Joanne Hvala

Having retired from a stellar career in corporate and higher ed communications, Joanne Hvala has turned to teaching and is currently an adjunct professor in the Small Business Internship Program at Lehman College, CUNY in New York City. She has also taught Business Communications to international students at Baruch College.

Earlier, she served as Senior Director for Communications at Columbia University School of Engineering from April 2016 to August 2019. Prior to joining Columbia University, Ms. Hvala held senior-level communications positions at New York University’s Stern School of Business, Sony Corporation, Lockheed Martin, Loral Corporation, and General Electric.

Ms. Hvala graduated from Miami, with a B.A. in English. As a Rotary International Fellow, she studied art history at the Sorbonne after graduating, and while working at GE, earned her MBA in international marketing from Baruch College, City University of New York. She was selected as a Business Fellow in Japan by the Japan Society in 1984 and was awarded an internship at Sony’s corporate headquarters in Tokyo.

She serves as secretary on the Board of The Baruch College Fund and is a member of the Board of Miami University’s College of Creative Arts.