2026 Public Service Awards

Ms. Orenstein-Cardona has served at US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Office of Chief Counsel since 2004. In 2009, she was selected as the Assistant Chief Counsel for Puerto Rico (PR) and the US Virgin Islands (USVI). 

Her office provides expert legal advice, representation, and guidance to CBP on a variety of complex issues from search, seizure, and investigations to legal aspects of international trade, duty collection, intellectual property rights, and trade agreements with foreign countries, especially those located in the Caribbean. Ms. Orenstein-Cardona advises all CBP components in both PR and the USVI: Office of Field Operations, US Border Patrol Ramey Sector, and the Caribbean Air and Marine Operations. In addition, the office represents CBP in labor disputes, ethics, and employment law issues. For her work as the Assistant Chief Counsel, she earned the US Department of Justice (DOJ) Asset Forfeiture Program award for Outstanding Collaboration.

Prior to her selection as Assistant Chief Counsel, Ms. Orenstein-Cardona served as a law clerk for the Rhode Island Supreme Court and as an Attorney-Advisor for the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) in Massachusetts as part of DOJ's Attorney General's Honors Program.

Before her federal government career as an attorney, Ms. Orenstein-Cardona was a dedicated teacher. She taught at two boarding schools and Boston College Law School.

Ms. Orenstein-Cardona is a proud graduate of Boston College Law School, holds a master's degree in education from Harvard University, and graduated magna cum laude from the University of Puerto Rico with a BA in English literature.

Ms. Orenstein-Cardona has been involved with the Truman community since her selection as a Truman Scholar from Puerto Rico in 1993. She served as the Resident Scholar at the Truman Foundation, helping to coordinate both the Truman Scholars Leadership Week and Summer Institute. Since 2005, she has served on the Puerto Rico interview panel, which she now chairs.

Outside of work, Ms. Orenstein-Cardona and her husband of 29 years, Jose, love assisting their daughter, Sofia, a freshman at Brown University, with her community service passion projects with Save-a-Sato, an animal rescue shelter, and Hogar Ruth, a domestic violence shelter in PR. She also enjoys discovering new restaurants and staying at various Paradores while traveling to the interior of the island with her family and their rescue dog, Luna.

In 2025, Ms. Callahan joined the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art as General Counsel, leading the Legal, Government Affairs and Civic Engagement, Rights and Reproductions, and Human Resources teams as the Los Angeles museum prepares to open to the public in 2026. Prior to this role, she was a Professor of Practice at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2025. 

Previously, Callahan served as Presidentially-appointed Assistant Secretary for the DHS Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction Office from August 2023 to January 2025, maturing the office functions, refining its strategic approach, and enhancing its federal, state, and local relationships. She served as the chief of staff to DHS Deputy Secretary John Tien from 2021 to 2023. 

Callahan worked as an Assistant General Counsel for The Walt Disney Company from 2017 to 2021. She was a leader of the global Privacy-Legal team and developed crucial and innovative privacy programs and governance frameworks.

 From 2012 to 2017, Callahan was a partner at Jenner & Block, where she founded and chaired the firm's Privacy and Information Governance Practice. Briefing multiple public and private company boards and major non-profit organizations, Callahan applied her unique and broad experience to advise on issues at the interface of privacy protection with cybersecurity and national security. 

In 2009, Callahan was appointed by Secretary Janet Napolitano (NM 77) to serve as US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Chief Privacy Officer. Callahan led department-wide programs on privacy protections and information sharing, led all privacy initiatives in the DHS cybersecurity arena, and represented DHS in extensive outreach and negotiations with privacy counterparts in the European Union, Canada, and other countries to explain and support the US privacy framework.

Ms. Callahan started her law practice at Hogan & Hartson (now Hogan Lovells) in 1997, where she counseled corporations and trade associations on antitrust, privacy, consumer protection, and litigation matters, particularly relating to entertainment and technology. 

Callahan is a 1990 graduate from the University of Pittsburgh Honors College and College of Arts and Sciences. She served as a Trustee on the Pitt Board of Trustees, including as Vice Chair and (Acting) Chair from 2021 to 2022; she is now an Emerita Trustee. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.  Callahan is a 1988 Truman Scholar from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and has proudly served the Truman community as a speaker at Summer Institute, Finalist Selection Committee member, and a board member of Friends of the Truman Foundation, serving on its Truman Council.

US Army Reserve Lieutenant Colonel Seth Bodnar currently serves as the 19th president of the University of Montana (UM). Appointed in 2018, President Bodnar works together with UM’s faculty, staff, and students to make a high-quality education widely accessible and to help every member of the University community reach their unique, full potential.

An innovative and collaborative leader, President Bodnar has stewarded UM’s steady, tangible progress toward inclusive prosperity. Under Bodnar’s leadership, the university has achieved five straight years of enrollment growth and new records in student retention and graduation rates, research output, infrastructure investment, and philanthropic support. 

Working closely with employers and partners across the state and region to serve an ever-widening range of learners UM has launched new and innovative workforce training programs to serve the needs of Montanans at all stages of their lives and careers. 

Over the past eight years, UM’s research award volume has grown 92%, with the university achieving R1 research status. Over that same time period, UM has invested nearly $400 million in campus infrastructure improvements and has completed the largest fundraising campaign in the history of the university. 

Before joining UM, President Bodnar was a Senior Executive at the General Electric (GE) Company. He served as GE Transportation’s first-ever Chief Digital Officer and was the President of GE Transportation’s Digital Solutions business, where he and his colleagues developed software and technology to optimize the global rail industry.

President Bodnar has had a distinguished military career, serving in the 101st Airborne Division and the US Army’s First Special Forces Group. As a member of the Army’s elite Green Berets, he commanded a Special Forces detachment on multiple deployments around the world and later served as a special assistant to the Commanding General in Iraq. 

Graduating first in his class at the United States Military Academy at West Point, he later served as an assistant professor in its Department of Social Sciences, where he taught economics, published research on economic development in conflict areas, mentored cadets applying for postgraduate scholarships, and led field training courses on leadership.

A compelling communicator, President Bodnar speaks at conferences globally and has been an invited speaker to Congress on technology and innovation. He has written and spoken widely on the role of higher education in both sustaining a healthy democracy and supporting US national security. 

The recipient of both the Rhodes and Truman scholarships, he earned two graduate degrees from the University of Oxford. He and his wife, Dr. Chelsea Elander Bodnar (MT 00) are the proud parents of three children, who are the 6th generation in their family to grow up in Montana.