IRISH STUDIES - Key Persons
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- Senior Associate Dean and Associate Dean for Faculty
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- Clinical Assistant Professor of Spanish
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- Associate Dean for Assessment
on a number of local boards and service organizations. He served as Treasurer of the John Bertram House Trust and as President of his local Rotary and YMCA Boards. He and his wife have been on the Board of North Shore Catholic Charities. He graduated from Temple University's Kornberg School of Dentistry in 1972, taught there briefly and later at Boston University's Goldman School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Fisher served two years active duty in the U.S. Army and retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the U.S. Army Reserves.
He is a Fellow of the Pierre Fauchard Academy, the American College of Dentists, and the International College of Dentists. Dr. Fisher has served as Secretary and Chairman of his local North Shore District Dental Society and as a Trustee and President of the Massachusetts Dental Society. He has served as Representative from the New England States, District 1, for the ADA's Council on Access, Prevention and Inter-professional Relations. He is the Immediate Past Chair of the Better Oral Health for Massachusetts Coalition and is part of the Forsyth School of Dental Hygiene Advisory Committee. He serves as an Advisor to the Massachusetts Medical Society's Oral Health Committee. He partners with the Department of Public Health in Massachusetts and speaks on their behalf about the public health benefit of optimal community water fluoridation. He is a member of the Oral Health Advisory Taskforce, an arm of Health Care for All, and he serves on the Oral Health Advisory Committee for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He has served as an alumni volunteer for Temple University's Kornberg School of Dentistry. He was president of his Alpha Omega Dental Fraternity chapter at Temple, served as the International Undergraduate Representative and later as president of the Boston Alumni Chapter. He credits his wife, Joy, and his family in supporting his various endeavors.
Dr. Maryrose McInerney is an associate professor in the audiology program at Montclair State University (MSU), New Jersey. She is the Chief Executive Officer of Hackensack Audiology and Hearing Associates, LLC. Dr. McInerney's research interests include quality-of-life issues of the hearing impaired and outcome measures for audiological diagnostic and rehabilitative services. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters, and is a frequent presenter on universal newborn hearing screening and aural rehabilitation. She has practiced audiology in New Jersey for the past 40 years. During her time as director of the audiology department at the Hackensack Medical Center, she established one of the first Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Programs in the state of New Jersey. She serves as the chairperson of the New Jersey Hearing Evaluation Council, appointed by the New Jersey Commissioner of Health in 2012.
Dr. McInerney received her B.A. in 1978 in communication science and disorders from The Catholic University of America, Dr. McInerney received her master's degree in audiology from Western Michigan University in 1979. She completed her clinical fellowship year at John Hopkins Medical School, and earned her Ph.D. in hearing science from the City University of New York Graduate Center in 2002.
Dr. McInerney serves on the Board of Directors for Eva's Village, a non-profit social service organization with a mission to provide care and support for people who are struggling with poverty, hunger, homelessness, and addiction in Paterson, New Jersey, the healthcare committee of the New Jersey Coalition Against Human Trafficking, the development committee of The Center for Hope and Safety, and the advisory committee of Woman Philanthropy United.
Her greatest joy is being the proud mother of three daughters and three grandchildren.
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- Partner in the Labor & Employment
James Hays is a partner in the Labor & Employment Practice Group at SheppardMullin's New York office and is a team leader of the firm's Traditional Labor Law Team. James' practice focuses on management labor and employment law. He represents clients in collective bargaining negotiations, labor arbitrations, and all stages of the labor election process, including election campaigns and hearings before the National Labor Relations Board. He also represents clients in employment litigation in federal and state courts, as well as various arbitration forums, and in proceedings before various administrative agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the United States Department of Labor, and state agencies throughout the United States.
James has written and presented on numerous issues related to labor law and has been selected as a New York Super Lawyer for eight years in a row (2013-2021). He graduated from The Catholic University of America in 1982 with a B.A. in Politics and received his law degree in 1990 from New York Law School.
James and his wife, Caroline, have been married for 32 years and currently live in New Canaan, CT. They have 2 sons, Christian and Quinn.
Jason Gosselin is a veteran litigator and trial attorney whose national practice involves a wide range of civil litigation. He has served as lead counsel in numerous jury trials and arbitrations. Jason also has an active appellate practice, frequently arguing before federal and state appellate courts throughout the country.
Jason has devoted much of his career to representing insurers and financial services institutions. Jason also represents insurers facing allegations of bad-faith claims handling, improper sales practices, ERISA disputes and class action claims. He represents his insurer clients in market conduct examinations and regulatory enforcement actions. In addition to insurers, Jason represents business owners and individuals in a variety of commercial matters, including claims involving breach of contract, employment disputes, nuisance and trespass, and civil racketeering. While an aggressive litigator, Jason strives to protect his clients from the disruptive and costly impact that litigation can have on business operations. Above all, Jason seeks to integrate his clients' business imperatives into an efficient strategy to tackle their most critical legal problems.
Jason is also firmly committed to serving those who lack access to the judicial system. Over the years, he has represented indigent clients in numerous matters involving constitutional freedoms, including free speech in public schools and nonpublic forums, religious liberties, legislative prayer, excessive force and denial of due process. In addition to pro bono representation of clients in litigation, Jason volunteers for the Pennsylvania Innocence Project and the Christian Legal Clinic of Philadelphia. Jason is a Catholic University alum and graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in Politics.
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Programs
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- Founding Principal of Tiber Creek Partners
John Clerici is a founding Principal of Tiber Creek Partners. For over two decades, John has been at the forefront in the creation of the public health preparedness sector, including helping large pharmaceutical and emerging biotechnology companies develop creative approaches to access non-dilutive capital to fund the development of biotechnology for emerging disease and engineered threats. Since 1999, John has assisted over three dozen companies in obtaining nearly $4 billion in funding for research, development and procurement of public health countermeasures to the federal government, including the majority of the awards made under Project Bioshield, the United States Government's initiative for preparing the Nation against a bioterrorist attack.
