JESSICA DeJOHN BARBUTO was recently promoted to assistant director of inclusive growth at CenterState CEO. She leads the team’s grant management, budget management, and team administration. Barbuto is tasked with the management and refinement of existing systems and processes, and the creation of new ones to maintain oversight and execution of programmatic and administrative tasks. Prior to CenterState CEO, she held positions at the Upstate Center For Bioethics and Humanities and in the real estate division at Home Headquarters.

LAUREN CHYLE was elevated to director of inclusive growth at CenterState CEO. She supports the team in planning and developing goals, objectives and metrics, ensuring a culture of collaboration and support, and managing systems and processes that ensure effectiveness and accountability among the team. Chyle has worked in nonprofit administration and development for 15 years. Before coming to CenterState CEO she served as assistant director of the Everson Museum of Art, where she helped manage a $1.2 million auditorium renovation and helped initiate a $17 million comprehensive fundraising campaign.

AIMEE DURFEE was promoted to VP of workforce innovation at CenterState CEO. In this position, she leads the Work Train team, which creates partnerships and workforce strategies designed to attract, train, retain, and advance unemployed and underemployed individuals into careers in high-growth industries. With more than 25 years of experience working on poverty issues, her areas of expertise include workforce development, public benefits, asset building, and community economic development, as well as racial/gender equity and employment discrimination issues. Durfee holds a bachelor’s degree from Mount Holyoke College, and a law degree from the  UC Berkeley School of Law.

JESSICA UNDERWOOD was elevated by CenterState CEO to director of digital services. She oversees the development and ongoing operations of CenterState CEO’s digital chamber platform Click. Underwood supports internal and external users and works to onboard new groups of members. She previously served as digital platform manager. Underwood has over 15 years of sales and customer service experience from the hospitality and tourism industries. She has a bachelor’s degree in theatre from Jacksonville State University. 

Syracuse University Libraries’ Law Library recently hired WILLIAM MATTHEW KRUEGER as a law-reference librarian. Krueger worked as a reference assistant in the Law Library while pursuing his juris doctorate from Syracuse University College of Law. He received his bachelor’s degree from Nazareth College.

ANA CALIZ CASANOVA recently joined Syracuse University Libraries as monograph cataloging librarian in the Acquisitions and Cataloging Department. In this role, she is responsible for maintaining bibliographic and authority records for single-subject works in the Libraries’ principal (non-special) collections in all formats. Caliz Casanova will work closely with subject librarians to catalog general, as well as unique materials within the Libraries’ collections, including architectural drawings, audios/videos, maps and various gift donations. She will also provide supervision, training, and support library technicians working on monograph cataloging. Prior to joining Syracuse University Libraries, Caliz Casanova was a supervisory cataloger at Cornell University Library and also previously worked at the National Library of Spain in Madrid.

TAYLOR CASAMASSIMA has joined Unity House of Cayuga County, Inc. — a nonprofit that helps people with mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and substance-use disorders — as director of mental-health rehabilitation services. She first joined the agency in 2014, working her way up from senior residential counselor to quality assurance specialist. Casamassima left in 2019 to gain leadership experience overseeing other residential-program operations. She has now rejoined Unity House as the director of the PROS mental health program. Casamassima holds a master’s degree in business management from Keuka College.

HANNAH YOUNG has joined Unity House as director of clinical services. Dr. Young was promoted to lead the newly created Clinical Department. Young has been with Unity House for almost nine years and is a licensed psychologist. She earned her doctorate in psychology from Alfred University and was previously a professor at the university. Young is also a certified trainer for school-crisis intervention.

AMANDA McMANUS has joined Unity House as director of unity employment services. She joined Unity House in the fall of 2021, as a program manager, and was then promoted to director in the fall of 2022. McManus aims to continue the Unity House legacy of providing person-centered, quality employment services, and looks to create meaningful community connections for its pre-vocational and career-specific vocational training programs. McManus holds a master’s degree in literacy education (grades 5-12) from SUNY Oswego.