Maxwell Class Notes
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.
Katherine Ferguson ’19 E.M.P.A.
was named chief of staff for the Office of the Secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). She previously served as chief of staff for the White House Domestic Policy Council and as chief of staff for rural development at USDA during the Obama administration.
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.
Peter Fusco ’01 B.A. (Geog)
is assistant principal at Lakeshore Elementary School (Iredell-States-ville Schools) in North Carolina.
David Gaulin ’02 B.A. (Hist/PSc)/ ’07 M.S.Sc.
is senior director of cyber operations at BluVector, a Comcast company. He is also a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force Reserve.
Virginia Giannini ’16 B.A. (IR)
passed the New York State Bar exam after completing a juris doctor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. She is now providing legal advice to immigrants at the New York City Immigration Court.
Elissa Gibbs ’18 M.S.Sc.
is chief of staff at Armoured One, which trains school faculty and staff on how to respond to an active shooter or other crisis situation.
Carol Gifford-Bloom ’81 Select (PSc)
is a community relations specialist for Lancaster (Pa.) Vision-Corps and Manheim Township (Pa.) commissioner.
Shiro Gnanaselvam ’93 M.P.A.
was named chief executive offi cer of Social Impact, a global develop-ment consulting fi rm in Arlington, Va. Gnanaselvam was previously chief operating offi cer and executive vice president at Social Impact.
Susan Gooden ’95 M.A. (PSc)/ ’96 Ph.D. (PSc)
was named dean of the Virginia Commonwealth University L. Douglas Wilder School of Govern-ment and Public Affairs. Gooden previously served as interim dean at the Wilder School since May 2018.
Tracey Gray ’02 M.P.A.
is vice president of communications and external affairs at Raytheon Intelli-gence and Space. She was previously vice president of communications and public affairs at Raytheon Space and Airborne Systems.
Joseph Hanna ’14 M.P.A.
is a partner at Goldberg Segalla in Buffalo, N.Y. Hanna was recently elected to serve a three-year term on the board of directors of the Business Council of New York State.
Caitlin Harrison ’18 B.A. (IR)
is a program analyst for the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Bureau for the Middle East. She previously served as program analyst for U.Group, supporting the U.S. Department of Defense's Office of Industrial Policy.
Sayed Zaman Hasemi ’10 E.M.P.A.
is chief executive offi cer at Afghani-stan Chamber of Commerce and Investment. He previously served as general director for the legal depart-ment for the Ministry of Justice of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan.
Eric Heighberger ’93 B.A. (IR)
is policy director and subcommittee director for the committee on home-land security in the U.S. House of Representatives. He previously served as chief of staff for the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
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.
Lisa Hoeschele ’03 M.A. (PA)
serves on the Stakeholder Steering Committee that guides the process to merge the New York State Offi ce of Mental Health (OMH) and the New York State Offi ce of Addiction Services and Supports into a single state agency, the Offi ce of Addiction and Mental Health Services.
Holly Hurlburt ’95 M.A. (Hist)/ ’00 Ph.D. (Hist)
is assistant dean and executive director of academic enrichments programming at North Carolina State University.
James Jarvis-Thiébault ’15 M.P.A.
is a research analyst at the Canadian Space Agency�s Division of Economic Research and Analysis in Montreal, Quebec. He previously worked at PYXERA Global in Washington, D.C.
Brent Johnson ’13 M.P.A.
is deputy director of advance and operations for the second gentleman at the White House, Douglas Emhoff. Johnson previously served in the Offi ce of Legislative Affairs for the Biden-Harris transition team.