In 2005, John played a substantial role in the drafting and passage of the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act (PREP Act), landmark legislation that provides substantial liability protections for makers and distributors of pandemic, epidemic, and bioterrorism countermeasures. John testified as an expert in support of this legislation on four occasions before the United States Senate Appropriations Committee, Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Judiciary Committee.
In 2006, John was instrumental in the passage of legislation creating the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), which builds upon and improves Project BioShield. John's expertise in the area of public health preparedness has been recognized by leading news outlets such as the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Associated Press, The Boston Globe, and The Hill. He has also appeared live on the Fox News Channel as a bioterrorism expert.
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- Budget and Operations Assistant
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- Associate Professor of History
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- Graduate Admissions Expert Coordinator
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- Assistant Dean for Community Engagement, Outreach, and Experiential Learning
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- Advancement Coordinator, School of Arts and Sciences
Mr. Fortunato is President of Rubin, Fortunato and Harbison, P.C., an employment practices litigation law firm in Paoli, Pennsylvania. Mr. Fortunato represents clients nationwide with respect to the federal, state, and local laws that govern today's workplace. He has represented clients in trials and arbitrations under Sarbanes-Oxley, Title VII, the Age Discrimination in Employment Act, the Equal Pay Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Americans with Disabilities Act, and their state counterparts. He also has prosecuted and defended common law claims arising out of employment relationships, including wrongful termination, constructive discharge, retaliation, defamation, fraud, and breach of contract. Mr. Fortunato has extensive experience mediating employment-related claims. Like many Rubin Fortunato lawyers, Mike also has extensive experience litigating restrictive covenant and trade secret matters. Mr. Fortunato received his undergraduate and law degree from The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. He has received an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell, and has been a featured speaker at Pennsylvania and American Bar Association events regarding restrictive covenants, trade secrets, Sarbanes-Oxley, employment law and trial practices, witness preparation, ethics, evidence, and mediation and arbitration advocacy.
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- Coordinator for Undergraduate Student Services
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- Voice Instructor of Soprano, Departments of Music
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- General Counsel of Focus Financial Partners
Rusty McGranahan has served as the General Counsel of Focus Financial Partners since August 2015, overseeing all legal matters for the company, including its acquisition activity and assisting its partner firms with their legal issues. Rusty led Focus Financial's legal work through its private equity round in 2017, its initial public offering in 2018 and its take private transaction in 2023. Focus Financial is a leading investor in boutique private wealth manager firms throughout the country and internationally and has grown more than five-fold since Rusty joined.
From 2006 to 2015, Rusty was a Managing Director, M&A Counsel and Corporate Secretary at BlackRock. At BlackRock, Rusty lead its legal work on board and governance, public reporting and its proprietary acquisitions, including some of the largest ever completed in the asset management industry such as the acquisition by BlackRock of Barclays Global Investors. Prior to joining BlackRock, Rusty was counsel in the mergers and acquisitions and corporate departments of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP. Rusty began his career as a corporate associate with White & Case, LLP and for three years was based in Eastern Europe.
In his free time, Rusty enjoys a number of activities with his wife and mostly-
grown three children. Rusty is an avid runner and has completed a number of
Rusty is a Catholic University alum and graduated in 1992 with a B.A., double majoring in Politics and Economics. He received his Juris Doctor from Yale Law School in 1995 and has also earned the Chartered Financial Analyst ® designation.
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- Assistant Director, Leadership Annual Giving, School of Arts & Sciences
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
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- Coordinator of Graduate Services
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- Architect of Latino
- President CEO and Co - Founder of Raza Development Fund
Tommy Espinoza is a prominent architect of Latino community and business development policy and programs, with over 45 years of experience that span the breadth of the public, private sector, and nonprofit spectrum. A native of Phoenix, Arizona, Mr. Espinoza has dedicated his career to helping Latino families and individuals live in peace and with dignity through educational opportunity and community/business development.
Tommy spent his early days organizing youth groups in Phoenix's low-income neighborhoods, helping young Latinos escape the self-defeating treadmill of poverty and crime through educational programs. He went on to work with Latino families in their efforts to gain access to affordable housing in the then- fledgling organization Chicanos Por La Causa (CPLC). Eleven years later, serving as President and CEO, Mr. Espinoza transformed CPLC from a small but determined grassroots group with an annual budget of $200,000 into one of the country's most dynamic forces for Latino empowerment and economic well-being. By the time Mr. Espinoza left in 1983, CPLC had an annual operating budget of $10 million and assets of $15 million and was offering comprehensive community and business development services in Arizona's four major cities. During his tenure at CPLC, Mr. Espinoza was also selected by the White House to advise President Jimmy Carter as a member of the Mexican American Advisory Council.
Currently, Tommy Espinoza is the President CEO and Co-founder of Raza Development Fund (RDF), the largest Latino Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) for the past twenty years in the United States, with nearly $500 million in total assets under management. In 1998, Mr. Espinoza pioneered a faith-based approach to community development, establishing Partnership of Hope (POH) and the Hope Fund now RDF. Under Mr. Espinoza's leadership, RDF has provided capital to Latino-serving organizations nationwide. These organizations have received technical assistance and loans which have leveraged over $5 billion in private capital for education, affordable housing, and healthcare projects serving low-income families and individuals.
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- Assistant to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Veronica Smaldone Assistant to the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs
Phone: 202-319-5114
Email: smaldone@cua.edu
Location: 102 McMahon Hall
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- Assistant Dean of Advancement