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A / L / U / M / N / I M/ I / L / E / S / T / O / N / E / S What Do You Think? One of the issues raised during Heller’s 45th anniversary conference was the increasing importance of transparency in organizational life, and the management challenges that this raises. No longer can managers easily conduct business or make decisions behind a curtain — rather they are required to do so in a fishbowl. Every action needs to withstand the scrutiny of internal and external stakeholders, including employees, board members, funders, governmental agencies, and community members. Rapid information exchange via the internet creates additional transparency. What are your ideas for how managers can effectively conduct business given this new environment? Heller Alumni Association Board member Alan Aja, M.A. ’00, joins Laurence Simon, director of the Sustainable International Development program, and Larry Brown, Ph.D. ’71, Director of the Center on Hunger and Poverty, who were panelists at the alumni event in New York. Janet Giele and Dominic Hodgkin Send a brief reply to helleralumni@brandeis. edu with your thoughts and we will print your opinions in the next Viewpoint section of Heller Alumni News & Views. 10 New Jobs, Degrees, Directions Andrea Bosquez-Porter, M.B.A. ’03, is the program coordinator for the Justice System Training Program in the Office of Justice Assistance in Wisconsin. The program trains police officers, judges and prosecutors to work with victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking. Anne Brisson, Ph.D. ’99, is a visiting professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of Illinois and at the International Center for Response to Catastrophe. She recently spent two years teaching and conducting research in Kosovo as a Fulbright Scholar. Steve Coan ’84, M.M.H.S. ’90, Ph.D. ’97, was promoted to executive vice president for operations at Mystic Aquarium and Institute for Exploration in Connecticut. Debra Feldstein, M.M.H.S. ’96, is executive director for City Year of San Jose/Silicon Valley. City Year unites a diverse group of young adults ages 17 to 24 for a year of full-time community service, leadership development and civic engagement. Antoine Gayles, M.M.H.S. ’90, received a doctorate in education from Seton Hall University in New Jersey. Robert Hawkins, M.A. ’00, Ph.D. ’02, is an assistant professor at New York University School of Social Work focusing on social welfare policy, race and cultural diversity, and quantitative research. Brian Herstig, M.M.H.S. ’95, has relocated with his wife and two children from Pennsylvania to the Midwest, where he is chief operating officer for the Minneapolis Jewish Federation. Teresa Kornegay, M.M. ’98, is living in Afghanistan, where she has been the deputy director of operations for the Christian Children’s Fund since September of 2003. Armand Lauffer, Ph.D. ’69, developed and currently directs an international M.B.A. program in nonprofit management and Jewish communal leadership at the Interdisciplinary Center in Hezliya, Israel. Before moving to Jerusalem, Lauffer became Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan and received the ACOSA award for career achievements, including publishing more than 20 books on community organizing, human services careers, simulation-gaming, training, marketing, planning and fundraising. Deborah Polivy, M.S.W. ’72, Ph.D. ’78, is senior vice president at Connecticut Public Broadcasting with primary responsibility for endowment and major gift development. Polivy is a member of the Heller Alumni Association Board. Julie Rosen, M.M.H.S. ’89, was named the executive director for the Kenneth B. Schwartz Center, a nonprofit organization housed at Mass General Hospital that is dedicated to supporting compassionate health care and strengthening the relationship between patients and caregivers. Rosen is a member of the Heller Alumni Association Board. Nina Silverstein, Ph.D. ’80, is spending her sabbatical from the University of Massachusetts in Boston working with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the Department of Transportation and the Alzheimer’s Association Public Policy Division in Washington, D.C. on issues of driving and dementia. Shelley Steenrod, Ph.D. ’99, has accepted a position as assistant professor in the School of Social Work at Salem State College. Bindu Sara Sunny, M.A. ’04, is an intern with World Education in Boston, MA, studying best practices in the field of non-formal education in India and seeking to improve the quality of education for female child laborers. Nancy Valentine, Ph.D. ’91, received an honorary degree from Regis College and also serves on the Regis College Board of Trustees. Valentine is a first vice president of medical strategy and health policy at CIGNA Healthcare in Hartford, CT.
