Coro Alumni News

If you have alumni news to share with the Coro community please e-mail Luke Van Schyndle:lvanschyndle@coronewyork.org

Jesse Taylor ICLP 2007 has accepted appointment as NSW North Coast Regional Service Manager for the Australian federally funded, Partners In Recovery - mental health service with Mission Australia.

Carlos Menchaca Fellows 2005 was recently profiled in The Daily News about his race for New York City Council in Red Hook. You can read the article here.

Robina Niaz ICLP 2007 Executive Director of Turning Point for Women and Families has received the third annual Joan H. Tisch Community Health Prize from Hunter College.  You can read a full press release here.

Christina Chang LNY 16 has accepted appointment as Vice President for Public Affairs with Planned Parenthood NYC.  Christina has spent the previous 11 years working for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene as the Deputy Commissioner of Policy and External Affairs.

Paula Oleska LNY 11 President of Natural Intelligence Systems, Inc., was one of the featured speakers at the Inspiration2020 conference on May 17-18 in New York. She will talk about the Super Brain Breakthroughs.  Paula will also be one of the speakers at the Omega Institute conference on Limitless Mind in June, in Rhinebeck, NY.

Brook Richie LNY 20 of Resilience Advocacy Project helped organize the YouthVoice NYC Mayoral debate on May 29th, the first ever entirely youth-led mayoral debate.  MYLC 2013 graduating class members Shuba Maniram, Denise Vivar, Sarah Murslim, and Meredith Peng took part in leading the debate.  You can read an article about the event in The Examiner here.

Dave Bolotsky LNY 8 Founder and CEO of UncommonGoods is featured in Crain's New York Business.  You can read the full article here.

Daniel McSweeney Fellows NY 95 Managing Director of the SS United States Redevelopment Project at Atlantic Logistics Services shared an article from Time featuring the conservancy's work to preserve this historic ship.  You can read the full article here.

Steve Kastenbaum LNY17 recently won two Edward R. Murrow awards from the Radio Television Digital News Association (RTDNA). One was for a piece called When Police Shoot. The other was about the 35th anniversary of the release of the movie Saturday Night Fever and the legacy the movie left on a Brooklyn neighborhood.

Andrew Kimball Fellows NY 1990 is stepping down as head of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and will be joining Atlanta-based development company Jamestown Properties.  Read the full article by Crain's here.