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Adrian Manuel

Four alumni of the men’s basketball program—Joseph Cafarelli (’10), Mike Dietz (’11), Tammer Farid (’11), and Mickey Abbatiello (’12)—have partnered to create and market the basketball training app OneBasketball, which offers players of all levels step-by-step instruction, structured workouts, and the ability to track progress. OneBasketball is available at the Apple App Store. Lendynette Pacheco-Jorge (MSILR) and Ariel Jorge (MS ’08) welcomed son Adrian Manuel on Nov. 30, 2011. Pacheco-Jorge is a project manager for the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship at Baruch; Jorge a managing director at Gen II Fund Services, a leading private equity fund administrator.

Trevaughn Luncheon

James Eaton (MSEd) has begun studying for his EdD in higher education administration at Northeastern University. Upon graduation from Baruch, Caitlin Hannon joined Teach for America as a high school English teacher. She is currently teaching middle school English in Indiana and was featured in the Hechinger Report. Trevaughn Luncheon (MBA) is an administrative coordinator in the LaGuardia Community College Department of Legal Affairs, Labor, Compliance, and Diversity. A reservist in Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 49 in Newark, Luncheon was featured in the CUNY Matters newsletter article “Ready to Serve.”

Chad Mc Lean

Chad Mc Lean, assistant account executive at Spike DDB, was part of the team nominated for TED’s Ads Worth Spreading competition for the online ad “MLK: Table of Brotherhood Project,” which promotes Dr. King’s philosophy and announces the August unveiling of the D.C. monument in his honor.

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Olga Lavinda

Tara Bono (MPA) is Long Island program coordinator for Citizens Campaign for the Environment, a nonprofit advocacy organization. She recently spent three weeks in Australia discussing climate change with other environmental professionals, businesses, and elected officials as part of an international fellowship program funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Cristina Jimenez (MPA) has been appointed the first managing director of the United We Can Dream Network (UWD), a national immigrant youth–led organization she co-founded, whose mission is to achieve equal access to higher education for all. Olga Lavinda is a PhD student in NYU’s Department of Chemistry. She was awarded NYU’s McCracken and Kramer Fellowships for outstanding incoming graduate student. Class valedictorian Garen Marshall, who served in Iraq as a Navy special operations explosives warfare specialist, was the subject of a Study with the Best piece on CUNY-TV. Justin Mattera has created Mattera Management, a company focused on branding and website and social media strategies and development. Michael Nahmias (MBA) is senior managing director at Cushman & Wakefield, where he has worked since 2007.

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Charles Guerrier-Aponza has joined Teach for America. His assignment in New Orleans begins next fall. Isis Hollis and Christian Sibucao have been accepted to the New York Assembly Internship Program and began working with the legislature this spring. Carol Wood (MA) has created the nonprofit website NYC CarAccident.net, a resource for pedestrians and bicyclists who have been involved in a car crash. Wood was a financial journalist with Standard & Poor’s Equity Information Services for 11 years. She was co-creator, with Elizabeth Stuelke, of the 2007 exhibition and catalogue, Why I Ride: The Art of Bicycling in New York.