Congratulations to the Class of 2024
Bachelor of Science
Ella Abourjaily
Daniella Acosta *
Mashrafi Nur Anwar
Tierra Rae Barbra
Abiola Brooks
Jasmine Chabla
Andy Gabriel Checo *
Raeli Chesser *
Minkyeong Minny Choi
Lennon Claypool *
Eliane Isabella Cook
Isabella Couto
Andrea Curutchet-Stevenson
Tinisha DaSilva
Richard Duke Davila
Rebeca Noemi Espinosa Delgado
Kimoni T DePass
Maija Dixon
Erika Favela
Eden Grabianski
Corinne Grayson *
Aaliyah Green
Teresa Gutierrez
Jaclyn Ha *
Jason Ha
Lauren Qianwen Huang *
Darrion Hun
Allie Hunter
Becky Lifshitz Isaac
Holly Kase *
Justin Law
Sohee Lee
Loepfe Li
Yifei Ma
Asha MacKay
Anna Francis Mette
Aidan Mo
Sameera Mohammed
Aurianna Moreno
Giselle Moss
Shoma Nasrin Nahar
Christine O’Connor
Alex Pates
Lidia Pietrusza
Kristen Raisner
Karol Rubiano
Freddy W Sanchez
Nina Sasakawa
Mollie C Schwalbe
Evelynn Seabourn
Yasmin Sobhanian
Yongkang Su
Ella Sunshine
Enya Tellez *
Yannika Lillith Tholl *
Brooke Tritz
Maya Elizabeth Vazquez *
Wenyao Stephanie Wang
Tommy Wang
Jeremy Zhong
Grace Zhou *
* Student Group Leader
Master of Social Work
Sophia Abjuga
Molly Abrams
Justice Abud
Casey Accardi
Katrina Afflitto
Cortney Keim Aggarwal
Emily Alexander
Anamaria Alvarez
Maria Fernanda Amado Cordova
Sean Andrialis
Johanna Angamarca
Kara Holmes Araujo
Gilbert Nolly Dungo Arcilla Jr.
Amanda Arevalo
Zoey Arongino
Prakash Arrastia
Gaye Arslanbas
Dyhema Authers
Ikal Avila
Lee Bamman
Madison Bargetzi
Isabella Barone
Chelsea Leigh Barrett
Genevieve Barroll
Sasha Bechtler-Levin
Jake Bejarano
Erica Bello
Daphne Bernadotte
Michael John Blaustein
Markie Lynda Bledsoe-Grant *
Halie Rose Bloom
Cesca Bottazzi
Elodie Sarah Bretous
I-Yona Briggs
Kyra Bronfman
Alexandra Brooks
Bunnie Brooks
Haverty Brown
Michael Stephen Brown
Ruth Buchanan
Alysiah Burnette *
Gee Cain
Emma Calkins
Fatima Camara *
Lexi Cardenas
Dante Carnevale
Liz Carr
Jessica Castillo Diaz
Bella Catanese
Emma Champeau
Jenna Chapa
Anna Chapman
Monesha Chari
Magally Chavez
Fangqi Chen
JC Chen
Farah Chidiac *
Junghee Cho
Olivia Choueke
Shabnaj Chowdhury
Banks Clark
Gareth Coalson
Layla Cobrinik
Abby Cochran
Alexa Code
Rachel Cogut
Amanda Cohen
Merle Cohen-Idy
Clara Rose Connolly
Xenia Cooley
Angela I Coradin
Morgan Amanda Costello
Jessica Marie Cruz
Eli Cunniffe
Lucy Cutolo
Austin Dalgleish
Isaac Dalsheimer
Lisha Dash
Shaneil Davidson
Annabella Ruth Davis
Valerie Davoodzadeh
Sofia de Andrade
Luis Anibal De Jesus
Georgia de Oliveira Garros
Catherine Anne Rashcovsky Schiff
Ashley Del Cueto
Nayely Deleon
Annie Demarest
Wenqian Deng *
Katie Deray
Ramon Akeem Diah
Elizabeth Diaz
Natalie Jane Diaz
Lydia Diebel
Adi Dina
Molly Doherty
Fatoumata Drammeh
Elan Cassandra Duensing
Eli Dunn
Christina Duong
Eslaynet Duran
Lauren Grace Dymek
Abigail Eaton
Hannah Ehrlich
Nataly Eklund
Carolyn El Serafi
Jordan Eliot *
ME Endsley
Lizzy Epps
Katherine Esposito
Alejandra Estrada
Kamila Fahs
Yunlin Fang
Jess Faust
Nianchen Feng
Arisleydi Fernandez
Cristina Fernandez
Holly Ferrell
Rachel Fine
Misha Firstein-Rudder
Micah Fisher
Yeniffer Flores
Julianna Emily Curran Frank
Caitlin Frankel
Caroline Paula Frederick
Jessica Freedman
Tamlyn Freedman
Avalon French
Hayden Garniewicz
Christina Gehnrich
Michael Benjamin Geller
Gaby Gerstman
Gigi Ghiasian
Maeve Mary Gilbert
Kristina Glavan
