George Dolan (SF92)
For hosting and volunteering for the Association’s Award of Merit luncheon and his work on restarting the Alumni Association’s Washington, D.C. chapter. Mr. Dolan is a Captain in the United States Navy.
Carla Echevarria (A97)
For leading a seminar on Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own (Ch. 2) and Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists as part of the Alumni Association's Summer Conversation Series Pilot Program: Engaging the Ethical, Legal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Inclusion. This Alumni Association summer seminar series brought together a diverse group of alumni and current students to examine the meaning of inclusion through Program and Program-related works. Ms. Echevarria is a Senior UX (User Experience) Design Manager at Google (NYC), and also a Professor of Graphic Design and Advertising at the School of Visual Arts (NYC).
Salvatore Scibona (SF97)
For volunteer work for college admissions, serving for over a decade as one of the college’s main ambassadors for prospective students interested in writing careers. In 2011, his article, “Where I Learned to Read,” about his education at St. John’s was published in The New Yorker and has encouraged countless Johnnies to join our community of learners. His first novel, published as The End (2008), was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the Young Lions Fiction Award from the New York Public Library. Mr. Scibona is the director of The Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.
Juan Villaseñor (A97)
For leading a seminar on the United States Supreme Court decision Bostock v. Clayton County for the Alumni Association's Summer Conversation Series Pilot Program: Engaging the Ethical, Legal, and Aesthetic Dimensions of Inclusion. This Alumni Association summer seminar series brought together a diverse group of alumni and current students to examine the meaning of inclusion through Program and Program-related works. Judge Villaseñor is a Colorado state district judge and was appointed to the District Court bench in 2018. Judge Villaseñor received his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 2001. Prior to his appointment, he served as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado.
