Class Notes

Roma Stibravy ’54 B.A. (IR/PSt) is president of NGO Sustainability, a nonprofit organization that consults with the United Nations. Stibravy previously served as expert consultant for the United Nations.

Marilyn D. Shaw ’68 M.P.A. retired from practicing energy law at Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld LLP in Washington, D.C. She currently serves as co-president of the Garden Club of Madison in Madison, N.J.

Harvey Strum ’70 B.A. (IR)/’76 M.P.A./’78 Ph.D. (Hist) earned the Russell Sage College’s Susan Warren Beatty Faculty Award for Excellence in Research for 2019-20 and the Sherman David Spector Professor in Humanities in 2020-21.

Edward Marshall ’71 M.P.A. authored Leadership’s 4th Evolution: Collaboration for the 21st Century (Cognella Academic Publishing), which covers a wide range of critical business challenges from Microsoft IT upgrades to DuPont implementing change in their information systems. Marshall is currently serving as adjunct professor in management at Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.

John Beadles ’75 Ph.D. (SSc) authored Stained with Blood and Tears: Lynchings, Murder, and Mob Violence in Cairo, Illinois, 19091910 (Saluki Publishing). Beadles’ book describes the horror of mob lynching during the Jim Crow era.

Stephen Coffin ’77 M.P.A. published Higher Education’s Looming Collapse: Using New Ways of Doing Business and Social Justice to Avoid Bankruptcy (Rowman and Littlefield) in January 2021. Coffin also earned a Ph.D. in education, finance and economics from Rutgers Graduate School of Education.

John Kazanjian ’77 B.A. (AmSt) is senior vice president and branch manager of Raymond James Financial in El Paso, Texas. Kazanjian also serves as a registered arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.

Patricia Mills ’78 B.A. (Soc) is vice dean of teaching and innovation at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business. She is also a professor and academic director for the Jennifer and James R. Parks Master of Business Tax Program at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting.

Charles Zorn ’79 M.A. (Econ)/’81 Ph.D. (Econ) is vice provost for undergraduate education at Indiana University Bloomington.

Pamela Fessler ’80 M.A.I.R. published Carville’s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice (Liversight) in July 2020. It tells how leprosy patients in the U.S. were treated as if they were inmates for much of the 20th century.

Carol Gifford­Bloom ’81 M.A. (PSc) is a community relations specialist for Lancaster (Pa.) VisionCorps and Manheim Township (Pa.) commissioner.

Mahboob Khawaja ’81 M.A. (PSc)/’00 Ph.D. (SSc) is vice president of academic and strategic planning at Ummah Global Planning and Development in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2020, Khawaja authored One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution (Lambert Academic Publishing), sharing his thoughts about how the world might one day achieve global peace and prosperity.

Frank DelVecchio ’82 M.P.A. is senior vice president for public finance at the Boston, Mass. office of Roosevelt & Cross, a municipal securities firm.

Rebecca Riehm ’83 M.A. (Soc) retired from Jefferson Community College (JCC) in Watertown, N.Y., after 30 years of teaching. In retirement, Riehm will serve on JCC’s Affirmative Action Committee, diversity working group and on faculty search committees.

Marc Albrecht ’84 M.A. (PSc)/ M.P.A. is deputy director of grants and contracts management in the civil practice with the Legal Aid Society. He previously served 34 years at New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

Anthony Bullett ’84 M.P.A. led efforts to adopt a non-discrimination ordinance in 2019 in Huntingdon, Pa., making it Pennsylvania’s first rural community and 59th municipality to adopt such an ordinance.

Katie Lichtig ’84 M.P.A. retired from her position as assistant city manager and chief operating officer for the city of Santa Monica (Calif.) in 2020. She previously served as city manager for Malibu and San Luis Obispo in Calif.

Michael Moore ’84 B.A. (PSc) is Blackbaud’s first diversity and inclusion officer. Prior to joining Blackbaud he was CEO of the International African American Museum in Charleston, S.C. Norma Riccucci ’84 Ph.D. (PA) is a Board of Governors Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University in Newark, N.J. In 2020, she earned the William Duncombe Excellence in Doctoral Education Award for her work advising doctoral students at Rutgers. In 2021, the Midwest Political Science Association named Riccucci recipient of the Herbert Simon Award for her contribution to the scientific study of bureaucracy.

