E-mail: Ibrahim.Abdul-Matin@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Chris.Adams@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Jeremy.Block@gmail.com

JEREMY BLOCK is a Co-Founder of the health technology company Medaptive Health, and the Managing Partner of Venture Catalyst, working with investors and venture-backed companies to maximize the odds of venture success. Dr. Block is also an adjunct professor of public and international affairs at Baruch College. Jeremy serves as the executive director of a digital health trial focusing on population screening of genetic founder mutations at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. Previously, Dr. Block was an Assistant Professor of Population Health Science & Policy at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai where he was also an IRB Chair at hospitals within the Mount Sinai Health System. Jeremy is primarily interested in research ethics, digital health research design, the intersection of science and technology with society, and protecting vulnerable populations participating in research. His background includes advising at the federal, state, and local level on a variety of science and technology relevant fields include; green procurement, human research subject protections, chemical & biological weapons, emerging properties and markets with science and technology components, and research systems at public & private universities. In addition Jeremy has been involved in technology development in the areas of virtual reality and also digital & mobile health applications. He has a background in teaching ethics in public policy, bioethics, and science and technology policy at both the undergraduate and graduate level.

He holds a Bachelors in Chemistry & Biology, Masters in Public Policy, and Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Duke University.

E-mail: Gregg.Bishop@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Thomas.Bonnett@baruch.cuny.edu
Tom Bonnett has had an extensive career in public policy, as a state legislator, a consultant and author, an advisor to public officials and nonprofit organizations, and an educator. He was as teaching assistant while in graduate school and, after a gap of two decades, returned to teaching for the School of Public Affairs in 2003.

He was elected to the Vermont House of Representatives in 1974, and reelected in 1976. In Washington, DC during the 1980s, Bonnett worked for the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) and a New York member of Congress (Ted Weiss). In New York, he was the executive director of a community-based nonprofit in Queens, and held several research and management positions in NYC government. He served in the Koch, Dinkins, and Bloomberg administrations (in the latter as an Assistant Commissioner of a small city agency.)

From 1992 to 1997, he worked for the Council of Governors’ Policy Advisors, an affiliate of the National Governors’ Association, which published several of his books including TELEWARS in the States: Telecommunications Issues in a New Era of Competition (1996).

He has written books, commissioned monographs, three book chapters, a law journal article, and many shorter articles on public finance, telecommunications, and economic development. Amazon.com lists eleven of his titles.

Professor Bonnett is interested in the development of user-generated content (such as You Tube) and the new forms of social media (such as Facebook), and their effects on public opinion and politics; a topic on which he has collaborated with the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at Columbia University.

E-mail: Howard.Buxbaum@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Barbara.Caress@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Peter.Cheng@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Thomas.Duane@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: rhochhauser@gmail.com

Email: James.Howard@baruch.cuny.edu

I am a scientist at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory. Previously, I have been a consultant to numerous government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Executive Office of the President, and the United States Department of Homeland Security, and worked for the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as an internal consultant on scientific computing. I am a passionate educator, teaching mathematics and statistics at the University of Maryland Global Campus since 2010 and have taught public management at Baruch College, Central Michigan University, Penn State, and the University of Baltimore.

I am fortunate to play in everyone else’s backyard. My most recent work has modeled the spread of infectious respiratory diseases and Ebolavirus, predicted global disruptive events, researched using blockchain for government services, and created devices for rescuing victims of building collapse. I have written two books on my work and co-edited two more.

I have served Howard County, Maryland, as a member of the Board of Appeals and Charter Review Commission and the Watershed Stewards Academy Advisory Committee of the University of Maryland Extension. Other volunteer experience includes providing economic advice to the Columbia Association, establishing an alumni association for the College Park Scholars Program at the University of Maryland, and serving on numerous public and private volunteer advisory boards.

I have a PhD in public policy from the University of Maryland Baltimore County, an MPA from the University of Baltimore, an MS in environmental engineering and management from the Johns Hopkins University, a BS in mathematics from the University of Maryland, and a BA in East Asian studies from the University of Maryland Global Campus.

Email: Michael.Massiah@baruch.cuny.edu

Naomi Nightingale

After a long and rewarding career in public and government service in which she served in various high-level leadership, Dr. Nightingale began her own business, Nightingale & Associates, LLC, a highly successful management consultant business that specializes in assisting public and private organizations through organizational change processes and personnel challenges.

