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J. David Brown, president and CEO of the capital region YMCA and former member of the Siena College Board of Trustees, visited Siena as part of the ongoing spring semester School of Business Lecture Series. Brown, a humorous, conversational, and charismatic speaker challenged students with his lecture by asking them about their ‘why.’

Social entrepreneur, Episcopal priest and a CNN Hero of the Year for 2016, Becca Stevens will speak at Siena about human trafficking, rehabilitation and Thistle Farms, the Nashville-based business she founded to give a home and work to survivors of trafficking, abuse and addiction.

Former Congressman and military leader Chris Gibson ’86 came to the new Hearst Media Center in Loudonville on Wednesday to discuss his new book with Times Union editor Rex Smith.

With attendance drastically increasing the past two years (235 in 2017 and 200 in 2018), the event has been relocated to Massry Commons in Snyder Hall from its previous location in Casey’s. Massry Commons, Siena’s secondary dining hall near the townhouses, was transformed into a flowing cocktail party complete with a professional photographer, music, and raffle prizes.

An attorney with legal experience at nearly every Capital Region college has been named chief of staff at Siena College.

More than 200 middle and high school students from across the Capital Region traveled to Siena’s campus last Friday for the 14th annual STOP Conference (Students Together Opposing Prejudice).

An historical preservation project about French-Canadians who settled in Cohoes, N.Y. and made it that city’s largest ethnic group has resulted in a National Endowment for the Humanities grant for two Siena professors.