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Maxwell Winter 2014 Perspective

Consummate Gentleman Former students and colleagues offer reminiscences of the Maxwell School’s sixth dean, Guthrie Birkhead

Also in this issue:

Maxwell moves into its new Washington, D.C., headquarters

Professor Bob Christen heads a microfinance institute in Syracuse.

Steve Hagerty plays a crucial, supportive role in disaster recovery.

The new holder of the Bantle Chair knows public/private partnerships.

Latest Meredith Professor feels privileged to teach.

Maxwell School SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY Message from the Dean In D.C. and at Home Recent news includes our residence in and collaboration with a top Washington think tank, and important additions to the faculty.

n April 2, Maxwell welcomes alumni and other associates and supporters to our new home in Washington — in the building recently opened by the OCenter for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), in the heart of “think tank row.” This new facility will provide our students with state-of-the-art technology and classrooms, while dramatically improving access to the dynamic intellectual and policy life of D.C. But our engagement with CSIS is much more than a landlord-tenant relationship. It opens a wide-ranging partnership with an internationally renowned research institution recently named one of the top four think tanks in the world in UPenn’s Global Go-To Think Tank Index. We expect this new part- Our engagement nership to include research collaboration between our faculty and with CSIS opens CSIS scholars, jointly developed and run midcareer programs, a wide-ranging access to CSIS conferences and activities, new internship opportuni- partnership with ties, and the engagement of CSIS scholars in teaching our students. an internationally The April 2 event highlights the exciting possibilities of this collaboration with a symposium on “Post-Conflict Lessons From Afghani- renowned research stan,” featuring Deborah Alexander ’82 MSSc/’95 PhD (SSc), former institution. senior policy advisor at the U.S. State Department, alongside Max- well and CSIS scholars. (For more on CSIS and April 2, see page 3.) Of course, the heart of our work remains here at Syracuse and I’m delighted we will be joined soon by two outstanding scholars. Amy Schwartz, the new Moynihan Chair, has served as director of the NYU Institute for Education and Social Policy. Her work on urban and education policy and on public finance is a perfect fit with the legacy of Senator Moynihan. And Rafael Fernández de Castro, the inaugural Moskowitz Chair in Mexico-U.S. Relations, has had an illustrious career as both a scholar and practitioner, serving as foreign policy advisor to President Calderón of Mexico and as chair of the School of International Studies at the Instituto Tec- nológico Autónomo de México. Expect more about them in the next Perspective. Schwartz and de Castro will occupy chairs made possible by our generous supporters. I want to thank all of you who in your own ways have and continue to contribute to Maxwell’s future. This year we will mark our 90th anniversary with events in D.C. and Syracuse, while already beginning to plan for where we’d like to be on our 100th anniversary. That bright future depends on the continuing commitment and support of our remarkable alumni and other supporters.

On the Cover: Guthrie Birkhead, James B. Steinberg former dean of Dean, Maxwell School Maxwell JAMES VAN PATTEN / S.U. PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER / S.U. PATTEN VAN JAMES VERN D. BRAND / S.U. PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER BRAND / S.U. VERN D. below: below:

Guthrie Birkhead through the years (clockwise, from left): faculty member, late 1950s (far left), with an unidentified student; as dean, in the late 1970s; with legendary professor Jesse Burkhead and then-Dean Alan “Scotty” Campbell (l-r), in 1973; and in his emeritus office, in 2005.

School Leadership Remembering Guthrie

Alumni and former colleagues offer observations on a 50-year Maxwell faculty member and PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER / S.U. STEVE SARTORI the School’s sixth dean, who passed away last summer.

hen death came to Guthrie Birkhead Jr. on July 22 of last year, it ended an association with the

Maxwell School that was 63 years long, including a half-century as an active faculty member A memorial page, including many private photos, and 11 years as dean (the School’s sixth). So it was no surprise that when, on October 18, Syra- exists at facebook. W com. Search “In Memory cuse University hosted a memorial service, attendees were many and testimonials far-ranging — nor sur- of Guthrie S. Birkhead Jr.” prising that when we sought remembrances for this edition of Maxwell Perspective they were easy to find. Birkhead was a World War II veteran with a PhD from Princeton University when he joined the faculty in 1950 — for years its youngest member. He was eventually a professor of public administration and political science and, over time, served as director of the public administration program, chair of political science, and director of the Metropolitan Studies Program. He was named dean in 1977. As a young professor, Birkhead helped lead the School’s growing involvement in government projects overseas. He also served as research director for the United Nations Public Administration Institute for Turkey and the Middle East in Ankara from 1955 to 1956 and as advisor to the Pakistan Administrative Staff College in Lahore from 1962 to 1964. He later returned, in 1967, as the Ford Foundation’s public advisor in Maxwell welcomes memorial gifts to the Pakistan. In all of these projects, he provided public administration training and resources to civil servants. Birkhead-Burkhead He played a leadership role in New York state policy, as director of a committee on local government scholarship fund. Visit www.maxwell.syr.edu, and home rule at the New York constitutional convention in 1967 and as chair of the state Democratic Party click Give Now at the foot platform committee in 1983-84. He was active in initiatives regarding conservation and water administra- of the page, and choose Maxwell Named Funds as tion, including the Delaware River Basin Commission. He also sang in local choirs, loved classical music, the use for your gift.

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supported the Syracuse Symphony, and was an enthusiastic fisherman. When he stepped down as dean, Birkhead remained on the faculty and continued to teach and serve on dissertation committees. Over his long career, Maxwell Welcomes Humphrey Fel- he advised thousands of undergraduate and graduate students, including those lows. Ten midcareer professionals and represented among the remembrances below. leaders are undertaking a 10-month program of academic study, professional development, and cultural exchange — the fifth Dean Birkhead very easy person to work class of Hubert H. Humphrey Fellows based always treated for and, all the years since, at Maxwell. They represent China, Iraq, Ka- us as adults, not we maintained a friendship. zakhstan, Mexico, Pakistan, Philippines, the students. There — Gloria Katz, long-time Slovak Republic, and South Africa. was no cod- administrative assistant The program is funded by the U.S. State dling. Rather, he Department and provides an orientation to expected — He always knew something American governance while imparting ex- well, demanded — often more than some- pertise that fellows use when returning to — that all of us thing — about seemingly organizations at home. in the graduate everything and was a programs be responsible and intelligent superb teacher. . . . As dean, he paid School Mourns Merchant, students and citizens of the School, attention to and listened to staff who Kelleher. Two current faculty mem- community, and world. Though he could were included in all-Maxwell meetings bers passed away in recent months. be a bit stern and foreboding, he did and annual holiday lunches. He was Christina Merchant, professor of have an excellent sense of humor, which always the consummate gentleman — public administration and internation- you saw only after you had proven that even in the thick of difficult situations. al affairs since 2007, died in August. you were a real grown-up, with real — Ann Phelps ’80 MPA, staff, She taught conflict resolution, labor ideas, thoughts, and opinions that you public administration, career and relations, and human resource man- formulated on your own! In retrospect, I alumni services, 1980-2002 agement. Merchant had a significant guess that was Dean Birkhead’s own career in labor-management issues version of tough love for his students. Guthrie was committed to enlightened — as a consultant, director of labor- — Caroline Rapking ’82 MPA, and effective citizenship from the grass- management cooperation at the Federal La- former G.A. in public administration roots of his own community to global bor Relations Authority, and as commission- affairs, especially in developing coun- er of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Guthrie was a good man and a good tries. He championed reform at home Service. She co-authored Designing Conflict dean. He was available and conscien- while tutoring students from abroad and Management Systems: A Guide to Creating tious, offering sensible counsel for every advancing projects for sociopolitical Productive and Healthy Organizations. issue I brought to him. In 1986, when improvement in struggling nations. He William Kelleher, associate professor we obtained a grant to establish a pro- celebrated the vitality of our democracy, of anthropology since 2005, died in Septem- gram studying conflict, I went to Guthrie even when skeptically and even cynically ber. A cultural anthropologist, he recently about what its name should be. He analyzing modern challenges in govern- focused on issues in Ireland. His 2003 book, The Troubles in Ballybogoin: immediately said, “You can name it ing and managing a noisy political sys- More about Merchant whatever you like, but not Conflict tem. He always reminded us of our and Kelleher at Memory and Identity in North- maxwell.syr.edu/news ern Ireland, was acclaimed. Resolution and Analysis Program.” After constitutional origins. Other research focused on la- working through the acronym, I assured — Astrid Merget ’73 PhD (PA), faculty, bor and class relations, the anthropology of him I would not. public administration, 1995-2000 work, the effects of long-term political vio- He was always supportive of what I lence on everyday life, and the ethnography wanted to undertake, even if it didn’t fall Guthrie combined recognition that of race in institutions of higher education. within one of his own areas of interest. politics and public affairs can contribute — Louis Kriesberg, faculty, to human welfare with a profound International Journalists Visit. sociology, 1967-present appreciation of the realities of human Eight emerging leaders in journalism from existence that govern people’s behav- South Asia visited in November as part of The Dean’s Office was a very different iors and attitudes. This resulted in a the U.S. State Department’s annual Edward place [in the 1970s]; I think the staff calm and deliberate, yet activist, R. Murrow Program for Journalists, co- totaled maybe 8-9 and we were like a approach, to his intellectual and admin- hosted with SU’s Newhouse School. They family. Guthrie was primarily a scholar istrative endeavors. examined journalistic practices, trends, and and took great pride in Maxwell’s stat- — Jerry Miner, faculty, media; U.S. social, economic, and political ure as a flagship of the University. I economics, 1958-present structures; U.S. policy-making process and don’t think he particularly enjoyed the government; and topics such as human other responsibilities of a dean — the Guthrie was a gentleman and outstand- rights and the role of a free press. socializing and fund raising. He was a ing and humble scholar and instructor. . . .

