Class Notes Elayna RODRIGUEZ Schuff and her husband, Karl, are so excited to announce that they welcomed their first child this year! Their daughter, Keira Jade, was born on January 15, 2019 at 5:28 a.m. Mama & Daddy are completely in love with their little girl!
1991 Karen VELAZQUEZ-Vargas is currently the Executive Director of City Year Miami. She earned the position a year ago and has been working at the City Year Organization for six years. 1998 Suzanne FENECH Pasocello and her husband, Marc, welcomed daughter Sophie Adeline Pascocello on August 9, 2019. They cannot be happier or more in love!
Melissa RIVERO debuted her novel, The Affairs of the Falcons, which was published in the spring by Ecco/HarperCollins. The novel centers around an undocumented Peruvian woman trying to keep her family afloat in NYC in the 1990s. The novel is a finalist for the New American Voices Award and longlisted for The Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize. Melissa also works in-house as a lawyer for a startup in SoHo. When she is not working or writing, she is at a museum, beach or park with her husband and two boys. 2001 Erin BOYLE Eisenberg married the love of her life, Joshua Eisenberg, on June 30, 2019, and it was a beautiful ceremony and celebration. They then traveled all over Italy for the month of July. 2003 Vanessa CASTRO married Steve Rybka in March 2019 in a small ceremony surrounded by close friends and family. She was training for her second marathon, the Marine Corp Marathon, which took place in October 2019.
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2006 Suela NASUFI-Fletcher is a new parent to Qemal Hasan Fletcher born June 19, 2019 Krystal PALMERS married Anthony Olivares on June 29, 2019, and they welcomed their third child, Lucas Anthony Olivares Palmers, on September 5, 2019. She is enjoying her maternatity leave this fall, but her position of Assistant District Attorney in the Bronx DA’s office awaits her return.
2008 Erica ZISSEL Andrinopoulos has made a move in her career by stepping out of the classroom to become Assistant Principal of St. Patrick School in Bay Shore. She is finishing her Administration degree at St. John's University in December, and she is happy to still be able to be a part of Catholic education and give back, having been a product of Catholic schools from Pre-K to college.
2012 Nicole RODRIGUEZ graduated with her Bachelors in Criminal Justice from Adelphi University and will be graduating with her Masters in Social Work in May 2020. She currently works at FDR High School in Brooklyn as a Substance Abuse Prevention Counselor. She looks forward to continuing her career! 2015 Joralyssa CONLEY graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University with a Bachelors in Neuroscience and Behavior (pre-med) in May 2019. Her senior thesis was on "The Role of the Insular Cortex on Response Inhibition" with Dr. Peter Balsam. She has been a Research Associate at Dr. Peter D. Balsam's Adaptive Behavior Lab at the New York State Psychiatric Institute. She plans to go on to earn her MD-Ph.D. 2017 Stephanie ADAMS was promoted to Director of Advocacy at Loyola University New Orleans Women’s Resource Center.