NEW STUDENT ORIENTATIONS
SPRING 2013

ADAM BAILEY (Oxford Preparatory Academy, South Orange County): Bailey brings over a decade of administrative experience at the elementary, middle, and high school levels to his position of vice president of school development for the Oxford Preparatory Academy (OPA). He has served as principal at Edwin Rhodes Elementary School, Chino High School, and Newman Elementary School in the Chino Valley Unified School District. He has also been an assistant principal at Anna Borba Elementary School and a teaching vice principal at Magnolia Junior High School. With his depth of experience, Bailey will be integral in shaping academic programs and furthering the strategic and educational goals of OPA.

JASON BARQUERO (Claremont Graduate University): Barquero is the assistant director of Career Services for the Peter F. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University. Barquero has eight years of experience in community outreach, career coaching, and alumni relations in higher education. He began his career at a university setting in 2005 as a career advisor at DeVry University, Pomona. Barquero quickly moved on as associate director to lead the Long Beach campus career services team in 2006. Two years later, he became the director of career services for the Long Beach, Anaheim, and Irvine campuses. Barquero joined Claremont Graduate University in 2010 as head of career services for the Drucker School, providing career development services to the MBA, MSFE, and Arts Management student population.

ANDY BROWN (Los Angeles Master Chorale): Brown is the general manager for the Los Angeles Master Chorale—a professional chorus and resident company of Walt Disney Concert Hall at the Music Center of Los Angeles County. As general manager, he has oversight for the Master Chorale’s marketing, box office, production, and education departments. In addition, he leads the institution's strategic planning process; participates in the organization’s union collective bargaining negotiations, manages the Chorale’s media and recording projects; and is coordinating the logistics for the Master Chorale’s participation in a European tour with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in March 2013. Previous administrative roles with the Master Chorale have included director of operations, managing the Chorale’s award-winning education programs, initiating a major organizational strategic planning process, and working closely with the marketing staff to improve the Chorale’s marketing and communication.

BREE HEMINGWAY (Volunteers of America of Greater Los Angeles): Hemingway started her Master of Public Health at Claremont Graduate University in 2009. While attending CGU, she worked as a research assistant on multiple studies and was a founding member of the School of Community and Global Health Student Association. She worked with Obesity Prevention Tailored for Health project (OPTII), an innovative research study that tests behavioral interventions designed to promote healthy eating and physical activity. Hemingway has also worked with the Transdisciplinary Tobacco Research Center (TTURC), contributing to the development of a report on the China Seven Cities Study, a longitudinal investigation of substance use and lifestyles in seven of China’s most populated urban areas. In addition to her work experience, she received a grant form Youth Service America to develop and implement a health education program at Ramona Middle School in San Dimas, California. Currently, she is working in the evaluation and research department at Volunteers of America of greater Los Angeles (VOALA), where she is leading a project to implement a new research database.

MARK CROWLEY (Southern California Public Radio): Crowley is the vice president-general manager for Southern California Public Radio (SCPR). SCPR is member-supported non-profit public broadcasting organization that operates 89.3 KPCC in Los Angeles and Orange Counties and its repeater stations, 89.1 KUOR in the Inland Empire and 90.3 KVLA in the Coachella Valley. Crowley has over a decade of public media executive management experience. He joined SCPR in July 2000 as SCPR’s Business Manager. In 1989 he began his career as Marketplace’s business unit manager. He later spent several years working in the commercial sector for emerging entrepreneurial companies in various business management leadership positions.

ARMEN ORUJYAN (Athgo Corporation): Orujyan is founder and chairman of the board of Athgo Corporation, a US nonprofit organization, since 1999. For over a decade, he has been developing and providing technology-driven entrepreneurial platforms for young people around the world and powering individuals by creating opportunities to self-organize and succeed with minimal resources and options. Focusing on his expertise in entrepreneurship and his proprietary Four Pillars to Success enterprise development methodology, Orujyan has built support among Fortune 100 firms and cultivated partnerships with leading academic institutions, governments, and the United Nations system to advance entrepreneurial opportunity for young people around the world. Under his leadership, Athgo has developed and is managing a strong network of over 100,000 young people from over 80 countries, has built programs that have directly enriched over 5,000 students and young entrepreneurs, and has been awarded consultative statuses with the UN Economic and Social Council and the UN Department of Public Information.

NATHANAEL NAPOLITANO (Brotman Medical Center): Napolitano is a clinical epidemiologist and current director of Infection Prevention and Control at Brotman Medical Center in Culver City. He received a Bachelors of Science in Health Science with honors at California State University, Fullerton, focusing on infectious disease epidemiology and bioethics. Napolitano completed a Master’s degree in Public Health at Claremont Graduate University in the School of Community and Global Health in 2011, with a concentration on Leadership and Management. He is one of the founding members of the School of Community and Global Heath Student Association and served as president from 2009–2011. His areas of interest include access to care by underserved populations, health delivery models, and disaster relief, with an overarching focus on human health rights within health care systems and policy.