The Heller School for Social Policy and Management
Careers and Outcomes

Notable Alumni of the Heller School

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 variety of 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, PhD’06 - Associate Professor, Institute for Public Service, Suffolk University
  • Stephen M. Coan ’84, MMHS’90, PhD’97 - Chief Executive Officer and President, Sea Research Foundation
  • Barbara Ferrer, PhD’94 - Director of Public Health, Los Angeles County
  • Tom Glynn, MSW’72, PhD’77 - CEO and Executive Director, Massport
  • Mary Grant, PhD’00 - President of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate
  • Antoinette M. Hays, PhD’90 - President, Regis College
  • Otis Johnson, PhD'80 - Scholar in Residence and Professor Emeritus, Savannah State University and former Mayor, City of Savannah, GA.
  • Jeff Lurie, PhD'87 - Owner, Philadelphia Eagles
  • Marty Krauss, PhD’81 - Former Heller Interim Dean, Brandeis University Provost, John Stein Professor of Disability Research, Emerita
  • Michael H. Levine, PhD’85 - Founder and Executive Director, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop
  • Marsha Mailick, PhD’78 - Emeritus Vice Chancellor for Research and Graduate Education, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • Ricardo A. Millett ’68, MSW’71, PhD’74 - Principal and Founder, Millett & Associates
  • Charles S. Rodgers, PhD’78 - President, New Community Fund
  • Fernando M. Torres-Gil, MSW’72, PhD’76 - Professor of Social Welfare and Public Policy, Director of the Center for Policy Research on Aging
  • Anya Rader Wallack, PhD’07 - Associate Director at Center for Evidence Synthesis in Health, Brown University School of Public Health

MPP Master of Public Policy

  • Pem Brown, MPP’11 - Vice President, M+R
  • 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 - Senior Program Consultant, Commonwealth Care Alliance
  • Sarah Gonzaga, MPP’13 - Grant Analyst, California Long-Term Care Education Center
  • Calvin Harris, MPP’10 - Vice President, FleishmanHillard
  • Nicole Hudson, MPP’12 - Health Insurance Specialist, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
  • Brian Kennedy, MPP’16 - Policy Analyst, NC Budget and Tax Center
  • Alex Lessin, MPP/MBA’14 - Director of Finance, City of Somerville Water & Sewer
  • Erin Robinson, MPP’16 - Policy Analyst, Center for the Study of Social Policy
  • Nicole Rodriguez, MPP’14 - Senior Researcher, Community Labor United

MBA in Nonprofit Management

  • Andrea Hayes, MBA’16 - Senior Associate, CohnReznick LLP
  • Jackie Hodgson, MBA’15 - Director of Consulting, Common Impact
  • Ross Lohr, MBA’16 - Founder and CEO at Project Repat
  • Jason Lynch, MBA’16 - Executive Director, Charity Defense Council
  • Nicole McCauley, MBA’17 - Consultant, Deloitte
  • Heather McMann, MBA’12 - Executive Director, Groundwork Lawrence; Senior Fellow, Institute for Nonprofit Practice
  • Siiri Morley, MBA’10 - Director of Partnerships, Massachusetts, Upstream USA 
  • 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 - Program Manager, Impact Evaluation, Social Impact
  • Andrew Ginsberg, MA COEX’08 - Senior Resettlement Officer, UNHCR
  • Rebecca Herrington, MA COEX/SID’14 - Developmental Evaluator, USAID Global Development Lab 
  • Naveed Noormal, MA COEX’16 - First Secretary, Embassy of Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, London, UK
  • James Orre, MA COEX’12 - Chief Officer of Water Services Development, County Government of Marsabit, Kenya
  • Safia Trabelsi, MA COEX’10 - Head, Nile River Montessori, Egypt 

SID Sustainable International Development

  • Amrote Abdella, MA SID’07 - Regional Director, Microsoft 4Afrika
  • Ali Al Jundi, MA SID’14 - Syria Project Officer, Oxfam America
  • Nathalie Rengifo Alvarez, MA SID/COEX’16 - Senior International Policy Organizer at Corporate Accountability International
  • Lisette Anzoategui, MA SID/COEX’15 - Program Manager, Impact Evaluation, Social Impact
  • Arina Chithavong Lester, MA SID’15 - Director of Development, Community Preservation Development Corporation/Enterprise Community Partners
  • Malini Sekhar, MA SID’06 - Independent Consultant, Co-founder, 2Lokas
  • Dorcas Wepukhulu, MA SID’11 - African Storybook Coordinator in Kenya and Ethiopia, South African Institute for Distance Education, Kenya 

MS in Global Health Policy and Management

  • Ahmad Jawad Osmani, MS’11, Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan
  • Noella Bigirimana, MS’15 - Government Fellow, World Economic Forum, Rwanda
  • Henrieta Madarova, MS'06 - Partner and Lecturer, Advance Healthcare Management Institute, Slovakia
  • Alec Mkwamba, MS’10 - Research and M&E Technical Expert, Independent Consultant, Zimbabwe
  • Tyler Morrill ’10, MS’14 - Senior Analyst, Abt Associates
  • Kareem Sadik, MS’16 - Regional Economic and Food Security Analyst, Vulnerability Analysis and Mapping Unit, United Nations World Food Programme
  • Rebecca Sliwoski, MS/MBA’16 - Director of Strategy and Partnerships, Kletjian Foundation
  • Pamela Titi, MS’16 - Founder and Managing Director, Tunaweza Children's Center; Advocate, the Self-Advocates and Families Initiative, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation