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Martha has been in higher education since 1997 taking positions in the areas of residence life and admissions at 4-year colleges. Community colleges became her focus after in internship experience while attending Springfield College and achieving a Master’s in Education, concentration in Student Personnel Administration. She has had various positions in admissions and advising that focus primarily on student success and retention at community colleges in Massachusetts, Virginia, and Illinois. Martha will graduate in May 2017 with an Educational Specialist Degree in Higher Education with a concentration in Community College Leadership from Old Dominion University.

Martha joined NECPA in fall 2015. Over the next couple of years, she looks forward to building collaborations and bringing resources together from ACPA and within the New England region to the members of the NECPA.

Corinna Kraemer is a current Academic Advisor at Goodwin University in East Hartford, Connecticut and a soon to be graduate from the Student Affairs Administration Master’s Program at Springfield College. As the Graduate Student Liaison, Corinna enjoys getting to know more about all of the graduate and doctoral programs in student affairs in the New England area, and highlighting some of the amazing work current graduate and doctoral students are doing through the NECPA Graduate Student of the Month blog posts.

Paula Randazza is the Assistant Vice President for Student Affairs at Rivier University in Nashua, NH. She received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Sociology from the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts; a Master of Education in Student Personnel Administration, and a Certificate of Advanced Graduate Study in General Counseling from Springfield College; and an Ed.D. in Higher Education Administration from New England College.

Ms. Randazza has been elected and appointed to a variety of roles within the Northeast Association of College and University Housing Officers (NEACUHO), serving as District Coordinator, Committee Chair, Parliamentarian and, a three year rotation as President-elect, President, and Past-president.

During her career in Higher Education, she has held positions of varying responsibility at Springfield College; at Assumption College, and at Rivier University where she has worked for the last 20 years. Her portfolio includes supervision of public safety/security, student engagement, student leadership/SGA, orientation, multicultural student engagement, volunteer services, health services, residence life/housing, student conduct, and threat assessment.

Ms. Randazza currently resides in Nashua, NH but maintains a home on Cape Ann, in Gloucester, Massachusetts.