she also served as the executive director of the Latin American Coalition, a Charlotte-based nonprofit that partners with Latino families to create greater access and opportunity, while making space for others to learn and connect with the community.


Angeles Ortega MBA ’10 is the new CEO of Mi Casa Resource Center. She is responsible for providing strategic direction, overall leadership and management to support Mi Casa Resource Center’s mission-based work to create pathways to employment and income growth through career and business development.


as its next CEO. Angeles is an experienced nonprofit and public sector leader, who has dedicated her career to supporting the well- being and advancement of diverse communities. She will oversee the financial management, program and administrative operations, as well as fund development efforts for the organization, which employs 31 full-time and two part-time employees. Angeles comes to Mi Casa Resource Center from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, where she served as director of advancement, overseeing a team of fundraisers responsible for raising $2-4 million annually to support operations and strategic initiatives. Prior, she was with the Census Bureau, first in Charlotte, North Carolina, and then in Denver. Angeles worked across a 12-state western region to disseminate Census products, create data workshops and presentations, and develop new partnership agreements with diverse organizations to support participation in the decennial Census. While in North Carolina,


Te class expresses sympathy to Keri Grandelli MBA ’11 on the death of her father, LTC Angelo N. Grandelli, on August 7.


Te class expresses sympathy to Kostas Patronis MBA ’12 on the death of his father, Dimitrios K. Patronis, on July 4.


“Why Dogs Don’t Talk,” a short story by Dean Monti MFA ’14, has been adapted into a short film. Presented by First Folio, an award-winning theater in Chicago, the original comedy made its world premiere as an online streaming feature available July 27 through August 8. Monti is the author of the critically-acclaimed comic novel Te Sweep of the Second Hand, published by Penguin.


Hannah Cohen’s MFA ’17 second poetry chapbook, Year of the Scapegoat, has been selected by Glass Poetry Press for its 2021-2022 Chapbook Series. Her first chapbook, Bad Anatomy, was also published by Glass Poetry Press in 2018.


Te class expresses sympathy to Amy Lefkof MBA ’19 on the death of her father, Lawrence M. Lefkof, on May 13.


Since graduating from Queens in August 2020, Kim Richau MSN ’20 joined the school health nurse consultant team with NCDHHS/Division of Public Health. Initially, her position was with North Carolina Integrated Care for Kids as an


ALUMNI


ASSOCIATION BOARD of DIRECTORS 2021 - 2022


Ericka Ellis-Stewart ’96 President


PLACEHOLDER for


ALUMNI ASSO- CIATION


BOARD LIST


Nikki Blaha ’95 Jenny Boone ’87 Courtenay Neff Brack ’93 Edith Woodcock Brady ’96 Sallie Trippe Broach ’71 Dan Brown ’05 Betsy Mapp Clawson ’74 Margaret McEver Cobb ’73 Nancy Lindley Cornwell ’71 Wini Hollis Curley ’74 Jawnza Dunbar ’96 Vanessa Faura ’06 MA ‘10 Linda Warren Gerdes ’89 Rosie Beaudrot Graham ’67 Jennifer Russell Higgins ’89 Trish Vail Hobson ’88 Kelly Cheek Johnson ’89 Kelly King ’92 MBA ’09 Lisa White LaBorde ’69 Vange Rutherford Lear ’73 Amanda Leggett ’08 Shannan Kelley Lentz ’93 Ginni Schenck Lineberry ’70 Michael Lum ’11


Kathryn Mahan ’83 Susan Byers Manning ’72 Flo Mercer Markland ’84 Katie Nutter McCallum ’00 Kathy Broadway McCollum ’71 Michelle McIntire ’91 David Patterson ’94 Sue Pedro ’87 Betty Pilcher Neal ’71 Wes Pitts ’07 Claire Finley Purdy ’88 Bethany Richards ’10 Vernette Tomas Rucker ’94 MS ’11 Laura Daly Ryan ’84 Jean Schelhorn ’75 Emily Hanson Scofield ’97 Armah Shiancoe ’09 Dee Stancil ’67 Sally Stapleton ’76 Lynn Stultz ’72 Nancy Swecker Swan ’89 Lindsay Tice ’05 Julie Tomas Walton ’91 Anne Irwin Ward ’92 Michelle Wellmon ’92 Suzanne Trippe Williams ’69 Susan Sayler Wilson ’72


integration consultant. Te MSN curriculum at Queens prepared Kim for this role, which focused on inter-professional collaboration, Medicaid transformation and the shift in health care to a holistic, community-based model. Kim has recently transferred into a new role within the team, school health nurse consultant, where she will provide technical


assistance and guidance to school nurses, local education agencies and collaborating partners that serve school-age children in North Carolina.


Heather Hyatt Dolan MSN ’21 recently accepted a position as a nursing instructor for a college of nursing in Charleston, South Carolina.


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