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I took a graduate course from him Our family visited with Guthrie They were cultured. They went to in my one graduate semester at and [his wife] Louise on our last classical music concerts and the SU. After I received my doctorate I night in Syracuse in June 1978. I theater. They read books. They got a teaching position at Hamilton had my little speech prepared, were not afraid of talking about College and wanted to do thanking Guthrie for his guidance values. . . . You could talk to them research in Syracuse and Utica. and support. This was delivered about so many things besides who Despite my not getting my grad while Guthrie was playing on the published what in which refereed degree at SU, Guthrie was a men- floor with three-year old Jeremy. journal. That is ulti- tor to my research, with advice He let me finish and looked at me mately why I have and connections that helped me and said, “The best way you can such fond memories “Guthrie was part of eventually publish my first schol- thank me is to help someone else of Guthrie. For me, a generation that will arly book. He was just a fine man. when you have the opportunity to Guthrie represented a soon be no more.” — Rob Kweit ’67 BA (PSc), do so.” . . . It was at that moment I prototype that is sadly donor, Birkhead/Burkhead Fund determined that one day I would coming to an end. Jeffrey Straussman promote a Maxwell fund honoring Still, in my own limited Our son Jeremy was born with Guthrie. way, I try to emulate serious congenital immunological — James Harkin ’78 PhD (SSc), some of those qualities and pass issues . . . [and] endured several former G.A. to Birkhead; founding on the wisdom and grace of the hospitalizations. Guthrie was very donor, Birkhead/Burkhead Fund Guthrie Birkheads of my lifetime to supportive through that difficult the two generations behind me. experience, without imposing Guthrie was part of a generation — Jeffrey Straussman, faculty, himself on the situation. that will soon be no more. . . . public administration, 1979-2006

Satellite Campus A New Home in D.C. Keynote Event Maxwell’s classes and staff in Washington are now in Washington headquartered in the facilities of a major think tank, A public program on post- where new collaborative opportunities will be forged conflict reconstruction will help inaugurate Maxwell’s for students and professors alike. new relationship with CSIS.

n April 2, the Center for he Maxwell School and the Center for Strategic and Inter- OStrategic and Interna- national Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C., have tional Studies will host a con- T launched a far-reaching collaboration that will provide a Deborah Alexander versation on post-conflict host of new educational, research, and career development oppor- reconstruction, featuring Deb- tunities for students and faculty of the School, while strengthening orah Alexander ’82 MSSc/’95 PhD (SSc), former senior Maxwell’s presence in the nation’s capital. policy advisor at the U.S. State Department, and Renée As of January 2014, all Maxwell graduate and undergraduate de Nevers, a Maxwell faculty expert on the topic. Alexander, who has also taken assignments for classes that were formerly held at Syracuse University’s Greenberg USAID and the Department of Defense, among other House have moved to CSIS’s new headquarters at 1616 Rhode agencies, is a veteran of several conflict and stabilization Island Avenue NW. The CSIS building is a world-class facility with missions, including, most recently, Afghanistan. She has two-story conference space, multiple teaching areas, and state-of- expertise in post-conflict elections and governance, stabi- the-art electronics and audiovisual facilities. lization, women’s advancement, and civil/military relations. CSIS headquarters now also houses the Maxwell-in-Washing- This 6 p.m. event will also serve as a first opportunity ton staff and visiting faculty members from the School’s Syracuse for most Maxwell alumni and friends to visit CSIS, the campus. Locating programs at CSIS is expected to provide School’s new home in D.C., and all are invited. For infor- enhanced opportunities for Maxwell to conduct symposia, work- mation, visit www.maxwell.syr.edu/alumni.

Winter 2014 • Maxwell Perspective 3 shops, meetings, and expanded executive education programs in the nation’s capital. While making use of CSIS facilities, Maxwell students will also have many enriched opportunities to participate in CSIS activities and internships and to interact with the Washington policy community. Max- well faculty members from across the School’s varied disciplines will explore research collaborations with CSIS staff and affiliates, while pursuing options for joint programming, teaching, and writing. “Think tanks and universities both have a vital role to play in the development of sound public policy,” said Dean James Stein- berg at the time the new collaboration was announced. “They both incubate ideas and talent on which our government and institutions depend. “We couldn’t be more pleased to partner with an institution as prestigious and dynamic as CSIS on this new endeavor — one that will provide our students with extraordinary opportunities to interact and engage with influential policy makers and thinkers.”

The Center for Strategic “We have been strategically building the presence of SU and the Maxwell and International School in Washington, D.C., for decades,” said Richard L. Thompson ’67 MA Studies — Maxwell’s (PSc), the chair of the Syracuse University Board of Trustees, “forging strong new home in D.C. — occupies recently and lasting relationships there with leading public, private, and nonprofit sector completed, state-of-the- organizations. Our new partnership with CSIS takes this to a whole new level. art facilities on Rhode Island Avenue NW. We’re leveraging the great strengths of both institutions to make an even more powerful “Maxwell is the gold combination that will yield standard for public unprecedented opportunities affairs education. This for students and faculty for partnership opens up years to come.” new possibilities for CSIS The bipartisan, nonprofit in a number of areas.” CSIS, one of the world’s pre- John Hamre, president and CEO, eminent international policy Center for Strategic and International Studies. institutions, is dedicated to finding ways to sustain Ameri- can prominence and prosperity as a force for good in the world. For Dean James Steinberg more than 50 years, the organization has focused on issues related to describes benefits of the CSIS relationship: defense and security, regional stability, and transnational challenges vimeo.com/77735234 ranging from energy and climate to global development and economic integration. Its 220 full-time staff and large network of affiliated scholars conduct a wide range of research and analysis on these topics and develop policy initiatives that look to the future. “Our collaboration with Maxwell ushers in a new era for CSIS,” said John J. Hamre, president, CEO, and Pritzker Chair at CSIS. “Maxwell is the gold standard for public affairs education. This partnership opens up new possibili-

ties for CSIS in a number of areas, including executive education.” — Jill Leonhardt

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Faculty Excellence Public and Private

David Van Slyke, an expert on government contracting Badi H. Baltagi, Distinguished and on public/private partnerships, now also holds the Professor of Economics, wrote a new Bantle Chair in Business and Government Policy. edition of Econometric Analysis of Panel Data, now the leading textbook for postgraduate courses in panel data.

avid M. Van Slyke, an award-winning teacher and researcher Michael Barkun, professor emeritus and member of the Maxwell School faculty since 2004, is of political science, wrote a revised the new holder of the Louis A. Bantle Chair in Business and edition of Culture of Conspiracy: Apoca- D lyptic Visions in Contemporary America, Government Policy. Van Slyke, a professor of public administration with analyses of 9/11 conspiracy theories, and international affairs, conducts research focusing on public and Obama “birther” claims, militias and “lone wolves,” nonprofit management, government contracting, public/private part- and apocalyptic fears based on the Mayan calendar. nerships, strategic management, and policy implementation. The Bantle Chair was established in 1990 by Louis F. Bantle and Mehrzad Boroujerdi, associate pro- UST Inc., and provides for teaching and research in business and fessor of political science, wrote Mirror for the Muslim Prince: Islam and the government relations. Prior to his academic career, Van Slyke worked Theory of Statecraft, which examines as a project manager in the commercial infrastructure field, in state the issues of statecraft and governance government (with a focus on educational policy), and then for a in Islamic political thought in Arab, Persian, South national nonprofit organization. He holds a PhD in public administra- Asian, and Turkish traditions. tion and policy from the SUNY University at Albany. Van Slyke has written extensively on a range of topics in public John Burdick, professor of anthropology, wrote The Color of Sound: Race, administration, including the recent Complex Contracting: Govern- Religion, and Music in Brazil, about ment Purchasing in the Wake of the US Coast Guard’s Deepwater racial politics and identity seen via the Program, co-written with Trevor Brown (Ohio State University) and Afro-Brazilian Christian music scene. Matthew Potoski (University of California, Santa Barbara) and published by Cambridge University Press. Using social science concepts, Craige B. Champion, associate professor of history, is one of five editors the book addresses the topic of government acquisitions of big, com- of the 13-volume Encyclopedia of Ancient plex products. It uses as a real-life example the U.S. Coast Guard’s History, to be supplemented soon with an Deepwater Program —the controversial case of a 25-year, $24-billion online edition. contract through which the U.S. Coast Guard had planned to replace Audie Klotz, professor of political science, wrote Migration and National Identity in South Africa, 1860–2010. It discusses the country’s occasional xenophobia and its struggles to incorpo- rate migrants.

Prema Kurien, professor of sociology, won a prestigious National Science Foundation grant for a project examining David Van the mobilization of religious minorities in Slyke, recently Canada and the United States. named Bantle Chair, traveled to Russia Tina Nabatchi won the 2013 Daniel in 2012 to Patrick Moynihan Award for Teaching present at a and Research, awarded to an outstand- World Bank ing non-tenured faculty member. She is forum on complex pro- now a tenured associate professor of curement. public administration and international affairs.

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its aging fleet. The book analyzes reasons that program failed and applies the Faculty in the Media lessons learned to similarly complex contracting scenarios. A sampling of appearances by faculty members in Because of his expertise on such matters, he was one of two American the national and international media: academics invited to work with the World Bank and the Russian government on procurement reform legislation in mid-2012. Van Slyke gave three official pre- Citizen Participation,” sentations in Russia on different dimensions of government contracting and Federal News Radio, public/private partnerships and worked with ministry representatives on legisla- 12/9/2013 tion going before the Russian legislature. Van Slyke also recently served on a Eleonora Patac- three-member panel, convened by the National Academy of Public Administra- chini, associate pro- tion (NAPA), that reviewed the Office of Inspector General’s recommendations fessor of economics, for fixing the U.S. Postal Service’s financial problems. “Why Some Women Try to Have It All: New Van Slyke, a NAPA Fellow and former conference chair of the Public Man- William Banks, Research on ‘Like agement Research Association, is also active in executive education and has professor of public Mother, Like Daugh- conducted trainings around the world, including in China, India, Singapore, and administration and inter,’” PBS NewsHour, Thailand. — Jill Leonhardt ternational affairs, “In 11/20/2013 Secret, Court Vast- ly Broadens Powers Gretchen Purser, of N.S.A.,” New York assistant professor Times, 7/6/2013 of sociology, “Making Money Off the Poor,” CHUCK WAINWRIGHT Mehrzad Borou- New York Times, jerdi, associate pro- 9/17/2013 fessor of political science, “‘Historic’ Deal Merril Silverstein, Reached in Iranian Marjorie Cantor En- Nuclear Talks,” NPR, dowed Professor in 11/25/2013; “Iran Hints Aging, “Remarriages Nuclear Talks Could Add Complexity to De- Include New Offi- mentia Caregiving,” cial,” New York Times, Reuters, 10/4/2013 8/20/2013 James Steinberg, Miriam Elman, as- dean, “Taiwan ‘Need sociate professor of Not’ Choose Sides on political Zone,” Taipei Times, See current fac- 12/5/2013; “Myth- ulty citations at: science, busters: Japan’s Mili- www.maxwell. “SU and syr.edu/inside Al-Quds’ tary Rise Is a Threat Free to the United States,” Speech Farce,” Politico, 1/21/2014 John Western (left), with The Times of Israel, Faculty Honors geography students in 11/25/2013 Margaret Thomp- the James Library son, associate pro- Yingyi Ma, associ- fessor of history, ate professor of so- “American Nuns Gath- One of the Best ciology, “Choosing er in Florida With a John Western joins the roster of Maxwell teachers earning one of the Right Major Key Minder in Their Midst,” Syracuse’s most prestigious awards, the Meredith Professorship. to Narrowing Gender Global Post, 8/14/2013 Pay Gap,” USA Today, 12/13/2013 John Yinger, Trust- ee Professor of Eco- teach out of self-indulgence,” said John Western, professor of geogra- Tina Nabatchi, as- nomics and Public phy, last April. “I can get a rush from observing that these intelligent, sociate professor of Administration and public administration International Af- hopeful-yet-uncertain, as yet not-too-striated-by-life young people are fairs, “Casinos Mean “I and international af- in fact responding to my messages.” More Jobs? No Dice,” fairs, “A Manager’s The occasion for Western’s comments was his naming as one of Syracuse Guide to Evaluating Newsday, 10/31/2013

