Presidential Inauguration Celebration Week Symposia

Joye Brown, a columnist and associate editor at Newsday, has covered Long Island for almost four decades. She has won numerous awards for her work as a reporter, editor, editorial staff development manager, editorial writer and columnist at the Newsday Media Group. Before joining Newsday, she worked as reporter for The News and Observer in Raleigh, N.C., The Chicago Tribune and The Mutual News Network in Washington, D.C. She and her family live in Huntington.

Mr. Blow joined The New York Times in 1994 as a graphics editor and quickly became the paper’s graphics director, a position he held for nine years. In that role, he led The Times to a best of show award from the Society for News Design for The Times’ information graphics coverage of 9/11, the first time the award had been given for graphics coverage.  He also led the paper to its first two best of show awards from the Malofiej Infographics World Summit for work that included coverage of the Iraq war.  He then went on to become the paper’s design director for news before leaving in 2006 to become the art director of National Geographic Magazine. Before coming to The Times, Mr. Blow had worked at The Detroit News.

He graduated magna cum laude from Grambling State University in Louisiana, where he received a B.A. in mass communications, and he holds an honorary doctorate from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston. He lives in Brooklyn and has three children

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Architect June Williamson is Professor and Architecture Department Chair of the City College of New York’s Spitzer School of Architecture. She is coauthor with Ellen Dunham-Jones of the 2021 Great Places Book Award-winning Case Studies in Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Strategies for Urgent Challenges, a long-awaited sequel to the first book in the series, Retrofitting Suburbia: Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs. She also wrote Designing Suburban Futures: New Models from Build a Better Burb, which documents the influential 2010 urban design ideas competition sponsored by the Long Island Index project of the Rauch Foundation. She has degrees in architecture and urban design from Yale College, MIT, and CCNY.

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Scott A. Brinton, a special assistant professor in the Lawrence Herbert School of Communication, has taught journalism here since 2009. In that time, he wrote the curricula for Environmental Journalism, Science and Medical Reporting, Issues in Science Reporting, Community Journalism and Advocacy Journalism, all courses that require significant field work and public engagement.

Since 2016, Brinton has served as co-director of the Hofstra Summer High School Journalism Institute. He has written four successful grant applications, totaling nearly $50,000, to fully fund the annual program, which recruits students from nearby communities of color to study journalism for a week at the Herbert School and encourage them to consider media careers.

Since 2019, he has also been editor and adviser for the award-winning Long Island Advocate, the Herbert School’s online multimedia publication showcasing the best student work from their classes and internships.

Outside of Hofstra, he is executive editor of Herald Community Newspapers, one of New York’s largest community media groups, with 18 newspapers and a twice-yearly magazine. And he has freelanced for The New York Times and Newsday.

In his nearly 30 years as a journalist, he has earned dozens of national, state and regional reporting accolades, including New York Press Association Writer of the Year and Sports Writer of the Year honors, as well as Press Club of Long Island Outstanding Journalist. In 2014, he was inducted into the inaugural class of the PCLI Hall of Fame. He is now a PCLI board member.

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Colin Koproske serves as a Managing Director within EAB’s strategic research division, overseeing research and services spanning academic affairs, enrollment strategy, student success, and strategic planning.

Colin joined EAB, a global education firm headquartered in Washington, DC, in 2010 and is one of the firm’s leading experts and thought leaders on the trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the higher education landscape. He has led over 20 large-scale research initiatives on topics such as the impact of online education, progressive approaches to student advising, curricular design, experiential learning, departmental management, and the future of academic libraries. He is often called upon by EAB partner institutions to present to cabinets, boards, faculty senates, and academic leaders on these topics. 

In a 2017 report entitled Integrating Academic and Career Development, Colin and his team identified and profiled 36 best practices associated with preparing students enrolled in higher education for a fast-changing workforce. This research examined five core operational challenges facing the modern institution in this arena: providing proactive career guidance for first- and second-year undergraduates, incorporating practical experience and professional skills into the curriculum, equipping students to articulate their skills, encouraging broader faculty adoption of experiential learning approaches, and eliminating barriers to equitable participation in high-impact learning activities. 

