Welcome to
STPEC’S 40TH YEAR REUNION
April 13 & 14, 2012
UMass Campus Center 1001
&
Memorial Hall
UMass Amherst
Friday, April 13
Campus Center 1001
1:00-3:00 pm
Activists in the Academy
Panel Moderator: Katherine Mallory, ‘08 MEd SJE, STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Coordinator
Suzanne Bergeron '83, Ph.D. Economics, University of Notre Dame ’98, Director of Women's and Gender
Studies, University of Michigan Dearborn
Ramón Borges-Mendez '85, Ph.D. Urban Studies and Regional Planning, MIT '95, STPEC Instructor '05/'09/'10,
Associate Professor of Community Development & Planning, Clark University
S. Charusheela, STPEC Instructor '93-'95, Ph.D. Economics, UMass Amherst '98, Associate Professor of
Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington Bothell
Karen Graubart, STPEC Instructor '97-'01, Ph.D. Economics, UMass Amherst '00, Carl E.Koch Associate
Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Renee Heberle, STPEC Instructor '90-'94, Ph.D. Political Science, UMass Amherst '96, Associate Professor of
Political Science, University of Toledo
Amherst Room
3:30-6:00 pm
Sara Lennox Retirement Celebration
A very special thanks to the following:
Event Planning and Coordination:
Sara Lennox, STPEC Program Director
Deborah Reiter, STPEC Program Coordinator
Tyler Rocco-Chaffee, x’10 STPEC, STPEC Interim Chief Academic Advisor
Danielle Nelson, STPEC ’10 STPEC, STPEC Assistant Academic Advisor
Katherine Mallory, ’08 MEd Social Justice Education, STPEC Chief Academic Advisor and Internship Coordinator
Slide Show: Christine Lopes ’97 STPEC, UMass Amherst, Chief Strategy Officer for the Rhode Island Mayoral
Academies
Registration: MaryLou Laurenza, Assistant Director of Alumni Programs, Alumni Relations, UMass Amherst
Outreach and Publicity:
SBS Dean’s Office
Sabine Cray, Director of Communication and Marketing, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Jessica Dizek, Associate Director of Development, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
James Mallet, Director of Development, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Music by: Rec of Trigger Radio (Carlos McBride '10 MEd Social Justice Education, UMass Amherst)
Photography by: Paul Shoul
Saturday, April 14
Memorial Hall
9:00 Breakfast and Registration
10:00-11:30 am
Share the Wealth
Panel Moderator: Zoë Talkin '14
Troy Arnold '92, Fundraising Consultant
Sam Cleaves '89, Senior Regional Planner, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
Michael Hillard '80, Professor of Economics, University of Southern Maine
Art Jemison '92, Deputy Undersecretary for Housing, Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Wayne Langley '79/'05, Director, Higher Education Division, SEIU Local 615
Jessica Riley '05, Statewide Organizer, CSEA Local 1000, AFSCME, AFL-CIO
12:00-1:30 Lunch
2:00-3:30 pm
And Justice for All
Panel Moderator: Adam Leader-Smith '12
Michael Aleo '95, Associate Attorney, Lesser, Newman, & Nasser
Marjorie Decker '94, Honorable Cambridge City Councilor
Sara Kingsley '09, Legislative Officer, Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, US Dept of Labor
Al Lizana '95, Case Manager, Office of Diversity and Equity, University of Connecticut
Lynn Robitaille '96, General Counsel, Texas Forensic Science Commission
Mimi Turchinetz, '84, Living Wage Administrator and Campaign Director of the Boston Earned Income Tax
Credit Coalition, City of Boston
4:00-5:30 pm
Creating Critical Consciousness
Panel Moderator: Tyler Rocco-Chaffee x'10
Sarah Foudy '91, Independent Producer/Editor
Boyuan Gao '06, Creative Director, Beats, Flights & Life; Marketing Manager, Housing Works Inc.
Brooke Harvey '99, Director of Operations and Strategic Communications, Facing History and Ourselves
Kate Hudson '87, Lecturer, Department of Educational Policy, Research & Administration, UMass Amherst
James Murphy '85, Social Studies Teacher
Peter Thomson '85, Environment Editor, The World--PRI/BBC
Sabrina Zanella-Foresi '92, Film Editor
6:45-8:00 Dinner
7:30-8:00 Slideshow by Christine Lopes
8:00-11:30 Party with music by Rec from Trigger Radio
Social Thought and Political Economy Program
E-27A Machmer Hall
240 Hicks Way
University of Massachusetts Amherst
phone: 413 545-0043
fax: 413 577-2750
www.umass.edu/stpec