APPLIED LINGUISTICS

Bruce Ballard (Ed.D. ’94, M.Ed. ’87, M.A. ’82) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

ARTS ADMINISTRATION

Eric Oberstein (M.A. ’09) produced Dafnis Prieto Big Band’s Back to the Sunset, which won the 2019 GRAMMY Award for Best Latin Jazz Album.

Priya Sircar (M.A. ’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. ’99) was named Associate Dean of the School of Education at Nevada State College.

ENGLISH EDUCATION

Cati de los Ríos (Ph.D. ’17, M.Phil. ’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’Connor (M.A. ’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. ’13) published her novel, Otherwise Engaged (Skyhorse Publishing 2019).

TESOL

Fanshen Cox (M.A. ’97) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

The U.S. Department of State selected Cara Schroeder (M.A. ’07) for the 2018–2019 English Language Fellow Program. She will be teaching English in Mexico at Universidad Tecnológica Laja Bajío.

Anca L. Szilágyi (M.A. ’07) published her debut novel, Daughters of the Air (Lanternfish Press 2017).

MUSIC & MUSIC EDUCATION

Karen Hall (Ed.D.CT. ’06) was named Executive Director of the Los Alamos Arts Council.

Barbara Lister-Sink (Ed.D.CT. ’15) was named among Musical America’s Top 30 Professionals of 2018.

RELIGION & EDUCATION

Darcel Holloway (Ed.D. ’94 M.A., M.Ed. ’84) released Well Done: The Album.

SPEECH–LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY AND AUDIOLOGY

Diane DiResta (M.S. ’77) published Knockout Presentations: How to Deliver Your Message with Power, Punch, and Pizzazz (Morgan James Publishing 2018).

SPEECH–LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY/BILINGUAL

Francesca Lormeus (M.S. ’11) was selected as one of “40 Under 40” by the SUNY New Paltz Alumni Association.

COUNSELING PSYCHOLOGY

Kim Baranowski (Ph.D. ’14, M.Phil., M.A., M.Ed. ’10) received the 2019 Early Career Award at TC’s 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. ’09) published Once a Liar (Harlequin 2019).

PSYCHOLOGY IN EDUCATION

Hala Alyan (M.A. ’09) won the 2018 Dayton Literary Peace Prize for Fiction for her novel Salt Houses (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2017).

Mallika Chopra (M.A. ’18) published Just Breathe: Meditation, Mindfulness, Movement, and More (Running Press 2018).

Amy Puca (M.A. ’09) was promoted to Senior Evaluator at Via Evaluation.

Carmen Rita Wong (M.A. ’00) is producing and hosting The Carmen Show: Life, Money + No Apologies, a podcast.

CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT

TC Professor Emerita Frances Schoonmaker (Ed.D. ’83) published The Black Alabaster Box (Auctus Publishers 2018), a young adult novel.

Lisa Edstrom (Ed.D. ’18) received the 2019 Shirley Chisholm Dissertation Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION

Beverly Falk (Ed.D. ’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. ’76) retired from the Kentucky Department of Education as a preschool consultant.

Janis (Koeppel) Strasser (Ed.D. ’95 , M.Ed. ’92) co-wrote Big Questions for Young Minds: Extending Children’s 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. ’99) was named The Pingry School’s new Lower School Director at the Short Hills campus in New Jersey.

Elaine Perlman (M.A. ’93) has returned to Teachers College to serve as Director of the Peace Corps Fellows Program.

ECONOMICS & EDUCATION

Ipek Bakir (M.A. ’15) of the Overdeck Family Foundation was named one of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” in Education.

Community College Research Center stalwart Veronica Minaya (Ph.D. ’16) consulted for the World Bank in several countries, including Afghanistan, where she helped establish the country’s post-war education system.

EDUCATION POLICY

Travis Bristol (Ph.D. ’14, M.Phil. ’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. ’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. ’11, M.Phil. ’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. ’88), a 2017 TC Distinguished Alumni Awardee, was named Senior Vice President for Innovation & Development, Scholastic Education at Scholastic.

NUTRITION EDUCATION

Ellie Krieger (M.S. ’94) received the Outstanding Social Media Award at eatrightPRO’s Food & Nutrition Conference & Expo 2018.

NURSING EDUCATION

Marianne T. Marcus (M.Ed. ’77, M.A. ’76) co-edited Processed Food Addiction: Foundations, Assessment, and Recovery (CRC Press 2017).

EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY – HUMAN COGNITIVE STUDIES EDUCATION

Laura Thompson (M.A. ’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. ’93, M.Ed. ’91) published The People’s Professors of Cuba: How the Nation Achieved Education for All (Lexington Books 2019).

INTERNATION & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

Keiichi Ogawa (Ph.D. ’99; M.Phil., M.A. ’97; M.Ed. ’95) received the Prime Minister’s Labour Medal from the Lao Government for his leadership and significant contribution to the development of education.

INTERNATIONAL & COMPARATIVE EDUCATION

Andrew Shiotani (M.Phil. ’10) was named Director of Tufts University’s International Center.

FAMILY & COMMUNITY EDUCATION

Denny Taylor (Ed.D. ’81, M.A. ’80) received the 2019 Distinguished Alumni Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT

Toni Cela (Ed.D. ’16, M.A. ’01) co-edited Haitian Youth in the Americas (Presses de l’Université du Québec 2017), a bilingual (English/French) book.

Since graduating, Sarah (Lucas) Pouezevara (M.A. ’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. ’12, M.Ed. ’06, M.A. ’05) received the 2019 Early Career Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

COMPUTING IN EDUCATION

Cheryl Buonome-Panzo (M.A. ’12) was named Principal of East Shoreline Catholic Academy in Branford, Connecticut.

Heather Sutkowski (M.A. ’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. ’03, M.Ed. ’01) was named Associate Provost of Online Education at the ArtCenter College of Design.

Joohee Son (Ed.D. ’13, M.Ed. ’10) received TC’s inaugural Alumni Award for Outstanding Service at the College’s Academic Festival 2019.

ADULT EDUCATION GUIDED INTENSIVE STUDY

In January 2016, Richanne C. Mankey (Ed.D. ’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. ’97), co-founder of the Relay Graduate School of Education, received the 2018 Heinz Award in the Human Condition category.

Yolanda Borrás (M.A. ’98) has won awards for her Spanish illustrated songbooks and music for young children, including the Parents’ Choice Award, International Latino Book Award and Dragonfly Book Award.

Robert P. Macrae (Ed.D. ’00, M.A. ’94) was appointed Head of School at Louisville Collegiate School in Kentucky.

Danielle R. Moss (Ed.D. ’06, M.Ed. ’99, M.A. ’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

TC Alumni Council Member Delmy Lendof (Ed.D. ’13) was appointed Associate Dean for Student Affairs  at New York University Steinhardt.

Holly Tedder (M.A. ’16) was named Director of the Barnard Office of Disability Services.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Sybil Jordan Hampton (Ed.D. ’91, M.Ed. ’82), a 2018 TC Distinguished Alumni Awardee, received a Diversity Leadership Award from the University of Chicago.

Belinda Miles (Ed.D. ’00, M.A. ’88), President of Westchester Community College, delivered greetings on behalf of academe at TC President Thomas Bailey’s 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. ’64, M.A. ’50) with an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.

INQUIRY EDUCATION LEADERSHIP PRACTICE

Carla Theodorou (Ed.D. ’11, M.Ed. ’09) was named head of Nassau BOCES Department of Regional Schools and Instructional Programs.

Delores Lowe Friedman (Ed.D. ’93) published Wildflowers: A Novel (2017).

NURSING EDUCATION – PROFESSIONAL ROLE

Gerard Dela Cruz (M.A. ’10) received the Clinical Nurse Excellence Award–Advanced Practice Nurse from New York-Presbyterian/Columbia University Irving Medical Center.

PRIVATE SCHOOL LEADERSHIP

Tony Alleyne (M.A. ’10) received the 2019 Early Career Award at TC’s Academic Festival.

Dennis Bisgaard (M.A. ’98) has been named Head of School, Whittle School & Studios, D.C. Campus.

José M. De Jesús (M.A. ’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. ’15) opened a branch of The Goddard School in Millburn, New Jersey.

EXECUTIVE PSYCHOLOY - ORGANIZATIONAL

Monique Herena (M.A. ’17), a graduate of TC’s Executive Master’s Program in Change Leadership (XMA), was named one of American Banker’s “Women to Watch 2018.”

SOCIAL-ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

Chad Plenge (M.A. ’18) was named President of the Board of Directors for the nonprofit Badger Boys State Alumni Association.

STUDENT PERSONAL ADMINISTRATION

Stephen Pultz (M.A. ’87) was appointed to the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Board of Directors.