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University’s newest Meredith Professors. The Meredith Professorships are among SU’s highest honors for excellence in teaching, and one that carries with it the opportunity to advance teaching further with a funded project. A substantial bequest from the estate of SU alumnus L. Douglas Meredith Four Professors Retire. In addition to David allowed for the creation of the Laura J. and L. Douglas Meredith Professor- Bennett (whose retirement we reported last issue) four senior members of the Maxwell School facul- ships. The awards recognize and reward excellence in teaching while encour- ty earned emeritus status at the end of 2012-13. aging faculty members to look upon the many dimensions of teaching as man- Thomas Kniesner, Krisher Professor of Eco- ifold opportunities for constant improvement. nomics and a member of the faculty since 1999, specializes in the econometric exami- Students respond to Western’s love of teaching, says Tod Rutherford, nation of labor and health economic chair of geography. “Students so value and admire his intellectual engage- issues, including labor supply, work- ment, his commitment to the perspectives that inform his courses and scholar- place safety, and health care costs ship, that they push themselves to their very best work,” Rutherford says. and use. He has published in more than 20 professional journals and is Indeed, student evaluations reflect this enthusiasm: “The discussion was Thomas the co-author of seven books. He has always really interesting, so it allowed everyone to fully understand the read- Kniesner been co-editor of the Journal of Hu- ings, even if we didn’t at first,” said one student recently. Another enthused, “I man Resources and of Foundations think about what we talked and Trends in Microeconomics. Rosemary O’Leary is the former Howard and about in my everyday life.” Louise Phanstiel Chair in Strategic Management “By the end of the “Let us be frank,” Western and Leadership and former co-director semester in my small says. “Teaching can give one a of Maxwell’s Program for the Advance- ment of Research on Conflict and Col- real buzz. I hurl my enthusiasm discussion sections or laboration. She is the author or editor at them in the classroom. I hurl seminars, [students] of 11 books on public management and my humor at them in the class- has won 10 national research awards are hurling enthusiasm room. By the end of the semes- Rosemary and nine teaching awards. Among ca- O’Leary reer highlights was, from 2003 to 2005, and humor back . . . ter in my small discussion sec- service on NASA’s Return to Flight Task and at each other. I tions or seminars they are Group, assembled in response to the Columbia adore this. I’m amazed hurling enthusiasm and humor space shuttle disaster. O’Leary earned a PhD in back . . . and at each other. I public administration from Maxwell in 1988. you pay me for it.” Larry Schroeder first joined Maxwell in 1977 John Western adore this. I’m amazed you pay and, after a four-year absence, rejoined Maxwell me for it.” in 1998 as a faculty member in public Western teaches a variety of administration and international affairs. He is a public finance econo- courses, mostly undergraduate. In addition to several geography courses, mist interested in public finance and he teaches in one of the MAX Courses, Critical Issues for the United financial management in transitional States, and in SU’s Honors Program. economies. As such, he has consult- The Meredith Professors receive a supplementary salary award and Larry ed with and led policy research proj- Schroeder ects sponsored by USAID, the World additional funding for professional development for each year of their Bank, and the United Nations Capital appointment. With that project funding Western plans to create a three-credit Development Fund in numerous countries. course for SU Abroad in South Africa, where he lived from 1974 to 1976 and Jeffrey Stonecash, professor emeritus of where he has made extended visits three times since then. The planned title is political science, joined Maxwell in 1977. His research interests have included most recent- Reconnoitering Contemporary Urban South Africa. ly political parties, the realignment of “This project will not only be legible to Maxwell School students from their electoral bases, and the impact of many disciplines, but will be crafted and taught in such a way that any, say, changing alignments on the nature of policy debates. Known for his exper- engineering, biochemistry, textual studies, or theater major would surely pick tise in political polling, Stonecash is the up on the immense themes—conquest, racism, economic exploitation and author, co-author, or editor of almost 20 injustice, reconciliation, creation of post-colonial identities—which can be Jeffrey books, including the recent Understand- drawn from study of this amazing and troubled land,” Western says. Stonecash ing American Political Parties: Demo- cratic Ideals, Political Uncertainty and SU also awarded Meredith Teaching Recognition Awards, given to promis- Strategic Positioning, and Party Pursuits and ing untenured faculty members, to Maxwell’s Jonathan Hanson (political sci- Presidential-House Election Connections, 1900- ence) and Gretchen Purser (sociology). — Cyndi Moritz 2008.

Winter 2014 • Maxwell Perspective 7 Feature Story Money in the Bank Like roads, water, and electricity, Bob Christen believes basic financial services are a necessity at every income level. His Boulder Institute — now based in Syracuse — is working toward financial inclusion for the poor.

By Renée Gearhart Levy

s a Peace Corps volunteer in Chile, Bob Christen worked as a coop- erative extensionist charged with helping local farmers with crop production. But it didn’t take long for Christen, who’d grown up on an apple farm in Syracuse, to realize the Chilean farmers were producing crops just fine. Their problem was managing money. AThe farmers made a regular practice of borrowing money to tide them over between seasons, and so risked losing their land due to indebtedness. “That’s where I became aware of the role of money in poverty — that managing money is as much a part of being poor as whether you generate any,” he says. Thirty years later, Christen is one of the world’s leading authorities on providing financial services to the poor, having worked throughout the developing “All of us have world designing and managing banking solutions for people largely living in important goals in poverty, and training thousands of others to do the same. It’s known as microfinance — the provision of sustainable financial servic- life. . . . Poor people es (including credit, savings, transfer payments, and insurance) to segments of share those goals the population not reached by conventional banking. “It costs a bank about a but don’t have any dollar every time someone makes a transaction at a teller window, so banks formal financial tools don’t tailor products for someone that may only have $5 or $20 on deposit,” to accomplish them.” says Christen, who has consulted in dozens of countries. He spent six years as Bob Christen, Maxwell faculty a senior advisor at the World Bank and another five as the director of Financial member and director of the Boulder Services for the Poor at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Institute of Microfinance Since fall 2012, Christen has been a professor of practice in public administration and international affairs at Maxwell. He also remains at the helm of the Boulder Institute of Microfinance, an NGO he brought with him to Syracuse.

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Since he started it with a group of colleagues in 1995, Boulder has become the premier executive training program in microfinance. Its training programs — offered each summer in Turin, Italy, and Santiago, Chile — pull together leading experts in microfinance from throughout the world to teach intense three-week courses. They draw government officials, finance regulators, and others interested in banking systems for people in poverty. The Institute has trained more than 4,500 professionals from 150 countries, in three languages (English, Spanish, and French). It has offices in Santiago, Marseilles, Seattle, and Boul- der, but Syracuse is now its administrative home. Bringing Christen to Maxwell is a game changer. “We’ve had folks who work in development finance,” says Ross Rubenstein, chair of public administration and international affairs, “but having someone with microfinance expertise, and with Christen’s stature, is an important Bob Christen at the addition.” Christen, he says, fits the standards for professors of practice: “people with very high-level expe- Boulder Institute’s rience who’ve played leadership roles in large organizations. As faculty members they are actively engaged new headquarters in Syracuse with students and yet continue to do all of the great things that brought them to our attention to begin with.” Christen believes it’s a mutually beneficial arrangement: He brings a type of expertise to Maxwell that students are eager to have. He exposes talented future professionals to microfinance. And, in return, some students end up helping him professionally at the Boulder Institute. He’s already had a handful of Maxwell interns and has hired several recent Maxwell grads as program managers. “It’s a natural fit,” he says.

magine you live in a small village with no bank, so the way you build equity is by investing in livestock. Then your child gets sick. In order to pay a doctor, you need to sell a goat. (The goat is worth more than the doctor bill, but you can’t sell only part of a goat.) And, because this is a small village and ev- Ieryone knows your predicament, you probably won’t get the best price for your goat. This is the scenario Professor Christen lays out for the 25 students in his development finance course. It’s a diverse group — students from 16 countries. “Who here has seen a rice bin?” Christen asks. A half-dozen students raise their hands. About a billion

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people globally live in households that earn less ted to the cause. than $2 a day, many with no means to save money “All of us have important goals in life: to stay beyond hiding it under their mattress or in a rice healthy, to educate our children, to keep a roof over bin. our heads. Poor people share those goals but don’t In the developing world, savings is the least have any formal financial tools to accomplish them: offered financial service but the one most in de- health insurance, a pension, or a savings account,” mand. “Everyone, no matter how poor, says Christen. “To me, providing basic access to wants the ability to save for his or her financial services is like infrastructure, the way you future,” Christen says. would provide a road into a rural area or provide For decades, the focus of the micro- electricity or drinking water.” finance industry has been on microcred- He’s got support for that thinking. Last year, the it: small loans given without collateral to MasterCard Foundation announced a five-year, individuals, typically used to start busi- $11.3-million grant to the Boulder Institute, which in ness ventures. One of the pioneers was part funds an annual symposium on financial inclu- the Nobel-prize winning Grameen Bank, sion. The first, held in Turin in July, was titled “Cli- founded in Bangladesh. Despite Gra- ents at the Center” and brought together experts meen’s huge suc- from microfinance organizations, financial service cess as a money providers, and consulting groups to help design lender, Christen client-driven financial institutions. “Now that the “Everyone, no matter how says it was clear sector is developed, our aim is to re-engage with poor, wants the ability to early on that more what clients really want and lead a re-thinking about save for his or her future.” people wanted the the next generation of products,” says Christen. Bob Christen, Maxwell faculty member and director ability to save of the Boulder Institute of Microfinance money than wanted a loan. In 1982, Grameen began Learning By Doing offering savings accounts and by 2004 the bank’s Bob Christen and the Boulder Institute are deposit portfolio surpassed its loan portfolio. helping students understand how economic That’s not an anomaly. Christen points to Bank development works. Rakyat in Indonesia, or to Bolivia, where microfinance institutions have grown to offer a wide vari- ob Christen is surveying the students in ety of products. As a result, those institutions have Bhis development finance class about their most recent assignment: a five-page concisely the largest percentage of clients in those countries’ written policy memo containing analysis and rec- banking systems. “Some of the strongest banks in ommendations on a specific financial proposal. Bolivia are banks that serve the poor,” he says. The students had earlier completed a series of Christen believes that the notion of providing one-page policy memos, and Christen is explor- small loans to pull individuals out of poverty is ing with the students whether the longer memos paternalistic. The microfinance industry, he feels, are more effective or easier to prepare. has matured beyond it. “I’m more interested in how Christen considers the ability to write such a you build systems that serve hundreds of millions document an important practical skill for anyone interested in working in the NGO sector. Using of people, in building banking systems for the bulk memo writing as an assignment tool combines of the population in a given country,” he says. his subject expertise with his real-world experi- At the Gates Foundation, Christen adminis- ence, one of the benefits a professor of practice brings to the Maxwell School classroom. tered $600 million in grants, given to microfinance institutions to develop efficient systems for small “He wasn’t just teaching the theoretical aspect of the course but empowering you with skills savings accounts in developing, southern hemi- you need if you were to start working in a de- sphere nations. While it will take several years to velopment agency,” says Odunayo Arowolo ’13 see how those investments pay off, he is commit- MAIR/Econ, who took the course in fall 2012.

