LEADERSHIP CANDIDATES

Future School Leaders Academy

Paul Brennan, EdM

Meredith Brieant, EdM

Karin Brill, EdM

Christine Buckman, EdM

Kayla Castaneda, EdM

Daniela Castro, EdM

John Chapeton, EdM

Shannon Cipolla, EdM

Derrick DiRienzo, EdM

Kristy Emery, EdM

Melissa Ferraro, EdM

Emily Fiore, EdM

Paul Frisch, EdM

Veronica Galindo Delgado, EdM

Frank Guglieri, EdM

Michael Hirsh, EdM

Dana Keith, EdM

Dina Miller, EdM

Justin Olive, EdM

Jennifer Rinaldo, EdM

Erin Ryan, EdM

Diana Siclari, EdM

Ryan Spillane, EdM

Annelise Valerio, EdM

Leaders in Education Apprenticeship Program and Yonkers Urban Leadership Academy

Evlain Ayoub, EdM

Keith Brooks, EdM

Jacklyn Celona, EdM

Damen Davis, EdM

Marissa De Gaetano, MSEd

Caitlin Delphin, EdM

Leaders in

Education Apprenticeship Program and Yonkers Urban Leadership Academy (continued)

Parija Desai, EdM

Anabel Encarnación, EdM

Lisa Galeano, EdM

Stephanie Gianneo, EdM

Precious Glover, EdM

Khalilah Griffin, EdM

Muhamed Hadzovic, EdM

Rebecca Hanley, EdM

Dexter Hannibal, EdM

Christine Haralambou, EdM

Rebecca Harnage, EdM

Tiffany Henderson, EdM

Jaymie Hernandez, EdM

Olivia Jetawo, EdM

Shawn Jones, EdM

Shelly Lekhraj, EdM

Eric Maldonado, EdM

Allison Nelson, EdM

Carlos Ortiz, EdM

Christopher Philogene, EdM

Asiel Rajab, EdM

Virge Ramos, EdM

Felicia Reynolds, EdM

Stephen Rinaldo, EdM

Nicole Rodriguez, EdM

Erica Rubin, EdM

Kirsten SauthoffBruschi, EdM

Cyrus Shojai, MSEd

Patrick Sprinkle, EdM

Alison Sumter, EdM

Yolanda Swinton, EdM

Danielle Tornabene, EdM

This document is not an official graduation list. While every effort is made to ensure accuracy in this Commencement program, printing deadlines may result in omission of some names and use of names of persons not completing graduation requirements as intended. This printed program, therefore, should not be used to determine a student’s academic or degree status. The College’s official registry for conferral of degrees is the student’s permanent academic record, maintained by the Registrar, Office of Student Services. Names are displayed alphabetically by last name, by program, as indicated on each student’s application for graduation.

A Thank You To Dean Cecelia Traugh

On this commencement day, we’d like to express our gratitude to Cecelia Traugh, Dean of the Graduate School of Education, who is retiring after eight years of distinguished service to our community.

In her role at the Graduate School of Education, Dr. Traugh has nurtured a culture rooted in collaborative inquiry. Under her leadership, she has strengthened curricula, expanded our online programs, and advanced our commitment to equity and racial justice. She deepened our focus on research and scholarship, publishing many of her own pieces on the process of descriptive inquiry, including a book called Descriptive Inquiry in Teacher Practice: Cultivating Practical Wisdom to Create Democratic Schools, and actively encouraging colleagues to share and publish their research and ideas. She has also supported innovative faculty scholarship by developing new centers for thought leaders, including the Straus Center for Young Children & Families, the National Center for Children in Poverty, and a national network of teacher and leader preparation programs called EdPrepLab.

While working closely with faculty to broaden access to a Bank Street education, she established many innovative programs serving teachers and leaders who work in public settings, including the Early Childhood General Education Advanced Standing Program, which enables experienced early childhood teachers to earn a Bank Street master’s degree and New York State certification while staying employed full time, and the District 13 Residency Program in Childhood General and Special Education, a teacher residency program focusing on anti-racist pedagogy in partnership with District 13 in Brooklyn. These and many other efforts have resulted in a more robust academic environment and an increase in the diversity of our students and faculty.

Dean Traugh, you will be dearly missed. We’re so very grateful for the time you spent with us at Bank Street.

About Dean Cecelia Traugh

Prior to joining Bank Street in 2015, Cecelia Traugh served as dean and professor at Long Island University’s School of Education. She began her career teaching high school history, and taught at a child detention center in California. She then taught at Wichita State University, where she directed a statewide program offering an urban experience to potential teachers. She worked with Vito Perrone at the University of North Dakota, and participated in programs educating Native American teachers for reservation schools. She directed the Middle School at Philadelphia’s Friends Select School, and taught graduate courses at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1993, she became the director of research and evaluation at the Institute for Literacy Studies at Lehman College, where she began her school-based inquiry groups and contributed to a monograph series about the work of teachers teaching teachers in New York City. Dr. Traugh holds a BA and MA from UC Riverside, and a PhD from UC Berkeley.