united nations advanced certificate faculty - Long Island University

NEWS FROM FAR AND NEAR
Mahamadou Abou is in Sierra Leone, where he is the Executive Director of the OIC
Trust Fund for Reconstruction, Rehabilitation and Humanitarian Assistance. Manuel
Arcos, MS’01, has been promoted to Deputy Chief of the Security and Safety
Section in the United Nations Office at Vienna. Jose Caballero, MA’98, is in northern
Sierra Leone where he directs a new Xavarian Missionaries program based on
education (schools, formation of teachers, etc.) to help bring development to this
remote area of the country. Kelly Campion-Socol, MS’96, is database manager for
the Jacob Burns Film Center, a not-for-profit cultural arts institution in Pleasantville,
NY. Also, little Paige Nancy is a new arrival in the Socol household. (Please refer to
the “Class of 2025”.) Benjamin Enoma, MPA’98, is in the Ph.D. program at the
Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He received a Dean Harrison
Fellowship Award and an Urban Education University Fellowship. Jorge Flores,
MS’95, has returned to the Honduran Mission to the United Nations as deputy
ambassador. Milena Gomez Mikac, MS’96, is working for Canada Customs and
Revenue as an enforcement officer. Ricardo Mikac was added to the family on 11
June. Takakazu Ito is in the Security Sector Team at UNDP/Kosovo as a program
analyst. Leslie Jean-Pierre recently founded The Minority Peace Corps Association.
Tomoko Kase, MS’96, joined General Electric in Tokyo as a mid-career executive.
She recruits international staffing. Shova Khatry, MS’98, is still with UNEP in
Nairobi. Yashna Khatry (MS’30) was born in June 2003. Neil Liberty, MA’97, has
moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, where he is in his second year of teaching history and
English. Martha Mai-Gould, MS’02, has been appointed Deputy Project Manager
of the UN Office for Project Services’ Iraq Project. Alvaro Melo, MS’99, is organizing
a UN Program Alumni Advisory Committee. Md. Moslehuddin, MS’96 is an
account administrator in the New York City Office of Labor Relations. Elizabeth
Nelson, MS’01, is completing her first “grueling” year at Columbia University Law
School. Susan Ngo-Mandong, MS’95, has returned to the United Nations
Population Fund’s Africa Division after twenty months in the United Nations Office
of Projects and Services. Vincenzo Pugliese works as an assistant in the
Communications and Speechwriting Unit in the Executive Office of the Secretary-
General; Selvyn Saldano, MS’99, after a two-year assignment in Beirut, is contemplating
returning to New York, or perhaps to the Regional Commission for the
Caribbean. He successfully passed the “G to P” examination in 2001. Mohmmed
Saleh, MA’03, is in the Directorate of International Organizations at Bahrain’s
Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also lectures to newly appointed diplomats on UNrelated
issues and plans to pursue a Ph.D. in Peace Studies at Bradford University
(UK). Lester Wilson, PhD’63, as a member of the Executive Committee of NGOs
Associated with the UN Department of Public Information, is chairman of its
Communications Workshops and Elections Committees. He also is co-editor of the
Committee’s NGO Reporter.
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