Pragmatic idealists, social justice champions and audacious thinkers, Heller alumni are leading the charge to disrupt the status quo in a broad range of industries and countries. Get a glimpse of where Heller alumni from different degree programs are today.
PhD in Social Policy
- Michael Ames, PhD’15 - President and Chief Executive Officer, Perkins
- Brenda Bond-Fortier, PhD’06 - Professor, Institute for Public Service, Suffolk University
- Stephen M. Coan ’84, MMHS’90, PhD’97 - Chief Executive Officer and President, Sea Research Foundation
- Brooke Evans, PhD’19 - Director for Behavioral Health and Opioid Stewardship, Washington State Hospital Association
- Barbara Ferrer, PhD’94 - Director of Public Health, Los Angeles County
- Tom Glynn, MSW’72, PhD’77 - Former CEO and Executive Director, Massport
- Mary Grant, PhD’00 - President, Massachusetts College of Art and Design (MassArt)
- Antoinette M. Hays, PhD’90 - President, Regis College
- Otis Johnson, PhD’80 - Professor Emeritus, Savannah State University and former Mayor, City of Savannah, GA
- Freada Kapor Klein, PhD’84 - Partner, Kapor Capital; Co-founder, Project Include
- Jeff Lurie, PhD’87 - Owner, Philadelphia Eagles
- Michael H. Levine, PhD’85 - Senior Vice President, Nickelodeon; Founder and former Executive Director, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
- Ricardo A. Millett ’68, MSW’71, PhD’74 - Principal and Founder, Millett & Associates; Principal Associate, Community Science, and former President, The Woods Fund in Chicago
- Linda Mills, PhD’94 - President, New York University (NYU)
- Charles S. Rodgers, PhD’78 - President, New Community Fund
- Bryna Sanger, PhD’76 - University Professor of Policy and Management, The New School
- Jessica Santos, PhD’15 - Director, Leah Zallman Center for Immigrant Health Research
- Fernando M. Torres-Gil, MSW’72, PhD’76 - Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging, UCLA
- Anya Rader Wallack, PhD’07 - Senior Vice President for Strategic Communications at The University of Vermont Health Network; Associate Director at Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health
- Susan Windham-Bannister, PhD’77 - President, The National Governing Board of the Association for Women in Science (AWIS)
MPP Master of Public Policy
- Abby Alexanian, MBA/MPP’16 - Director of Operations, SEIU Education & Support Fund
- Pem Brown, MPP’11 - Senior Vice President, M+R
- Audrey Etlinger Cohen ’07, MPP’10 - Director of Sexual and Reproductive Health, Cambridge Health Alliance
- Emilia Dunham, MPP/MBA’15 - Senior Manager of Health and Justice Policy and Programs, MassHealth Office of Behavioral Health
- Sarah Emond, MPP’09 - Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Institute for Clinical and Economic Review
- Mimi Garcia, MA/MPP’10 - Director of Policy and External Communications, Texas Association of Community Health Centers
- Amy Glynn, MPP/MBA’13 - Community Health Research and Evaluation Director, Commonwealth Care Alliance
- Brian Kennedy, MPP’16 - Senior Policy Analyst, Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
- Alex Lessin, MPP/MBA’14 - Director of Finance, City of Somerville Water & Sewer
- Erin Robinson, MPP’16 - Director of Outreach & Strategic Campaigns, Georgia Budget and Policy Institute
- Nicole Rodriguez, MPP’14 - President, New Jersey Policy Perspective
MBA in Nonprofit Management
- Abby Alexanian, MBA/MPP’16 - Director of Operations, SEIU Education & Support Fund
- Josh Cramer-Montes, MBA/MA SID’17 - Founder and Principal, Hyphen Strategies Consulting, LLC
- Jackie Hodgson, MBA’15 - Community Relations Manager, NH Fidelity Investments
- Stephanie Hurley, MBA’17 - Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives, The Possible Zone
- Ross Lohr, MBA’16 - Founder and CEO at Project Repat
- Nicole McCauley, MBA’17 - Senior Consultant, Deloitte
- Heather McMann, MBA’12 - Executive Director, Groundwork Lawrence; Senior Fellow, Institute for Nonprofit Practice
- Roger Perez, MBA/MA SID’16 - Program Officer, GitLab Foundation
- Leah Sakala, MBA/MPP’17 - State Policy Manager at Alliance for Safety and Justice
- Jessica Sanon, MBA’18 - Founder and CEO, sySTEMic Flow
- Brenna Schneider, MBA’12 - Founder and CEO, 99Degrees Custom
COEX Conflict Resolution and Coexistence
- Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, MA SID/COEX’16 - Senior International Policy Organizer, Corporate Accountability International
- Lisette Anzoategui, MA SID/COEX’15 - Deputy Country Representative, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)
- Isaac Cudjoe, MA COEX’18 - Co-CEO, Peace First
- Andrew Ginsberg, MA COEX’08 - Senior Resettlement Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Rebecca Herrington, MA COEX/SID’14 - CEO, Headlight Consulting Services, LLC
- Sarah Leonard, MS GHPM/MA COEX’19 - Global Public Health Advisor, CDC
- James Orre, MA COEX’12 - Chief Officer of Water Services Development, County Government of Marsabit, Kenya
- Shadi Sheikhsaraf, MA SID/COEX'17 - External Relations Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- Julia Szendro, MA COEX’18 - Director of Strategic Initiatives, NYC Department of Corrections
SID Sustainable International Development
- Amrote Abdella, MA SID’07 - General Manager, sub-Saharan Africa, Amazon Web Services
- Abdishakur Ahmed, MA SID’20 - Energy Specialist, RTI International
- Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, MA SID/COEX’16 - Senior International Policy Organizer, Corporate Accountability International
- Lisette Anzoategui, MA SID/COEX’15 - Deputy Country Representative, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI)
- Josh Cramer-Montes, MBA/MA SID’17 - Founder and Principal, Hyphen Strategies Consulting, LLC
- Ambreen Khan, MA SID’19 - CEO and Founder, Empyrean Foundation, and Fashion Designer, Ambreen Khan
- Arina Chithavong Lester, MA SID’15 - Development Global Lead, Solidarity Center
- Rodrigo Moran, MA SID’16 - Head of Solutions Mapping, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
- Roger Perez, MBA/MA SID’16 - Program Officer, GitLab Foundation
- Shadi Sheikhsaraf, MA SID/COEX'17 - External Relations Officer, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
MS in Global Health Policy and Management
- Noella Bigirimana, MS GHPM’15 - Deputy Director General, Rwanda Biomedical Center
- Lesly Joseph, MS GHPM’16 - UC Berkeley Global Public Health Fellow and Co-Founder, Saint Apollonia Mobile Dental Clinic
- Sarah Leonard, MS GHPM/MA COEX’19 - Global Public Health Advisor, CDC
- Henrieta Madarova, MS GHPM'06 - Partner, Advance Healthcare Management Institute, Slovakia
- Alec Mkwamba, MS GHPM’10 - Research and M&E Technical Expert, Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe
- Tyler Morrill ’10, MS GHPM’14 - Senior Analyst, Abt Associates
- Leah Ratner, MS GHPM’10 - Attending Physician, Boston Children’s Hospital
- Kareem Sadik, MS GHPM’16 - Regional Economic and Food Security Analyst, United Nations World Food Programme
- Pamela Titi, MS GHPM’16 - Founder and Managing Director, Tunaweza Children’s Center; Advocate, the Self-Advocates and Families Initiative, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation