Salimata Fandjalan
B.S., June 2007
International Health/Urban Sustainable Planning
Thomas W. Smith Academic Fellow
“CUNY Baccalaureate was the gateway that enabled me to realize my dreams, aspirations and goals.  It gave me opportunity after opportunity to broaden my experiences and explore the importance and wholeness of education, achievement and success.”
Salimata Fandjalan, originally from Mali in Western Africa, was the [...]

V. Celeste Fahie
Marketing and Graphic Arts
B.S. 1983

As a child, St. Croix-based artist V. Celeste Fahie remembers being introduced to jumbie stories from her elders and during summers spent with children from the U.S. and British Virgin Islands. But it wasn’t until her life as an adult and attempts to reach out to older family members that the [...]

After graduation, Oliveira went to work as the Environmental Educator at Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice, an organization that seeks to transform both the people and the physical infrastructure of blighted South Bronx neighborhoods and change the systems that negatively impact them

Christopher Lynn left a career in the music industry to complete his undergraduate degree and pursue his “dreams of further scholarship and exploration.” Lynn recently received his Ph.D. from SUNY Albany, and is now Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Alabama.

Kim Smith, now a Master’s student in the Earth and Atmospheric Sciences program at City College, has been a contributing researcher to GOES-R ABI, a new generation of earth observation satellite, currently in the design stage with an expected launch date of 2012 by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

After earning her bachelor’s, Shimmyo attended NYU’s Silver School of Social Work and graduated in May 2009 with an MSW. At NYU she was honored with the President’s Service Award and Silver Spirit Awards. She recently learned that she was accepted to the Wagner School of Public Service for their MPA Program for September 2009. “I really do love academia, and have a feeling that I will never really be done with my education.”

After completing her B.A., she moved to Israel to do a Master’s degree in Government with a specialization in Conflict Resolution and Diplomacy at IDC (Interdisciplinary Center) Herzliya, and says “After my M.A. degree I wanted to do some fieldwork, especially dealing with post-conflict reconciliation through informal education, which was and continues to be my specific interest.” She now works at the Kigali Memorial Center in Rwanda.

Shawnta Smith said “Without CUNY BA/BS, I would have been lost, without direction, trying to find a program that I could fit into instead of a program that fits me.” Smith found the right fit in CUNY BA/BS, and graduated with a Bachelors of Science in “Queer Women’s Studies.” Her courses were taken at Brooklyn College in the English, Health, Sociology, and Women’s Studies departments. Now she works as a Young Adult Reference Librarian at the Brooklyn Public Library, a Coordinator at the Lesbian Herstory Archives, and as Memberships and Fellowships Coordinator at the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies.

Sarah Lippek: Author, researcher, social worker, historian, lecturer, curator; this multi-talented student completed her senior year in the renowned Study Abroad program at Central European University.

David Morgante’s specialized concentrations in Terrorism Studies and International Crime have put him on the path to his dream career with the U.S. Department of State.