Congratulations to the 41 students accepted into the Cybersecurity Mentorship Program for spring 2022!
Forty-one (41) new students were accepted into the program, bringing the total number of students supported through the four cycles of the program to 101.
The students in the current session represent 18 Massachusetts two- and four-year higher education institutions, with six new schools represented.
A major 'thank you!' to the 41 mentors participating this session, including 10 new companies that have stepped up:
Below is the full list of the 41students and the professional mentors they were matched with:
| Student | College/University | Mentor | Job Title | Company |
| Mohamed Abougalala | Northeastern University | Jason Johnson | Security Solutions Architect | Mass Mutual |
| Loren Almeida | Bunker Hill Community College | Marc Zissman | Associate Head, Cyber Security and Information Sciences Division | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Janet Alvarado | Fitchburg State University | Allan Rogers | Chief Product Officer | Noetic Cyber, Inc |
| Chas Azubuike | University of Massachusetts Boston | Donato Kava | Associate Staff | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Beth Bartus | Mount Wachusett Community College | Brendon Chetwynd | Technical Staff | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Junior Boderebe | Quinsigamond Community College | Suzanne Zarges | Cybersecurity Training Specialist | City of Worcester |
| Nicole Carron | Bay Path University | Fabio Martins | Information Security Officer | Mass General Brigham |
| Francisco Contreras | Massachusetts Bay Community College |
Ryan Burrow |
Associate Technical Staff | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Huy Dai | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Richard Walzer | Chief Information Security Officer | Clean Harbors Inc. |
| Chase Davis | Springfield Technical Community College | Raj Sharma | VP Information Security | Northern Bank & Trust Company |
| Junior Diaz | Bunker Hill Community College | Sathishkumar Harikesavan | Sr. Software Engineer | Microsoft |
| Lyly Dixson | Springfield Technical Community College | Maggie MacAlpine | Security Strategist/Chief of Staff to the CSO | Cybereason |
| Sona Gupta | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Gerald Gagne | Principal | Wolf & Company, P.C. |
| Kathleen Hablutzel | Smith College | Anne Coulombe | Head of Data Cyber Security | MassMutual |
| Mahlet Hadgu | Bunker Hill Community College | Mike Wells | Director of Technology | Town & Schools of Westford, MA |
| Remi Harrison | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Mark Keating | Sr. Presales Systems Engineer | Arctic Wolf Networks |
| Md Hussain Pronouns: he/him |
Bunker Hill Community College | Andrew McDonald | Security Architect | Cisco |
| Emma Jung | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | John McKenna | President & CISO Chair (Retired- Global CISO at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company) | Advanced Cyber Security Center |
| Arjun Khadka | Bunker Hill Community College |
Jonathan Kamens |
CISO | Numerated Growth Technologies |
| Spencer Kilgrew | Bristol Community College | Jason Leduc | Manager, Cyber Security | ISO New England |
| Zlatan Knezevic | Quincy College | Daniel Rasmussen | CTO | CyberQ Technologies |
| Ryan Kuczer | Bridgewater State University | Ethan Ben-Joseph | Security Services Manager | CyberArk |
| Isa Liggans | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Steven Morin | Senior Software Engineer | Microsoft |
| Melanie Lin | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sean Goodwin | Manager - IT Assurance | Wolf & Company, P.C. |
| Jose Lizasuain | University of Massachusetts Boston | Richard Skowyra | Technical Staff | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Dario Lopes | Bunker Hill Community College | Jack Bonner | Sr Principal Cyber Security Engineer | MITRE |
| Erin Lovell | Tufts University |
Meghan Martinez |
Digital Forensics and Incident Response Lead | MassMutual |
| Justin Marwad | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Nathan Walzer | Cybersecurity Engineer | MITRE |
| Donlop Munnings | Quincy College | Chris Schwarzer | Security Architect | athenahealth |
| Johnny Nguyen | Springfield Technical Community College | Erik Burns | Product Manager | Rapid7 |
| Kim Nguyen | Tufts University | Dennis Ross | Associate Group Leader | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Danesia Patterson | Tufts University | Jeffrey Gottschalk Pronouns: he/him/their |
Assistant Division Head, Cyber | MIT Lincoln Laboratory |
| Ayyappan Rajesh | University of Massachusetts Dartmouth | Sam Curry | Chief Security Officer | Cybereason |
| Paulette Schmidt | Massachusetts Bay Community College | Lodrina Cherne | Principal Security Advocate | Cybereason |
| Aymaan Shaikh | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Gabriel Torres | Associate Member of Technical Staff | MIT Lincoln Lab |
| Hamid Talibi | Bunker Hill Community College | Lloyd Evans | Principal Information Systems Security Officer | Aquia, Inc |
| Vien Tran | University of Massachusetts Lowell | Brandan Keavney | Chief Executive and Principal Consultant | Data Ethics LLC |
| Gudeta Tura | Bunker Hill Community College | Clark Cone | Privileged Access Management Team Lead | MassMutual |
| Alish Uprety | University of Massachusetts Boston | Chris Frappier | Sr. CSM, Technical Team Lead | Armis |
| Shih-Yu Wang | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Jared Carlson | Applied Research Manager | Veracode |
| Dennis Zhen | University of Massachusetts Amherst | John Danahey | Managing Partner - Systems Engineering | Digital Tech Partners, Inc. |
You can read all about the new program launch in the press release on our website.