Geevanesam Devakanmalai ’21, called G by friends, is a Philosophy Major. She has accepted an offer at the University of Connecticut Storrs to pursue a PhD in Philosophy starting from Fall 2021. Originally on the Pre-amer track, she did research at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in cancer immunotherapy and microbiology until her sophomore year. In Spring 2019, she took her first philosophy course, leading to her passion for the field. Throughout her first three years at Lehman College, she was heavily involved in campus activities, working at the Office of Undergraduate Admissions guiding students to apply to CUNY, organizing volunteering events for students as a Peer Educator, leading the campus Christian club in community service, and helping as a Peer Mentor in the Macaulay Bridge Program.

Once she graduates, Geevanesam plans on pursuing her PhD, going on to become a professor. With a strong interest in ethics, she is excited to work with Professor Lewis Gordon, a fellow Lehman Alum, at UConn to bring about global awareness and justice.

Carlos Pérez Valle ’21 is a Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology major with a minor in Early Childhood Education. He currently works as a Project Coordinator for the Office of Policy & Evaluation at the DOE and as a Project Researcher at the CUNY Iniative on Immigration & Education. He was a co-organizer of LCSLPs4BLM which advocated for equitable policies and practices for minoritized students at the Dept. of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences at Lehman. A Horace W. Goldsmith scholar, his efforts also awarded him the Advocacy Award from the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association (NSSLHA) Lehman Chapter,  the Speaking Out and Being Heard Award from NSSLHA, and the Susan May Wilson Price from the Lehman Dept. of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences. In 2019, Carlos studied abroad at the Global Citizenship Alliance in Salzburg and the Danish Institute for Study Abroad at Copenhagen. He will continue his studies this Fall at McGill University with a fully-funded PhD at the Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders under the supervision of Dr. Susan Rvachew.

Caitlin Cacciatore ’21 is a soon-to-be Baruch graduate majoring in Artificial Intelligence Studies. She is also a published author. She won first prize in Bacopa Literary Review 2020 for poetry, as well as first prize in the Jerome L. Schulman Memorial Poetry Contest 2021, and first prize in the Harman Writer-in-Residence Fall 2020 Screenwriting Contest.

Caitlin also won second prize in the COVID Diaries essay-writing contest, and has been published in over a dozen literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. She was recently long-listed for an international poetry contest, the erbacce-prize.

After graduation, Caitlin plans to keep writing while pursuing a graduate degree.

Benjamin Reichman ’21 is a graduating Computer Engineering Major at CCNY. During his time at CCNY he conducted AI research in various labs. He worked as a research fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on AI for emergency situations, at the CCNY Media Lab on medical image processing, and at MIT CSAIL on researching the use of AI for video anonymization. During his undergraduate career he published several scientific papers and abstracts and also received the Goldwater Scholarship and an NSF GRFP Honorable Mention. In the Fall he starts a Ph.D. in Machine Learning at Georgia Tech.

In addition to research, Benjamin devoted his time to organizing hackathons and tutoring fellow students. He led the organization of The CUNY Hackathon 2019 and 2021 with the backing of CUNY, Macaulay, and industry. Both attracted a combined 1,200 students across all of CUNY and led to weekends of inventing and collaboration. These efforts built a student organization that Benjamin hopes will continue organizing CUNY Hackathons to showcase student talent to industry.

Anton Kyrylenko ’21 is a Physics and Chemistry double major.  He started in a computational chemistry lab at Lehman College with Prof. Lopez. The research project was published to the Journal of Physical Chemistry on April 1st, 2021, titled as: “Design of Biomimetic Proton Wires Based on Helical Peptides: A Quantum Mechanical Study”. Anton was also an organic chemistry TA for Prof. Burton-Pye.

Anton took part of a physics research project on high energy cosmic rays at Lehman College with Prof. Anchordoqui as well. The work involved a semi-analytical model to predict the behavior of the high energy particles upon entry into the Earth’s atmosphere. The project’s results were presented at the Lehman College 2020 Student Scholarship Showcase. Anton was awarded the 2020 Con-Edison Scholarship. He also took part of the CSURP 2020 at the ASRC. He worked with Dr. Alù on Drexhage’s Experiment for Sound and its applications to Acoustic Metamaterials.

Anton will continue his educational journey in photonics and metamaterials at the CUNY Physics PhD program starting in the Fall of 2021.

AnaCristina Bedoya ’21 is a Neuroscience and Psychology double major at Macaulay Queens. She is currently a mentor supervisor at Queens College’s First Year Experience, a program designed to help freshman and transfer students excel at Queens College through peer-based academic support. The child of Colombian immigrants, AnaCristina studied abroad in Salamanca, Spain during Summer 2019 to closely study her native tongue.

AnaCristina has been involved in developmental neuropsychological research in the Nomura Lab since July 2017. She has contributed to eight posters and two manuscripts. Her research was funded by the Opportunities Fund’s Morin Engineering and STEM Scholarship. This semester, she has been honored with the Dr. Andrea Li Memorial Award for excellence in research. AnaCristina will continue her education at the University of Massachusetts Lowell as a PhD student in Criminology. There, she will be researching the biological correlates of antisocial behavior. AnaCristina hopes to become a professor and conduct research at the intersection of psychopathology and crime.

Alyssa Fuchs ’21 is graduating from Baruch College with a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance from the Zicklin School of Business and a minor in New York City Studies from the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences. She has engaged in a variety of volunteer activities including Kids of Courage, an organization dedicated to the support of sick children and their families, and Tomchei Shabbos, a program that provides food to the needy. Inducted in the Beta Gamma Sigma academic honors society, Alyssa has consistently been named to Baruch College’s Dean’s List and is a recipient of a Dr. Wendy Heyman Public Interest Fellowship. She spent the last two summers interning at JPMorgan Chase & Co. as a Summer Analyst and looks forward to beginning her career at the firm as a Global Finance and Business Management Analyst following graduation.