was a career officer in the Air Force, serving 22
years. Her specialty was military intelligence, serving
in several countries, including Thailand and
Germany. She also had been an instructor at the
Armed Forces Air Intelligence Center at Lowry Air
Force Base, Colorado. When she retired, she turned
her interests to needlework and led classes in these
skills. She volunteered with Habitat for Humanity and
the Salt Lake City Winter Olympics and was a
Eucharistic minister.
’ 94 Matthew Jason Lawlor (’ 94 MRP) of
Roslindale, Mass., has been named co-chair of the Land Use and Development
Committee of the real estate section of the Boston
Bar Association. Lawlor, counsel at Robinson & Cole
LLP, represents developers, landowners, commercial
landlords and tenants, among others, in real estate
concerns. Rex Phillip Macey (’ 94 MBA) of Atlanta
has been promoted to chief investment officer for
Wilmington Trust Corp.
■ family additions
Dr. Michael Edwin Jones (’ 94 AB, ’ 98 DDS) and
Abhilasha Singh Jones of Naperville, Ill.; a son,
Nathan Kumar Jones, on Oct. 30, 2008. Amy
Farel Merrill (’ 94 BSBA) and Jonathan Neal Merrill of
Atlanta; a son, William Joseph Merrill, on Sept. 10,
2008. Christopher Perry Miller (’ 94 AB, ’ 95
BSPH, ’ 97 MPH) and Helena Wallin-Miller of
Pinehurst; a daughter, Evelyn Helena Lilia Miller, on
July 2, 2008.
’ 95 James Gaston Huckabee IV (’ 95 BSBA)
of Durham has received the Northwestern
Mutual Forum Award for outstanding
performance. Huckabee has qualified before for the
honor. He is a Northwestern Mutual representative
with the Carolina Condrey Group in Chapel Hill.
Mary C. “Mandy” Martin (’ 95 MSLS) of Mount
Tabor, N.J., has been appointed to the New Jersey
Library Network Review Board. Martin, the director
90s
of the Long Hill Township Library, serves on the
technology committee for the Highlands Regional
Library Cooperative, chairs the Small Library
Roundtable for the New Jersey Library Association
and is involved with Super Supervisors. Bill Sanford
(’ 95 AB) of Hillsborough has joined the Bell Leadership Institute as a leadership coach and trainer.
■ marriage
Emily Edwards Toler (’ 95 ABJM) and Steven Michael
Smith of Charlotte.
■ family addition
Hadley Peer Marshall (’ 95 AB, ’02 MBA) and
Edward Adger Marshall (’ 95 AB, ’02 JD) of New
York; a son, Hudson Marshall, on Nov. 5, 2008.
’ 96 Daniele Dawne Canney (’ 96, ’ 97 AB) of
Toronto, Canada, is the new club leader
for the Toronto Carolina Club. Tarsha
Marcel Franklin (’ 96 BSPH, ’04 MPH) served as a
Issues and Identity
Although she spent much of her childhood in
Argentina, Andrea Bazán ’ 95 (MPH, MSW) is
surprised to find herself a Latina activist in the
American South.
“When I moved to North Carolina from New
Orleans, people were continuously asking me
about my accent,” Bazán says. “In New Orleans,
there were so many people from everywhere that
I never thought about being Latina. Then we
started to see the emergence of the Hispanic
community here, and I was thrown into this
wave of growth and dramatic transition.”
That trend has shaped Bazán’s career. She
started out as a research investigator at what is
now UNC’s Gillings School of Global Public Health,
aiming to create a resource guide to services for
minorities, particularly Hispanics. When respondents had more requests for support than services
to offer, Bazán was asked to join Barbara Pullen-Smith ’ 81 at the N.C. Office of Minority Health to
formalize public health outreach to minorities
statewide. She then spent six years as executive
director of El Pueblo Inc., the organization she
helped found to represent the interests of Hispanics. In 2005, she became president of the
philanthropic Triangle Community Foundation.
Along with her work for El Pueblo and the foundation, Bazán served on the board of the National
Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights and
advocacy group. She became chair of that board
last year.
Bazán’s professional path often has connected issues with identity, of those she serves
and her own.
When Bazán was a student at UNC, a professor in the School of Social Work, Dorothy “Dee”
Gamble, encouraged her to become more involved
in international health issues. She went to Davis
Library to look at books containing records of victims of the “dirty war” in Argentina in the 1970s
and 1980s, when thousands of dissidents and
others were killed or disappeared. She found a
photo showing her uncle among the executed. As
a child, Bazán had been told he had died of cancer.
“They lied to us because they had to protect chil-
dren,” she says of her family’s effort to keep the
secret, “because as a child you tell friends everything, and that could put the family in danger.”
Bazán had been born in Boston, where her
parents were students, but they soon moved back
to Argentina. Her father was a neuroscientist and
her mother an ophthalmologist. As scientists
with international connections, they were under
Andrea Bazán ’ 95 (MPH, MSW) with then-U.S. Sen. Barack
Obama at a meeting of the National Council of La Raza in July
2007 in Miami.
suspicion for their ongoing contact with the “
outside.” Bazán remembers the military searching
their house for forbidden publications. “When I
talk about this now,” she says, “I can’t believe it
was allowed to happen.”
Bazán’s father’s lab was closed down, and
they fled to New Orleans. For a while the period
of the terror faded, but seeing the photo of her
uncle returned Bazán to those times. She talks
about it with disbelief now, but those experiences
seem to have nurtured a deep motivation for her
work.
El Pueblo Inc. is an affiliate of La Raza. Both
organizations address the intersection of pressures against immigrants and the post-9/11
effort to secure the U.S. borders. Many of the economic
issues are entangled with profile
legal issues, and anger on
both sides has escalated.
She sees a criminalization of the image of the
immigrant community, feeding prejudice and
hate speech. Bazán and others in La Raza have
received death threats related to their advo-
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cacy. “To fight this, we have partnered with the
Anti-Defamation League and the Southern
Poverty Law Center to create the Wave of Hope
Campaign,” Bazán says. “We want people to
go to our Web site,
www.wecanstopthehate.org, and see the
videos that teach about hate speech and how
to fight it.”
While facing that situation, Bazán continues to nurture her sense of hope, pegged to a
model of wider community participation. At
the Triangle Community Foundation, where
she oversees assets of $140 million and
annual grants of $13 million, Bazán is determined to broaden the practice of philanthropy.
Last November, the foundation partnered with
public radio station WUNC and the Triangle
chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals to launch Triangle Gives Back, an
initiative to get more people involved in donating time and services, as well as money.
“We could just make grants,” Bazán says,
“but we want to do that other piece. We want to
participate in the community. We hope to get
even your average Jose or Maria to think of
themselves as philanthropists. If you don’t have
money, you can get involved by giving time.”
Bazán says President Barack Obama’s victory, with its broad grass-roots campaign, fuels
her optimism and faith in the power of participation to solve problems. “I tend always, after I
complain and argue and get angry, to look up
and end with a hopeful note,” Bazán says. “I
think that we are at a critical point. Some good
things are on the horizon.”
