Maxwell Class Notes
Michael Apicelli ’07 J.D./
is director for multilateral climate and clean energy engagement for the U.S. Department of Energy.
L.Scott Baird ’09 J.D./M.P.A.
is vice president at AgReserves, an agricultural investment company based in Salt Lake City, Utah. Jeremy Paul Busch ’09 M.A.I.R. is now serving on the Human Rights Commission and the Shade Tree Committee for the city of Geneva, N.Y.
Rachel Baker ’18 M.P.A.
was appointed to the position of assistant secretary for health for New York State. Baker previously served as an Excelsior Service Fellow.
Rachel Barnhart ’19 E.M.P.A.
represents Rochester, N.Y.’s 21st district in the Monroe County Legislature. In June of 2021 she won the Democratic primary to retain the seat. Barnhart previously worked for 18 years as a broadcast journalist.
John Bass ’86 B.A. (IR)
former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan (2017-20) and Turkey (2014-17), was recently nominated by President Joe Biden ’68 to serve as undersecretary of state management. If confirmed, he will serve as primary advisor for the secretary of state and the deputy secretary of state.
Joshua Beams ’14 M.P.A.
was appointed as the county administrator for Otsego County, N.Y.
Laurel Bennett ’19 B.A. (IR)
has accepted a position working with the fund administration team for the consulting fi rm Carter Mackenzie in Washington, D.C.
Rebecca Bostwick ’04 M.P.A.
is the assistant vice president of community impact for NAF (formerly known as the National Academy Foundation), which supports high school students on their academic paths toward higher learning and career preparation.
Kenza Bouanane ’21 B.A. (IR)
is serving as a legal research associate with the New York City-based non-governmental organization, Human Rights Foundation. Human Rights Foundation gives a platform to human rights activists with a focus on closed societies.
David John Brigham ’00
and Kate Rudder ’03 M.A. (Anth) moved to Zimbabwe 12 years ago. Since then, Kate has been consulting, volunteering and finishing up an E.M.P.A. at Maxwell. David is currently Chief of Party for Cultivating New Frontiers in Agriculture. They’ve spent time in Kosovo, Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
Stephen Bright ’82 M.P.A.
has been named vice president for finance at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Va.
Julie A Capterton ’92 B.A. (Hist)
has been appointed the head of Wells Fargo Private Bank, a division of Wealth & Investment Management.
Selina Howe Carter ’12 M.P.A.// ’13 M.A. (Econ)
is pursuing a dual Ph.D. in statistics and machine learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Carter was a Boren Fellow in Turkey and worked as the financial director at the Turkish Grameen microfinance program. Following that, she worked in Nampula, Mozambique, to conduct a survey on child vaccination with the Jameel Poverty Action Lab. For the last five years, she has worked as a data scientist at the Inter-American Development Bank and completed a master’s in mathematics and statistics at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.
Catherine Choi ’02 M.P.A.
is senior director of programs at the Eisner Foundation and an incumbent member of the University of California, Los Angeles Alumni Association Board of Directors.
LeeAnne Rogers Clayberger ’02 M.P.A.
was named chief executive officer of the Pennsylvania Economy League, a nonprofit organization that provides technical assistance and consulting services to local governments and shares independent research on public policy issues.
Kyle Coleman ’14 B.S. (Econ)/ ’16 M.P.A.
was named borough manager for Kennett Square in Chester County, Pa.
Charlene Cordero ’17 M.P.A.
was appointed to the position of assistant secretary for public safety for New York State.
Calvin Corriders ’15 B.A. (Soc)
received a “40 under 40” award from the Central New York Business Journal. Corriders is the manager of neighborhood economic development for the Syracuse-based CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity.
Richard Corrigan ’68 B.A. (Soc)
has published his fifth book, CRUST (KDP Publishing, 2020). Corrigan is a full-time writer who is currently working on two more novels, a mystery and an archeological adventure.
R. John Crosset ’78 B.A. (PSc)
was honored by the National Capital Chesapeake Bay Chapter of the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences for contributing to his community with a more than 25-year career in broadcasting. He was inducted into the organization’s “silver circle.”