Shannon Kelly, of Kingston, N.Y., has been named chief operating officer of Catholic Charities Community Services of Orange and Sullivan.
She started her career with Catholic Charities of Albany in 2007. Most recently, she served Catholic Charities Community Services of the Archdiocese of New York as director for Hudson Valley services, working out of the Ulster County office. In that capacity, she was the Orange and Sullivan liaison to Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York.
Kelly holds a bachelor of arts degree in government and international relations from University of Notre Dame and a master of social sciences degree from University of Chile. She is fluent in Spanish.
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Veteran foreign correspondent Ann Simmons has been named the 2018 James H. Ottaway Sr. Visiting Professor of Journalism at SUNY New Paltz .
As Ottaway Professor, Simmons will assume residency April 9-20, 2018, and lead seminars, meet with journalism students in office hours and as a guest in courses, participate in a forum with President Donald P. Christian, and give a public lecture for members of the campus community.
She currently is global development writer/editor at the Los Angeles Times. She has produced multimedia coverage of international issues, ranging from hunger and poverty to gender inequality and human rights, over a career in journalism spanning more than 25 years.
She has covered stories that included the fall of the Soviet Union, the War in Iraq and Hurricane Katrina. She was also part of a team of Los Angeles Times reporters whose coverage of the 2004 Southern California wildfires won a Pulitzer Prize for breaking news.
Simmons holds a double honors bachelor’s degree in Russian and Norwegian from the University of Anglia in Norwich, England, and a master’s degree from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. She was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2003.
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Stella Turk, of the town of Poughkeepsie, has been appointed college registrar at SUNY New Paltz and is expected to assume the post on Jan. 22, 2018.
She currently serves as associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and chair of the Department of Communication Disorders at SUNY New Paltz.
Since 1994, Turk has held positions of increasing responsibility at the college. She is a faculty member in the Department of Communication teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in audiology and aural rehabilitation, and supervising clinical practica. From 1995-2007, Turk was director of the Speech and Hearing Center at New Paltz was coordinator of the Deaf Studies Program from 2010 to 2013 and coordinator of the Post Baccalaureate Certificate Program in Communications Disorders from 2010 to 2013.
Turk holds a doctorate in audiology from Arizona School of Health Sciences, a master of science degree in audiology from Brooklyn College and a bachelor of arts degree in communication disorders and education, also from Brooklyn College.
She is credited with developing the universal infant screening program at Vassar Brothers Hospital and her special interests include infant screening, diagnostics and program and curricula development.
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