Meet the Staff

Molly Rivera has been with the Health & Wellness Center since 2007. She received her undergraduate degree in Psychology from the City University of New York, Hunter College. Molly has vast administrative experience in both the private and public sectors. She especially enjoys working with students.

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Terry Pivak joined Health and Wellness in August of 2022. Terry worked for many years at The College of New Rochelle in various departments and she also held a variety of administrative assistant positions in the corporate world. Terry has a passion with working with and helping students, which makes her a perfect fit at the SLC Health and Wellness Center.

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Mary Hartnett, RN came to Sarah Lawrence College in 2001 to pursue her interest in working with the young adult population, which includes supporting students as they navigate health issues during their time at college.

Prior to Sarah Lawrence College, she worked for 15 years in the home care industry and held the position of Director of Quality Improvement at Visiting Nurse Service of Hudson Valley. Subsequent to her time in home care, she worked for the healthcare information system OCS (Outcome Concept Systems) training home care agencies around the country in the implementation and use of outcome-oriented documentation, data collection, data benchmarking, and outcome-driven quality improvement. This work included the utilization of the JCAHO standards and the HCFA required OASIS data set. She is the author of white papers on data collection and analysis along with outcome-based quality improvement. She co-authored the home care manual: Outcome Oriented Documentation.

She is a graduate of Columbia University with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing.

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Cynthia (Cyndi) Schaffler, Family Nurse Practitioner, completed her undergraduate nursing education at Hunter College-Bellevue School of Nursing in NYC, after which she worked as an Emergency Department nurse in Manhattan. After completing a masters degree and gaining certification as a Family Practice Nurse Practitioner, she lived in four different states over an 18-year period before returning to the New York area. Along the way, she accumulated a husband and two children, and experience working in two college health settings (San Diego State and UD/Mercy in Detroit), Indian Health Center (Utah), a Migrant Clinic (California), Planned Parenthood (in three states), and several more traditional family practice centers. She has been part of the Health & Wellness team since 2002.

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Irene R. Fields, MSN, Family Nurse Practitioner, earned an undergraduate degree in Psychology from Purchase College, and a Master of Science in Nursing from Pace University. She is board certified as a Family Nurse Practitioner by the American Nurses Credentialing Center. With over 25 years practicing, her work experience includes Planned Parenthood and Columbia University Student Health Services. Her areas of interest are women’s health, immunology, and mind-body medicine. She has been part of the Health & Wellness team since 2003. She is also a songwriter/singer/guitarist with a local band: Intuition Quartet.

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Sheryl Last, RN joined the Health & Wellness Center in 2007. She has over 30 years of nursing experience in both private practice and clinical care. With a BS in Nursing from Binghamton University, her areas of expertise include perinatology, labor and delivery, home health, operating room, camp nursing, diabetic teaching, and phlebotomy. She currently serves as the co-coordinator of the Peer Health Education Program and works with students on an individual basis around smoking cessation. Her dog Reggie participates in our De-Stress with Pets programming and loves coming to campus.

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Cary Bosak, LCSW joined Sarah Lawrence in 2019 from Columbia University Medical School Mental Health Service. During her 18 years as a clinician she has worked in a range of settings that include coordinating and developing a program at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Weill Cornell that provided services to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence, the Emergency Department at Bellevue Hospital, as a clinical consultant with the Columbia/Barnard Sexual Violence Response Program, as well as a psychotherapy practice in NYC. Cary received postgraduate training in psychodynamic psychotherapy, is trained and certified in EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), and MBSR (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction). She incorporates a mindfulness approach to her work, and has a special interest in working with various types of trauma, eating and body image issues, as well as college mental health. She has a deep understanding of young adult development and enjoys working with both undergraduate and graduate students as they navigate this phase in their lives.

Before coming to Sarah Lawrence in 2022, Michael Pronio-Stevens began his career as an Employment Specialist helping individuals with disabilities, the reentry population, and homeless communities seek meaningful employment. This experience influenced Michael’s decision to go back to school where he earned a Master’s Degree in Social Work at Hunter College in 2015 specializing in individual and group clinical practice. Additionally, Michael continued to grow and develop as a clinician spending most of his time working in outpatient mental health clinics with a dedication towards treating adolescents and young adults. In 2020, he earned the credentials to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in NYS. Recently, Michael was the Senior Mental Health Therapist at Teen Start, a small startup clinic in Harlem designed to offer therapeutic services for adolescents residing in NYC. Through this experience, Michael has learned to utilize different techniques to help individuals develop a better understanding about their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors including insight-oriented psychotherapy, mindfulness, and CBT. Michael uses these methodologies to ensure therapy is a collaborative, comfortable, secure, and productive experience.

Ayesha Nagra, PhD joined the Health & Wellness Center in 2014. Prior to joining Sarah Lawrence, she worked at Manhattanville College, Columbia University, and Oregon State University. She earned her PhD in Clinical Psychology from Central Michigan University, and completed an internship in Clinical Psychology at Duke University. Her professional interests include working with students from diverse backgrounds with intersecting identities, working with international students and issues of acculturation, and helping ameliorate mood and anxiety states. She also enjoys working with and helping students develop mindfulness-based skills to increase resilience, build compassion for the self, and find happiness in the present moment.

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Nancy Brennan, LMSW, joined the Health and Wellness team at Sarah Lawrence in 2022.  A graduate from Fordham University’s Graduate School of Social Service, Nancy has worked in a variety of settings as a social worker and an administrator providing compassionate support to vulnerable and underserved populations through crisis intervention, case management, client advocacy and supportive counseling.  Her professional areas of interest include generational trauma, adoption, and women’s health care. Nancy is particularly passionate about supporting individuals and families living with learning and behavioral disabilities, and understands the real struggles individuals and families living with disabilities face in navigating educational systems. Her role as case manager involves helping students connect with resources to help support a successful living and learning experience while at SLC.

Allan Flaggman, MD completed his psychiatric postgraduate training at the University of Miami, School of Medicine in 1990 and received American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology certification in 1992. As a practicing psychiatrist since 1990, he has a specialty in psychopharmacology with college-age adults. He has worked part-time at the Health & Wellness Center since 2006. In addition to his work at Sarah Lawrence College, he has worked at the Marymount Manhattan College Counseling & Wellness Center since 2010 and at Westchester Medical Center since 2015.

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Victoria Sliva, PhD joined the Health & Wellness Center in 2021. Prior to Sarah Lawrence, she worked at the Comprehensive Addiction Treatment Center within the New York City Health + Hospital system. Victoria earned her PhD at The New School for Social Research, and has undertaken post-graduate training in the treatment of eating disorders from a feminist psychodynamic perspective. Her clinical interests include working with folks struggling with substance use, eating disorders, and issues involving emotion regulation and difficulties in interpersonal relationships. Victoria also enjoys helping people connect to a solid sense of themselves.  

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