Prior to joining EAB, Colin led policy and public affairs efforts for a national campaign finance reform organization in Washington, D.C., and served as a research fellow for a think tank focused on the intersection of science and philosophy.

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Lynn Pasquerella was appointed president of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in 2016, after serving as the eighteenth president of Mount Holyoke College. She has held positions as provost at the University of Hartford and Vice Provost for Academic Affairs and Dean of the Graduate School at the University of Rhode Island. A philosopher whose work has combined teaching and scholarship with local and global engagement, Pasquerella has written extensively on medical ethics, metaphysics, public policy, and the philosophy of law. She is immediate past president of the Phi Beta Kappa Society and the host of Northeast Public Radio’s The Academic Minute.

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Kevin Barry is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Law at Quinnipiac University School of Law. He teaches administrative law and disability law and is the co-director of the law school's civil justice clinic, which represents low-income clients through a combination of direct legal services and policy advocacy.

Prior to joining Quinnipiac, Barry was a teaching fellow in Georgetown University Law Center's Federal Legislation Clinic, where he represented a national coalition of disability rights organizations in support of their efforts to amend the Americans with Disabilities Act. He was also a member of the team of disability rights lawyers that successfully negotiated draft legislative language with lawyers from the business community, resulting in passage of the ADA Amendments Act of 2008.

Barry's work focuses on civil and human rights issues, including transgender rights, disability rights, and death penalty abolition. He has filed amicus briefs on behalf of national and state transgender rights organizations and provided consultation in cases successfully challenging discrimination based on gender dysphoria under the ADA. In 2015, the Connecticut Supreme Court cited Barry's work in the landmark case of State v. Santiago, which declared Connecticut's death penalty unconstitutional. Barry is the past president of the board of the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund, a non-profit organization that serves women and girls.

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Lydia X. Z. Brown is an advocate, organizer, attorney, strategist, and writer whose work focuses on interpersonal and state violence against disabled people at the intersections of race, class, gender, sexuality, faith, language, and nation. They are Policy Counsel for Privacy & Data at the Center for Democracy & Technology, focused on algorithmic discrimination and disability, as well as Director of Policy, Advocacy, & External Affairs at the Autistic Women & Nonbinary Network. Lydia is also adjunct lecturer and core faculty in Georgetown’s Disability Studies Program, and adjunct professorial lecturer in American University’s Department of Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies. They serve as a commissioner on the American Bar Association’s Commission on Disability Rights, chairperson of the ABA Civil Rights & Social Justice Section’s Disability Rights Committee, board member of the Disability Rights Bar Association, and representative for the Disability Justice Committee to the National Lawyers Guild’s National Executive Committee. Lydia founded the Fund for Community Reparations for Autistic People of Color's Interdependence, Survival, and Empowerment, and they are creating Disability Justice Wisdom Tarot. Lydia is past chairperson of the Massachusetts Developmental Disabilities Council, and former Justice Catalyst Legal Fellow at the Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law. Often, their most important work has no title, job description, or funding, and probably never will.

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Janet Dolgin is the Jack and Freda Dicker Distinguished Professor of Health Care Law at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra.  She is also Professor of Science Education at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.  Professor Dolgin Directs the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy and co-Directs the Hofstra Bioethics Center.

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Renee McLeod-Sordjan is Vice Dean and Professor of the Hofstra-Northwell School of Nursing & Physician Assistant Studies.  She is also Assistant Professor of Science Education at the Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell.  Professor McLeod-Sordjan leads the Division of Medical Ethics at Northwell Health and co-teaches within the Bioethics Certificate Course offered by the Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy at Hofstra. She is a family, acute and palliative board-certified nurse practitioner and clinical ethicist currently actively clinically practicing as an intensive care NP hospitalist.