Robert Moses ’85 B.A. (Econ) is lead senior helpdesk coordinator at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO). He previously served as lead senior technical support specialist for the AFL-CIO.

Stephen Brownell ’87 J.D./M.P.A. is executive vice president and general counsel at MP2 Energy LLC, a Shell Energy North America Subsidiary. He previously served as vice president and general counsel for LifeEnergy in Houston, Texas.

Richard Madaleno ’87 B.A. (Hist/ RusSt)/’89 M.P.A. is the administrative officer for Montgomery County, Md. He previously served as the county’s budget director.

Mark Weiller ’89 B.A. (IR) is partner and head of distribution and product management at Stone Harbor Investment Partners in New York City. He previously served as managing director and head of production development and distribution for New Sparta Asset management in London.

Amir Hamzah Azizan ’90 B.S. (Econ) is executive officer of Employees Provident Fund in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Amir previously served as president and CEO of Tenaga Nasional Berhad in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Me’Shae Brooks­Rolling ’90 M.P.A. has been named Upstate Minority Economic Alliance’s new executive director in Syracuse. She also owns and operates an EventPrep Inc. franchise which specializes in planning and management for corporate and government clients.

Steven Mitchell ’90 B.A. (Econ) is a financial advisor at Procyon Partners in Shelton, Conn.

C. Kevin Blackstone ’91 M.P.A. is ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary of the United States of America to the Democratic Republic of Timor Leste. He previously served as minister counselor for management of the U.S. Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.

DeChane Dorsey ’91 B.A. (PSc) has been named executive director of AdvaMed Accel, a division which specializes in helping smaller start-ups with medical technology development. Dorsey previously served as vice president of payment and healthcare delivery policy for AdvaMed.

Michele Likens ’91 M.P.A. is program manager of bioinformatics for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF). She is currently working on launching MMRF’s CureCloud, a cloud service that hosts next generation cell-free DNA analyses for at-home patients.

Melaine Rottkamp ’91 B.A. (PSc) is a certified destination management executive and president and CEO of Dutchess Tourism, Inc. in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. She was previously vice president for Dutchess Tourism and was promoted to her current position in July 2020.

Julie Caperton ’92 B.A. (Hist) is Wells Fargo’s wealth and investment management head for wealth client solutions. In 2020, Caperton was named a new member of the board of directors for Asian and Pacific Island Scholars.

Daniel Martindale ’92 B.A. (PSc) is regional vice president of the Capital Region South (WarrenWashington-Albany) of the Arc, New York, the largest service provider for those intellectually and developmentally disabled. He also serves on the Board of Governors of the Arc, New York, representing Warren, Washington and Albany counties.

Nicholas Paradiso ’92 B.A. (PSc) is vice president of government relations for National Heritage Academies and was recently appointed to Michigan’s Student Recovery Advisory Council.

Kenneth Pontarelli ’92 B.S. (Econ) is managing director for Goldman Sachs’ merchant banking division and is leading a team focused on investing in sustainable green energy. He previously served as founder and chief investment officer for Mission Drive Capital Partners LLC in New York City.

Scott Rayder ’92 M.P.A. is executive director of the Alabama Water Institute for the University of Alabama.

Shiro Gnanaselvam ’93 M.P.A. was named chief executive officer of Social Impact, a global development consulting firm in Arlington, Va. Gnanaselvam was previously chief operating officer and executive vice president at Social Impact.

Eric Heighberger ’93 B.A. (IR) is policy director and subcommittee director for the committee on homeland security in the U.S. House of Representatives. He previously served as chief of staff for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

Sarah Lee ’93 M.P.A. is chief executive officer of Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, a business development and support organization for Dutchess County, N.Y. She also serves on the New York State Economic Development Council board and chairs its annual conference.

Timothy Maniccia ’93 M.P.A. is chief fiscal officer and treasurer at Hudson River-Black River Regulating District in Albany, N.Y. He previously served as chief of staff in the Office of the Chair for the Albany County legislature.