California. He writes, “I want to thank TC for providing a wonderful educational experience. Major props and respect go to the leadership of Betty Reardon, Peter Lucas and Tony Jenkins, who have done great things in the field of Peace Education. Molding minds like clay, my own constant learning, and shaping the future is what I love about education.”

 

Communication, Computing & Technology in Education

Cristiana Assumpção (Ed.D., 2002) is the educational technology coordinator at Colegio Bandierantes, a private middle and high school organized a pioneer program to address the issue of safe use of the internet. She has partnered with a law firm specialized in digital laws to develop a school-wide program which includes training the teachers, the employees, parents and students. Assumpção has used her TC training to develop a professional development course in Educational Technology at her school and presents similar programs for other educators in São Paulo. She also shared her work as part of the International Science programs at the annual National Science Teachers Association, held in New Orleans in March.

John Desjarlais (M.A., 1984) authored a mystery novel, Bleeder (Sophia Institute Press, 2009). For details visit www.johndesjarlais.com.

Ron Farris (M.A., 2008) recently authored a book, Africans and African Americans Divided: The Male-Female African and African American Digital Divide. Ron lives in Arizona and is on the board of directors of Afronesia, Inc.

Fidelia Gale Johnson (Ed.M., 2005) is working on her doctorate degree and nearing completion. She is an honorary member of the National Nominating Committee of National Youth Leadership Forum on Medicine 2008. She was chosen by the National Honor Roll as an Outstanding American Teacher, 2006–2007. She works for the Coffee Country Board of Education.

Peter Kashatus (M.A., 1986) teaches computer science at the Providence Day School in Charlotte, North Carolina. He has been teaching the A.P. Computer Science course from its inception through Pascal, C++, and Java. He previously spent 22 years as a teacher and the director of technology at Brunswick School in Greenwich, Connecticut. Since moving to Charlotte in 2003, he has taught AP Computer Science, Introductory Programming, Computer Graphics and Desktop Publishing and Web Design, and just this year introduced a course in robotics.

Christopher Le (M.A., 2003) helped launch the Suicide Prevention Resource Center and the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline and now owns Emotion Technology, a company combining mental health with technology. He recently wrote a white paper about suicide and the internet for SAMHSA (Under the Department of Health and Human Services) which will inform federal policy about this important topic. Le and his wife live in Austin, Texes.

 

Mathematics Education

Laurie Bass (M.A., 1979) has been a math teacher at the Fieldston School since 1979 and writing geometry textbooks for Pearson Prentice Hall since 1998. She is presently working on the 2011 edition.

 

Science Education

Janell N. Catlin (Ph.D., 2007) is the Project Director of the new General Electric Foundation Grant (Harlem Schools Partnership for Science and Math Education) at TC in collaboration with the Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, Columbia University. This effort will marshal faculty, students, principals and teachers to enhance to professional development of teachers in ten K–12 Harlem schools over the next five years.

 

Adult learning & leadership

John M. Carfora (Ed.D., 2007) was named Co-Chair of the International Group (I-Group) at the National Academy of Sciences.

Tiffany Dotson (M.A., 2002) lives in the windy city of Chicago and works as a leadership advisor to United Airlines. She writes, “My TC experience has been a tremendous source of influence for my career!”

April Yvonne Garrett (M.A., 1997) is the founder and president of Civic Frame (www.civicframe.org), a national non-profit organization that uses art and intellectual work to encourage civic engagement and critical thinking. She has worked at Emory University as Assistant Director of Student Activities and Director of New Student Orientation, earned a Master of Theological Studies at Harvard Divinity School, served as the Fellows Officer of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute of African and African American Studies at Harvard University and as the Director of Administration and Strategic Planning of the NAACP. Currently, she serves as a member of the Kenyon College Alumni Council and is one of the founders of its Alumni of Color Collective and is on the advisory board of The Justice Project at Philander Smith College.

William A. Howe (Ed.D., 1991) is the education consultant for multicultural education, gender equity and civil rights at the Connecticut State Department of Education. He is also the founder and chairperson of the New England Conference on Multicultural Education. In 2006, Howe was awarded the G. Pritchy Smith Multicultural Educator of the Year Award. In 2008, he was appointed by Governor Jodi Rell to serve on the newly created Asian Pacific American Commission. Howe has given over 300 workshops, lectures and keynotes on diversity, multicultural education and organizational development and trained over 14,000 educators. He is co-authoring a textbook on multicultural education, a book of inspirational stories about teachers, and was a co-author of the Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity through Education, 2nd Edition.

Richane C. Mankey (Ed.D., 2007) is Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students at Daemen College. Mankey will present at the International Leadership Association symposium in England in May 2009 on “Conceptualizing World Leadership: What Leaders Can Learn from the Mayan Calendar.”

 

education Leadership

Greg Bamford (Ed.M., 2007) is the English Department Chair at The Overlake School in Redmond, Washington. He and his wife had a second daughter, Annabel Greer, in November.

Andrew Deyell (Ed.M., 2006) is finishing his first year as Assistant Headmaster of the Washington Jesuit Academy, a tuition-free middle school in Washington, D.C., that serves educationally underserved and economically disadvantaged boys from the District of Columbia, Maryland and Virginia. It is a member of the Nativity Miguel network of schools.

Emily Alana James (Ed.D., 2005) reports successfully moving to Kinsale, County Cork, Ireland. She teaches and mentors doctoral students in education and management for a number of for profit universities. Being an independent academic gives her the freedom to work with others in an international project aimed at developing new designs for education. Participatory teams from a growing number of sites and countries both meet locally and interact internationally online at www.futureofeducationproject.net.