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Walter L. Markowitz, EdD, MPA
Dr. Markowitz is an Assistant Professor within School of Health Professions & Human Services at Hofstra University over 40 years experience leading senior health administrative teams. Both as  a former Northwell Health  Director of Strategic Planning and member of Suffolk and Nassau  County Workforce Development Boards he was devoted to overseeing Labor Department’s efforts  for approving and monitoring labor, education grants and programs. He continue to be an active board member of the Oyster Bay-North Hempstead-Glen Cove Workforce Development Board. He is a frequent presenter at the Northwell Division of Medical Ethics, Clinical Ethics Consortium.   

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Daniel E. Dawes, J.D., a widely respected scholar, researcher, educator, and leader in the health equity, health reform, and mental health movements, is executive director of the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia and a professor of health law, policy, and management. He is also the co-founder of the Health Equity Leadership and Exchange Network (HELEN), which is a nationwide network of over 2000 governmental and non-governmental leaders, researchers, and scholars focused on bolstering leadership and the exchange of research, information, and solutions to advance evidence-based health equity-focused policies and programs. Among his many achievements, he was an instrumental figure in shaping and enacting the Mental Health Parity Act, the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act, the Affordable Care Act, and other federal policies.

Dawes’s research focuses on the determinants or drivers of health inequities among under-resourced, vulnerable, and marginalized communities and is the pioneer of a new approach to examining inequities, the political determinants of health. He brings a forward-thinking, inclusive, and multidisciplinary approach to health policy, authoring two groundbreaking books, 150 Years of ObamaCare and The Political Determinants of Health, published by Johns Hopkins University Press, which have received critical acclaim and rave reviews. Dawes currently leads several major health equity projects in the United States, including several intended to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on communities of color such as the U.S. Health and Human Services Department (HHS) NIMIC grant to establish a national COVID-19 resiliency network (NCRN), as well as a project with Google.org, CDC Foundation, Annie E. Casey Foundation, Contakt World, and Gilead Sciences to create a comprehensive health equity tracker.

Dawes is an elected fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and serves or served on several boards, commissions, and councils focused on improving health outcomes and elevating health equity in the United States and around the world, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Federal Advisory Committee on Health Disparities, the National Center for Civil and Human Rights - Health and Human Rights Institute Advisory Committee, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Policies for Action National Advisory Committee, the National Football League/National Football League Players Association’s National Committee on the Racial Disparities of COVID-19, the National Medical Fellowships Primary Care Leadership Program’s National Advisory Committee, the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health National Advisory Council, the Healthcare Georgia Foundation Board of Directors, the Alliance for Strong Families and Communities Board of Directors, the National League of Cities National Advisory Board, the CDC Foundation’s Community COVID Coalition Advisory Group, and the Children’s Mental Health Network National Advisory Council.

He is the recipient of several national awards and recognition, including the American Public Health Association’s Award for Significant Contribution to Public Health, the American Psychological Association’s Exceptional Leadership in Advocacy Award, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Health Equity Champion Award, the National Medical Association’s Louis Stokes Health Advocacy Award, Families USA Health Equity Advocate Award, the NMQF Minority Health Leader Award, Presented the Key to the City of St. Petersburg, Florida for national leadership advancing health equity, the Gift of Life MOTTEP Healthcare Vanguard Award, and the Caribbean Exploratory Research Center of Excellence Service Award. Dawes' work focuses on addressing the systemic barriers that prevent the U.S. from becoming what it could be: among healthiest nations in the world.

