Email: christopher.adams@baruch.cuny.edu

Dr. Christopher J. Adams serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Higher Education Administration in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. Currently, Dr. Adams serves as the Chief of Regionals and Special Projects at Long Island University where he oversees the University’s regional campuses and works on special projects assigned by the President, including the following academic programs: Society of Presidential Descendants, Global Service Institute, and the Roosevelt School. Previous to this position, Dr. Adams served as the Vice President for Student Affairs at the largest community college in New York State, Suffolk County Community College following two and a half years as the Executive Assistant to the President and the Chief of Staff for the Office of the President.

Dr. Adams also served as the Executive Administrator of the Teachers College Reading and Writing Project – Columbia University and in several administrative positions at Hofstra University. He holds a Doctor of Education in Educational Administration, Professional Diploma in Educational Administration, Certificate of Advanced Study in Educational Administration and a Master’s Degree in Counselor Education. Dr. Adams also holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies from Southern Connecticut State University.

Dr. Adams began teaching at Baruch College in the spring of 2005 until the fall of 2011. Dr. Adams returned to teaching at Baruch College in the fall of 2017 and was promoted to the rank of Adjunct Associate Professor and teaches Student Affairs in Higher Education and the Community College.

E-mail: Arda.Aktas@baruch.cuny.edu

Dr. Aktas is an applied microeconomist with research interests in the areas of health, development, and climate change, with a particular emphasis on environmental justice and health disparities.

Her current research explores how climate change and energy poverty influence the health status and vulnerability of individuals through its effects on indoor and outdoor air quality, as well as solutions to the climate crisis. She has developed and applied new methodological approaches to quantify the individual-level health impacts of environmental risk factors (i.e., indoor and ambient air pollution, particularly related to household energy use, inadequate infrastructure, and poor living conditions), and used these individual-level metrics to assess the future health trajectories across population subgroups under different climate and clean energy transition scenarios. Her research aims to incorporate within-country inequalities based on socio-demographic characteristics, into the analyses of the health impacts of climate change and adaptive response to climate change, as well as the co-benefits of the mitigation of greenhouse gasses for addressing climate change. Her work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Energy, Scientific Reports, and JAMA Pediatrics.

Prior to joining Baruch College, she was a research scholar in the Social Cohesion, Health and Wellbeing Research Group of the International Institute for Applied System Analysis (IIASA), where she worked on a wide range of topics at the intersection of demography and economics, including the modelling and estimation of the impacts of health and subjective longevity expectations on individuals’ economic decisions, and the analysis of socio-economic disparities in longevity and aging.

She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

E-mail: Chitra.Aiyar@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Lucia.Alcantara@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Megan.Anhalt@baruch.cuny.edu

Megan Anhalt is the COO and Chief Strategy Whaler for Whole Whale, a Brooklyn-based b-corp social impact digital agency. Megan’s career has specialized in helping nonprofits, companies, and foundations use digital storytelling and technology to create social impact. She has led various strategic efforts to address systemic challenges including jobs, income inequality, and climate change alongside partners like Unilever, Rockefeller Foundation, and the SEIU.

She currently oversees a team of 20+ digital content strategists, analysts, and advertisers at Whole Whale who are working to close the nonprofit knowledge gap in digital marketing to help build a healthier, more just, and sustainable world. She brings over 15 years of experience leading digital communications and campaign strategy for organizations like the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Purpose, Ogilvy, DoSomething.org, and Disney. Megan also serves on the Board of Directors for arts education nonprofit Art in Action.

E-mail: Phillip.Arceneaux@baruch.cuny.edu

Dr. Phillip Arceneaux (PhD, University of Florida) is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Global Communication in the Marxe School of Public and International Affairs. He researches the topics of political public relations and public diplomacy, with supplemental interests in international law, technology policy, and cybersecurity. His work merges political communication and technology policy to develop public policy solutions to issues posed by digital communication infrastructure, such as disinformation, computational propaganda, and influence operations. Dr. Arceneaux has consulted on strategic communications for various agencies across the U.S. government, including the Department of State, Naval Academy, and Central Intelligence Agency. He also served as a research consultant for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Partnership for Countering Influence Operations.

