2000s MICHAEL CANTOR, JD ’00, was named
managing director of Allegro Realty Advisors. He lives in Solon. ■ GARRETT MATYAS, MBA ’00 and MLRHR ’02, was named director of human resources for National Airlines. ■ TIM McCOY, BA ’01, is a long-time chef who serves as the education director of the International Culinary Arts & Sciences Institute. He lives in Cleveland Heights. ■ THOMAS EVAN GREEN, JD ’02, was named a 2012 Rising Star by Ohio Super Lawyers magazine. He is an attorney with Kastner Westman & Wilkins and lives in Boston Heights. ■ CARLA JENKINS, MBA ’02, was promoted from economist with the Bureau of Economic Analysis in Washington, D.C., to a GS-13 program analyst with the Small Business Administration. ■ BRANDON DAVIS, BA ’03, is the director of industrial manufacturing at Industrial Process Group, URS Corporation. ■ VINKO KOVANOVIC, BA ’03, is a diplomat in the Defense Attache Office of the U.S.
Embassy in Ljubljana, Slovenia. ■ DANTE RODRIGUEZ, BA ’03, is an artist who lives in Lorain and works in the architecture and design department of the Cleveland Museum of Art. ■ TAD FITCH, BA ’04, MA ’06 and Psy.S. ’07, is a maritime historian whose new book, On a Sea of Glass: The Life and Loss of the RMS Titanic, was published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the ship’s sinking. ■ CHEANNA HUDSON, BBA ’06 and MEd ’11, is a human relations analyst. ■ SASHANK GARIKAPATI, MUPDD ’07, works for WINIT, a mobile application development company in India.
2010s
■ BEVERLY BROWN, BA ’10, is the program director for Rainey Institute and served as choirmaster for the Gospel Gifts choir performance with Peabo Bryson, Ben Vereen, Lea Salonga, Jennifer Holiday and the Cleveland Orchestra in December. ■ PATRICK O’CONNOR, JD ’10, joined Murray & Murray Co., L.P.A. as an associate attorney. ■ BABETTE OESTREICHER, MA ’11, is the organization coordinator for Winker’s Creek Watershed partners. ■ CHRISTINE RADOMSKI, MA ’11, is an assistant at the Cleveland Artist’s Foundation, Cleveland’s Center for Regional Art.
ERIN HUBER, BS ’09 and MS Urban Studies ’11, was named one of Cleveland Magazine’s Most Interesting People for 2012. As an undergraduate, Huber and fellow student Lee Ann Westfall were the impetus behind the creation of the CSU Recreation Center’s rooftop garden. She also was instrumental in bringing a farmers market to campus. Huber is the founder of Drink Local. Drink Tap., a nonprofit organization that focuses on water sustainability, both locally and globally. Most recently, she has been working on a documentary film and project to help provide water for children in Uganda. She will receive the CSU/CSUAA Distinguished Alumni Award this year.
LOU TISLER, BBA ’92
and MBA ’94
IAN FRIEDMAN, JD ’97
THOMAS EVAN GREEN, JD ’02
PATRICK O’CONNOR, JD ’10
MICHAEL WARNICK, BMusic ’01 and MMusic ’03, is a staff sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and a trumpeter and cornetist in The President’s Own, an elite military band that comprises the U.S. Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra, and Marine Chamber Ensembles. The band performs regularly at the White House and for more than 500 public concerts across the nation each year. Warnick recently returned to campus to perform as a soloist in concert with the wind ensembles and choirs from both CSU and North Olmsted High School, his alma mater. While here, he conducted master classes at both CSU and North Olmsted.
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