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Dr. Corrine Kyriacou is an Associate Professor and the current Chair of the Department of Health Professions in the School of Health Professions and Human Services at Hofstra University. She was the founding Director of Hofstra’s Master of Public Health Program (2012-2016) and Director of the Master of Science in Community Health program (2010-2016). Dr. Kyriacou currently teaches courses in health care policy at both the graduate and undergraduate level, as well as graduate courses in population aging and research project design and implementation (MPH integrative learning experience). Dr. Kyriacou’s current research focuses on identifying best practices for establishing a Nassau County Time Bank – a program that builds community by connecting neighbors to trade-needed services and skills. Dr. Kyriacou has published articles on hospital to nursing home transitions; consumer-directed care; integrated care for the elderly; managed home care; and, the importance of experiential training for health professionals. She co-authored a book that explores the social, health, environmental and fiscal implications of innovative, alternative economies, Equal Time, Equal Value: Community Currencies and Time Banking in the US (Ashgate, 2012). Dr. Kyriacou was named 2013 Teacher of the Year for the School of Health Sciences and Human Services, an award determined by graduating students' rankings over a three to five-year period. She received a doctorate in Social Policy and Health Services Research from the Heller School at Brandeis University where she was an Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Fellow, and she holds a Master of Public Health degree from New York Medical College. Prior to joining the Hofstra faculty in 2004, Dr. Kyriacou spent five years as Director of Research at Metropolitan Jewish Health System, a continuum of care provider of services for the elderly and chronically ill based in Brooklyn, NY.

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Dr. Andrea Nerlich is an associate professor and the graduate director of the Rehabilitation Counseling Programs at Hofstra University. She teaches courses for students in rehabilitation counseling and mental health counseling related to psychosocial response to disability, assessment, transition services, medical aspects of disability, and career development. She serves on board of directors of the Rehabilitation Counselors and Educators Association (RCEA), and is editor of their journal. She was recently recognized as the Rehabilitation Educator of the Year by the National Council on Rehabilitation Education in 2020 and in 2017 was inducted into the inaugural “40 Under 40” class at her alma mater, Springfield College. Her passions and research interests include transition services for students with disabilities, assessment, collaboration models, social justice and advocacy, disability justice and equity, mentoring, and student and professional development and identity.

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Elise's journey to the Central American Refugee Center (CARECEN) began through her work with marginalized communities in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, India, and Mexico. These experiences led her to the Hofstra University School of Law where she graduated as the Dwight L. Greene Scholar, a full tuition scholarship for minority rights advocacy. Her representation of Central American asylum seekers as the Post-Graduate Fellow at the Hofstra Asylum Clinic inspired her to continue serving this community at CARECEN. She joined CARECEN as a staff attorney in 2012, where she subsequently served as Legal Director before becoming Executive Director in 2020. In addition to her work at CARECEN, Elise also served as a consultant for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and the results of her interviews with more than 100 unaccompanied migrant children from Central America were published in the UNHCR's report Children on the Run. Elise is a recipient of the national Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing and was named a Top 40 Latino Under 40 by the New York Hispanic Coalition.

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Alexander Knipenberg is a senior staff attorney and litigation specialist at Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A. Alexander is part of the Consumer and Economic Development clinic, where he defends homeowners in foreclosure litigation, predatory lending and deed theft. Alexander also files chapter 7 and 13 consumer bankruptcies with a focus on helping homeowner’s retain their properties. Alexander works with many community based organizations ion Brooklyn, Queens and other parts of NYC.

Prior to joining Brooklyn A full-time, Alexander Knipenberg was a Pro Bono Scholar at the organization and worked in his law school’s Community & Economic Development Clinic. He holds a J.D. from the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University and a B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of Toronto. Alexander is admitted to practice in New York and the Eastern and Southern District Courts of New York. He is fluent in Russian.

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Yonatan ("Yoni") Zamir is a staff attorney in the Housing Unit at the New Haven Legal Assistance Association in New Haven, Connecticut. He represents clients in a wide range of housing matters, including eviction proceedings and preserving access to affordable housing. Before joining NHLAA, Yoni served as a Fellow with Hofstra University School of Law’s Law Reform Advocacy Clinic, and previously, as Counsel to a Member of Congress and to the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of the U.S. House of Representatives. Prior to working in the U.S. Congress, he was a staff attorney at the Legal Aid Society of New York. Originally from Chicago, Yoni earned his B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and his J.D. from Hofstra University School of Law, where he received the Excellence in Housing Clinic Award. Yoni is a proud AmeriCorps alumnus.