alumni
1991
Brian Mullen has been named to Irish Echo’s 2012 Irish Law and Order 50. He is currently the commanding officer of the 47th precinct in New York City. Michael Porco has been listed in Long Island Business’ Who’s Who in Intellectual Property and Labor Law. Porco is a partner at Hespos & Porco, LLP. Prior to joining the firm, he worked for more than 10 years as an electrical engineer.
1992
Vincent Leon has joined 3D Asset Management, Inc. as vice president and national sales manager, overseeing all sales, marketing and distribution for its intermediary and retirement channels. He previously served as the head of retail sales and distribution at Mirae Asset Global Investments (USA). Steven Murphy gave the keynote address to the junior and senior classes at Mount St. Michael Academy for their 2012 Career Day. The theme of his speech was service, as he reflected on his own career in education. Kevin Mulligan was named to the position of public works director of Greenville, N.C. He previously served as public works commissioner and assistant city manager of Long Beach, N.Y. Theresa Henry has been named trustee of St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church of Hillsdale, N.J. She is an active member of the church and the academy it supports, serving as a Eucharistic minister and president of the school advisory board.
1998
Edward Pfleging was honored by SUNY Maritime at the school’s annual Admiral’s Scholarship Dinner. He serves as vice president of engineering and facilities at Montefiore Medical Center and the Montefiore Medical Center engineering and facilities division.
1999
PJ Goldfeder saved a neighbor’s home on New Year’s Day. The off-duty firefighter kept a cooking fire from spreading in the home of former City Councilman Dennis Robertson with his quick thinking and his own high-pressure fire extinguisher. Goldfeder gave credit for containing the damage to Robertson’s daughter, who thought to ask him for help.
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2000
Martin Galvin III has joined Golberg Segalla as an associate in the firm’s general liability practice group. He previously served as principal court attorney to the Honorable Carmen Beauchamp Ciparick in the New York State Court of Appeals. He was also featured in Irish Echo magazine’s Top 40 Under 40 list. Hazel Nussbaum is a lifelong tennis enthusiast who transformed her love of the game into a high-end jewelry collection. Her line, Love Tennis by hazel, draws inspiration from four of the major tennis Grand Slam tournaments, and features collections from each
city: New York, Paris, Melbourne and London.
2001
José Colon returned to work at Cooperative Extension. He currently serves as the agriculture business educator, and had previously worked as program supervisor for Cooperative Extension’s farm labor housing rehabilitation program.
2002
Laura Krawczyk has been named to the annual The New York Times Super Lawyers list. She is an associate at Frommer Law-
Marketing to Make a Difference Alumna Travels to Tanzania To Provide Kids with Educational Opportunities
It only takes five. Five people to make a difference to a village. As director of communication and a member of the board of directors for the Uplifting Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making a difference in underprivileged African communities by providing educational resources, Valerie Martin ’06 is one of those five. And it’s not even her day job. Working with the Uplifting Project is a passion that Martin does on the side, as she works full time as a marketing and communication associate for International Stone Collections, a custom artisan shop in Brooklyn that collects luxury stones from all over the world. Martin may be one of five members who serve on the board of the Uplifting Project, but she’s just one of a number of those who support it financially. In only its first year of fundraising, the organization raised more than $20,000, which went toward building a
secondary school in Tanzania. Having seen the lack of educational resources during her first trip to Tanzania the summer after graduation with an organization called Cross Cultural Solutions, she felt the desire to continue her charitable work. It was on that trip that Martin met Rachel Moser, who in 2010 would become the founder of the Uplifting Project. In the fall of 2011, Martin and Moser, working side by side, traveled to the village of Olasiti to fund and actually build the bathrooms and final classroom in the first secondary school for both the organization and the village. “It was amazing to see how grateful they were,” she says. “You could do something, and it feels rewarding, and you know it’s going to make an impact, but to actually see the parents saying ‘thank you’ from the bottom of their hearts because their kids have a place to go to school now is really rewarding.” At some point in the future, Martin hopes to devote her time fully to a charitable organization. But in the immediate future, the Uplifting Project will be assisting the community of Kikatiti, a village in northern Tanzania, by adding new classrooms and desks to the village’s primary school.