Throughout her career in various positions, Dr. Nightingale learned and demonstrated the essential functions for administrators and managers in public administration such as “self as leaders”, the importance of diversity and inclusion, conflict and crises management and strategies to deal effectively with inevitable changes in public organizations and governmental agencies.  Her role today as professor is reflective of her varied experiences, talents and skills sharpened in these roles.  ­­

Dr. Nightingale was a founding organizer of the Grassroots Venice Neighborhood Council, a chartered elective body advisory to the Los Angeles City Council.  She served as its first District Representative for the minority community of Oakwood in Venice, CA.  In its second term, she served as Vice President of the 15-body Council serving 60,000 residents.   Dr. Nightingale continues as an activist for social justice, particularly in the areas of redemption and prevention of recidivism for formerly incarcerated persons.

Currently, Dr. Nightingale is as a Commissioner of the Los Angeles County Civil Service Commission, a five-member quasi-judicial body responsible for granting and adjudicating appeals received from county employees regarding discharges, suspensions, position reductions and other personnel actions.

Dr. Nightingale has taught as an adjunct professor at Baruch College since June 2016.  She earned a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University, Yellow Springs, Ohio; an MPA from California State University at Long Beach, CA, and a BA in Liberal Arts from Antioch University, Los Angeles, CA.

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Terence Peavy is currently the Assistant Vice President for Enrollment Management at Fashion Institute of Technology- State University of New York (SUNY). He has over 25 years of higher education experience and has held executive leadership roles in enrollment management at Metropolitan College of New York, Saint Peter’s University and The New School. He began his professional career at Fordham University as an admission counselor in 1993. Terence is a Board of Trustee member at York College of Pennsylvania and volunteers as a peer reviewer for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education. He is a member of the following professional organizations: National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC), New York State Association for College Admission Counseling (NYSACAC), State University of New York Chief Enrollment Officers Association (SUNYCEO), College Access Consortium of New York (CACNY) and the International Leadership Association (ILA).

Terence obtained his BA degree from York College of Pennsylvania in Speech Communications.and his MSED degree in Educational Supervision and Leadership from Fordham University (NY).  Terence earned his Ed.D in Organizational Leadership Studies from Northeastern University in Boston, MA.

Alan Rosenblatt, Ph.D., is a digital and social media strategist, professor & thought leader with over 25 years’ experience. He is Director of Digital Research at Lake Research Partners; a Partner, leading the Digital and Social Media Strategy Practice, at turner4D; and a Partner at Unfiltered.Media. Alan taught the world’s 1st college course on digital/social media politics at George Mason University in 1995. He’s been teaching variations of it ever since—currently at George Washington, Johns Hopkins, Baruch, and American Universities, and previously at Georgetown and Gonzaga Universities. Dr. Rosenblatt was Associate Director for Online Advocacy at the Center for American Progress/CAP Action Fund from 2007-2013, where he created and managed the Center’s enterprise social media program and ran many online advocacy campaigns. He is a prolific writer, over the years blogging at and writing for The Nation, npENGAGE and turner4D’s Carpe Colloquium, Huffington Post,  Social Media Today, techPresident, Big Think, Roll Call, and Campaigns & Elections. He is a frequent keynote speaker and panelist. Alan has a Ph.D., M.A. and B.A. in Political Science and can be found across social media @DrDigiPol.

Vanessa A. Sansone is an Assistant Professor of Higher Education. She is an expert on racial, spatial and class disparities related to higher education student retention, access, success, and how institutional, state, and national policies impact these issues. In her scholarship, she uses critical lenses that are drawn from the fields of demography, sociology and geography to explore how (in)equity structures the experiences and outcomes for diverse student populations and institutions. Her areas of research interest focus on understanding college affordability, Hispanic- Serving Institutions, governance structures and the geography of postsecondary opportunity, especially for students from Latinx, military-affiliated and rural backgrounds. Dr. Sansone’s empirical work has been presented at several national conferences and been published in such outlets as the Review of Higher Education, Review of Educational Research and New Directions for Student Development Services. In addition to, she has contributed policy briefs, book chapters, book reviews and web-based writings. She was named as one of the 35 most outstanding women in higher education in 2020 by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. And recognized by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) and the Texas Association of Chicanos in Higher Education (TACHE) as a top Latina graduate scholar for her service and scholarly contributions to the Latinx community. She has been nationally selected as a faculty fellow with the Rutgers Graduate School of Education’s Center for Minority Serving Institutions and the Annie E. Casey Foundation. She hails from a historically underserved area of San Antonio and is a first-generation college student, who grew up in a low- income household. To give back to her South Texas community, she has served as the co- founder and lead organizer of Colegio en Nuestra Comunidad, which is an annual citywide college fair that promotes college access to low-income neighborhoods within San Antonio, Texas. She holds a Doctorate in Educational Leadership with an emphasis in Higher Education from UTSA, a Master of Education degree in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies with an emphasis in Higher Education Administration from UTSA, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from St. Mary’s University, San Antonio.

