Jason Sisney ’97 M.P.A.
is budget-director for the California State Assembly Speaker�s Offi ce.
Kazumasa Mise ’04 B.S. (Econ)
is chief executive offi cer and member of the board of directors at Rakuten Trade.
Katie Lichtig ’84 M.P.A.
retired from her position as assistant city manager and chief operating officer for the city of Santa Monica (Calif.) in 2020. She previously served as city manager for Malibu and San Luis Obispo in Calif.
Jamie Takashai ’17 B.A. (Econ)
is a 1st lieutenant for the New York-Army National Guard and is execu-tive officer for the 719th Composite Truck Co. Takashai recently joined the Paramus (N.J.) Police Depart-
Scott Rayder ’92 M.P.A.
is execu-tive director of the Alabama Water Institute for the University of Alabama.
Carol Gifford-Bloom ’81 Select (PSc)
is a community relations specialist for Lancaster (Pa.) Vision-Corps and Manheim Township (Pa.) commissioner.
Joyjit Roy ’95 M.P.A.
is executive vice president of global programs at Winrock International. He previ-ously served as vice president at ACDI/VOCA, providing operational support across the organization to improve project workfl ows.
Adriano Udani ’04 M.P.A.
is an associate professor of political science at the University of Missouri, St. Louis and director of the Public Policy Administration Program. He also serves as a research advisor for the Community Innovation and Actions Center, the university�s applied and community-partnership based research center.
Pamela Fessler ’80
published Carville�s Cure: Leprosy, Stigma, and the Fight for Justice(Liversight) in July 2020. It tells how leprosy patients in the U.S. were treated as if they were inmates for much of the 20th century.
Elise Roberts ’16 (PSc)
is a policy research analyst at Booz Allen Hamilton and a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the Maxwell School. She previously served as a research and practice associate at the Syracuse University Institute for Security Policy and Law (formerly the Institute of National Security and Counterterrorism).
Kate Farrar ’04 M.P.A.
is State Representative, 20th District, in Conn. She previously served as executive director for Connecticut Women�s Education and Legal Fund in Hartford, Conn.
Daniel Martindale ’92 B.A. (PSc)
is regional vice president of the Capital Region South (Warren-Washington-Albany) of the Arc, New York, the largest service provider for those intellectually and developmentally disabled. He also serves on the Board of Gover-nors of the Arc, New York, repre-senting Warren, Washington and Albany counties.
Danita Nias ’99 M.S.Sc.
is the new president and chief executive offi cer for the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin counties in Fla. She previously served as vice president for Florida Atlantic University.
Steven Mitchell ’90 B.A. (Econ)
is a financial advisor at Procyon Partners in Shelton, Conn.
Matthew Duncan ’09
is director of intelligence of the Electricity Information Sharing and Analysis Center at North American Electric Reliability Corp. He previ-ously served as program manager for the U.S. Department of Energy�s State/Local/Tribal/Territorial Energy Assurance.
Anthony Bullett ’84 M.P.A.
led efforts to adopt a non-discrimination ordinance in 2019 in Huntingdon, Pa., making it Pennsylvania�s first rural community and 59th munici-pality to adopt such an ordinance.
John Kazanjian ’77 B.A. (AmSt)
is senior vice president and branch manager of Raymond James Finan-cial in El Paso, Texas. Kazanjian also serves as a registered arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority.
Tunc Berkman ’95 B.A. (Econ)
is a partner at TBS Investment and Management Co. He previously served as a freelance marketing and advertising consultant at Divera AI.
Robert Henke ’97 M.P.A.
served as chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense at the U.S. Department of Defense from December 2019 to January 2020. He previously served as staff director on the Senate Veteran Affairs Committee.
John Powers ’96 J.D./M.P.A.
was inducted as a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. He is currently a partner at Hancock Estabrook, LLP.