Eleni Glodowski
Danielle Gold
Jacqueline Goldberg
Aline Gooding
Anna Goodman
Hailey Gordon
Karen Duchensky Gorman
Keely Grama
Paige Graning
Taylor Green
Kerian Gregory
Olivia Bayla Gregory
Rikki Grossman
Emily Gruen
Ruixuan Guo
Simran Gupta *
Catherine Hadlock
Tania Abrar Hameed *
Kayla Handler
Emma Hard
Julianne Hart *
Talia Hazlett
Xin He
Emily Hein
Alice Hennessy *
Bruce Henry
Rosana Hernandez
Gloria Hickey
Lisa Lynn Hilaire
Sasha Hixson
Mimi Ho
Venus Ho
Erin Holtzberg
Elissa M Holzman
Kayla Hooey
Olivia Horwitz *
Emily Houghton
Sarah Elizabeth Hughes
Samantha Hunt
Lee Hunter *
Jasmine Hussein
Charlotte Hutzler
Sayran Ihsan
Natalie Rose Insinna
Miku Isobe
Eliza Jackson
Madi Jakubowski
Haylee Jansen *
Serena Jiang
Kasey Jimenez *
Lily Jin
Jeremy Johnston
Elizabeth Jones
Heavyn Jones
Victoria Elsie Juste
Tarini Karwal
Lexi Katz
Ramandeep Kaur
Mary Grace Kelley
Evelyn Kendix
Aysha Khawaja
Lily Kim
Natalie Anoush Kinoian
Kelly Klein
Elizabeth Kollme
Anna Kons
Dimitrios G Kontos
Leah Danielle Kopelman
Ally Kuhn
Jasminie Kuldip
Sydney Alexa Kupersmith
Annabelle Kwon
Elyse Sarah Laakso
Ariel W Lam
Eliana Lanfranco Santos
Daniel Lear LaPook
Jenny Lau *
Saiurys Laucel Moreno
Anna Rose Leclerc
Clara Jianqiao Ledman
Alexandra Lee
Eunnie "Rosie" Lee
Claudia Leonardi
Chris Li
Ying Yu Li
Landzie Lindor
Alesandra Lipman
Grace Little
Freya Liu
Emely Lopez
Kaitlin LoSauro
Madelyn Lunder
Samantha Luxmikanthan *
Nicolette Jolie Macolino
Madison Marie Magee
Gitanjali Malapatti *
Caroline Malatesta-Horn
Avery Malcolm
Lindsay Mamet
sumaiya Mansur
Adele Lingwen Mao
Vincent Marciano
Deirdre Marcigliano
Shannon Marhan
Jillian Markowitz
Jarisa Marte
Alicia Martin *
Breanna Victoria Martin
Sinead Bridget Martin
Karym Martinez
Mya Martinez Morla
Ady J Matos
Bryan Matusow
Molly Maupin
Rose Marie Maxwell
Abigail Mcdermott
George M McDowell ^
Lexi McKeon
Minshan Mei
Sarah Mellon
Dylan Meyers
Kat Mignocchi
Emily Miller
Nasikah Judith Moore
Giselle Mora *
Hannah Moret
Lindsay Morris
Emma Brecher Moskowitz
Emily Moss
Jannelle Mowarin
Shazakye Mustafa
Jude Nagan
Greta Nagy
Ebtesam Nasser
Victoria Nastasi
Tatiana Nazelrod *
Khadijah Ndiaye
Keana Nelson
Shana Neuhauser
Samantha Newland
Zoe Ngai
Yuhai Ni
John Norris
Yaire Nuñez
St. Clair Theophilus Nurse
Shira Oberlander
Alena O'Connor
Marisa Lynn Office
Catie Orlando
Samantha Ossip
Kelly Pacheco
Edith Palmieri
Elise Palumbo
Nived Parikh
YeBin Shiny Park
Ananda Parris
Madeline Parris
Maresa Patterson
Anne Paulsen
Monique Payne
Jina Pegu
Sami Pepper
Amalia Perez
Ambar Perez
Julie Perl
Alice Pfeifer
Vivi Pham *
Gabriella (Ella) Phillip
Jennifer Joan Piehler
John Martin Pino *
Eve Morgan Plank
Sarah Poloner
Ayana Potts
Margot Protzel
Tatyana Pryce
Alana Reiss
Carolyn Rose Ress
Ashley Gabrielle Rhodd
Julia Faye Rietsch
Melissa Cenona Rivera-Llaguno *
Karina Alexandra Rodriguez
Emily Rogers
Wyatt Roper
Emily Laura Rosen
Nicole Rossetti
Kathleen Verna Roxas
Maria Ruiz Flores
Tony Lázaro Ruiz
John Runde *
Charles W Russell *
Alex Ryley
Mollie Sailer
Lia Salmansohn
Karen Linda Sanchez Torres
Sara Santiago
Dymond Jade Taylor Santos
Franchesca Santos
Michelle Satanovsky
Sami Saunders
Sophie Scherer
Ashley Schlemmer
Ross Schwaber
Yaron Schwartzman
Amy Scott
Jacqueline Scott *
Haley Scrivo
Stephanie Secaira
