Don’t miss this opportunity to connect with AEC members!  

There are some opportunities that pop up on campus that you don’t want to miss. One of those opportunities is coming up in two weeks, and you only have until Wednesday, September 27, to raise your hand and say you want in! 

Twenty-five members of the St. Lawrence University Alumni Executive Council will be holding career conversations with interested students here on campus on Friday, October 6, from 3:30-4:30 p.m. 

Don’t miss your chance to meet 1-on-1 or in a small group with alumni in a variety of industries for conversations about their career journeys! Through these conversations with some of our most engaged and accomplished alumni, you can learn about industries, jobs, internships, graduate school and get tips on interviewing and networking. 

Students can sign up for one or two 30-minute conversations, and will have the opportunity to select their top five preferences from the list of alumni below. We’ll match you with the alumni and tell you when and where to meet! 

Participants in this year’s AEC Career Conversations include: 

BUSINESS 

• Tahire Edirisinghe ’07, Director, Customer Success at Innoveo 

• Sally McSweeney ’84, P’18, Office Manager, McSweeney Orthodontics 
• Michael Richman ’68, Customer Success, Variety Accessories 
• Lexi Williams ’15, Senior Manager, Diversity and Impact at Harris Blitzer Sports & Entertainment  
• Gary Zonitch ’03, Director of Construction, The Fresh Market 

FINANCE & FINANCIAL SERVICES 

• Cheryl Gross ’72, Founder & President, Cheryl Gross & Associates 
• Ed Higgins ’68, Vice President, Thousand Islands Agency (retired); Former President of the Independent Insurance Agents’ Association of New York (IIABNY) 
• Doug Stern ’81, Managing Partner of Jaged Capital Partners 

COMMUNICATIONS & MARKETING 

• Mary Baucom ’13, Associate Director, Hearst 
• Laura Patrick ’83, P’18, Marketing Manager, AT&T (most recent); Current SLU Alumni Executive Council President 

EDUCATION 

• E-Ben D. Grisby ’99, Special Education Teacher; Celebrate Diversity Fox Cities Board Member 
• John Linsley ’04, Associate Direcotry, Putney Student Travel 
• Kerry Adams MacKenzie ’95, Board Member at Indian Creek School, Crownsville, Maryland 
• Anne Joslin Slater ’74, P’03, Youth Services Librarian, Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (retired) 

ENVIRONMENT, SOCIAL IMPACT, NON-PROFIT & GOVERNMENT 

• Lauren Bennett ’11, Associate Pastor, Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis, Missouri 
• Elsa Coughlin ’19, Fundraising Operations Officer, Michael J. Fox Foundation 
• Jeff Deyette ’95, Deputy Director, Climate and Energy Program, Union of Concerned Scientists 
• Scott Giles ’82, P’15, President & CEO, Vermont Student Assistance Corp. 

• Paige Friedlander Palley ’16, MBA, Human Resources Manager (DEI Focus), The Greater Boston Food Bank; Current SLU Alumni Executive Council Secretary 

HEALTHCARE & SCIENCE 

• Carol Lancaster ’71, Associate Professor Emerita, Medical University of SC (retired) 
• Jennifer Hammer McGee ’90, Senior Vice President & Global Chief Compliance Officer, Otsuka America Pharmaceutical, Inc. 

• Susan North ’76, Associate Director, Nektar Therapeutics 
• Doug Smith ’05, Emergency Physician, Western Connecticut Health Network 

LAW 

• Anne Ferris Cassidy ’74, Real Estate Paralegal, Pullman & Comley, LLC 

• Charlotta Chung ’08, Counsel, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 

Scan the QR code to read complete bios of the AEC members participating in this year’s career conversations and to register to attend!