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Emily Walker Bracchitta
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Cynthia Blum Carroll, CEO of mining and metals giant Anglo American, was rated the fourth “Most Powerful Woman in the World” by Forbes magazine in 2009. (She’s on the rise: she ranked seventh in 2007.)

Michael Ravin was honored with an alumni achievement award by Newark Academy in Livingston, NJ. The first male president of a freshman class at Skidmore, he was an English honors graduate and Periclean Scholar. He earned a JD at Seton Hall University School of Law, where he was a senator of the Student Bar Association. Mickey has been assistant prosecutor in Bergen County, chief of the criminal investigation section and fatal accident investigation unit, and trial prosecutor in the persistent offender unit. He was ap­pointed Superior Court judge in 1992 and has served in programs of continuing education on administrative law and criminal law. He is a former member of the Newark Academy Board of Governors. He lives with his wife of 20 years, Paula, and their children Ian, a sophomore at Newark, and Dominique.