The Challenge of Social Policy Leadership in a Changing World – Heller Alumni Events in Washington, D.C., and New York Daphne McClellan, Ph.D. ’97, and Jack Hansan, Ph.D. ‘80 Laurence Simon, director of the Sustainable International Development program, Professor Stuart Altman, Dean Jack Shonkoff, and Larry Atkins, Ph.D. ’85, Heller Alumni Association Board president, led the discussion at the alumni event in Washington, D.C. Faculty/Staff Notes Mike Doonan, Ph.D. 02, assistant professor, was appointed executive director of the Massachusetts Health Policy Forum, an organization that holds conferences for state legislators, health plans, hospitals, academics, advocates and others interested in Massachusetts health policy. The Mayor of Waltham appointed Doonan to the Waltham Health Care Committee, which is examining the health care needs of the community. Awards, Honors, Fellowships, Boards, Grants Laura Alpert ’96, M.M. ’98, was appointed to the board of The Junior League of Schenectady as communications cochair. Matthew Burke, M.B.A. ’01, was elected to the Board of Directors of the American Association for Homecare and will chair its Rehab and Assistive Technology Council. Burke is director of operations at Burke Medical Equipment in Chicopee, MA. Joyce Clifford, Ph.D. ’97, received the Marguerite Rodgers Kinney Award for a Distinguished Career from the American Association of Critical- Care Nurses. Clifford was also featured as one of twelve leaders who made a difference in Pivotal Moments in Nursing: Leaders Who Changed the Path of a Profession. Heller Alumni Association Board Member Gail Robinson, Ph.D. ’80, Linda Greenberg, Ph.D. ’97, and professor Stuart Altman Baruch Levy, Ph.D. ’80, was elected as the first president of the National Council for Voluntarism in Israel, an umbrella organization of hundreds of national and local volunteer organizations. Levy has been an active volunteer for the past twenty years and is currently director at large for the International Association for Volunteering Efforts and the Association for Volunteer Administration. Baruch Levy, Ph.D. ‘80 Cyndy Moniz, Ph.D. ’90, was elected secretary of the National Association of Social Workers. Joan Wallace-Benjamin, Ph.D. ’80, was appointed to a six-year term on the Board of Trustees of Wellesley College. Wallace-Benjamin is a member of The Heller School’s Board of Overseers. Publications Ruth Abram, M.S.W. ’71, published an article entitled “Save Abu Ghraib” in The Washington Post. Abram is the founder and president of the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. The article details the Museum’s role in establishing a network of historic site museums to form the International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience. Ruth Brandwein, Ph.D. ’78, has been named Book Editor for Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work. Branwein is a member of the Heller Alumni Association Board. Raymond Glazier, Ph.D. ’99, was the subject of a profile in “Understanding MassHealth Members with Disabilities,” a report of the Massachusetts Medicaid Policy Institute. The article explains how Glazier receives Medicaid coverage through the Commonwealth’s first in the nation Medicaid buyin program for working persons with disabilities. Kathleen Herr-Zaya, Ph.D. ’86, co-authored “A Paid Radio Advertising Campaign to Promote Parent-Child Communication About Alcohol” in the Journal of Health Communications. Joan Serra Hoffman, Ph.D. ’01, recently published Youth Violence, Resilience, and Rehabilitation, a book based on her work exploring young peoples’ pathways out of serious and chronic violence. Hoffman is co-director of the Inter-American Coalition for the Prevention of Youth Violence in Washington, D.C. Marriages Sara Wiesel Cullen, M.A. ’02, married Brendan Cullen in Brookline, MA, on August 30, 2003. They are living in Philadelphia, where she is completing a Ph.D. in Social Welfare. Births Jeremy Benjamin, M.M./M.A. ’99, and his wife Jenny welcomed a daughter, Sylvia Pauline, in March of 2004. Mike Doonan, Ph.D. ’02, and his wife welcomed a daughter, Chloe Elizabeth, on May 20, 2004. Leslie Davis Met, M.M./M.A. ’98, and her husband Mike welcomed a son, Ethan Laurence, in June of 2004. Suzanne Lerner Rabin ’87, M.M.H.S. ’95, and her husband Paul welcomed a daughter, Jenna Lauren Rabin, on March 8, 2004. Steven Soifer, Ph.D. ’88, proudly announces the birth of his daughter, Miriam Shoshana, born on May 5, 2004. Life Passages Joseph Ben-Or, Ph.D. ’68, passed away in 2003. He had been living in Israel at the time of his death. Oscar Kurren, Ph.D. ’67, passed away at the age of 82 in June. He was a professor for 27 years at the University of Hawaii before retiring in the early 1990s. The Heller community is saddened to report the death of Mironda Heston, M.A. ’04, who recently passed away after contacting an illness in Haiti, where she was working with peasant women. Jody Hoffer Gittell, assistant professor of management, has been reappointed for a second term as Chair of the Board for Families First Health and Support Center, a community health center in New Hampshire offering prenatal and primary care, dental care, family support services and mobile health care for the homeless. Robert Reich, Maurice B. Hexter Professor of Social and Economic Policy, recently published “Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America,” a call to arms for liberals and progressives against what Reich terms the “Radcons,” radical conservatives. If you have some news to share with Heller Alumni, contact Norma DeMattos at ndemat@brandeis.edu or 781-736-4827. 11
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