E-mail: Linda.Bailey-McWeeney@baruch.cuny.edu

Dr Linda Bailey-McWeeney is the founder and executive director of Reggae Math Foundation, a grassroots nonprofit whose mission is to improve the love and learning of mathematics in the Caribbean island of Jamaica, where she was once a high school math teacher. She has been teaching statistics and economics based courses in CUNY since 2004 and most recently has been an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Economics at College of Staten Island. Dr. Bailey-McWeeney obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Michigan State University, where she focused on labor market inequality based on race, ethnicity, and immigrant status. She advocates for student-centered and active learning education policies on Twitter @Linda_A_Bailey.

E-mail: Bernadette.BairdZars@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Gregg.Bishop@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: twbgarfieldplace@gmail.com

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: Luz.BurgosLopez@baruch.cuny.edu

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

Howard Buxbaum is a principal at PHB Consulting which specializes in assisting not for profit organizations with financial and administrative issues. PHB has worked with a number of higher education, membership and social welfare organizations.

Mr. Buxbaum served as CFO of several public and private Colleges including Bank Street College of Education, New Jersey City University, Bloomfield College and Drew University. Mr. Buxbaum also held administrative and planning positions at Rutgers University.

Prior to his higher education service, he served with New York State Government in the Budget Division, Health Department and the Governor’s Office.  He was involved in the launch of the WIC program and the enactment of New York’s special education overhaul in 1976.

Howard serves on several not for profit boards and has several volunteer positions.

Mr. Buxbaum received his MA in economics at SUNY Binghamton where he was a teaching assistant and his BA was in economics from SUNY New Paltz. Howard completed the Harvard University Leadership Development Program.

Howard teaches the Financing of Higher Education and has created a new contemporary case study and timely articles for his students.

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

Barbara Caress has over 40 years of experience as a union, non-profit, and public agency manager, consultant, and administrator. Most recently she served as Director of Strategic Policy and Planning for the SEIU Local 32BJ Funds. Ms Caress has consulted to the NYC and NYS Health Departments, the Community Service Society, Local 1199, SEIU, and the United Hospital Fund. She has served as a member of NCQA’s Standards Committee, the NYC Primary Care Improvement Project Advisory Board and the NQF’s MAP Hospital Workgroup. Author of a wide range of health policy reports and reviews, Ms Caress received her undergraduate and graduate education at the University of Chicago.

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

E-mail: Darwin.Davis@baruch.cuny.edu

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

E-mail: Christopher.Hanway@baruch.cuny.edu

Since 2014, Christopher Hanway has served as the Executive Director of Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement, a community-based social service organization in Long Island City, Queens that serves thousands of public housing residents and their families per year. Prior to that, he was the organization’s Director of Development & Communications for five years. Mr. Hanway has over 20 years of professional experience in the not-for-profit sector, most notably at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center, the Institute for Classical Architecture, and the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. He received his B.A. from Hunter College of the City University of New York and his Masters in Public Administration from Baruch College. He serves on several boards, including United Neighborhood Houses of New York, the Chhaya Community Development Corporation and the International Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers. Mr. Hanway is also Chair of the NGO Committee on Migration, which advocates at the United Nations and other international organizations on behalf of migrants, refugees and asylees worldwide and serves on the Executive Committee of the NGO Committee on Aging in New York. Chris has a particular interest in connecting the work of local, place-based non-profits like Riis Settlement with international social justice and solidarity movements.

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.