Cadence Marie Seffens
Sean Serrano
Haley Kennedy Shea
Hae Jung Shin
Hyewon Shin
Violet Moore Shneider
Talia Shulman
Risa Louise Shutz
Morgan Siegel
Marisa Singer
Tyler Ashley Smith
Luke Smithers
Rebecca Lila Snyder
Jocelyn Solis-Carson
Yael Spivakovsky
Shannon Elizabeth Stapleton
Maya Jordyn Statmore
Lauren Steciak
Anastasia Steel
Natalie Sternberg
Tali Stolzenberg-Myers
Mary Charles Stowe
Adriana Sudano
Beth Sussman *
Jennifer Swanson
Sophie Talmadge Silleck
Hanyuan Tan
Ashley Tatis
Isabelle Taylor
Avigail Teiler
Hannah Tell
Rachel Faith ten Doeschate
Maddie Tenebaum
Charlie Ying Thao
Irine Thomas
Kara Thomas
Molly Michele Tierney
Ariel Strauss Tomback
Amy Torchiana
Michelle Tran
Lila Tribe
Sophia Trupp
Sophie Twohig
Natalis D Urena Mendez
Selin Ceren Uzman
Stephanie Allison Varela *
Isabella R Vassalli *
Juliana Venditti
Eva Venturas
Anna Vernon
Krystal Vitalis
Adi Wallach
Jacob Wallach
Sam Waller
Sicheng Wang
Ziyu Wang
Ellie Warner-Rousseau
Shaniya Trinity Warren
Janelle Washington
Kayla Wasserman *
Allison Weber
Kira Weilerstein
Denise Weiner
Jordan Weintraub
Miriam Weiss
Sephora Wembo
Julia Wertheim
Tanner Kaleb Williams
Leila Wintif
Sabrina Wirth
Caressa Wright
Amanda Wu
Teresa Sonia Wu
Xiao Ou Xing
Jackie Xu
Xinli Xu
Anna Yasuoka
Bruce Yu
Xiao Yu
Kimberly Zaga
Megan Elizabeth Zagoric
Lillie Rebecca Zakin
Katelyn Ann Zavatto
Carol Zenteno
Luisa Zepeda
Wendy Zhang
Yuge Zhang
Yuwei Zhou
Sadie Zuch
* Student Group Leader
^ Student Veteran
Doctorate in Clinical Social Work
Grace Cosachov Protos
Capstone Presentation: Social Work-Based Interventions in the Workplace: An Organizational Model for the Future
Committee: Dr. Linda Lausell Bryant (Chair), Dr. Kathleen Christensen, Dr. Batia Weisenfeld
Phara Gladden
Capstone Presentation: Healing Raced-Based Traumatic Stress
Committee: Dr. Aminda Heckman (Chair), Dr. Marya Gwadz, Dr. Kirk “Jae” James
Fengtao Huang
Capstone Presentation: Perinatal Mental Health: Addressing Service Gaps and Advancing Anti-Oppressive Practice
Committee: Dr. Jeane W. Anastas (Chair), Dr. Doris F. Chang, Dr. Solimar Santiago-Warner
Susan B. Koenig
Capstone Presentation: Exploring Connection and Safety: Integrating Somatic Theories into Clinical Work with Adolescents
Committee: Dr. Doris Chang (Chair), Dr. Michelle Munson, Dr. Prema Filippone
Caitlin Krenn
Capstone Presentation: Civic Empowerment of the Homeless Community
Committee: Dr. Deborah Padgett (Chair), Dr. Prima Filippone, Dr. Kimberly Johnson, Kia Lowrie
Shlomit Levy
Examining Specialized Treatment Courts: A Case for Increased Utilization
Dr. Briana Barocas (Chair), Dr. Kendall Atterbury, Dr. Magaly Melendez
Daisy Lopez
Capstone Presentation: The Hidden Wounds of Sibling Emotional Abuse: A Narrative Literature Review
Committee: Dr. Michelle Munson (Chair), Dr. Jillian Tucker, Dr. Nathan Perkins
Allison McCullough
Capstone Presentation: Female Identity in the Carceral System: A Continued Legacy of Racism and Social Control
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (Chair), Dr. Prema Filippone, Dr. Jillian Tucker
Heather Menzer
Capstone Presentation: Dying In a Homophobic Nation: Surrogate Decision-Making for Sexual and Gender Diverse Older Adults
Committee: Dr. Susan Gerbino (Chair), Dr. Christine Wilkins, Dr. Nicholas Lanzieri
