Hamilton College names new VP for communications and marketing

CLINTON, N.Y. — Hamilton College has appointed Marisa Sanchez Benincasa as VP for communications and marketing. Benincasa will start in her new role after Labor Day, the college announced. She currently serves as executive director of institute affairs at the Arizona State University Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts. She has worked at the Herberger Institute since 2019, first as director of communications and marketing. Benincasa has been in her current role since 2022. Before that, she served in various capacities for Cancer Treatment Centers of America in Phoenix, the Scottsdale Unified School District, A Stepping Stone Foundation, as principal for her own communications firm, and as VP of a multimedia design firm in New Jersey. Benincasa also served on the Arizona Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors as the Latina business-enterprise chair. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Arizona State University and an MBA from the University of Phoenix. With a 1,350-acre campus overlooking Clinton, Hamilton College says it educates more than 2,000 students from 47 states and 54 countries.