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

E-mail: Rachel.Lissy@baruch.cuny.edu

Dr. Rachel Lissy brings both scholarly and practical experience to her work with graduate and undergraduate students.  As a scholar, she explores the history of the New York City public schools with a focus on efforts at school integration, white backlash and the formation of punitive and criminalizing discipline policies. She has a Masters in Policy, Organization and Leadership Studies from Stanford and a PhD in Social and Cultural Studies from UC Berkeley. Both degrees and her research focus on how policies shape and are shaped by organizational environments and practitioners.  She applies this knowledge in her first hand experience coaching and supporting educators in schools in and around New York City. As a consultant she supports school and district leaders with transforming school culture and climate through the implementation of restorative and equitable policies and practices.  She has been in hundreds of classrooms and witnessed firsthand the challenges and possibilities of education and education reform efforts.  She brought this firsthand experience and scholarly knowledge to her role as an Editorial Consultant for the New York Times and Serial productions podcast “Nice White Parents”. She is an engaging storyteller and experienced facilitator who has appeared on The Brian Lehrer Show and “The Inclusive Education Podcast” and presented for superintendents and district and charter network leaders.

E-mail: Anni.Luneau@baruch.cuny.edu

Anni Luneau has been a professional fundraiser in New York City for twenty years. While her skills are generalist, her favorite areas of development are individual giving and planned giving. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law, obtained with the intent of becoming a nonprofit professional.

E-mail: Ashley.MacQuarrie-Tomey@baruch.cuny.edu

Email: Michael.Massiah@baruch.cuny.edu

Michael Massiah (now retired) was the first Chief Diversity & Inclusion Officer at the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey serving in this position from December 2017 through September 2021. In this position, Mr. Massiah worked directly with the Executive Director to assure that the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion receive the highest respect across the agency and that these values are put into action within the workforce, community and in its business affairs. During his 40 years of service, he held key positions such as Director of Human Resources following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and led efforts to rebuild the agency’s human resource functions. Mr. Massiah, while Director of HR, also served as Director of the Office of Organizational Effectiveness and Change Management, where he identified and led the implementation of over $150 million of cost efficiencies throughout the agency. In 2006, he directed the newly constructed Management and Budget Department and developed the agency’s capital and operating budgets (over $7 billion in 2014), cost control strategies, and continuous improvement through program review and evaluation. Mr. Massiah’s efforts led to the Agency receiving the Government Finance Officers Association’s recognition for outstanding budgets. In June of 2014, Mr. Massiah became the Chief, Capital Planning, Execution & Asset Management overseeing: Capital Projects Planning for a $32 Billion Ten-Year Capital Plan, Project Management, World Trade Center Operations, Office of Business Diversity & Civil Rights, Planning and Regional Development and Environmental Policy and Energy Programs. Mr. Massiah holds a bachelor’s degree in History and Education from Le Moyne College and a Masters in Public Administration from the State University of New York – Albany, and is a Fellow at the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA). Mr. Massiah serves or served on various professional committees including: former The National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration (NASPAA) – Commission on Peer Review and Accreditation; the American Society of Public Administration (ASPA) – co-chair Fredrickson Center for Social Equity Advisor Committee, and former Ethics Committee Member; former John Jay College’s Master of Public Administration Advisory Board; Myrtle Avenue Revitalization Project – Audit Committee Chair; past president of Conference of Minority Public Administrators (COMPA); Board Member of the Catholic Foundation for Brooklyn and Queens; and Board Member of Le Moyne College’s Board of Regents, Syracuse, N.Y. In addition, Mr. Massiah teaches graduate courses in Management and Human Resources/DEI at Baruch College’s Executive MPA Program. Further, Mr. Massiah co-authored a keynote article for The Newsletter for the Section on Personnel Administration and Labor Relations of the American Society for Public Administration entitled “Making Sense of the Executive Selection Process”; and served as an expert panelist for three studies conducted by NAPA.

E-mail: Samantha.MacBride@baruch.cuny.edu

Samantha MacBride teaches Urban Environmentalism and Public Management at the Marxe School of International and Public Affairs, Baruch College, CUNY and is a professional in public works management of garbage and sewage. She has a doctorate in sociology from NYU and studied biology as an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins. Samantha’s interests center on discards measurement and characterization methods, biological materials flows, plastics pollution, composting and land access, corporate hegemony, and waste colonialism. Samantha has also recently begun research on the contemporary UFO phenomenon in the Western hemisphere, and its relation to questions of technology, religion,  knowledge, and ecology.​

E-mail: Andrew.Martinez@baruch.cuny.edu

Andrew Martinez is a College Success Manager for KIPP Forward. In this role, Andrew oversees the college success team for the KIPP NYC region and helps support the transition and persistence of over 500 KIPP alumni. Andrew is also a visiting scholar and research associate for the Rutgers Center for Minority Serving Institutions. His research focuses on the experiences of first-generation college students, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, and what elite institutions can learn from Minority Serving Institutions in improving a sense of belonging and supporting the achievement of historically underrepresented minorities at their institutions. Andrew is also a contributing writer for Diverse Issues in Higher Education.