Jennifer Murayama
Capstone Presentation: Less Talk, More Action: Applying a Structural Perspective To Cultivate and Sustain Strong Family-School Partnerships
Committee: Dr. Michelle Munson (Chair), Dr. Diane Mirabito, Dr. Kenneth V. Hardy
Peleya Patterson
Capstone Presentation: The Intersection of Multigenerational Trauma and System Exposure: A Trauma Informed Approach to Youth and Family in the African American Community
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (Chair), Dr. Darcey Merritt, Prof. Terrance Coffie
Renee Rosiecki
Capstone Presentation: Unjust Justice: Criminalizing Trauma Through Mass Incarceration
Committee: Dr. Briana Barocas (Chair), Dr. Carol Tosone, Dr. Kirk “Jae” James
Ben Sher
Capstone Presentation: From Exclusion to Inclusion: Mental Illness as an Invisible Disability in College (with a focus on Disability Justice)
Committee: Dr. Peggy Morton (Chair), Dr. Susan Gerbino, Dr. Faye Ginsburg
Laura A. Smith
Capstone Presentation: Reimagining Alternative to Incarceration Programs for Youth within the Criminal Legal System
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (Chair), Prof. Terrance Coffie, Dr. UniQue C. Starks
Carmen Villavicencio-Hein
Capstone Presentation: A Culturally Responsive Approach to Urban School Social Work Practice: Multi-tiered Prevention Programs & Intervention Strategies
Committee: Dr. Michael Lindsey (Chair), Dr. Diane Mirabito, Dr. Karen Flórez
Amanda Wexler
Capstone Presentation: The Impact of Bias on Vulnerable Populations
Committee: Dr. Victoria Stanhope (Chair), Jeff Coots, JD, Dr. Jillian Tucker
Amy C Wilkerson
Capstone Presentation: Dismantling the Master’s House Using the Master’s Tools: Healing Transgenerational Trauma in the Black Community
Committee: Dr. Linda Lausell-Bryant (Chair), Dr. Kirk “Jae” James, Dr. Prema Filippone
Eboni Wooley
Capstone Presentation: Advancing Practitioner-Based Learning: Examining the Role of Relative Poverty and Emotional Distress in Community-Based Mental Health
Committee: Dr. Anne Dempsey (Chair), Dr. Kendall Atterbury, Dr. Eric Thurnauer
* Student Group Leader
Doctor of Philosophy
September 2023
Tessa Jones
Dissertation: Racial Health Equity in Medicare Home Health Care for Seriously Ill Older Adults
Chair: Dr. Deborah Padgett
May 2024
Julian Cohen-Serrins
Dissertation: The Impact of Organizational Justice and Support on Burnout among Healthcare Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study
Chair: Dr. Carol Tosone
Gerri Kelli Naomi Connaught
Dissertation: Examining the Impostor Phenomenon Among Black MSW Students: A Qualitative Study.
Chair: Dr. Jeane Anastas
Cliff Whetung
Dissertation: Weathering the Storm of Cognitive Inequities: Testing the Minority Stress and Cognition Model with Indigenous Older Adults
Chair: Dr. Ernest Gonzales
September 2024
Sabrina Renee Cluesman
Dissertation: Understanding factors related to PrEP use among Black and Latine trans and gender-expansive young people: The impact of gender minority stress, substance use, and gender affirmation
Chair: Dr. Marya Gwadz
Yuanyuan Hu
Dissertation: Improving Mental Health Services Access among Older Chinese Adults: A Mixed-Methods Study to Explore Implementation of Mental Health Task Sharing
Chair: Dr. Victoria Stanhope
* Student Group Leader