Mary Boehm, EdM ’60, is a docent at the Buffalo AKG Art Gallery and the Burchfield Penney Art Center. She authored “Exploring Science and Art: Discovering Connections.”
1970s
Ann Lukasik Marbach Kling, MLS ’74, retired as library director of the Clearview Library District in northern Colorado.
Sharon Green, EdM ’78, retired from Niagara University after a 35-year career. She is a co-founder and public relations director of Global African Village, a small, all-volunteer nonprofit doing humanitarian work in rural Uganda. She also serves on the board of directors of the New York College Learning Skills Association (NYCLSA) and the Cazenovia Neighborhood Library in Buffalo.
1980s
Joyce Maguda, MLS ’82, completed a 32-year career with the Buffalo and Erie County Public Library System and is the secretary for the Friends of Libraries Section of the New York Library Association. Last fall, she published a children’s book “Mister Turkey’s Song.”
1990s
Timothy Tryjankowski, EdM ’93, was the chair of the UB Professional Staff Senate, and recently retired from UB after a 33-year career in state service.
Dennis Valone, EdD ’93, received the Pennsylvania Psychological Association’s award for distinguished contributions to school psychology.
Kevin McKelvey, EdM ’95, recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of the UB undergraduate program at the Singapore Institute of Management, where he has served as resident director since the program was launched in 2004.
Sally Snow, BFA ’92, MLS ’95, retired from her position as assistant director for the Monroe County Library System in Rochester. She is working at UB in the College of Arts and Sciences as the sector administrative director for arts and humanities.
2000s
Anne Marie Siejakowski, BA ’00, MLS ’03, is an avid marathoner and previously worked as an academic librarian for 10 years within UB’s libraries. She enters her 17th year teaching grades 7-12.
Michael Mancini, EdM ’05, was promoted to vice president of institutional strategy and COO at Thomas Edison State University. He also is the vice president of the board of directors for the United Way of Greater Mercer County.
2010s
Nicole LaMoreaux, MLS ’11, is the assistant director of research and instructional services at The New School. She and her husband, Ari Ress ’11, married on April 1, 2023.
Elle Collins, BA ’14, EdM ’16, is serving as interim director of The Center for Inclusion and Multicultural Engagement at the University of Florida. She also is the director of The Machen Florida Opportunity Scholars Program (MFOS).
2020s
Giambattista Davis, EdM ’20, started a new role at Cornell University as the assistant director for the Office of Inclusive Excellence in the College of Engineering.
Monica Johnson, PhD ’20, won the American Psychological Association Division 17’s Early Career Psychologist Social Justice award. She also was elected as Division 17’s representative to the American Psychological Association Council of Representatives, the legislative body of APA.
Sarah Smykowski, EdM ’20, became the associate director of communications and web in UB’s School of Dental Medicine in January 2024.
Boston Kistka-Montoro, BA ’19, EdM ’21, is a program officer for the Fulbright specialist program at World Learning in Washington, D.C. She married her long-time partner Mike in Savannah, GA, this past May.
Raymond LeMay III, MLS ’21, was named library director for the Cohoes Public Library in May 2024.
Christopher Spence, EdM ’13, PhD ’21, was appointed superintendent of schools for the Utica City School District.
Eleanor McCabe, EdM ’20, PhD ’22, was elected president of Division 44 (Society for the Psychological Study of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity) within the American Psychological Association.
Heather McCarthy, Adv. Cert. ’19, EdD ’22, is the principal of Holmes Elementary School in the Kenmore-Tonawanda UFSD.
Margaret Colbert, MLS ’23, started a new position as the library coordinator for the University of Maine at Machias.
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