Maxwell Class Notes
Katherine Vasquez ’01 M.P.A.
is director of planning and advisory services for solid waste at RRT Design & Construction in Melville, N.Y.
Robert Vickers ’05
is the new associate vice president for leadership communications at the University of Rochester in New York.
Steven Watson ’07 M.P.A.
was promoted from deputy budget director to deputy chief fi nancial offi cer and budget director for the city of Detroit.
Mark Weiller ’89 B.A. (IR)
s partner and head of distribution and product management at Stone Harbor Investment Partners in New York City. He previously served as managing director and head of production development and distribution for New Sparta Asset management in London.
Raymond Went ’99 B.A. (PSt)
is an attorney at Nehmad Perillo and Goldstein, P.C. Went previously served as president of the Atlantic County Bar Association from 2019-20.
Jason Yaley ’05 B.A. (PSc/IR)/ ’06 M.P.A.
is interim chief management offi cer at Advanced Concepts and Technologies International, LLC in Arlington, Va. He previously served as advisor for INDAIS in San Fran-cisco, Calif. and has held a variety of leadership positions in national security and the aerospace industry.
Ivan Zhivkov ’15 B.A. (Hist/IR)/ ’16
is vice consul for the U.S. Department of State in Moscow, Russia. He previously served as vice consul in Yekaterin-burg, Russia.
Charles Zorn ’79 M.A. (Econ)/ ’81 Ph.D. (Econ)
is vice provost for undergraduate education at Indiana University Bloomington.
Terrence R. Guay ’92 M.A. (IR)/ ’96 Ph.D. (PSc)
recently co-authored “The European Union and the United States: Competition, Convergence and Crisis in the Global Arena” (Bloomsbury Press, 2024) with Michael Smith and Jost Morgenstern-Pomorski. Guay is an associate dean for international programs at Pennsylvania State University.
Jode S. Millman ’76 B.A. (Soc)
Brian J. Reil ’09 B.A. (PSc)
was named managing director of external communications at the Edison Electric Institute, the Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit association that represents the nation’s investor-owned electric companies.
Robert Rupp ’83 Ph.D. (Hist)
Derick C. Villanueva ’03 M.A. (Econ)
is a naval reserve officer with Defense Contract Management Agency in Boston, Mass. His previous tours of duty include multiple deployments to eastern Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Korea and Afghanistan. Villanueva, who is a lieutenant commander and earned a juris doctorate from the College of Law, also practices law and manages a real estate investment company with properties in the U.S. and Europe.