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he MasterCard grant also provides support for building the Institute itself, including research, upgrading the current training programs, and adding administrative staff. Christen couldn’t be happier to be doing it from Syracuse. “I was born there,” he says pointing to Crouse Hospital Tout his Maxwell office window. “And I went to church there,” he says, pointing in the opposite direction. He’s also a former Maxwell School student, having completed a graduate certificate in regional planning after his service in the Peace Corps and before earning a master’s in development finance from Ohio State. Christen divides his time between the Maxwell School and the Boulder Institute offices, just a few blocks away. Although he travels for the programs themselves and to give papers, it’s a different pace than his globe-trotting consulting days, when he was typically in a different city every week. He recently wrapped up a 20-month stint as the principal strategic advisor for the largest microfinance program in Latin America, which required a monthly trip to Mexico. “I love that work but it’s not very com- patible with a teaching schedule,” he says. “But my wife says that as soon as I get even a glimmer of a little free time I sign up for more stuff, so I’ve got to be careful.” Christen anticipates building a portfolio of Boulder Institute programming in Syracuse, possibly running one of the training programs through Maxwell’s Executive Education Program. But regardless of the loca- tion, the vision remains the same: expanding the range of financial services to connect poor people to the formal economy. “The amount of subsidy required to do financial services for the poor is quite small compared with universal education or vacci- nating everyone in a country,” says Christen. “It’s all about giving

people the formal tools to protect themselves from vulnerabilities / SU PHOTO & IMAGING CENTER STEVE SARTORI and achieve their goals.” n

“He wants you to be able to hit the ground Sam Giber ’13 BS able to sit with microfi- running.” (Econ) and Sichu nance practitioners from Mali ’13 MAIR both all over the world and A year later, Arowolo is a program manager interned with the that is an experience at the Boulder Institute in Syracuse. Since Boulder Institute last that just can’t be dupli- May, she’s managed the microfinance summer with sup- cated.” training program in Turin, Italy, where she port from Boulder’s puts those skills to use marketing and or- Mali had just completed grant from the Mas- ganizing the three-week program, includ- the first year of a mas- terCard Foundation. Recent student Odunayo Arowolo, now ing managing course content, faculty, and ter’s in international re- Giber had just com- working at the Boulder Institute course-selection and advisory services for lations when she landed pleted a bachelor’s the 182 participants. an internship working degree in econom- on the MasterCard financial inclusion sem- Working for an international organization ics, having written his senior thesis on mi- inar held in Turin in July. “I did a lot of involved in addressing poverty through fi- crofinance. He spent the summer rebuild- work related to the logistics of the event -- nancial inclusion is a dream job for Aro- ing the organization’s website and helping phone calls inviting people to attend, draft- wolo, one she never expected to find in craft a social media presence, an effort to ing e-mails to remind people of their travel Syracuse. “This is a very well-known orga- develop platforms to build an online alum- arrangements, just making sure everything nization but it was an outlier here in Syra- ni network. ran as smoothly as possible,” she says. cuse,” she says. Giber also had the opportunity to attend Detail-oriented by nature, Mali says the Which is what makes it all the more valu- Boulder’s microfinance training program assignment honed her skills to a new level. able for Maxwell students. “Our students in Turin and complete the certificate, pro- “Working and collaborating with people in want to work in international NGOs, which viding operational support to the program a multicultural setting can be challenging often means going to New York, D.C., or outside the classroom. but it was such a positive growth oppor- overseas,” says Ross Rubenstein, chair of “The classroom environment in the Boul- tunity for me,” she says of her internship. public administration and international af- der Institute’s programs is extremely dy- “My colleagues were honest about giving fairs. “That’s fine, but it’s really fantastic to namic,” says Giber, now an analyst at the me the best feedback to improve. I’m sure have the opportunity to work at an impor- Argo Group, an international specialty in- that’s going to help me as I pursue my ca- tant NGO while still on campus and taking surance underwriter in Manhattan. “I was reer.” — RGL classes.” DISASTER’S WAKE

Steve Hagerty’s company helps communities facing disasters — acts of God and acts of terror that would otherwise overwhelm the regular operations of government.

By John Otis

here was a time when Steve Hagerty ’93 MPA told colleagues the emergency management market wasn’t big enough to support a career path. In 2000, as he prepared to leave his job with a large private consultant, Hagerty expected instead to explore an opportunity in real estate. History intervened. The 9/11 terrorist attacks and then Hurricane Katrina convinced him he could play an important roll in disaster recovery. The need was great, the stakes high, and the opportunity for personal fulfillment almost unparalleled. This would be rewarding work. Today Hagerty Consulting is one of the most respected providers of expertise and assistance in the emergency management arena — an arena that is growing. In an era of increas- ingly frequent declared disasters, governments attempting to tmeet the short-term, intensified needs of hard-hit communities rely on private experts who understand federal disaster procedures. “There is a need for professionals who have a deep level of expertise with the federal disaster program, to help government agencies develop emergency operation plans and post-disaster recovery plans and to execute on those plans,” Hagerty says. Like many in the consulting sector, Hagerty finds that assisting government satisfies his public-service passion, as much as if he himself served in government. “We’re an arm’s length away from individual people affected by disaster,” he says. “We can never forget why we’re here. Something really horrible happened to a community, to the people of a community, and what we do makes a difference to the lives of those in the community.”

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to meet internally, he says. “Government may DISASTER’S WAKE not always want to build capacity for which recovering their investments may be difficult and where that need may only be temporary. Private firms have a lot more flexibility — in cost, expertise, hiring.” “It’s not cost-effective,” says Hagerty, “for governments to employ thousands of employees and essentially have them on stand-by while they wait for a disaster to occur.” The public and private sectors are “more agerty Consulting is at the forefront of the blended than most people realize,” Van Slyke adds. massive recovery effort launched in the In fact, Hagerty’s effectiveness derives from his Hwake of another devastating storm, Hurri- long-standing relationship with FEMA, including cane Sandy. It has been working with the federal extensive post-Katrina work. government, local New Jersey municipalities, and “What makes us effective is that FEMA has other clients for the past year-plus. Much of the invested as much in me over the last 20 years as I work involves shepherding public entities through have in the agency,” Hagerty says. the process of procuring federal grants. The government loan program Hagerty over- To that end, Hagerty Consulting has collabo- sees in New Jersey today is actually modeled after rated with the Federal Emergency Management a $1.4-billion program created after Hurricane Agency (FEMA) to oversee the Community Disaster Katrina, when FEMA approached Hagerty to help Loan Program in New Jersey. It was created to reduce the preparation time for applications. provide budget relief to local governments experi- Hagerty managed to encing, or projected to experience, significant streamline an application losses in revenue — such as property tax or sales preparation process that tax — as a result of Sandy. So far 60 loans, totaling typically takes two months “Something really horrible $177 million, have been approved for New Jersey down to just one week. happened to the people governments. Hagerty also has consultants in New Two teams of six Hagerty of a community, and York City collaborating with the Metropolitan Transit consultants in Louisiana Authority, New York University, and some other and Mississippi processed what we do makes a agencies to prepare relief applications. more than one billion dol- difference.” “Our philosophy is to make sure our local lars in loans for those Steve Hagerty clients and our state clients get everything they are states. That work provided entitled to under the federal disaster program,” a template for future relief Hagerty says. “You navigate that by making sure projects, such as flooding your client is always taking the reasoned, credible in Boulder, Colorado, and Hurricane Sandy. approach; that your judgment is sound; that your “I have a very sound understanding of their decision-making is sound; and that you have posi- rules and regulations. When they need to stream- tive relationships between the different parties.” line programs or want someone to approach an David Van Slyke, Bantle Chair in Business and issue differently, I can do so while being cognizant Government Policy and Maxwell’s leading expert of and compliant with their rules and regulations,” on government contracting, sees Hagerty as a says Hagerty. good illustration of the relationship between government and specialized firms that are hired to meet very immediate challenges. “They have a teve Hagerty, raised on a farm in Attleboro, particular type of expertise, on a scale that govern- Massachusetts, has long been adept at meet- ment often lacks,” Van Slyke explains. Sing needs and has harbored an entrepreneur- It often makes more sense for governments to ial spirit from a young age. By the time he was nine hire contractors to meet needs that can be difficult years old, Hagerty already had several sources of

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income: delivering newspapers, mowing lawns, and selling farm produce from a roadside stand and door-to-door. “I was selling organic food long before I realized I could put a premium on it,” he quips. His parents, who were teachers, instilled the importance of PREPARATION AND RESPONSE public service, so after earning his undergraduate degree in con- Before his company was even incorporated in 2002, sumer studies from Syracuse’s College for Human Development in Steve Hagerty and his team were in the disaster-relief 1991, Hagerty enrolled at Maxwell for his MPA. At Maxwell he met trenches, lending aid to those directly impacted by the his wife, Lisa Altenbernd, also ’93 MPA. 2001 terrorist attacks. Here’s a closer look at some of After Maxwell, Hagerty was hired by what was then Price Hagerty Consulting’s biggest accomplishments since. Waterhouse. His first consulting job was aiding FEMA with Hurri- - cane Andrew relief efforts in Florida in 1993. For that disaster, he From 2001 to 2004, Hagerty con 9/11 Terrorist Attacks - was tasked with becoming the expert on debris removal and sultants oversaw the development of 1,500 grants, total garbage disposal fees. At Price Waterhouse for the next eight ing $7.4 billion, used to help New York City recover. The- years, he focused on disaster recovery — though not solely. He company implemented an innovative system, the Incre also worked on a dozen or so non-FEMA projects, such as the mental Cost Approach (ICA), which expedited funding - 1994 audit of the U.S. House of Representatives, a strategic plan used to reimburse the NYPD, FDNY, and other first re for the implementation of a non-emergency call center system in sponders for overtime costs. FEMA recognized the ICA Summary PA Peer Review. Los Angeles, and a workload study for the California Department as a best practice in its 2002 of Forestry and Fire Protection. 2004 Atlantic Hurricane Season Four major hurricanes “While I enjoyed those projects, I never walked away with the same sense of satisfaction I got working with FEMA,” Hager- devastated the Atlantic coast in 2004. A two-year effort- by Hagerty Consulting led to the housing of 15,000 dis ty says. Though in the private sector, he began to sense that placed Florida families, providing supplementary expertise and services to governments who were sheltered — especially in times of greatest need — served his urge to in travel trailers and benefit the public good. - mobile homes un In 2001, Hagerty decided to strike out on his own, though til their homes could still unconvinced that disaster-recovery work would support be rebuilt. Fifteen him. Weeks later, the country was rocked by the September - consultants assist 11th terrorist attacks. Hagerty was approached by colleagues ed FEMA with efforts in government, who asked him to lend a hand with 9/11 relief. to ascertain who Ultimately, that tragedy and its aftermath shaped the

needed housing as- STOCK i future of his career. He saw first-hand the federal sistance and where. government’s increased commitment to emergency

- JOHN CALABRESE Hagerty’s systems allowed FEMA to monitor each fam preparedness and recovery and how consultants ily’s progress through the housing assistance programs. were needed in the most challenging moments. - Hagerty Consulting was incorporated the next year. From 2008 to 2012, Hagerty Consult Hurricane Katrina - “I hadn’t planned to go into this field,” Hagerty ing played a crucial role in managing post-Katrina re says. “It sort of found me. My personal profile in that construction funds for New Orleans, totaling $1 billion. area increased, so the opportunity presented itself Again FEMA asked Hagerty to help house hundreds of to me to pursue that type of work. Any good consul- thousands of displaced citizens. The company helped - tant is pretty flexible at adapting to different situa- manage a direct housing assistance program that shel- tions.” tered more than 100,000 families — the largest tempo Today, with offices in Washington, D.C., and rary direct disaster housing assistance program ever in Evanston, Illinois, Hagerty Consulting serves a the United States. It also assisted with a $280-million roster of more than 100 clients and has about 125 alternative housing program in Mississippi. consultants working on projects. It specializes in The New Madrid Seismic Zone Hagerty Consulting also providing services to federal, state, and local gov- deals with the preparedness side of emergencies. It ernments, as well as to colleges and universities, managed the largest catastrophic planning project in nonprofits, and the private sector. the country for the New Madrid Seismic Zone, a fault “If you’re working in the area of emergency line that extends through five midwestern states and management or recovery after disasters, you’re three southern states and could potentially threaten there at a time when people really need the help of all of them should an earthquake ever occur. Hagerty’s government and are appreciative to receive that work for FEMA on the project resulted in the delivery of help,” Hagerty says. “So there’s a great sense of four joint region/state operational earthquake plans. personal satisfaction in being part of a large group

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of people who help communities recover.” well alumnus Arthur Craig “There’s a great sense According to government-contracting expert ’10 MPA, a management David Van Slyke, this sense of mission is not un- consultant with Hagerty. of personal satisfaction usual. “Some of the consultants I’ve met are every “The Maxwell School in being part of a large bit as public-service oriented as people working in places an emphasis on group of people who help government.” In working for consultancies, critical thinking and problem Van Slyke says, Maxwell alumni find opportunities solving, and that is the basic communities recover.” for intense, focused contributions to public welfare: job description for manage- Steve Hagerty “Students sometimes ask me, ‘Can I help government consultants,” Craig ment more by not going into government?’” says. “Our work is solutions- driven. Our clients depend on us to develop innovative approaches to disaster recovery that save hat sentiment would be shared by the many time, public money, and staff effort. If it weren’t for Maxwell graduates in Hagerty’s workforce. the Maxwell experience I wouldn’t be able to T“We’ve had a lot of Maxwell grads work with approach the problems and provide the answers Hagerty in the past or who are currently working that our clients expect.” with us on projects,” Hagerty says. (At the time of Hagerty added that a lot of his Maxwell this writing, there were eight alumni on board.) consultants are skilled at “leading from where Steve Hagerty (center) in New York City during a He says Maxwell grads possess strong core they are” — deft at demonstrating competency recent project there. competencies required for work his company per- and authority without stepping on toes. Shown with him are some forms — but also that famous passion for the pub- This approach is the mantra he preaches to of the Maxwell-educated lic sector. every member of his team — a team apt to members of his team at “My goal has been to be of service,” says grow. Current climatic trends hint that the role the time (from left): Jo- seph Simon ’13 MPA/IR, Janouska Jules ’05 MAIR/Econ, a project manager played by expert disaster-recovery consultants Jake Turetsky ’10 MPA, with Hagerty. “The work I have done these past will be ever more vital. Sarah Byrne ’07 MPA, years since I left Maxwell usually does not come “Unfortunately, climate change is having an Arthur Craig ’10 MPA, with name recognition or accolades. My motivation impact,” Hagerty says. “It’s likely we’ll see big- and Sotiros Gountas ’08 — my continual work in public service — has been ger disasters and more destruction as a result.” MAIR. (Turetsky and Byrne have since joined the desire to contribute to the overall relief from The crucial role played in those moments by the New York City Depart- events that often devastate a community.” Hagerty Consulting will grow only more impor- ment of Transportation Those sentiments are echoed by fellow Max- tant if those predictions prove true. n and FEMA, respectively.) ALUMNI CENTRAL “ Lessons oftheGreat FederalShutdown President JoeBidentogreet andthankreturning with chiefadministratorGinaMcCarthyandVice uty administratorattheEPA, stoodatthefront door down ended, and, before that, sequestration.Whentheshut lems (suchasmorale)resulting from theshutdown about lingeringeffects —real andperceived prob shutdown! relicensed. 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1950s Celal Karatekelioglu ’71 Office of Policy Develop- supply chain management Roma Yellon Stibravy MPA recently retired after ment and Research at the division. ’54 BA (PSc/IR) is the serving as an advisor with U.S. Department of Hous- president and founder the Black Sea Trade and ing and Urban Develop- Melanie Nowacki ’86 of NGO Sustainability Development Bank for ment. She has been at the MPA is vice president of Submitting Inc., an advocacy and seven years. He lives in University of Minnesota network development at Classnotes awareness-raising global Izmir, Turkey. for nine years as director Feeding America. Online: www.maxwell. organization for sustain- of the Institute for Policy syr.edu/perspective able development and John Cherundolo ’70 BA Research. renewable energy. (PSc)/’72 MPA, a former 1990s E-mail: dlcooke@ New York State Supreme maxwell.syr.edu Paul Nobile ’90 BA (PSc) Court judge, is working 1980s is chief marketing officer Post Office: 1970s with Hiscock and Barclay Ross Klein ’79 MA (Soc)/ for investment manage- 200 Eggers Hall, Syra- LLP as a senior trial William E Davis III ’70 ’82 PhD (Soc) testified ment at BNY Mellon. cuse, N.Y. 13244 counsel in the torts and MA (PSc), following in July 2013 before the products liability area. 16 years as executive U.S. Senate’s Commerce, Russell Swan ’90 MPA is director of the American Science, and Technology chief in the Underground Linda Lorraine Hes- Anthropological Asso- Committee in hearings on Storage Tanks-Asbestos, selrode Smith ’70 MPA ciation, 20 years in the cruise industry oversight. Lead, and Pesticides divi- received the Maxwell nonprofit sector, and 30 sion in the Environmental School’s Public Admin- years in national associa- Christine Corrigan ’85 Protection Agency’s Office istration Award in June. tion management, is now BA (IR), a commod- of Regional Counsel, As part of a long career managing his own con- ity manager at Delta Air based in Philadelphia. in federal, state, and sulting firm in Washington, Lines, received the 2012 local government, Smith D.C., serving nonprofit Delta Air Lines Chair- Thaddeus Cummins ’91 recently served as caucus organizations. man’s Club Award for MPA and his research manager for Republicans outstanding service in the team were noted in The in the Hawaii House of Ustun Erguder ’70 PhD Representatives, and as (PSc) directs the Educa- senior policy manager to tion Reform Initiative the governor of Hawaii. at Sabanci University in Turkey. He recently Bruce Waltuck ’73 BA Key to Degrees. Alumni are designated by year of graduation, degree lev- completed four years as (Econ) is a co-founder of el, and (in parentheses) discipline — for example: Joan Smith ’87 MA (Soc). A president of the Magna the Institute of Govern- few of the degree abbreviations indicate both level and discipline, such as MPA Charta Observatory of ment Improvement. Fundamental University and MSSc. Values and Rights in Bolo- Alumni with more than one degree from Maxwell are listed under the year of Raymond Humphrey gna, Italy; and chairs the the latest such degree. ’76 MPA is on the board executive trustee com- of directors for Bourque mittee of the Third Sector AmSt American Studies MRP Master of Regional Industries. Foundation in Turkey. Anth Anthropology Planning MSSc Master of Social Science Bobby Mills ’76 PhD EMIR Executive Master of Donna Shalala ’70 (Soc) is founder and International Relations NG Not graduated MSSc/’70 PhD (SSc), owner of B.E. Mills Asso- EMPA Executive Master of Public NVCC Nonviolent Conflict and president of the University ciates. Administration Change of Miami, received an honorary doctoral degree DFH Documentary Film and PA Public Administration James Pendergast ’76 History from Ben-Gurion Univer- PD Public Diplomacy MPA is the vice president sity of the Negev. Econ Economics (IR/Public Relations) for human resources for Geog Geography PPhil Political Philosophy University of New Mexico John Ziegler ’70 PhD Hist History PSt Policy Studies Hospitals and an adjunct (SSc), Harold and Lucy professor in UNM’s MPA IR International Relations PSc Political Science Cabe Distinguished program. JD Law RusSt Russian Studies Professor of History and Politics at Hendrix Col- MAIR Master of Arts, International Soc Sociology Beth Honadle ’76 MPA/ lege, had his short stories Relations SPsy Social Psychology ’77 MA (Econ)/’79 PhD published by Kindle in a MPA Master of Public SSc Social Science (PA) is the director of the collection titled Special Administration Program Monitoring and UrSt Urban Studies Relationships: Six Stories. MPA/IR Joint MPA and MAIR Research Division in the MPH Master of Public Health

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Monica Gaughan ’92 Kurt Fenstermacher ’96 MPA is an associate MPA is deputy director The Kelly File professor in the School with the City of El Paso’s Broadcast journalist hosts new of Human Evolution and Environmental Services Social Change at Arizona Department. Fox News program. State University. Terrence Guay ’92 n October, popular news anchor Patrick Little ’92 MPA is MAIR/’96 PhD (PSc) is Megyn Kelly ’92 BA (PSc) earned a career counselor with a clinical professor of I Tampa Bay Workforce international business a prime-time show on Fox News, Alliance. at Pennsylvania State “The Kelly File.” She’d previously University. hosted the afternoon show “America Daniel Bernhofen ’91 MA (Econ)/’94 PhD (Econ), Lori Dordano Nojaim Megyn Kelly Live,” co-anchored the 2012 Repub- formerly at the University ’96 MAIR is the director lican National Convention, and co- of Nottingham, is now a of national sales for Silver- hosted the network’s annual New Year’s Eve specials. professor of international sea Cruises. relations at American Ironically, she’s a Maxwell alumna largely because she was denied University. Jennifer Sirangelo ’96 admission to SU’s journalism programs at the Newhouse School. She MPA was named the chief instead majored in political science, and so enjoyed it that she followed Edward A. Hartzog ’94 executive officer of the with a degree and practice in law — only later pursuing work as a jour- MPA is the founder and National 4-H Council. executive director of Kids nalist, with WJLA-TV in Washington, D.C. Despite the career shift, she Voting New York City Inc., Matthew Diamond ’94 told the Syracuse Post-Standard, “I’m loyal to my peeps at Maxwell.” a local affiliate of Kids BA (PSt)/’97 MPA, earned Voting USA, a national an M.S. in finance from nonpartisan nonprofit that Johns Hopkins Univer- promotes civic education sity and is employed by Down Under Diplomat and citizenship for stu- Honeywell International, dents in grades K-12. developing pricing strate- Former OPM head named ambassador. gies and analysis for Christopher Jones ’95 U.S. government service ohn Berry ’81 MPA is the new U.S. Ambas- PhD (PSc) is the dean contracts. He resides in sador to Australia — nominated by Presi- of arts and sciences Ellicott City, Md., with his J at LeMoyne College in wife, Shannon Cleere ’97 dent Obama in June, and confirmed in August by Syracuse. Jones most MPA, and daughter. the U.S. Senate. recently served as Berry took the post after serving four-plus associate vice provost Helen Franzese ’97 BA for the University Hon- (PSc) is working with years as director of the Office of Personnel Man- ors Program at North- Goldberg Segalla. agement (and the highest ranking openly LGBT ern Illinois University. executive in U.S. history). He was previously Elene Imnadze ’97 MA director of the National Fish and Wildlife Founda- Sanjay Pandey ’94 MA (PA) is the World Bank’s (SSc)/’95 PhD (SSc), country manager for tion and the National Zoological Park; and has John Berry a professor at Rutgers Botswana. held posts in the U.S. Treasury Department, the University, won the Smithsonian Institution, and the U.S. Department of the Interior. Distinguished Research Jason Cole ’98 MPA is Award from NASPAA and the vice president of fed- Berry is certainly not the only Maxwell graduate in the diplomatic the American Society for eral government relations ranks. For example, since August 2011 Germany’s ambassador to Swit- Public Administration. with MetLife. zerland has been Klaus-Peter Gottwald ’74 MAIR, a life-long foreign Ednita Wright ’95 PhD Marc Harwitz ’98 MPA service officer. (SSc) is the teaching is a director of marketing center coordinator at research at the American Onondaga Community Cancer Society. Many more alumni Economist magazine the founder and chair of College, where she is also profiles and recent an associate professor Aris Evia ’99 MPA is an accomplishments at for their report titled 100 Women for St. Jude, “The Economic Costs of supporting St. Jude Chil- of human services and advisor to the director at maxwell.syr.edu/ Alumni_Profiles Piracy.” dren’s Hospital. teacher education. the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Susan Rosko Fogarty Kiran Gaudioso ’92 BA Seth Diamond ’96 BA Land Management. ’91 BA (PSt) is a senior (PSc/PSt) is senior vice (PSc) is a principal at the vice president and president of community Diamond Law Group LLC. Mondana Nicksolat relationship manager impact and community ’99 MA (PA) is a self- with Key Private Bank. relations with the United employed consultant and She is also on the board Way of Northern New real estate developer. for Saratoga Opera and Jersey.

