Commitment to Anti-Racism

The Career Advising & Development Office will work with the faculty, administration, staff, students, and alums to become an anti-racist institution. Our collective Jesuit mission calls us to strive for nothing less.

We honor our role in this important work. The Career Advising & Development team is dedicated to educating students, alums, employers, and each other about diversity, equity, and inclusion in our society, and specifically, in the workplace. As we move forward, we commit ourselves to the following:

  • Sponsor and collaborate with student-led programming related to increasing equity and inclusion.
  • Act to diversify our student and professional staff.
  • Create a repository of online resources dedicated to supporting the career goals of students of color, students with disabilities, LGBTQ students, and other marginalized identities.
  • Evaluate and share post-graduate outcomes with response rates broken out by race/ethnicity
  • Attend professional development opportunities each year that focus on equity, inclusion, dismantling systemic racism, etc. Staff will be expected to detail these opportunities in their annual evaluations.
  • Engage employers in conversations about their efforts to both increase diversity through their hiring practices and retain the employees they hire through those efforts.
Get in Touch
Career Advising and Development- Where your experience, our guidance, and the future meet
Reilly Hall 342

Le Moyne College
1419 Salt Springs Road,
Syracuse, NY 13214

Phone:

(315) 445-4185

Email:
careers@lemoyne.edu
Meredith Tornabene

Director, Career Advising & Development
tornabmm@lemoyne.edu
Meredith joined Career Advising & Development in 2017, coming from the Career Center at the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. She previously worked in the Career Planning Center at Fairfield University, a fellow Jesuit institution. Meredith began her career in higher education at the University of Georgia as a graduate student pursuing a degree in College Student Affairs Administration. There, she worked in the Greek Life Office at UGA and then moved to Fairfield's Office of Student Diversity & Multicultural Affairs. Meredith graduated from Syracuse University with a B.S. in Public Relations and holds an MEd from the University of Georgia.


Leslie Bailey Streissguth

 

Associate Director, Career Advising & Development

streislb@lemoyne.edu
Leslie began her career journey at the University of Virginia, where she majored in Rhetoric and Communications. After working in the broadcast news industry, she went on to earn a Master’s of Teaching from Towson University. Over the years, she pursued a variety of careers—working in a fast-paced newsroom in Washington, D.C.; serving as a  middle school English teacher in Maryland; serving as a volunteer in the Syracuse community and Syracuse City Schools; and teaching public speaking at Le Moyne College—before joining the Career Advising team. Leslie's collective experiences led her to her work she loves and an appreciation for the perspectives she can offer students and alumni as they embark on their own paths. 


R.J. Rapoza
Associate Director, Career Advising & Development; Co-Director of Manresa

rapozarj@lemoyne.edu
R.J. graduated from SUNY Fredonia with a B.S. in Education and Theatre Arts and M.S. from SUNY Oswego with the intention of being an elementary school teacher. Trying to find a job in a scarce market, R.J. re-purposed his skills, taking on roles in employee training, working at the Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES, teaching at Finger Lakes Community College, and mentoring first generation college students. He comes to Le Moyne from Hobart and William Smith Colleges, where he served in their Center for Career Services.

Christine Fahey '97
Career Counselor

mcnamacc@lemoyne.edu
Chrissy is a proud Le Moyne alumna with a B.S. in biology. Wanting to utilize her academic and interpersonal skills, Chrissy joined Aerotek, a national recruiting company which places professionals in Fortune 500 companies, in their Ft. Lauderdale, Florida office. Bridging her academic and business skill sets, Chrissy started a position with AstraZeneca, a global leader in bio-pharmaceuticals. After ten years and proving to be a top sales performer winning regional and national sales awards, Chrissy, looking for a new challenge, pivoted toward higher education, earning a Master’s in Student Affairs Counseling from Syracuse University in 2015. She now utilizes the skills she gained throughout her different career paths to help students begin their own career journeys.

Crystal Simmons '14
Administrative Assistant

simmocr@lemoyne.edu
When Crystal first started college at Morrisville State College, she was intent on becoming a diet technician. She transferred to Le Moyne and changed her major to communications, where she flourished. It was through the guidance of staff helping her hone in on her strengths and passions that helped her make the switch. Through this experience, she learned the lesson that sometimes it’s just as important to know what you don’t want to do as it is to know what you do want to do.