90 Years Strong: The Monroe College Story

Ann Marie Ferguson, MPA – is a Philanthropist, eCommerce Specialist, and an Entrepreneur. In November, 2021 she embarked on a new journey as the Executive Director of The Monroe Foundation, NY. She is the Creator and Host of Coffee & Conversation a Virtual Series for the Monroe College Alumni Association. Ann Marie previously held the position of Associate Director-Supply Chain Management at NYU Langone Health System. She had a 29-year career in healthcare, with 27 of those years as a Supply Chain Management Professional. In her last role she was responsible for daily operations, project management initiatives, and provided leadership support to the NYULH Supply Chain Management organization. She is humbled to have held numerous positions within her healthcare career and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, trained in lean management and process improvement. Ann Marie holds a BBA from Monroe College and an MPA from MCNY. She continues to participate in Alumni Activities, where she can make an impact in the lives of students and Alums by mentoring and motivating them to being their best. Ann Marie has been recognized as an Alumni of Distinction in 2011 & 2014 respectively. Ann Marie is passionate about her volunteer services and has volunteered for a few organizations including New York Cares, where she has participated in their yearly Coat Drive initiative. She participates in philanthropy work where she has raised funds for different causes. Due to her dedication to the Jah Jerry, Inc (a nonprofit organization) over the last 5 years; Ann Marie was named as Chair of the USA Scholarship Committee in 2018. Ann Marie is a Monroe College Alumni Association Board Member, sits on the Young, Gifted and Black Entrepreneurial Awards Board and is a committee member of the Jamaica Independence Foundation, Inc (JIFINYC). Ann Marie believes although she had a long career in healthcare, her current roles and projects are right where she is meant to be. She states, “Being called to be of service is an honor”.

More than 40 years as a host and producer in radio and television, publicity and public relations, higher education, and community development. Along with my talents as a writer, communicator, speaker, and advocate I am an accomplished professional who has provided unmatched support for organizations and companies who have expanded their outreach in a multitude of ways. As the host and senior producer of BronxTalk, New York’s longest-running weekly TV talk show (more than 1,370 programs since October, 1994) on BronxNet, I have become an expert interviewer, able to provide a range of entertaining and informative interviews with the most significant figures in government and entertainment as well as individual community leaders and advocates. Also, I have developed meaningful relationships not only with movers and shakers all over the Bronx and the City, but with leaders of organizations, colleagues in media, community leaders, and experts in many fields, including politics, education, healthcare, youth services, arts and culture, and much more. As the host and producer of The Bronx Buzz (since March, 2016), I have continued to expand my base of close contacts and relationships to colleagues in the media. In my fourteen years as Director of Public Relations, SID, and Director of Community Relations at a Bronx college, I have developed strong personal contacts and associations with dozens of groups and organizations of many sizes.

Founder-In-Chief - LATIN HORROR - Edwin Pagán is a Bronx-based multidisciplinary artist whose work centers around photography, filmmaking, sound and graphic design. Pagán was introduced to the arts at age 10 at the Hoe Avenue Boys & Girls Club, which led to his extensive careers in photography and cinematography. He is noted as one of the premiere visual artists from the Bronx, and his body of work is an intimate and humane look at the cultural idiosyncrasies of inner-city communities from an “insider’s point-of-view.” In 2011, he co-founded Seis del Sur, a photo collective of six photojournalism and documentary photographers who have documented the South Bronx for over four decades. A life-long fan of horror, in 2008 he founded LATIN HORROR (latinhorror.com), an online portal that promotes Latin influenced horror. As a result, he is widely credited with establishing a distinct and valid genre in the film industry. More recently, Pagán has harnessed his creative skills and ventured into the virtual- and augmented-reality space to create interactive multimedia installations that take as a point of departure the same themes he’s explored in his photographic work.

Alumni Director at Monroe College’s New Rochelle campus

Assistant Director of Alumni Relations - Monroe College