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2000s Robert Friedman ’02 Gabriela Cohen ’00 MAIR is a regional adviser Alumni Event Scrapbook MA (PA) has launched a for South Asia in USAID’s business, GlobalMinds Office of Foreign Disaster State Capital. In October, more than 40 alumni gathered at the Angola, which provides Assistance. Fort Orange Club in Albany to welcome new alumni to the city and support for students who to celebrate recently appointed Excelsior Service Fellows. Among want to study abroad. Dave Levinthal ’02 BA Cohen also works with (PPhil) is a senior political Excelsior fellows were Parker Farrington ’13 MPA (top, center), the American Embassy reporter at the Center for shown with Ashley Ennis ’10 BA (PSc) (left); Farrington is working in Luanda, Angola, con- Public Integrity, a non- in the Division of Taxation and Finance. Also at the Albany event ducting interviews with profit investigative news were (left, l-r) Carlos Milan ’11 MAIR and Curtis Eatman ’09 BA (PSt/ students who apply for organization. PSc)/’11 MPA; and Fulbright Scholarships. (right, l-r) Alicia Se- Sara Nadelman ’02 BA gura ’11 MPA, Beth Reid Deaver ’00 MPA is a (Soc/Anth) is working Reitter ’06 BA (PSc/ specialist at the U.S. State with Transitions Global, a Hist)/’10 MPA, Alicia Department. small nonprofit in Cambo- Criss ’10 MPA, and dia supporting survivors Nuria Esparch ’00 MA of sex trafficking. As the Jesse Olczak ’06 MPA. (PA) is a senior manager country director, she of communication and advises cultural aware- external relations with Rio ness when dealing with Tinto, a Peruvian mining victims. company. Eric Schwartz ’02 Tim Fadgen ’00 MAIR MAIR teaches political is a recipient of the science at Hagerstown Fulbright-Clinton Fellow- Community College in ship. He will implement Hagerstown, Md. a community law center, advise on criminal justice Martin Skahen ’02 MPA issues, research disaster is the deputy commis- preparedness, and assess sioner of the Onondaga local governance policy in County Parks Depart- Samoa. ment.

Bernard Schulz ’00 MPA Octavio Augusto Hino- is the associate vice josa Mier ’03 MPA is the chancellor of student vice president of govern- affairs at East Carolina ment relations at Cultural University. Strategies, a marketing and communications firm Visitors from Afar. As part of their State Department-spon- Chris Constantin ’01 serving multicultural audi- sored year in America, Humphrey Fellows based at Maxwell spend MPA is the administrative ences in America. time in Washington, D.C., making service director/CFO for the City of Chico, Calif. Joseph Rispoli ’00 professional connections. Max- (BA) Hist/’03 MAIR is well often introduces the visiting Rain Henderson ’01 MPA regional specialist of fellows to alumni in D.C. — such is the deputy director of labor migration/migration as Attia Nasar ’11 MAIR (far right), the Clinton Health Matters and development at the shown with Humphrey fellow Initiative at the Clinton International Saeed Ahmed Kasi Foundation. Organization from Pakistan during for Migration in a Greenberg House Shannon Fitzgerald South Africa. reception. Nasar is a O’Shea ’01 MAIR works foreign affairs officer with United Nations Philip Tamout- Children’s Fund (UNICEF), selis ’03 BA in the U.S. State currently in its executive (PSt/PSc) is a Department. office, helping to plan brand man- the next round of global ager, strategy, Pitching In. A fun way for alumni to reconnect while development goals and and innovation also helping Maxwell is to staff a student-recruitment priorities. specialist with Nestlé USA. function in their area. For example, Tania Socarrás ’11 Florentina Costache ’02 MPA and Ali Sprott-Roen ’12 MPA (at left, l-r) served as MAIR is a senior investi- Kathy Younker Maxwell alumni representatives during the Idealist.org gator with the Department ’03 MPA is Graduate School Fair in Coral Gables, Fla., in October. of Transportation. in the foreign

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service with USAID in Kate Clark ’05 MPA is latory and Supervisory Emergency Management, Bangkok. part of the current class Agency. located in Manhattan. It of Health and Aging prepares for careers in Jennifer Jurgens Forster Policy Fellows. Clark is Shoshana Cohen ’07 disaster response, public ’04 MPA is the director a planner for policy and MAIR is a coordinating service, and corporate of public partnerships for program development at producer for the Smithso- crisis management. Network Health in Mas- the agency Philadelphia nian Channel. sachusetts. Corporation for Aging. Khurram Mehtabdin ’08 Michael Gale ’07 MPA is BA (IR/PSc) is a resident Bethaida Gonzalez ’04 Janouska Grandoit-Sarr director of youth, partner- in internal medicine at MA (PA) was among Jules ’05 MAIR/Econ is ships, and service at the Flushing Hospital Medical recipients of WCNY’s a project manager with Department of the Interior. Center in New York City. 2013 Latino American Hagerty Consulting. of Central New York Gary Goldsmith ’07 BA Jana Morgan ’08 MAIR is Award. She was recog- James Ketchum ’05 PhD (Soc) is a senior project a national coordinator for nized for contributions (Geog) is the director manager of marketing and Publish What You Pay US. to Central New York that of publications at the advertising for iCrossing. came despite numerous National Communication Deb Oonk ’08 BA (PSt) struggles and challenges. Association in Washing- Erica McCarthy Leven- and Rick Seltzer ’08 BA ton, D.C. He previously dosky ’07 MAIR/Econ (PSc) were married on Philip Mancini ’04 MPA served as writer/editor at works at the New York May 25 at SU’s Hendricks is a senior consultant for the Association of Ameri- State Capitol as a senior Chapel. Oonk is a gradu- Booz Allen Hamilton. can Geographers and is budget examiner in the ate student at Indiana co-editor of Geohuman- Human Services, Hous- University and Seltzer is a Vincent S. Pickett ’04 ities: Art, History, Text at ing, and Intergovernmen- reporter with the Bloom- MAIR is a special projects the Edge of Place. tal Affairs Unit. ington Herald-Times. officer with the State Department’s Bureau of Ariel Ortiz-Bobea Maureen Russel ’07 Marsha Tait ’08 EMPA is Education and Cultural ’06 MPA is a fellow at MAIR is an associate at a public policy advo- Affairs, overseeing the Resources for the Future, Booz Allen Hamilton. cacy consultant/PIAAC distribution of Fulbright a nonpartisan institution program manager at the Fellowships related to devoted to research and Byron Stewart ’07 MPA National Coalition for public policy. publishing about critical is a senior consultant at Literacy. issues in environmental NTT Data. Greg Quantz ’04 MPA is and natural resource Matt Clayton ’09 MAIR is a senior director at Perfor- policy. Ashish Upadhyaya ’07 a program development mance Technologies. MA (PA) is an officer on specialist at ChildFund Hillary Poole ’06 MPA special duty with the International. Preeti Wali ’04 BA (PSc/ is a Complete Streets Directorate of Institutional IR) is an associate direc- coordinator for the City of Finance in Bhopal, India. Qu Feng ’09 PhD (Econ) tor with APCO Worldwide. Alexandria, Va. is an assistant professor Wayne Westervelt ’07 of economics at Nanyang Lauren McDonough ’04 Jessica Simon ’06 BA MA (PA) is the director of Technological University BA (PSt) is an attorney at (PSt) is a development university communica- in Singapore. the Department of Justice. associate with the New tions at Ohio Wesleyan Israel Fund. University. Elizabeth Crosby Matthew Walton ’04 MA Fomegne ’09 MPA is a (PSc) is the Aung San Suu Geoff Bromaghim ’07 Michael G. Cox ’08 BA public health analyst with Kyi Senior Research Fel- MPA is an energy policy (Hist/PSc) is the special the National Institute of low in Modern Burmese research associate at the assistant to the Secretary Allergy and Infectious Studies at St Antony’s American Clean Skies of Commerce and Eco- Diseases. College, Oxford Univer- Foundation. nomic Development. sity. Keneshia Grant ’09 MA Sarah Byrne ’07 MPA Julie Johnson ’08 MPA (PSc) is the commis- Audra Acey ’05 MPA is is a voluntary agency is an operations manager sioner’s special assistant a leadership gift officer liaison with the Federal in the District of Columbia at the United States Com- with the SUNY Institute of Emergency Management Public School System. mission on Civil Rights. Technology. Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Anna Laski ’08 BA (IR) Brian Holuj ’09 MPA/IR Bill Castillo ’05 BA (IR/ earned a graduate degree is a senior China advisor Econ) completed an MS Juan Carlos Chong ’06 in public health from Bos- at the U.S. Department of in information manage- MPA/’07 MAIR is the ton University. Energy. ment at Syracuse Univer- head of the Education sity and is now a senior and Financial Inclusion Robert Magliaro ’08 Tess Kohanski ’09 infrastructure specialist at Department at the Peru- BA (PSt/IR/Econ) is a BA (Econ/IR/PSc) is a Traveler’s Insurance Co. in vian Banking, Insurance, founder of the Urban returned Peace Corps vol- Hartford, Conn. and Pension Funds Regu- Assembly School for unteer, having served in

20 Maxwell Perspective • Winter 2014 Alumni News the Community Economic school in Azerbaijan. Dana Gibson ’11 BA (IR) for Supply Chain Manage- Development division in is with City Year Philadel- ment. Cameroon. David Ross ’10 MPA is phia. a budget analyst at the Erik Chaput ’08 MA Michael Otieno Orwa ’09 Maryland Department of Sabith Kahn ’10 (Hist)/’11 PhD (Hist) MAIR is a deputy director Budget and Management. MAIR/’11 MPA is a recently wrote The with Youth Think Tank of co-editor of Millennials People’s Martyr: Thomas Mercy Corps and a part- Evan Sacks ’10 BA Speak: Essays on the 21st Wilson Dorr and His 1842 time teacher at the United (Econ) is a financial advi- Century, a crowd-sourced Rhode Island Rebellion, States International sor at Morgan Stanley. anthology representing a an expansion of his doc- University in Nairobi. mix of “millennials” from toral thesis. Jillian McMichael St. 20 countries across five Brian Reil ’09 BA (PSc) John ’10 MPA is with the continents. Daniel Cornish ’11 MAIR is a media liaison at the Department of Homeland is a management analyst/ Peterson Institute of Inter- Security as an interna- Andy Savoy-Burke ’11 Presidential Management national Economics. tional policy analyst. MPA is an account coor- Fellow at the U.S. Depart- dinator at the Partnership ment of Labor. Debjeet Sen ’09 MPA/ Nirmaljit Samra ’10 IR is a program associ- MPA is a security Lydia Hatch ’11 BA ate with Integrating Early administrator and (IR/Econ) is a finance Childhood Development/ lead intelligence assistant with the British Project Maternal & Child analyst with Con- Broadcasting Corporation. Health/Nutrition. solidated Analysis Centers Inc., a Justin Tannenbaum ’09 private security BA (Econ) oversees insti- firm contracted by Olympics of the Arts tutional sales at Instinet. the Department of Junior Delphic Games are coming to the U.S. Homeland Security.

