BOSTON COLLEGE PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS
SELECTED ALUMNI
ELIZABETH (BABINSKI) BAKER ’02
Secondary Education & Biology
Program Director for Science, Boston
Latin Academy, Boston, MA
Graduate Degree: MA in Education,
Harvard School of Education
RYAN BECK ’10
Economics & Environmental Geoscience
Associate, Financial Sponsors, Barclay’s
Investment Banking, Los Angeles, CA
BEN BIRELEY ’05
Political Science
Associate, Gibbs & Bruns LLC,
Houston, TX
Graduate Degree: JD, The University of
Texas at Austin
MIKAELA BOYD ’02
Sociology
Manager, Bain & Company, New York, NY
Graduate Degrees: MBA, Harvard
Business School, MA in Philanthropy,
Indiana University
ANGELA (BREWSTER) BENSON ’08
Economics & History
Assistant Marketing Director, United
States Air Force, Minot, ND
ELLEN (BURKE) DUFFY ‘04
English
Sergeant/K-9 Handler, University of
Florida Police Department, Gainesville, FL
MARLENE CARVAJAL ’00
Economics
Vice President, Infrastructure/
Renewable Energies Department,
DEG Deutsche Investitions – und
Entwicklungsgesellschaft,
Cologne, Germany
LAKE CORETH ’11
History & Hispanic Studies
Graduate School: Pursuing a JD at
Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA
MICHAEL CUTLER ’12
Geology
Graduate School: Hydrodynamics &
Sediment, University of Western Australia,
Australia
KATHLEEN DAY ’96
Economics
Senior Vice President, Citigroup,
New York, NY
SAMUEL DOLINGER ’08
Classics & French
Law Clerk, United States Court for
the Southern District of New York,
New York, NY
NICOLE (ESTVANIK) TAYLOR ’01
English
Associate Editorial Director of
Communications, MIT Resource
Development, Cambridge, MA
JARED FIELDS ’01
Political Science
Associate,
Snell & Wilmer LLP, Salt Lake City, UT
Graduate Degree: JD
Harvard Law School
SEAN FLAHAVEN ’95
English & Music
Senior Vice President of Theatre and
Catalog Development, Warner/Chappell
Music; Faculty, NYU Tisch School of the
Arts Graduate Musical Theater Writing
Program; Freelance writer, composer,
conductor & orchestrator,
New York, NY
Graduate Degrees: MFA in Performing
Arts Management, Brooklyn College &
MFA in Musical Theatre Writing, New
York University’s Tisch School of the Arts
PATRICK GRADY ’04
Finance & Economics
Partner, Sequoia Capital, Menlo Park, CA
MATTHEW HAMILTON ’09
Theology
Journalist, Associated Press – LA Bureau,
Los Angeles, CA
JONI HEMOND ’95
Biology
Assistant Professor, University of Utah
School of Medicine; Medical Director,
Teen Mother and Child Program,
Salt Lake City, UT
Graduate Degree: MD,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
JEFFREY JONAS ’03
Finance & Information Systems
Portfolio Manager,
GAMCO Investors,
Rye, NY
MICHELLE (KELLY) KNIGHT ’98
English
Chief Economist, Ropes & Gray LLP,
Boston, MA
Graduate Degrees: MBA & MSF
Carroll School of Management, Boston
College
ROBERT KUBALA ’09
Philosophy
Graduate School: Pursuing a PhD in
Philosophy at Columbia University, New
York, NY
Graduate Degrees: MLitt in Philosophy
at University of St. Andrews (Marshall
Scholarship) & MPhil at Cambridge
University
PILAR LANDON ’09
Biology
Graduate School: Pursuing a JD at
Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
REGINA LENNOX ’01
Political Science
Westerfield Fellow, Visiting Assistant
Professor, Loyola University School of Law
Graduate Degree: JD, Duke University
Chapel Hill, NC
DOMINIC LONGO ’97
French
Engagement Manager, McKinsey &
Company, New York, NY
Graduate Degrees: PhD in Arabic &
Islamic Studies, Harvard University, MA
& MA in Comparative Theology, Boston
College
JOSEPH MAYERLE ’05
Biology
Emergency Physician, Suburban
Emergency Associates, Minneapolis, MN
Graduate Degree: MD, University of
Minnesota
BOSTON COLLEGE PRESIDENTIAL SCHOLARS
SELECTED ALUMNI
NADYA MUCHONEY ’13
Biology
Field Technician, Ecology of Bird Loss
Project – Rice University, Saipan,
Commonwealth of Northern Mariana
Islands
HANNAH NOLAN-SPOHN ‘05
Environmental Geosciences
Special Education Teacher, Chicago, IL
Graduate Degree: MA in Education,
National-Louis University
PATRICIA NOONAN ’07
Theater Arts & English
Professional Actor, member Actors Equity
Association
REENA PARIKH ’06
English
Associate Counsel, United States
Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS), Office of the General Counsel,
Chicago, IL
Graduate Degree: JD, American University
Washington College of Law
KATIE PHELAN ’01
Philosophy & Faith, Peace and Justice
Child and Family Therapist, Easter Seals
Blake Foundation, Tuscon, AZ
Graduate Degree: MSW, Arizona State
University School of Social Work
LAURA (PYEATT) BROWN ’04
Political Science
Public Diplomacy Desk Officer for
India, U.S. Department of State, Bureau
of South and Central Asia Affairs,
Washington, DC
ALLISON RAMIREZ ’07
International Studies
Monitoring and Evaluation Specialist
in Violence Prevention, Fundacion
Empresarial para el Desarrollo Educativo
(FEPADE), San Salvador, El Salvador
Graduate Degree: MA in Global Policy
& Latin American Studies, University of
Texas at Austin
ANDREW RIVERA ’11
Biochemistry
Graduate School: Pursuing a MD at
Harvard School of Medicine, Boston, MA
JEAN-PAUL SANDAY ’06
Marketing, Operations and Technology
Management
Director of Growth Marketing,
CreativeLive, Palo Alto, CA
Executive Director, The Level Field
Foundation, Boston, MA
Graduate Degree: MBA, Stanford
Business School
ARI DANIEL SHAPIRO ’01
Biology
Independent Radio and Multimedia
Producer, Somerville, MA
Graduate Degrees: PhD in Biological/
Oceanography, MIT/Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, MPhil in
Animal Behavior at The University of St.
Andrew’s
MARGARET SULLIVAN ’08
Russian Studies; Middle Eastern & Islamic
Studies
Fellow, International Center for Not-forProfit Law, Moscow, Russia
Graduate Degree: MPA/MA in Public
Administration & Cenral Eurasian Studies,
Indiana University
PAUL TAYLOR ‘04
Physics & Classics
Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Cape
Town, South Africa
Graduate Degree: DPhil in Astrophysics,
New College, Oxford University (Rhodes
Scholar)
MANOJ THAKKER ’95
Psychology & Pre-med
Oculoplastic Specialist, Foxman, Foxman,
Margolis & Associates, Reinal and
Ophthalmic Consultants, PC,
Northfield, NJ
Graduate Degree: MD,
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
KATHLEEN (WAKEHAM) BARNES ‘07
Biology
Resident Physician, Group Health
Cooperative, Seattle, WA
Graduate Degree: MD/MPH, Harvard
Medical School & Harvard School of
Public Health
PAUL WENGER ‘04
Mathematics
Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of
Technology, Rochester, NY
Graduate Degree: PhD in Mathematics,
University of Illinois - Urbana
Champaigne
LINDSAY WILLIAMS ’08
English
Education and Patron Services Assistant,
Actor’s Shakespeare Project,
Somerville, MA
Graduate Degree: MEd, UMass Boston