Congratulations to the Class of 2025
Bachelor of Science
Ghasag Abdelrahim
Jannatun Akhund
Chenyu Bao
Housna Batiebo
Bella Berg
Rose Caulfield
Ruirui Chen *
San San Chow
Bella Cirasuolo
Giovanna Corcino *
Jayden Falconi
Esther Green
Jaclyn Ha
Ray Haffenden
Keely Haw
Sarah Hortes
Hiba Hussain
Sarah Bella Krost
Victoria Lorenzo ^
Tommy Lower *^
Asha MacKay
Kayla Major
Carol McGuffin
Daniella Messer
Lesley Miron
Estrellita Mondragon *
Eva Napolitano
Olivia Nilsson *
Maya O’Riordan
Akelia Reynolds
Mehema Sawhney
Fatou Touray
Alexa Vanegas *
Valerie Vargas ^
Yoselin Vazquez Feliciano
Shavonna Walser *
Ruo Yang
* Student Group Leader
^ Student Veteran
Master of Social Work
Mary Abdelmelek
Sarah Abdulbaki
Azia Abrahan-May *
Jinselly Abreu Rosa
Kay Aguilar
Karla Aguilar
Tife Aladesuru
Olivia Albano *
Dayne Albright
Nelly Alcantara
Akua Amankwah
Maryana Grace Ambagis
Mya Andazola
Amanda Antenucci
Kelyce Archie
Lauren Asen
Melody Ashby
Ali Axon
Lauren Bailey
Haley Bailleux
Liz Beatty
Sarah Beckman *
Jayden Beir
Mia Bell
Olivia Berni
Rose Betzig
Markie Bledsoe
Lauren Bogorad
Emma Bookoff
Gaby Borelli
Jennifer Boulette
Alyson Brandis
Avery Branton
Lindsey Brasgold
Leslie Brooks
Abiola Brooks
Aime Brown
Patrick-Viersen Brown
Gabriela Bucay
Keyko Buford
Avi Burnbaum
Emma Burnett
Reilly Butler
Elizabeth Candela
Bryan Carranza Rojas
Eliuteria Castro
Missy Ceballos
Will Cerf
Kaitlyn Chavez
Corin Chellberg
Zewei Chen
Alysa Cheung
Daniel Chiarilli
Brina Chu
Tan Cohen
Lily Cohen
Sandy Contreras
Samuel Cooperberg
Julie Cropper
Cindy Cruz Medrano
Kiera Cullen
Isabelle Daly
Tinisha DaSilva
Eliana Davidoff
Paige Dawson
Tara DeChellis
Kate Deegan
Lorin Foster DeMuth
Rosemary Dentz
Ning Ding
Jimena Dopico
Ava-Celeste Dujon *
Genevieve Durso
Avery Egerton-Warburton
Sophie Eisenberg-Edidin
Nataly Eklund
Alan Elias *
Josie Elliker
Kary Emil
Alison Entin
Tiffany Leigh Ernst
Diana Espinoza
Averey Esposito
Kimberly Estrada
Alex Evar
Aidan Evens
Gracie Farese
Izzy Feinstein
Mira Fink
Lily Fitzpatrick
Golda Fleischman
Clark Flessner
Cori Blair Friedman
HannahRose Garcia
Lindsay Gelles
Aliza Gindi
Sean Goering
Julia Goetz
Joaella Goldberg
Hannah Goldberg
Barbara Goldstein
Parie Golshan
Jessica Gonzales
Eden Grabianski
Anna Gray
Katanae Green *
Claire Greenbaum
Zoë Groff
Yuanjie Guo
Amy C Halstead
Laura Hamilton
Lauren Hamilton
Maurice Hardison ^
Bryn Harvey-Raymond
Jessica Heller *
Nya Henry
Bruce Henry
Jackson Herz
Sara Hessdorf
Jade Elise Hookham
Garth Horn *
Olivia Hornik
Edythe Hughes
Alexa Hywel
Becky Isaac
Catherine Isom
Alice Ivashina
Dana Jaggi
Shincy James
Fengjun Jiang
Aimee Jimenez *
Mohammed Kanhai
Aminata Kante
Adelina Kapica
Alexa Gabrielle Kaplan
Hansee Karamchandani
Max Katz *
Jeannine Kelley
Ava Khalil *
Stephanie Kim
Aliyah Kjeldson Harrell
Chase Klein
Sarah Klimberg
Liza Klingenstein
Matthew Kotek ^
Daniela Krausz
Rachel Lisa Kunstadt
Maya Kupritz
Kathleen LaMere
Daniel Lamport
Avery Landon
Saiurys Laucel Moreno
Alexandra Lecher
Lisa Lefkowitz
Theresa Lehnen
Andrew Levey
Yael Levine
Lauren Levine
Jenna Levy
Samantha Levy
Bingqin Li
Shuang Li *
Jialin Li
Leah Liao
Jennifer Lichtenstein