2010s Minja Shin ’10 MAIR he 2015 Junior Delphic Games will be held works with Hyundai Lia Calabro ’10 BA Tin Syracuse, thanks to the efforts of Heavy Industry in (IR) works with the U.S. Michele Tarnow ’06 MA (Soc) and a small team Sofia, Bulgaria. Patent and Trademark Michele Tarnow working on behalf of the Regional Delphic Coun- Office as a legal extern on Neysha Alvarez ’11 BA the Trademark Trial and cil of the Americas. (IR) is a senior associate Appeal Board. Tarnow is the new president (before that, chief marketing officer) of analyst at the Homeland Security Studies and the American branch of the International Delphic Council, which spon- Caitlin Connelly Ells- Analysis Institute. sors the games — a sort of Olympics of the arts. The five-day interna- worth ’10 MPA is a facilitator with M Powered tional competition is expected to draw nearly 7,000 participants (and Lourdes Argueta ’11 BA Strategies. (IR) is operations coordi- 120,000 spectators) for competitions in music, performing, language, nator at Vital Voices in El visual, social, and architecture and ecological arts. The Delphic Games Pei Hu ’10 MAIR teaches Salvador. Chinese at Tzu Chi Acad- are designed to increase recognition of the role of arts and culture in emy. cross-cultural understanding and bringing people together for peace. Christina Alejandro Gon- zalez Colindres ’11 MAIR Thérèse McKinny-Wood is a research analyst with ’10 MPA is a director of the International Monetary impact and governance at Old Movies Fund. the Pour House. Industry honors pioneer in film preservation. Minda Conroe ’11 BA Ejolee “EJ” Mitchell ’10 (PSc/IR) is an assistant BA (IR) is a student in the he Society of Motion Picture and Television director of scheduling New School’s Interna- with the New York State Engineers has given its Archival Technology tional Affairs Program. T Governor’s Office. Medal this year to Milton R. Shefter ’56 BA (AmSt). Lindsey Ohmit ’10 MAIR The medal recognizes advancements in the Catherine DiVita ’11 BA is program coordinator for (IR), after her first year long-term archiving or preservation of media con- the European & Eurasian at Boston College Law tent. You might say Shefter wrote the book; he’s Studies Program at the School, was invited to join School of Advanced Inter- co-author of The Digital Dilemma, which assesses the Boston College Law national Studies, Johns Review. archival challenges in the digital era. He was rec- Milton Shefter Hopkins University. ognized also as one of his industry’s earliest and Erin Elzo ’11 BA (IR) is a Shamsiyya Mustafayeva most consistent expert voices on image and sound preservation. Shefter Fulbright Teaching Fellow ’09 EMPA/’10 MAIR is the is a former president of the Association of Moving Image Archivists. in Argentina. associate vice rector at a

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Kalorama Group. Renee Huset ’12 MA (Geog) works for Saint First in Bhutan Quinn Warner ’10 BA Paul Regional Water Alumna breaks gender barriers. (Econ)/’11 MPA is a Services as a water utility special assistant to the technician. City of Washington, D.C., hen the king of Bhutan introduced with the Department of Yoon Lee ’12 MPA/IR W10 new cabinet members in July, Housing and Community works with Search for Development. Common Ground. Dorji Choden ’01 MA (PA) became minister for works and human settlement — and Dorji Choden Erica Weitz ’11 BA (IR) is Katharyn Lindemann Bhutan’s first female cabinet minister. at Georgetown University ’12 MPA/IR works for the Choden, who has spent more than 25 years in the civil service, is pursuing a master’s in U.S. State Department media and politics. as a senior policy advisor known also as the nation’s first female engineer. (She has a bachelor’s in the Office of Global degree in civil engineering from an Indian technology school, and started Melissa Aponte ’12 BA Women’s Issues. her career as an assistant engineer in public works.) And when, earlier in (IR) is working with City Year Washington, D.C. David Pittman ’12 BA 2013, she was elected president of the political party Druk Nyamrup (IR) is outreach coordina- Tshogpa, she was one of only two women to hold such a post. Stephen Barton ’12 BA tor at La Casita Cultural She has also directed Bhutan’s Standards & Quality Control Author- (Econ/IR) is an English Center and an Imagining teacher with the Fulbright America Engagement ity, served on its Anti-Corruption Commission, and worked with the Program. Fellow. United Nations on poverty, youth employment, and women’s empower- ment in her country. Christopher Bianchi Kyi Pyar Chit Sow ’12 ’12 MPA is a business EMPA is a research asso- operations specialist with ciate with the Myanmar the Syracuse City School Development Resource Well-Traveled District. Institute. Couple’s coordinated careers Anne-Claire Bowers Michelle Vaca ’12 MPA/ carry them around the globe. ’12 MAIR is an associate IR is an economist at the consultant at CSC Federal U.S. Department of Labor. ean Callahan ’98 JD/MPA Practice, a consulting firm that provides public sec- Yiwei Wu ’12 BA (IR) is Srecently started as deputy tor clients with business working at Wunderman, mission director for USAID in Cam- management expertise. a digital/direct marketing bodia. His wife, Kristin Dadey ’94 BA agency network in New Michele Cantos ’12 BA York City. (PSc/IR)/’98 JD/MPA, joined him (IR) is a junior program there as an associate of the Interna- officer with the Anti- Sara Atkinson ’13 MPA Kristin Dadey and Sean Callahan, tional Organization for Migration Personnel Mine Ban recently joined Boston during a recent visit to campus (IOM) to continue her work on behalf Convention Implementa- University’s School tion Support Unit. of Public Health as a of the victims of human trafficking. research study assistant This is nothing new for the couple from Syracuse (with four daugh- Cat Foley ’12 MPA works within the New England ters), who manage to intertwine their international careers. Callahan has with Industrial Econom- Regional Spinal Cord ics Inc., an environmental Injury Center. had USAID assignments in Egypt (start of the Arab Spring), Georgia, and consulting firm in Cam- Indonesia (helping with tsunami relief). His resume also includes refugee bridge, Mass. Ivan Bakin ’13 BA (IR) resettlement work with the International Catholic Migration Commission. received Syracuse Uni- Allyson Goldsmith ’12 versity’s class Citizenship At each of her husband’s USAID posts, Dadey has been able to MPA/IR is a campaigns Award and is participating continue her IOM work, establishing assistance programs for victims manager for Global Solu- in City Year in San Anto- and serving as a trainer for law enforcement agencies. Prior to the IOM, tions. nio, Texas. Dadey was an attorney for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Maria Sofia Greco ’12 John Fornof ’13 MPA Under Law, working in their employment discrimination division repre- EMPA is legal consultant is a budget analyst with senting women and minorities. LEG/SGO at Inter-Ameri- Onondaga County’s Office can Development Bank. of Management and Budget. Hannah Hill ’12 MPA is a Many more alumni Dominik Schneider ’11 response specialist with profiles and recent MAIR is a student coun- the Consumer Financial legislative assistant in the Steffon Gray ’13 MPA is accomplishments at selor at uni-assist e.V. Protection Bureau. U.S. House of Represen- an Excelsior Service Fel- maxwell.syr.edu/ tatives. low at the New York State Alumni_Profiles Shelley Thompson Silver Wang ’11 MAIR Higher Education Service ’11 MPA is a consumer is an associate with the Corporation.

22 Maxwell Perspective • Winter 2014 Stephanie Guidry ’13 Eric Noggle ’13 MPA is a MPA is a summer associ- consumer research officer ate with Grantmakers for with the nonprofit Microfi- Effective Organizations. nance Opportunities.

Janet Huang ’13 BA (IR) Kendall Reed ’13 MPA is a business technology is an Excelsior Service analyst at Deloitte Con- Fellow with the State of sulting LLP. New York.

Nicholas Iaquinto ’13 BA Gokhan Savas ’08 MA (IR) is a recipient of the (Soc)/’13 PhD (Soc) is Alumni Event Scrapbook DAAD scholarship at the an assistant professor of Otto Suhr Institute: Center sociology at Luther Col- Around the World. In Istanbul, for Transnational Studies, lege in Decorah, Iowa. Turkey, students participating in a Foreign and Security Maxwell course on democracy in Policy. Jonathan Schlosser ’11 BA (PSc)/’13 MPA is the Islamic world gathered in June Sahil Jain ’13 BA (IR) is a business analyst with with alumni for dinner. a program assistant with Interos Solutions Inc. They included (top, l-r) USAID. students Mariam Jaf- Ryan Suto ’13 MAIR is a frey, Philip McDon- Anneli Lambeth ’13 BA research associate at the ald, and Chung-wen (PSc/IR) is working with Tahrir Institute for Middle Chen; Selina Carter Sila Solutions Groups as a East Policy. ’12 MPA/IR/’13 MA business analyst. (Econ); course pro- Jessica Todtman ’13 fessor Mehrzad Fabiola Lara ’13 BA (IR) MPA supports devel- is studying at the Teach- opment and related Boroujerdi; Yu- ers College of Columbia initiatives as the director nus Sozen ’02 MA University for a master’s of policy with the SUNY (PSc); Orhan Sener degree in international system administration. ’71 MPA (and a guest); students and transcultural studies, Georgia Hamilton, Aminata Bah, and Tuba Dokur; with a specialty in educa- Sarah Walton ’13 BA and alumnus Ozgur Usenmez ‘01 MAIR. tional development. (Geog/PSt) works with In October, at a combined SU/Maxwell event in London (center, Syracuse Parks and Rec- l-r) attendees included SU grads Lisa Gries and Chelsea Marion and Changgi Lee ’13 EMPA is reation Services as the Maxwell’s Katie Walpole ’12 BA (Hist/PSc/Pst). a deputy director with the deputy director of opera- And, in June, many members of Maxwell’s Japanese Alumni As- United States Ministry of tions for the Northeast Land, Infrastructure, and Community Center. sociation (MAXJAC) dined together in Tokyo to reconnect and to Transport. encourage new Maxwell student Yutaka Endo (seated, center). Ralanda Winborn ’11 Stephanie Lee ’13 MPA MA (PSc)/’13 MAIR is an DC & NYC. In August, more than is a program associate Excelsior Service Fellow with the Health Foun- at the New York State 70 alumni convened in Washington, dation of Western and Office for the Aging. D.C.’s Public Bar to welcome new Central New York. graduates to the alumni fold, including ’13 MPAs (right, l-r) Brent John- Megan Lucas ’13 BA (IR/ son, Billy Klutz, Kerry Hobson, and Econ) is an events and Max Glikman. member support associ- And, in May, ate with the Advisory New York’s Asia So- Board Company. ciety and Museum hosted an alumni event where Dean James Steinberg discussed U.S.-China rela- Michael S. McLean ’10 BA (IR)/’13 MAIR is tions. Alumni and friends on hand included (left top, a staff assistant in the l-r) Arielle Stephenson ’13 BA (PSc/IR), Jorge Ro- Bureau of International driguez ’09 BA (PSc/IR), Usha Harinarayanan ’09 Information Programs at BA (Anth/IR), Audra Acey ’05 MPA, Enrique Este- the U.S. State Depart- vez ’11 BA (Econ), Bonnie Kong ’12 BS ment. (Econ)/BA (PSt), and Ana Lucia Urizar ’13 BA (PSc/IR); and (below, l-r) Helaine and Gavin Mylrea ’13 MPA Sid Lerner (benefactors for Maxwell’s Le- is an Excelsior Service rner Center for Public Health Promotion), Fellow at Empire State Roma Stibravy ’54 BA (PSc/IR), and SU Development. alumni Roger J. Herz and Nataly Ritter.

