E-mail: 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: gary.bagley@baruch.cuny.edu

Gary is an executive coach and consultant with over 25 years of experience in the nonprofit sector and a strong commitment to equity & inclusion, community building, education, and leadership development.

Gary contributed his vision and leadership to building New York Cares into one of the leading nonprofit organizations in New York City, serving over eight hundred nonprofits and schools with education, hunger, and public spaces programming. During his tenure, New York Cares tripled its service delivery – executing more than 20,000 projects and filling 150,000 volunteer positions annually. Gary’s passion for equity helped him transform New York Cares into an antiracist organization, a true reflection of the multicultural society within which it operates. By embedding principles of equity and social justice in the work of the organization and in his leadership and management, Gary shifted the focus of New York Cares from the volunteers to the communities.

Before joining New York Cares, Gary held positions at nonprofit organizations focused on arts education – Young Audiences New York and TADA! Youth Theater.

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E-mail: gregg.bishop@baruch.cuny.edu

Gregg Bishop is currently the Executive Director of the Social Justice Fund, an initiative funded by The Joe and Clara Tsai Foundation. The Social Justice Fund centers its work around racial justice and economic mobility for BlPOC populations in Brooklyn.

Before this role, Bishop served as the Interim Executive Director of Coro New York, an organization that believes meaningful change comes from collaboration: people in business and communities, schools and unions, government and nonprofits, working together to find creative solutions, and strengthen our democracy.

Bishop has over 13 years of government experience, serving under Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Bill de Blasio. From 2015-2020, he served as the Commissioner of the NYC Department of Small Business Services (SBS), where he was charged with running a dynamic City agency focused on equity of opportunity, leading to economic self-sufficiency and mobility for New York City diverse communities. During his tenure, he connected small businesses to over $200 million in capital, certified a record 9,000 Minority and Women business enterprises, connected over 100,000 New Yorkers to good-paying jobs, and invested over $10 million in capacity-building programs across the five boroughs. In addition, over 10,000 city residents were trained with new skills in the technology, healthcare, industrial and manufacturing, and hospitality sectors. He also developed and launched several initiatives aimed at structural barriers minorities face, including Black Entrepreneurs NYC (BE NYC) and Women Entrepreneurs NYC (WE NYC).

Bishop has a strong track record in the nonprofit and private sectors. He served as the Senior Manager of Workforce Development at NPower, where he was responsible for doubling the capacity of Technology Service Corps, a nationally recognized technology training program for young adults aged 18-25. He has worked at several startups, including TheStreet.com, Oxygen Media, and VIBE Magazine.

Bishop is an adjunct professor at Baruch College’s School of Public Affairs and serves on several boards including Red Hook Initiative, Junior Achievement of New York, Pursuit (formerly New York Business Development Corporation), The Robert Sterling Clark Foundation, and The Association for a Better New York (ABNY). He also serves on the Hebrew Free Loan Society Microenterprise Committee, Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) Local Advisory Committee and is the Vice President of the Alpha Gamma Lambda chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc.

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: benjamin.branham@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: rachel@wholewhale.com

Clemens holds a B.A. in English from Williams College and an MFA in Creative Writing from New York University’s Low-Residency Writers Workshop in Paris.

Clemens has worked at Whole Whale, a certified B Corp digital agency that leverages web data and technology to increase social impact, for five years. She has served as Senior Manager, Head of Content Marketing at Whole Whale since March 2022, providing account management and strategic digital marketing services to nonprofit and other for-good clients. She specializes in SEO, content marketing, and the Google Ad Grant and has lectured on these topics at Baruch College, Columbia University, and a number of industry conferences and events. Previously she was the Content Marketing Manager and a Digital Strategist.

