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Ojala Naeem ‘08 returned to Oronoke Road as a presenter in the 2023-2024 Alumni Speaker Series on Tuesday, October 17, 2023. Several science class students were in attendance. 

Ojala works at Travelers Insurance as the Head of XD Operations, Enterprise Customer Experience. Previously a Hartford Business Journal 40 Under 40 award recipient and Capital Summit Community Champion Award recipient, she is committed to organizations that further innovation, socio-economic development, and community growth. She previously served as the managing director of reSET in Hartford, a non-profit organization whose mission is to advance the social enterprise sector, where she stayed for six years. She currently serves on the board of directors for a Hartford company known as Launch, a business development service. Naeem is on the Bradley Development League Board of Directors, was the board chair at Forge City Works and a council member on the state's social equity council.

After graduating from Holy Cross High School in 2008, she attended Fordham University and majored in international studies, and recently graduated with her MBA from Quinnipiac University.

Ojala also serves as a Town Councilor for Windsor, CT where she lives with her husband and daughter.

The Alumni Speaker Series, presented by Post University, offers an opportunity for alumni to come back home to Oronoke Road and engage with current students and faculty as they share about life after Holy Cross -- whether that's their personal journey, successful career, or an interesting project they have been working on. We aim for our students to begin networking as they learn about the endless career opportunities out there, travel and lifestyle possibilities they have yet to explore, and how alumni have maintained the portrait of the Crusader in their lives today.  There is no one better to educate our school community on what the world has to offer than some of our brightest success stories.