Pai Liu
Katherine Liu *
Wesley Livingstone
Diana Lordi
Harriet Lu
Anya Luna-Leibowits
Ruben Luque
Annie Lynch
Arianna Maguire
Erin Manning
Claire Mao
Stephanie Maquieira
Lenora Marterer
Karym Martinez
Julia Mattis
Allison McClafferty
Liz McCreery
Kent McDonald
Tara Anne McNally
Holly McNaughton
Lanie McNulty
Aleks Mejia *
Ciara Angeli Mercado
Anna Mette
Waldy Mieses
Cole Moore *
Lalebela Moore *
Katie Moore
Jessica Moore
Nasikah Moore
Aurianna Moreno
Genesis Moreno
Rachel Morgan
Jillian Morse
Duerre Mueller
Saadia Mushtaq
Shoma Nahar
Grace Nam
Ayaovi Nassif ^
Meena Natarajan
Jenny Nelson
Chiara Nemati
Sarah Nemetz
Kate Newman
Maame Tiwaa Ocran
Elizabeth Olson
Stephanie Opara
Henry Parente
Zach Parks
Julie Pavell
Daphne Pellegrino
Julissa Peña
Katherine Peralta
Denise Persaud
Berry Key Phillips
Sylvie Pidto
Claudia Pistachio
Elizabeth Policano
Brittany Ponce *
Hazel Pritchard
Jelena Prosevski
Naomi Quinto
Beth Railling
Kristen Raisner
Xochilt Ramirez
Dorilin Ramos
Ethan Rances
Alexia Reed *
Maggie Reinfeld
Tyler Rhind
Ciarah Richmond
Lizzy Riina
Ainsley Rinkerman
Anthony In-soo Rispoli *
Ami Rivera
Joseph Rivera
Isabel Rivera-Cardenas
Emma Roberts-Vaurio *
Fiona Robinson
Zoe Robinson
Nicole Rodi
Liz Rodriguez *
Selines Romero
Hadley Rose
Rachel Rosenberg
Alex Rubinfeld
Leigh Rudofsky
Shmuel Sahler
Renee Saleh
Sofia Sampol
Freddy Sanchez
Imani Sanders
Matty M Santiago
Samaya Saperstein
Amber Saravia
Christina Savas
Cara Scharf
Eve Scharfenberg
Anna Schlachtenhaufen
Danielle Schmidt
Darian Schneider
Anesu Semwayo
Mantasha Sharif
Jordana Shenker
Isabelle Siegel
Anabel Silver
Katherine Simon
Toby Singer
Synthiche Smart
Rebecca Snyder
Schylar Solomon
Stefanie Solomons
Juan Sosa
Stephanie Sosa Bravo
Molly Steinfeld
Caroline Stephens
Stella Su
Ella Sunshine
Yiqi Tang
Michelle Telsey
Claire Tetro *
Akiva Thalheim
Mimi Tompkins
Claire Tondreau
Lena Trieger
Samara Trindade
Chelsea Trout *
Paul Anthony Trujillo
Deborah Tschoe
Lingyan Tu
Sky Tuerack
Kiara Turner
Brittany Usinger
Nicholas Vaccaro Negron
Victoria Valdes
Kellie Vaughn
Carlo Veconi
Alison Verp
Heather Viebrock
Victoria Vitale
Kaitlynne Wallace
Shenelle Walters
Miranda May Wang
Chelsea Washington
Rebecca Wasserman
Sarah Elizabeth Watson
Mia Wei
Billye Weiner
Chloe Weinstein
Jake Weiss
Ariana West
Diana Weyandt
Emma White
Sophia Wijegoonaratna
Najee Williams
Aaliyah Willis
Adam Wilson
Hillary Winoker
Talya Wintman
Cassidy Wood
Tatyanah Wright
Qiyu Yang
Stephanie Yemane
Justin Yip
Annette Zenker *
Lina Carol Zenteno
Shurou Zhang
Jinyi Zhang
Katie Zheng *
Xinnan Zhu
Rachel Zuckerman
* Student Group Leader
^ Student Veteran
Doctorate in Clinical Social Work
Autumn Quiana Bush
Capstone: Breaking Barriers and Bridging Gaps: Examining Career Challenges for Black Women in Academia and the Cultural Adaptation of Evidence-Based Practices
Committee: Dean Michael Lindsey (chair), Dr. Dale Maglalang, Dr. Charlton McIlwain
Kim Carmona Aptekar
Capstone: Music-Based Interventions in Macro, Mezzo and Micro Practice
Committee: Drs. Michelle Munson + Kirk “Jae” James (co-chairs), Dr. Eric Thurnauer, Dr. Andrea del Pilar Rodriguez Sanchez