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: Thomas.Kapusta@baruch.cuny.edu

Thomas Kapusta is the current Managing Director of Bedlam, a theater company based in New York City. Tom is a theater director, producer, and fundraiser specializing in classical theatre, unexpected collaborations, and connecting new audiences to arts experiences. As founding Artistic Director of Corkscrew Theater Festival, he oversaw the artistic development and production of over thirty new plays in the festival’s four years. For seven years, Tom served as chief operations officer for Ricochet Group LLC, a boutique consulting firm specializing in nonprofit arts institutions, higher education, and commercial theatre. He holds a BA in History from Columbia University, and a Master’s in Arts Administration from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences at Baruch College where he received the Marlow Prize in Arts Leadership. He served as Assistant Secretary-Treasurer of Royal Shakespeare Company America from 2012-2022.

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

Anni Luneau has been a nonprofit professional for 25 years, serving as a fundraiser for arts organizations such as New York City Ballet, 92NY, and The Joyce Theater.  She currently serves as the CEO of Umlaut – Modifications Emphasizing You, a consulting firm dedicated to helping small arts nonprofits leverage their assets to reach their highest productivity.  She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of Connecticut School of Law, obtained with the intent of becoming a nonprofit professional.

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 West, and its relation to questions of technology, religion,  knowledge, and ecology.​

Email: michael.massiah@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: harvey.newman@baruch.cuny.edu

E-mail: pattonkimara@gmail.com

Kimara Patton is currently the Deputy Chief Diversity Officer and Title IX/EEO Coordinator at Baruch College. In this capacity, Ms. Patton serves as the point person for students, faculty and staff with respect to Title IX matters, conducts investigations pertaining to claims of sexual misconduct or discrimination under applicable CUNY policies and procedures, and ensures compliance with Title IX and Equal Opportunity federal, state and local regulatory requirements. Prior to Baruch, Ms. Patton worked at the New York Liquidation Bureau, where she was Chief of the General Legal Services Division, and then Chief Compliance Officer and Special Counsel. She also worked as an associate at a law firm and is a former Queens County Assistant District Attorney. Ms. Patton has a Bachelor of Science from Cornell University and a Juris Doctor from Boston College Law School. In addition, Ms. Patton is an elected member of her town’s Board of Education.

E-mail: aisha.powell@baruch.cuny.edu 

Dr. Aisha Powell is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Strategic Communications at Morgan State University. Her research interest explores cultural phenomena in new media technologies, the Black nexus on digital media, and health disparities. Dr. Powell’s research primarily focuses on Black international migration, particularly Black women’s experience in Russia from the 1930s to the present day. In addition to health communications, especially health disparities for vulnerable populations that have been exacerbated during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her recent publications can be found in New Media and Society, Text and Performance Quarterly, Communication Quarterly, The Journal of African American Studies, and the Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, respectively.

Before joining academia, Dr. Powell was a journalist, reporting on underrepresented communities like the Black diaspora, students in high-needs school districts, and low-income residents. Her journalistic work can be found in Forbes Media, the Miami Herald, the Journal News and the Haitian Times.

Dr. Powell earned her Bachelor of Arts in Journalism and Innovative Entrepreneurship from the Pennsylvania State University; her Master of Science from the Columbia’s Journalism School; and her Doctorate of Philosophy from Howard University’s Department of Communication Culture and Media Studies.

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: 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.

Email: JNTanney@gmail.com

Tanney holds an MPA from the Marxe School and a BA in Public Policy and Business Management from Syracuse University.

Tanney’s career began in development work for nonprofits. She worked for five years as Chief Operating Officer at DKMS, an international nonprofit organization that fights blood cancer and blood disorders. She then transitioned to work in hospitality at Le Pain Quotidien, and in 2020 co-founded Jabber Dorado Enterprises (JDE), where she currently serves as President.

JDE is a food logistics company that manufactures and distributes food, and has a “double bottom line”: it hires primarily immigrants, and offers them “a meaningful experience through fair wages, growth opportunities, and financial and legal counsel.” JDE has a 501c3 foundation to which it donates a portion of its profit.

Email: john.wolf@baruch.cuny.edu