Educational Administration

John L. Balbi (Ed.M., 1979; TESOL, M.A., 1975) retired from the New York City Department of Education after 33 years working in the English as a Second Language field as a teacher and administrator. Currently he is an adjunct professor at TC and Hunter College. Balbi also mentors 17 teachers including Peace Corps Fellows and Student Teachers at TC and Teaching Fellows at Hunter.

Jan Hammond (Ed.D., 1992) was just appointed to the New York State Professional Standards and Practices Board, which serves the Regents and the Commissioner of Education on teaching issues and related professions. Hammond is an associate professor in the Department of Educational Administration at SUNY New Paltz. She is currently the President of the Collegiate Association for the Development of Educational Administration and serves on the General Advisory Group at the New York Education Department for developing school leadership.

Ben Zion Kogen (Ed.M., 1979; M.A., 1977) resides with his family in Reseda, California, and serves as Executive Director of the Western Region of the Bnai Zion Foundation, an agency that sponsors humanitarian projects all over the Jewish State.

John Goodspeed Stuart (Ed.D., 1954), who was named Superintendent Emeritus in 1986 when he retired from the Aurora, Colorado, school district, resides with his wife in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. He has written two books about American artist/illustrator Maxfield Parrish. This father of five proudly boasts that three of his children are also educators in Brooklyn and Colorado. Stuart recently became a member of the John Dewey Circle and writes, “I appreciate the opportunity I had to sit with perhaps eight other TC students to listen to him and ask questions for an hour or so in late May 1952. He died June 1, 1952 at age 92. I was 25 at the time and thrilled to meet him.”

Maqueda Randall-Weeks (Ed.M., 2008) is a recent graduate of the TC Summer Principals Academy 2007–08 Cohort. In July, she will begin working on her Ed.D. as a member of the 20th Cohort of the Urban Superintendents Program at Harvard Graduate School of Education. She is a district-wide Special Education Literacy Specialist in Hackensack, New Jersey, serving four elementary schools and consulting with two middle schools.

Austin D. Swanson (Ed.D., 1960; M.A., 1955) is co-author with Taher Razik of the third edition of Fundamental Concepts of Educational Leadership and Management (Allyn & Bacon, 2009). The text is designed for graduate students beginning their studies of the administration of schools and school systems. 

 

Higher & post secondary Education

Emily B. Anderson (Ed.D., 1989) serves as the chair of the Department of Social Science & Human Services at the Borough of Manhattan Community College CUNY.

Edward Anthony Colozzi (Ed.D., 1973) authored a career/life exploration and planning self-paced workbook, Creating Careers with Confidence (Pearson/Prentice Hall, 2009). Several years ago it was selected as the first career/life workbook ever to be published in Braille by the National Braille Press. Colozzi is a national career development consultant/motivational speaker, nationally certified counselor, licensed mental health counselor, and an NCDA Fellow; he coined the term “career/life” in the 1970’s to re-frame career to include multiple life roles. He developed DOVE (Depth-Oriented Values Clarification), SCG (cost-effective Systematic Career Guidance), and print/on-line materials for K–12 /college students. He has taught graduates and undergraduates levels, including numerous in-service training for K–12 staff, and served as coordinator of career development at the college level.

Carol G. Durst (M.A., 1975) completed a Ph.D. from The Union Institute and University in the fall of 2006. She has worked in the food industry for the last 25+ years, catering, teaching, writing and researching women who work in the food industry.

Joe Hankin (Ed.D., 1967) has been a community college president for 42 years spending 37 and a half of those years at Westchester Community College. He also taught for 30 years at TC in the higher education program. During that time he served on 64 doctoral committees.

 

Devon Provan (M.A., 2008) was recently named Assistant Dean of Development and Alumni Relations at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation. She also became a new mom: Jackson Bailey Provan was born on September 18, 2008.

 

Organizational Psychology

Maryann McFadden Meador (M.A., 1986) is a mental health counselor for nursing homes in South Georgia.

Josephine Panganiban (M.A., 1997) is a managing partner of People Front & Center, a woman- and minority-owned and operated human capital and organization effectiveness consulting firm. In 2008 it was awarded a grant by Wall Street West to develop competency models for the financial services industry. Panganiban has been a senior consultant for Arthur Andersen’s Human Capital practice, Director of Performance Management & Training at American University, Vice President of HR and OD at Wilkes University, and Chief of Staff at Diversified Information Technologies.

Gloria M. Stevens (Ed.D., 2004) has used her knowledge from the ICCCR Conflict Resolution Program to develop an undergraduate Conflict Resolution course and textbook for Marymount Manhattan College (MMC), her undergraduate alma mater. Stevens has been an adjunct professor at MMC since 2005 where she teaches her Conflict Resolution course and General Psychology. She founded with six fellow alumni, the MMC Psychology Alumni Association and is now President. She also presented conflict resolution techniques at the Bedford Hills Crossing Borders Conference in 2007 and 2008. Stevens has 20+ years of experience as a consultant in the personnel industry. She is currently helping others to turn their “Passions into Power and Profits” while serving as an Executive Project Manager for the Former Ambassador to Denmark.

David Zobler (M.A., 1989) is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. He created and runs an organization-wide mentoring program for his agency, The Los Angeles County Office of Education. He has also successfully implemented employee engagement surveys in the public sector industry and is an experienced facilitator of conflict resolution (between union and management) using an interest-based approach. Zobler serves on the Board for the Association of Los Angeles County Office School Administrators.

 

Social Organizational Psychology

Barbara Benedict Bunker (Ph.D., 1970) has just authored a new book with Janice Eddy, Innovations in Inclusion: The Purdue Faculty & Staff Diversity Story, 1997-2008 (Purdue University Press). The book is a research study of a ten-year culture change initiative to create a more welcoming and supportive environment for persons of many cultures which impacted individuals, policies and the university as a whole.