Adjunct Faculty
The quality of the courses and internships offered at the Warner School is further enhanced by the participation of a number of expert practitioners and faculty from other institutions in the roles of instructor or co-instructor for specific courses or internship supervisors.

These adjunct faculty members are selected to complement the expertise of the tenure-track and clinical-track faculty for the benefit of Warner students.

The following list includes only a subset of the people who will be serving as adjunct faculty.

J. Richard Boyes
Ed.D., University of Rochester
J. Richard Boyes has been a practicing administrator for 32 years and a school business official for 22 years. He is currently superintendent of the Marion Central School District.

Mary-Beth A. Cooper
Ph.D., Michigan State University
Mary-Beth Cooper teaches courses in administration of student affairs and theories of student development in higher education. Cooper has extensive experience as an administrator in higher education and is the vice president for student affairs at Rochester Institute of Technology.

Kathy Conezio
Ed.D. candidate, University of Rochester
Kathy Conezio teaches courses and supervises student teachers in the early childhood teacher preparation program. Conezio is an experienced preschool teacher who has implemented the ScienceStart! curriculum in her classes. Since 2001, she has worked in various capacities on several externally-funded projects that refined, tested, and provided professional development for the ScienceStart! curriculum. Conezio is also a doctoral student at Warner.

Lynn Donahue
Ed.D., University of Rochester
Lynn Donahue teaches courses in higher education at Warner, with expertise in teaching and learning; experiential learning; student and faculty development; and interpersonal, group, speech, and business communication. She is an instructor in the communications department at St. John Fisher College.

Deborah Erickson
Ph.D., University of Sydney, Australia (psychology)
Ed.D., University of Arkansas (counselor education)
Deborah Erickson teaches courses in counseling. She has worked as a counselor and psychologist in schools and mental health settings and has extensive experience coordinating both social service and higher education programs in the helping professions.

Eric E. Fredericksen
M.B.A., University of Rochester; M.S., University at Albany
Eric E. Fredericksen is associate vice provost in Information Technology Services at the University of Rochester. His work and research focus on the use of technology to support teaching and learning in higher education. He has taught at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and is currently a doctoral student at Warner.

Lynn Gatto
Ph.D. candidate, University of Rochester
Lynn Gatto teaches methods courses in literacy and science in Warner’s elementary education program. She has taught for nearly 30 years in the Rochester City School District, and in 2004 she was named New York State Teacher of the Year. Gatto is also a doctoral student at Warner.

Richard Gatto
M.A., Pepperdine University
Dick Gatto has been supervising student teachers in secondary science since 2003. A biology teacher in the Rochester City School District, he has recently retired but continues to work with secondary science students.

Susan Gray
Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Susan Gray teaches courses in counselor education. She is a New York State certified school psychologist and New York State licensed psychologist. She is the superintendent of Penfield Central School District.

Marla Iverson
Ed.D. candidate, University of Rochester
Marla Iverson is the assistant superintendent for school improvement at Wayne-Finger Lakes BOCES. She will be teaching courses related to data analysis and school improvement.

Sylvia Kless
M.S., University of Rochester
Sylvia Kless is the associate director for student services and senior international student advisor at the University of Rochester. She is responsible for administering the University’s F-1 and J-1 student visa programs for more than 1,200 international students and their dependents from over 90 countries.

Daniel M. Linnenberg
Ed.D. candidate, University of Rochester
Daniel Linnenberg teaches courses on addictions counseling and prevention. He has taught sociology, ethics, religion, and counseling at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is a certified and licensed counselor and has worked in the addictions, pastoral, and college counseling fields. Linnenberg is an ordained priest in the Episcopal Church and is currently the rector of the Church of the Ascension in Rochester.

Joy Moss
M.S., University of Rochester
Joy Moss has been teaching courses in children’s literature at the Warner School since 1998. A literacy specialist at the Harley School in Rochester, Moss has published several books on literacy learning.

Dennis Mozingo
Ph.D., The Florida State University
Dennis Mozingo coordinates the Autism Spectrum Disorders and Applied Behavior Analysis program offered jointly by the Warner School and Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities. He teaches courses in applied behavior analysis and supervises students in practica in applied behavior analysis and autism. He also provides clinical consultation to classrooms and education professionals serving children from the preschool to high school years. Mozingo is an assistant professor in Strong Center for Developmental Disabilities.

Charles Murphy
M.B.A., Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania
Chuck Murphy is the associate vice president for Human Resources at the University of Rochester. In this role, he acts as the senior HR executive for the University including Strong Memorial Hospital and the Strong Health System.

Dan Osborn
Ed.D. candidate, University of Rochester
Dan Osborn has been teaching courses on inclusive education at Warner since 1999. A veteran elementary and special education teacher, he brings to his courses his personal experience teaching multi-grade classes that include students with very different abilities. Osborn is also a doctoral student at Warner.

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