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Charles E. Liverpool is assistant director at Deskan Institute & Training Inc., a nonprofit organization that provides medical services to Haiti, Guyana, and South Africa. In 2006 he retired as elections administrator/budget analyst for Fulton County, in Atlanta, Ga. Liverpool is the author of four books (three of poetry and one nonfiction), as well as an avid photographer. Michelle Martoni (MSEd) has been named principal of Lakewood Elementary School in Clarkstown, N.Y. Formerly an elementary school principal in the New Paltz school district, she is working toward a doctoral degree at SUNY Albany.

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Julia Baldwin is the author of The Power of Resilience: How Women Bounce Back from Crisis (Vantage), published in December. Baldwin is a motivational speaker, lecturer, and business consultant, in addition to serving as senior pastor at Sanctuary Ministries in Miami Lakes, Fla.

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Maria Teresa Rojas (MPA) is the director of the International Migration Initiative and has previously held other positions at the Open Society Institute, including directing the U.S. immigrant rights portfolio of the Equality and Opportunity Fund.

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David Bukzin has joined the board of directors of Ruby Creek Resources, Inc., a gold exploration and mining company with operations in Tanzania. Bukzin is the partner-in-charge of Marcum LLP’s SEC Practice Group. Maryland State Senator Verna L. Jones (MPA) and her sister Ernestine Jones Jolivet were planning committee members for the sixth annual Pythias A. and Virginia I. Jones African American Community Forum on Memory Loss, presented in November. They and their brothers founded the event, named in honor of their parents. Lisa M. Joniaux has been promoted to VP in the Bank Supervision Group of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York; she joined the bank in 1993 and had been assistant VP since 2009.