Maxwell Class Notes
Sophie Katz ’19 B.A. (PSt)
is clinical excellence and innovation coordinator at the Community Health Care Association in New York City. When the pandemic hit, Katz pivoted to a role that directly supported New York State�s COVID-19 pandemic relief efforts at the community level, mainly the planning, logistics and distribution of vaccines.
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.
Sabithulla Khan ’11 M.P.A./
authored Islamic Educa-tion in the United States and the Evolution of Muslim Nonprofi t Institutions (Edward Elgar Pub), earning the Virginia A. Hodgkinson Research Book Prize awarded by the Association for Research on Nonprofi t Organizations and Voluntary Action. Khan is a program director and assistant professor at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
Mahboob Khawaja ’81 M.A. (PSc)/ ’00 Ph.D. (SSc)
is vice president of academic and strategic planning at Ummah Global Planning and Development in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. In 2020, Khawaja authored One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution (Lambert Academic Publishing), sharing his thoughts about how the world might one day achieve global peace and prosperity.
Victoria Savage Kreiger ’15 B.A. (IR/PSt)
is vice president at Goldman Sachs Prime Brokerage. She previously worked as a due diligence analyst at Stroz Friedberg in New York City.
Gregory Laurence ’04
was promoted to professor of management at the School of Management at the University of Michigan-Flint. He was also promoted to director of graduate studies for the Center of Japanese Studies at the University of Michi-gan-Ann Arbor.
Christian Lee ’08 M.P.A.
retired as a captain from the U.S. Coast Guard after 23 years of service and joined Cornerstone Government Affairs, where he serves as principal on the homeland and national security group.
Sarah Lee ’93 M.P.A.
is chief executive officer of Think Dutchess Alliance for Business, a business development and support organiza-tion for Dutchess County, N.Y. She also serves on the New York State Economic Development Council board and chairs its annual conference.
David Levinthal ’02 B.A. (PPhil)
is senior Washington correspondent for Business Insider. He previously served as editor-at-large at the Center for Public Integrity.
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.
Michele Likens ’91 M.P.A.
is program manager of bioinformatics for the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation (MMRF). She is currently working on launching MMRF�s CureCloud, a cloud service that hosts next generation cell-free DNA analyses for at-home patients.
Richard Madaleno ’87 B.A. (Hist/RusSt)/ ’89 M.P.A.
is the adminis-trative officer for Montgomery County, Md. He previously served as the county�s budget director.
Mohammad Mahmodi ’08 E.M.P.A./ ’09
is a research fellow at Yale Law School. He previ-ously served as an independent attorney, and executive director of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Rebecca Maifeld ’16 B.A. (IR)
is a program operations specialist at the United States Agency for Interna-tional Development (USAID) Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance in the Africa Division in Washington, D.C. She previously worked as an emergency personnel and operations specialist for USAID�s Office of Food for Peace as the personnel unit lead.
Timothy Maniccia ’93 M.P.A.
is chief fiscal officer and treasurer at Hudson River-Black River Regu-lating District in Albany, N.Y. He previously served as chief of staff in the Offi ce of the Chair for the Albany County legislature.
Edward Marshall ’71 M.P.A.
authored Leadership�s 4th Evolution: Collaboration for the 21st Century (Cognella Academic Publishing), which covers a wide range of critical business challenges from Microsoft IT upgrades to DuPont implementing change in their information systems. Marshall is currently serving as adjunct professor in management at Fuqua School of Business and Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University.
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.
Andres Laguna Martino ’18 B.A. (IR)
completed a master�s degree in political and corporate communica-tions at the University of Navarra in Spain. Laguna Martino designed a one-year communication strategy for the Citizens Party of Spain.
Kaitlyn Menegio-Stahl ’19 B.A. (IR)
is a pathways intern with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the 2020-21 academic year. She is also interning at UNICEF as a graduate student consultant and is currently working toward her master of inter-national affairs at Columbia Univer-sity in New York City.
Patricia Mills ’78 B.A. (Soc)
is vice dean of teaching and innovation at the University of Southern California (USC) Marshall School of Business. She is also a professor and academic director for the Jennifer and James R. Parks Master of Business Tax Program at the USC Leventhal School of Accounting.