Bay Path University

2013 Lorena Cisneros was hired by the Enfield, CT, Board of Education as the new business manager. Andréa Marion was recently named executive director of the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, and believes good things happen when people get together. 2015 Aleksandra Chernyak accepted a position in July 2019 as the campus advisor with the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting 2010 Maureen O'Connell G'10 is the new marketing director at the West Hartford- based Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford. Sarah Winiarski G'10, a West Hartford resident, has been named director of community relations by the Jewish Association for Community Living (JCL). The JCL helps adults with developmental disabilities participate in community life independently and safely. 2011 Jessia Toner Wolanin Class Agent 146 Tariffville Rd., Simsbury, CT 06070 860.682.0796 jtwolanin@gmail.com Patrick Carpenter G'11 was named director of institutional advancement at Holyoke Community College. In his new role, Carpenter will serve as the principal gifts officer for the HCC Foundation, facilitate donor cultivation and engagement, and supervise the office of alumni relations. www.baypath.edu 47 She's on the Case Veronice Santana '13 "There was no one in my family who was a lawyer. I don't think I even knew a lawyer personally, until I went to Bay Path and met Elizabeth Dineen, my professor and greatest mentor," Veronice Santana recounts. "My roommate and I would say to each other, 'We want to be Liz Dineen when we grow up.'" Visions of renegade police work and crime lab heroics were what initially lured Santana to criminal justice courses, but as a bona fide lawyer, she's quick to admit, "That's not how it works." It was in Professor Dineen's class, Criminal Evidence, that Santana got a glimpse of the criminal justice system—and saw it was a far cry from the dramatic interpretations delivered by CSI and Law & Order. The child of Puerto Rican parents raised in Hartford, CT, Veronice Santana grew up speaking Spanish as her first language. After attending community college, she transferred to Bay Path and was the first in her family to obtain a bachelor's degree, before earning her juris doctorate from Western New England University School of Law in 2019. She is an assistant district attorney, serving as the District Court prosecutor for the Northwestern District Attorney's office, which oversees cases in Hampshire and Franklin Counties and the town of Athol, MA. Read her backstory on Bay Pathway Online. 2012 Victoria Ann Rodriguez G'16, as of February 2018, is a licensed real estate agent in Massachusetts working for Homes Logic Real Estate LLC. Melissa Sipple G'14, director of enrollment marketing at Bay Path University, was named by BusinessWest as a 40 Under Forty Honoree, Class of 2020. Jill Monson-Bishop G'12 recently joined the American Cancer Society (ACS) in the role of community development manager. Melissa Sipple '12 G'14 Andréa Marion '13

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