Maxwell Class Notes
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.
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.