W&J Magazine Fall 2015

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Caroline R. Mosites Kelly has been promoted to Of Counsel status at Steptoe & Johnson in the firm’s Wheeling, W.Va., office. Kelly focuses her practice in the area of energy law, particularly in the area of titles for coal, oil, gas and other minerals. She has been at Steptoe & Johnson since 2010.

2006 Bethany Henry Adhikari began working at Highmark Inc. in Camp Hill, Pa., as a supervisor of medical policy in May 2014. Lindsey Geisel Asfur has joined the Sarasota office of RE/MAX Alliance Group. She specializes in residential and investment properties. Asfur joined the real estate field in 2013 and worked for Century 21 Beggins Enterprises. Previously, she was a legal assistant with Greene, Hamrick, Quinlan & Schermer, P.A. in Bradenton, Fla.

2007 Corey DiGiovanni opened Countryside Deli on Henderson Avenue in Washington, Pa., this past December. The business offers deli meats and cheeses, along with snacks and hot dishes. Catherine Fischer was named Jefferson-Morgan School District’s middle school and high school guidance counselor.

the International Domestic Litigation Firm of Cordell & Cordell, P.C. Tony Zanders has been appointed vice president of global customer development by EBSCO Information Services. In this role, Zanders will work to delve deeply into the needs and goals of a wide array of libraries as they relate to optimizing both front- and back-end software services. Zanders is the former director at Ex Libris and most recently served as head of communications and outreach at 4.0 Schools, an education innovation lab dedicated to improving the future of schools.

2008 Kaitlyn Orstein has been inducted into the Western Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic League’s Hall of Fame. Orstein, a swimmer, made All-American status 25 times at Mt. Lebanon. She won six PIAA titles and eight Division III championships while at W&J. Shelby Walburn was voted Hampshire County’s Catalyst of 2014. Walburn created a swim team during her first year as a science teacher at Hampshire High School in Romney, W.Va., and arranges everything from rides to dinner for the swimmers on her own. Her work in the pool and behind the scenes has opened doors that up until three years ago did not exist for student-athletes in Hampshire County.

Raul Sandoval Jr. was named the “Top Overall Attorney” for 2014 out of 170 attorneys within

2009 Zack Zebrasky has been hired as an elementary principal for Avella Area School District. Before becoming principal, Zebrasky was a high school social studies and science teacher and coach at Avella. Zebrasky spent two years in Washington School District as a long-term substitute before going to Avella.

2010 Mitch Conner has been hired as the new coordinator of athletic business operations at Northern State University in Aberdeen, S.D. Prior to joining Northern State Athletics, Conner worked as the director of basketball development and operations at the National Club Basketball Association, where he created, developed and operated a nationwide collegiate club basketball league of 26 teams. Conner was also the North Atlantic regional director of the National Club Baseball Association. Kimberly Ann Furmanek was sworn in as a lawyer in Greene County, Pa., and is working in family law. Adil M. Qarni received his M.D. degree from the University of Toledo College of Medicine on May 30, 2014. He continued his training with an anesthesiology residency at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center.

W&J alum awarded prestigious transportation fellowship Zoe Levenson ’14, a 2015 graduate of the master of information systems and management program at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz College, was selected as the 2015 recipient of the Women in Transportation Fellowship. The fellowship is offered in partnership with Traffic21 and the T-SET University Transportation Center.

Levenson, who wants to become one of the future leaders in the transportation industry, has already done great work in her program by building a database for T-Set, the National USDOT University Transportation Center for Safety, conducting research with Dr. Sean Qian and the T-SET UTC Mobility Analytics Center, and even forming a Transportation Club on campus with a group of other students. In addition to her on-campus activities, Levenson recently joined the board of the Women Transportation Seminar, Pittsburgh Chapter. “I get to work with a group of women already working in

CREDIT: CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY’S HEINZ COLLEGE

“The Women in Transportation Fellowship is an opportunity for a student like Zoe to gain systemic exposure to the industry,” said Traffic21 Program Director Courtney Ehrlichman. “From research, funding, politics, she sees how Traffic21 partners with real world agencies and organizations to get the technology out of the university and onto our streets.”

the field to form a chapter of an international organization and learn how to incorporate a nonprofit,” said Levenson. “Not only am I developing a great network among these professional women, but I’m also flexing my leadership muscles by being the board secretary and understanding the importance of this role to keep a board moving forward.” Over the summer, Zoe completed an internship with Boeing, where she was able to gain an even deeper understanding of the technology and management of transportation. Zoe Levenson was awarded the 2015 Women in Transportation Fellowship.

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