Office of the President Steven G. Poskanzer

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Staff

Shelly Wrightwright
Chief of Staff
Phone: (845) 257-3291
E-mail: wrights@newpaltz.edu

For seven years, Shelly Wright was a public relations and journalism professor in the Communication and Media Department at SUNY New Paltz. During that time, she served as the Public Relations Program coordinator and briefly worked as interim director in the Office of Public Affairs. Before coming to New Paltz, she worked for two years in public relations for an international nonprofit organization where she wrote and edited print materials for distribution to internal and external audiences.

She also taught public relations and journalism at Wartburg College in Waverly, Iowa, for three years. Her professional experience includes work as a staff writer for the Times Herald-Record (Middletown, N.Y.) where she covered municipal government, education, business and the police beats, and served as a copy editor, editing stories, writing headlines and proofing pages.

Wright earned her M.S. in journalism from Columbia University in 1990 and is currently pursuing her doctorate in sociology from the University at Albany.

Wright resides in New Paltz with her husband and son.



Sandy Hesshess
Executive Secretary
Phone: (845) 257-3288
E-mail: hesss@newpaltz.edu

Sandy Hess has served as Executive Secretary to the President since July of 1996.

She has been on the campus for over thirty years in a variety of offices, including having worked in the president's office for the Executive Assistant to President Alice Chandler from 1980 - '86. Other areas include Continuing Education, Graduate Studies, Fine and Performing Arts and the Career Advising and Fieldwork Center.

She has a B.A. from New Paltz in Sociology.



Lisa Davisdavis
Secretary 1
Phone: (845) 257-3291
E-mail: davisl@newpaltz.edu

Lisa moved to the Hudson Valley area in April, 1998, and started work at SUNY New Paltz in the Office of Human Resources. In May, 1999, she accepted a job in the President's Office as secretary to the Executive Assistant to the President. She previously worked at SUNY Stony Brook in the Division of Campus Residences and prior to that worked at Monroe Community College in the President's Office as the secretary to the Executive Assistant to the President.

Lisa and her husband, Scott, reside in Kingston, NY.