E-mail: esermier@verizon.net

Edward Sermier is a consultant to various nonprofit organizations using models that translate complicated financial information into readily accessible and usable management information for decision making by non-financial executives and board members. He is a part-time Chief Financial Officer at the Nation Institute.

He holds a BS from Manhattan College and MBA from Columbia University.

E-mail: Linda.Shatzer@mail.cuny.edu

E-mail: Nigel.Sizer@baruch.cuny.edu

Nigel Sizer served for two years as president of the Rainforest Alliance until January 2018. He helped lead the successful merger with the leading Dutch-based non-profit UTZ and following the merger shifted to his current role as Chief Program Officer role, continuing to be based in New York.

As the former global director of the Forests Program at the World Resources Institute, Sizer led a hundred-person team across Africa, Asia, and Latin America and launched path-breaking partnerships including the award-winning Global Forest Watch and the Global Restoration Initiative.

Sizer also served as vice president for Asia-Pacific with Rare, where he developed grassroots efforts to link impoverished communities in Indonesia to global carbon markets and pioneered community-based fisheries and marine protected areas efforts. In 2008, he served as lead advisor on climate change and energy issues in Asia to former US President Bill Clinton and the Clinton Global Initiative. He has also worked with the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) in Nairobi and established The Nature Conservancy’s Asia-Pacific Forest Program. He also founded and co-chaired The Forests Dialogue, and helped establish and lead the Asia Forest Partnership.

A globally-recognized authority on forests, ecology, climate change and development, Sizer holds Bachelors, Masters, and Doctoral degrees in natural sciences and tropical forest ecology from the University of Cambridge. He has lived and worked in Brazil, Africa, and spent ten years in Indonesia. He has served on numerous boards and advisory groups including the Tropical Forest Alliance, the Rainforest Foundation, the Amazon Alliance, the Global Forest Foundation, and the Andean Center for Sustainable Development. He has received numerous awards including the Henry Arnold Conservation Fellowship from the Mulago Foundation and the United Nations Secretary General’s Big Data Challenge prize. He has been a frequent commentator on environment and development issues for the BBC, CNN, and Al Jazeera. He also helps inspire future leaders as an adjunct professor of nonprofit administration, politics and policy at Baruch College, City University of New York.

E-mail: ronspalter01@gmail.com

In his more than 45 years as a higher education administrator, Ron Spalter was employed in cabinet level administrative positions at Graduate, Baccalaureate, and Associate Degree granting institutions. He provided leadership to finance, facilities, information systems, HR, and auxiliary services teams. He has had successes in grant applications and management, and in securing major philanthropic gifts for CUNY. Ron retired in 2019 after serving for more than a decade as Deputy Chief Operating Officer at the City University Chancellory. In that position he had responsibilities for pursuing University-wide goals with respect to productivity and efficiencies, emergency management, sustainability and energy conservation, and change management in support of the introduction of new information systems and practices.

Ron has taught Business Management at Borough of Manhattan Community College and Higher Education Leadership at the graduate level at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development at New York University. He has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the Marxe School since 2006.

Ron holds a BS from Long Island University and an MBA from New York University.

John B. Wolf served for almost 30 years in the Office of General Counsel of Rutgers University. During that time he was the University’s chief labor counsel representing Rutgers in collective bargaining matters involving 13 bargaining units. He has appeared in state and federal courts and has argued before the New Jersey Supreme Court.

He also served as the University’s Senior Vice President and General Counsel when the State of New Jersey passed the historic Medical and Health Sciences Education Restructuring Act. In that role he led the legal team that counseled Rutgers on all financial, governance, legal and policy issues involving merger of the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey into Rutgers.

He has taught and lectured widely on higher education legal issues. He has served as a law school site evaluation team member for American Bar Association accreditation reviews. He also serves on the board of trustees of two tax-exempt public charities.

In addition to teaching in the MSEd-HEA program at the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs, Mr. Wolf serves on several labor arbitration, mediation and fact-finding panels.

He has an A.B. in anthropology and political science from Vassar College and later served on its Board of Trustees. He holds a J.D. from Emory University.

E-mail: Aaron.Zack@baruch.cuny.edu
Aaron M. Zack conducts research in the areas of American foreign policy, national security strategy, global conflict, political violence, intellectual history, and the history of international politics. He is the author of Hegemonic War and Grand Strategy: Ludwig Dehio, World Politics, and the American Future (Lexington Books, 2018), a contributing author to Is the West in Decline? (Lexington Books, 2015) and Equilibrio o Egemonia. Quattro secoli di conflitti per la supremazia in Europa (Le Due Rose, 2019), and has also published in scholarly journals. He holds an MA and PhD from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA from the University of Michigan.