Grace Downs-Liguori
Capstone: The Integration of Culture in Social Work Interventions for Immigrant Older Adults
Committee: Dr. Susan Gerbino (chair), Dr. Cora de Leon, Dr. Yvette Colon
Billye Jones
Capstone: Preventing Child Sexual Abuse: A Collective Responsibility
Committee: Dr. Wen-Jui Han (chair), Dr. Olatunde Olusesi, Dr. Raashida Edwards
Sandy Lulu
Capstone: Breaking Barriers, Building Bridges: Culturally Adapted Motivational Interviewing (CAMI) for Arab and Arab American Clients
Committee: Dr. Carol Tosone (chair), Dr. Victoria Stanhope, Dr. E. Goldblatt Hyatt
Juhi Malhotra
Capstone: Praxis in Practicum - The Balancing Act of Critical Reflection
Committee: Dr. Anne Dempsey (chair), Dr. Nicholas Lanzieri, Dr. Laura Quiros
Deena Patel
Capstone: Unshackling Identities: Liberation and the South Asian Experience
Committee: Dr. Carol Tosone (chair), Dr. Brian Koehler, Dr. Jillian Tucker
Tara Simpson
Capstone: Broken Systems Need Compassionate, Strategic, and Innovative Practitioners
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (chair), Prof. Terrence Coffie, Dr. Peleya Patterson
Lex Soto
Capstone: Social Work and its Approach to Transgender Care
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (chair), Dr. Denis O'Keefe, Dr. E. Goldblatt Hyatt
Darlene Trujillo
Capstone: Indigenous Healing
Committee: Dr. Carol Tosone (chair), Dr. Kendall Atterbury, Dr. Katherine Compitus
Veronica Vega
Capstone: Transforming Perinatal Health Initiatives Through Trauma-informed Care
Committee: Dr. Peggy Morton (chair), Dr. Doris Chang, Dr. Solimar Santiago-Warner
Angela Renee Williams
Capstone: Laboring for Change: Examining Social Identity and Healthcare Inequities in Childbirth
Committee: Dr. Peggy Morton (chair), Dr. Laura Quiros, Dr. Tracy Renee Webber
Joseph Williams
Capstone: “Credible Clinicians”: A Systematic Review with Practice Implications for Increasing Access to Clinicians with Lived Experience of Crime & Mass Incarceration
Committee: Dr. Kirk “Jae” James (chair), Dr. UniQue Starks, Prof. Terrence Coffie
Doctor of Philosophy
September 2024
Daniel Baslock
Dissertation: Blended Payments and Service Utilization by People with Co-occurring Disorders Receiving Care in Community Mental Health Centers
Chair: Dr. Victoria Stanhope
Fall 2024
Ning He
Dissertation: HIV Management among Women in the United States: Comparing the Mechanisms of Risk and Resilience between U.S.-Born and Foreign-Born Groups
Chair: Dr. Marya Gwadz
May 2025
Danielle Faye Jonas
Dissertation: The Lived Experience of Siblings to Children with Severe Neurologic Impairment
Chair: Dr. Victoria Stanhope
Ortal Wasser
Dissertation: Moving Mountains: The Financial and Psychological Burden of Accessing Abortion Care in The United States
Chair: Dr. Rohini Pahwa
Fall 2025
Aanchal Modani
Dissertation: Support, Coping, and Resilience Among Women in North India: A Qualitative Study of Domestic Violence Survivor Narratives
Chair: Dr. Deborah Padgett
Nari Yoo
Dissertation: Spatial and Virtual Access to Mental Health Services among Immigrants with Language Barriers
Chair: Dr. Doris Chang