Prior to returning to graduate school, Andrew worked as an Assistant Dean of Students of Student Development Diversity Initiatives at Cornell University where he advised identity-based student organizations, developed a peer mentorship program for Black and Latinx men on campus, and led diversity initiatives for the dean of students department. Andrew earned his Bachelors of Arts in Sociology at Cornell University (2012), a Masters of Science in Education in Higher Education Administration at the University of Pennsylvania (2013), and his doctorate in Higher Education at the University of Pennsylvania (2020).

E-mail: Shoba.Nair@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: Iralma.Pozo@baruch.cuny.edu

Iralma Pozo is a CPA who has worn many hats, with over 20 years of accounting experience. She is currently an independent consultant, educator and motivator who provides value-adding services and empowerment to businesses and individuals. She advises on business efficiency and how businesses can add value and balance into the equation of finding success. She brings her financial acumen to companies that focus on a variety of segments that merge her personal passion and professional expertise.

She earned a BBA in Accounting form Baruch College and a Masters in Finance from Pace University. She started teaching in 2014 and have taught at Baruch College and Mercy College in the past.  She is a past active member of the New York State Society of CPAs (NYSSCPA,) where she served as the CPA Careers Committee Chair, and serviced as a state-wide and chapter board member in the past.

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

Linda Shatzer has held several positions at CUNY’s Central Office including the Change Management Lead for the CUNYfirst Project and Manager of Productivity Initiatives for the University. Her experience has provided insights into how the management of administrative services impacts the operations of the University and the academic experience for students. Linda  has taught online classes for Central Michigan University and Southern New Hampshire University in Communication and Change Management at the graduate level. She has written several articles on distance learning.​

E-mail: Shoshanna.Sofaer@baruch.cuny.edu

Shoshanna Sofaer, Dr.P.H. is an expert on the impact of organizational characteristics on the development and implementation of policies and practices in health care.  She is particularly interested in how organizational structure, processes and leadership influence the effectiveness of organizations in articulating and achieving meaningful goals and objectives and building and maintaining strong relationships with the communities they serve and with other organizations. From 1998 to 2014 Dr. Sofaer was the Robert P. Luciano Professor of Health Care Policy at the Baruch College School of Public Affairs. During those years she regularly taught courses on organizations and management.

E-mail: Ronald.Spalter@Baruch.CUNY.edu

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.

E-mail: Hana.Sun@baruch.cuny.edu

Hana Sun currently works as the Director of Organizational Resilience at the New Economy Coalition. Her background is in youth organizing, gender justice, digital media, and organizational development. Hana’s projects include researching and analyzing dynamics of broadband access and meaningful adoption in underconnected communities with The New School’s Digital Equity Lab and co-designing and facilitating digital privacy trainings for public libraries across New York City. Previously, Hana was the Director of Global Action Project, a youth media organizing organization; directed Mozilla Hive NYC, a peer-learning network of digital learning educators from nonprofits, libraries, and museums with a focus on digital and education equity; supported youth organizing groups as a program officer at Cricket Island Foundation; and co-facilitated the Asian American Student Advocacy Project at Coalition for Asian American Children and Families. Additionally, she has co-taught a course in youth-focused organizational development at City University of New York, was a creative writing instructor with the Pacific Writers’ Connection, and was a teacher at Likelike Elementary School in Honolulu, HI. Hana has a master’s degree from Columbia University School of Social Work and a bachelor’s degree in Literature and Dance Studies from Smith College.

E-mail: John.Wolf@baruch.cuny.edu

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.