Winter 2014 • Maxwell Perspective 23 Alumni News public sectors, including the United Jewish Appeal, the In Memoriam Northern Illinois Planning Commission, and, ultimately, as a budget analyst for Cook County, Ill. Stationed in Nha Trang, Gliksman served as a chaplain during the Vietnam War. In recent years he was a board member of Oak Park Frank Elliot ’57 MPA passed away on April 28 at the age of 82. He was raised in Hartford, Conn., and received a Temple in Oak Park, Ill., and a participant with the Jewish bachelor’s degree at Central Connecticut State Univer- Reconstructionist Congregation in Evanston, Ill. As a sity before attending Maxwell. His career took him to long-time resident of Chicago’s 48th ward, he volunteered Philadelphia, where he worked with the local Department as an organizer and leader in local politics. of Housing and Urban Development, moving up the ranks to assistant regional manager, overseeing federal grants David A. Bennett ’75 MA (Hist) died on September 12 to six mid-Atlantic states and the District of Columbia. in Cazenovia, N.Y, at the age of 66. He was a graduate of Elliot then spent 11 years with a private development firm, Johns Hopkins University and served as a captain in the thereafter founding and managing his own retirement U.S. Army. He was a vice president and certified financial business, which combined apartments, healthcare, nurs- planner with Morgan Stanley for 30 years. He was a life- ing home, and recreation facilities. In the 1970s, Elliot was long intellectual, engaged with the pursuit of peace and a candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania’s Demo- justice in the world. A 40-year resident of the Syracuse cratic primary. He also founded and was the first chair of area, he was dedicated to the communities of LaFayette the Bucks County (Penn.) Housing Authority, and served and Cazenovia, and to Labrador Mountain. An avid skier as commissioner on the Bucks County Redevelopment and cyclist, he had a love for the outdoors. Authority. Late in life, he authored a memoir, A Fresh Kid: A Lower Middle-Class Odyssey. Paul Stevenson ’88 MPA died near Watertown, N.Y. on April 16. Born in 1961, he earned a bachelor’s degree from St. Lawrence University in 1983. He earned a Sholom Gliksman ’72 MA (PSc), died on May 16 at the age of 69. Gliksman was born in 1943 in Chicago and master’s from both Maxwell and the SUNY College of lived there much of his life. He was an alumnus of the Environmental Science and Forestry. Stevenson began Ida Crown Jewish Academy, the Chicago Theological his life in public service with the Peace Corps, where he Seminary, Roosevelt University, Loyola University, and served as a fisheries extension officer in rural Kenya. It Maxwell. Most of Gliksman’s career was in nonprofit and was here that he developed a life-long love for Africa. For 25 years, Stevenson served in various positions with the City of Syracuse’s Department of Community Develop- Other Deaths ment, the St. Lawrence County Planning Office, Ithaca’s Urban Renewal Agency (where he was director), and Since our last edition, word has also been received of these alumni deaths: Planning and Development for the Village of Potsdam (also as director). Later, Stevenson served as a diplomat Verna Houck Motto ‘40 BA Fe T. Yoingco ‘53 MPA Robert Dicks ‘69 MPA and analyst with the State Department, holding embassy (Soc) Peter Hans Hengel ’54 MA Harry Moscatello ’70 MPA postings in Uganda, Ghana, and Nigeria. Most recently, Edgar Prina ’40 MA (PSc) (PSc) Hacer Garan ‘72 MPA Stevenson held a post in Washington, D.C., where he Morris Skiff Weeden ’41 BA C. Phillip McGuire ‘54 BA served in the Bureau of African Affairs. John Werly ‘72 PhD (Hist) (PSc) (Geog) Stephen Carr ’73 BA (Hist) Adele Coligan ’43 BA (Soc) Russell Watson ‘54 MPA Elizabeth Gerle ’91 BA (PSc) died on April 17. She was Katherine Moran ‘73 MA Joyce Sanders ‘45 BA (Soc) Herbert Sydney Duncombe born in Brooklyn in 1933 and received a degree in dental (SSc) ’55 MPA hygiene at SUNY Farmingdale, working as a dental Jeanne Gart ‘46 MPA John Sroka ‘73 MPA Andrew Wilson ’55 PhD (SSc) hygienist in Rochester. Relocating to Syracuse, Gerle Norman Blass ’49 BA (PSc) Ronald Reinig ’65 MA (Hist)/ attended Maxwell to study political science. Throughout Richard Anliot ‘56 MA (PSc) Sidney Greenberg ’49 BA ’74 PhD (SSc) her life, she remained active in the community, serving (Hist) John Owens ’52 MA (PSc)/ Richard Westcott ’74 BA several years as a member and president of the Crouse ’56 PhD (PSc) Julia Hullar ‘49 BA (Hist) (AmSt) Irving Memorial Hospital Auxiliary and as vice chairman of Hugh Ripley ‘55 BA (Hist)/ ’57 William Killough ’49 BA (PSc) John Maples ’75 MPA the New York State Hospital Auxiliary. MA (Hist) Jerome Boros ‘47 BA Norman Morrill ’75 MPA William Laidlaw ’59 BA (AmSt) (Econ)/’50 MA (Econ) Erzhena Boudayeva ’05 MA (PA) passed away in May Mark Sullivan ’75 MP (SSc) Robert Redden ’59 PhD (SSc) Robert Crosby ‘50 BA (PSc) at the age of 51. Paralyzed at the age of 21 — while George Silverman ’76 MPA August Roth ’60 MPA studying at Ulan-Ude Pedagogical University in southern John Dyer ’50 BA (SSc) Roland Russell ’78 BA (Econ) Robert Yates ’60 BA (Geog) Russia — Boudayeva spent her life as an activist. She Jordan Pappas ’50 BA (PSc) Alison Phillips ’79 BA (Soc) wrote articles about disability issues, serving in a time and Abdel Zikry ’63 PhD (Soc) Robert Attridge ’51 BA (Econ) Eugene Valerino ’81 BA place where few considered questions of disability and James Arseneau ’64 BA Richard Berger ’51 BA (PSc) (Econ) inclusion. Through the activism of Boudayeva and her (Anth) Charles Hersh ’49 MA Gary Hausladen ’79 MA allies, disability associations were founded in Ulan-Ude. Kent Barker ‘65 BA (Econ) (PSc)/’51 PhD (PSc) (Geog)/’83 PhD (Geog) She also founded the Buryat Association for wheelchair William Vosburgh ’65 PhD William Hooper ‘51 BA (Hist) Nicoletta Fernandez ’84 BA users, which organized recreational activities, new work- (SSc) (Soc) ing spaces, and actions to increase urban accessibility. Joseph Diello ’52 BA (Geog) Bruce Tabackman ’66 BA Jeffrey Conner ’85 BA (Econ) With assistance from the Ford Foundation, Boudayeva William Guild Paddock ’52 (Econ) attended Maxwell, then returned to Ulan-Ude, where she BA (Soc) Curt Gordon ‘87 BA (Econ) Samuel Talley ‘53 BA (Hist)/ founded a program for inclusive education and became George Pantos ‘52 BA (PSc) ’66 PhD (Econ) Stephen Paxton ’88 MA (PA) a member of the Commission on Disability Affairs in the Donald Hess ‘53 MPA Roger Cohen ‘60 BA (Soc)/ Megan Lapicki Landers ’97 Buryatian President’s Office. In recognition of her service, ’63 MA (Soc)/’67 PhD (Soc) BA (PSt) Jules Kurz ‘53 BA (PSc) the government of Ulan-Ude gave Boudayeva the official Jeffrey Peck ‘67 BA (Hist) Katlyn Mary Bennett ’10 BS Crosby Nash ‘53 BA (Econ) title of “Honorable Civil Woman.” In commemoration of (PSc) Lawrence Allin ’68 MA (SSc) her efforts, a house for wheelchair users is to be named Angel Yoingco ‘53 MA (Econ) after Boudayeva.

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t a Maxwell reception for new grads — held in conjunction with an Maxwell annual sociology conference in New York — Kalila Nelson ’12 BA Explore the many ways to expand your A(Soc) hoped to reconnect with professors. And reconnect she did. Maxwell School alumni network . . . In fact, one of them, Marjorie DeVault, pointed out another attendee across Facebook the room and said Nelson and she should talk. facebook.com/Maxwell.School The other attendee was Ann Esposito — not even an alumna, but the wife of Charles Vivona ’72 MS (Soc)/’80 PhD (Soc), also on hand. Esposito LinkedIn is an assistant director at the New York League for Early Learning, part of linkd.in/MaxwellGroup the Young Adult Institute network (YAI). Nelson described her recent ser- SectorConnect (LinkedIn group) vice with City Year, helping support grade 9-12 students in danger of not maxwell.syr.edu/sectorconnect continuing their education, and her plans to one day become a child-advocacy lawyer. Esposito suggested that client-service work for YAI would Twitter provide meaningful preparation for that career. After a challenging applica- @MaxwellSU (school news) tion process, Nelson was hired as an intake/family service specialist for @MaxwellAlumni (alumni updates) YAI, which places her in direct Instagram Kalila Nelson ’12 BA (Soc) contact with families requiring instagram.com/maxwellalumni support. To Nelson, the lesson is Blog clear: “Put yourself out there.” MaxwellAlumni.wordpress.com “Take advantage of net- YouTube working events, reach out to youtube.com/maxwellschool your professors, and let them know how you are doing after Maxwell Career Development graduation,” she says. www.maxwell.syr.edu/career “Remember you are still a part Maxwell School Alumni Relations of Maxwell’s community, even www.maxwell.syr.edu/alumni after graduation. Remain open- News/Classnote minded and do not be afraid to Use “Update” button at the bottom of the page RSVP for alumni events. You never know who you will meet [email protected] and the seed they will plant in your life.” maxwell.syr.edu