Maxwell Class Notes

received the distinguished service award from the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). The award recognizes contributions to the management profession and local government. The ICMA is a professional association of city and county managers, who oversee staff, administration, and programs and services. He was executive director of the ICMA for 14 years beginning in 2002.

is vice president of general services, networks and renewables at Avangrid Inc., an energy services and delivery company. Avangrid serves over 3 million customers in New England, New York and Pennsylvania.

became the general manager of U.S. public policy for Microsoft in May 2023. In this role, he coordinates legal, regulatory and policy strategy for the company. Prior to this job, he was the policy director for U.S. Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer.

has been named the inaugural sustainability coordinator for Monroe County in Rochester, N.Y. In this role, she’s tasked with implementing Monroe County’s Climate Action Plan which calls for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, among other measures.

was named vice president of criminal justice advocacy at Arnold Ventures, a Washington, D.C., organization that advocates for legal system reforms and equity in health care, education and tax policy. Previously, he was president of Families Against Mandatory Minimums.

is assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her research focuses on physical geography, hydro-climatology and precipitation patterns at various scales.

has joined the Rochester, N.Y., office of the law firm Bond, Schoeneck & King as of counsel. Her work concentrates on athletics regulation, specifically gender equity and Title IX.

had his article on reducing veteran suicides accepted by the research department of Syracuse University’s National Veteran Resource Center. The article was originally published in the Summer 2019 issue of Combat Stress magazine. Van Deusen runs a veteran support group in Clayton, N.Y., where he lives with his wife Nancy de Thomas Van Deusen '69 B.A. (Soc). He played a part in the successful effort to have the NFL test helmet add-ons, which helped reduce in-game concussions.

is a legal operation specialist at LUMA Energy ServCo, LLC, an electrical energy company based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Luma’s parent companies are Quanta Services, based in the United States, and ATCO, based in Canada.

has accepted a role as the principal management analyst for the county manager's Office of Clark County, Nev.

has co-authored the book “Disrupting D.C.: The Rise of Uber and the Fall of the City,” with Declan Cullen ’13 Ph.D. (Geog) and Kafui Attoh ’08 M.A. (Geog)/’13 Ph.D. (Geog). The book is an analysis of the deep social divisions and urban politics that gave rise to the gig economy in the U.S. 

recently accepted a position as an upper-school world history teacher at the Wardlaw-Hartridge School in Edison, N.J.

was appointed by the comptroller general of the United States to a five-year term as an administrative judge and member of the General Accountability Office’s Personnel Appeals Board, an independent adjudicatory authority that rules on employee relations, equal employment opportunity and labor relations issues.

is utilizing his foreign language skills on contract with the U.S. Air Force as an airborne cryptologic language analyst. He’s tasked with analyzing messages obtained during flight and translating them to provide warnings and intelligence to assist in Air Force mission planning.

was recognized at the International Sports Press Association Awards in the “Special Topic of the Year–Russian Invasion of Ukraine” category for writing an Atlantic Council article on how Ukrainian athletes are providing aid to the country during the Russian invasion.

has taken a job as an environmental, social and governance consultant at Deloitte. Yeo works as an assurance professional to help businesses incorporate sustainability objectives.

has taken a job with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives on the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network Enforcement Support System’s software team in the firearms operations division.

was selected as a 2022 Bertelsmann Foundation Fellow, a six-month program that explores policy actions pertaining to an annually chosen topic. Dunsmoor, who works as a senior analyst at the U.S. Government Accountability Office, also contributed to the program’s February 2023 publication, "Emerging Ties: Essays on Transatlantic Engagement in the Developing World.”

is the new chief learning officer for the National Park Service. He is tasked with running the learning and development function of the agency.

announced on May 1, 2023, that he has retired from his role as acting assistant secretary of defense for manpower and reserve affairs after an extensive career in the U.S. Department of Defense.