Catching up with...

Growing up in Guardo, a small village in the north of Spain at the foothills of the Picos de Europa mountains, Cecilia Bores Quijano was surrounded by amazing landscapes.

Geri Merrell-Seif wears many hats in Athletics. She’s the assistant women’s lacrosse coach and works in business operations and ticketing.

From South Philly to Southern Spain, Megan Flynn has taken part in dance projects and performances, put bodies in motion on an assortment of stages, and taught and mentored students in dance and choreography.

Three years ago, Travis Carr hit rock bottom. He was working a dead-end job, playing video games non-stop and was unhappily single. He saw his weight balloon to 350 pounds.

Zoe Oxley, professor of political science, grew up in Etna, Maine, and spent her undergraduate years at Bowdoin College.

Becky Rapp came to her position as Accounts Payable Specialist with a wealth of experience in dealing with young children which makes her a natural to gently cajole certain employees to, ahem, “please sign off on your old transactions.”

David Cotter is a professor of sociology who specializes in the area of inequality with emphasis on gender, work and family, and rural poverty in the United States.

“When I saw an open position as coordinator of arts programs at Union, I knew it was made for me,” said Victoria Rotondi.

Schenectady is more than 5,000 miles from Michael Okwori’s birthplace in Nigeria but, thanks to advances in his field, he can easily connect with friends and family back home.

Soon after graduating from Union last June with a degree in sociology, Elena Montoya ’22 found herself back on camp